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American singer-songwriter (1943–1973)

Jim Croce
Croce in 1972, photographed by Ingrid Croce
Background data
Nascence name	James Joseph Croce
Born	(1943-01-10)Jan ten, 1943 South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.Southward.
Died	September 20, 1973(1973-09-20) (aged 30) Natchitoches, Louisiana
Genres	Folk soft rock
Occupation(s)	Singer songwriter
Instruments	Vocals acoustic guitar
Years active	1964–1973
Labels	Capitol/EMI ABC Saja/Atlantic
Website	jimcroce.com

Musical artist

James Joseph Croce (; January ten, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and stone vocalist-songwriter. Betwixt 1966 and 1973, he released five studio albums and numerous singles. During this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to pay bills while he connected to write, record, and perform concerts. After he formed a partnership with songwriter and guitarist Maury Muehleisen, his fortunes turned in the early 1970s. His breakthrough came in 1972; his 3rd album, You Don't Mess Effectually with Jim, produced three charting singles, including "Time in a Bottle", which reached No. 1 after his death. The follow-up album, Life and Times, included the song "Bad, Bad Leroy Dark-brown", which was the only No. 1 striking he had during his lifetime.

On September xx, 1973, at the summit of his popularity and the twenty-four hour period before the lead single to his 5th album, I Got a Proper noun, was released, Croce and 5 others died in a airplane crash. His music connected to chart throughout the 1970s following his expiry. Croce's married woman, Ingrid Croce, was his early on songwriting partner. She continued to write and record subsequently his death and their son A. J. Croce became a singer-songwriter in the 1990s.

Early life [edit]

Croce was born January 10, 1943, (although some sources say 1942)^{[1] [2]} in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Albert Croce (April 14, 1914 – March 8, 1972) and Flora Mary (Babusci) Croce (May 28, 1913 – December 22, 2000), Italian Americans from Trasacco and Balsorano in Abruzzo and Palermo in Sicily.^{[3] [4]}

Croce grew up in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, and attended Upper Darby High School. Graduating in 1960, he studied at Malvern Preparatory School for a year earlier enrolling at Villanova University, where he majored in psychology and minored in German.^{[v] [half-dozen]} Croce received a Bachelor of Science in Social Studies caste in 1965. He was a member of the Villanova Singers and the Villanova Spires. When the Spires performed off-campus or fabricated recordings, they were known as The Coventry Lads.^[7] Croce was also a student disc jockey at WKVU, which has since become WXVU.^{[eight] [9] [10]}

Career [edit]

Early career [edit]

Croce did not have music seriously until he studied at Villanova, where he formed bands and performed at fraternity parties, coffee houses, and universities around Philadelphia, playing "anything that the people wanted to hear: blues, rock, a cappella, railroad music ... anything." Croce's band was chosen for a foreign commutation bout of Africa, the Eye East, and Yugoslavia. He later said, "Nosotros merely ate what the people ate, lived in the woods, and played our songs. Of grade they didn't speak English over at that place simply if you lot mean what you're singing, people empathise." On November 29, 1963, Croce met his future married woman, Ingrid Jacobson, at the Philadelphia Convention Hall during a hootenanny, where he was judging a competition.

Croce released his start anthology, Facets, in 1966, with 500 copies pressed. The album had been financed with a $500 ($4,176 in 2021 dollars^[11]) wedding ceremony souvenir from Croce'due south parents, who set a status that the coin must be spent to brand an album. They hoped that he would give up music after the album failed, and apply his higher pedagogy to pursue a "respectable" profession.^[12] However, the album proved a success, with every re-create sold.

1960s [edit]

Croce married Jacobson in 1966, and converted to Judaism, as his wife was Jewish. He and Ingrid were married in a traditional Jewish ceremony.^[13] He enlisted in the Army National Baby-sit in New Bailiwick of jersey that same year to avert being drafted and deployed to Vietnam, and served on agile duty for four months, leaving for duty a week later his honeymoon.^[fourteen] Croce, who was non good with dominance, had to become through basic training twice.^[xv] He said he would exist prepared if "there's ever a war where we have to defend ourselves with mops."

From the mid-1960s to early on 1970s, Croce performed with his wife as a duo. At first, their performances included songs by artists such as Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot, Joan Baez, and Arlo Guthrie, but in time they began writing their own music. During this fourth dimension, Croce got his first long-term gig, at a suburban bar and steakhouse in Lima, Pennsylvania, chosen The Riddle Paddock. His set listing covered several genres, including blues, country, stone and roll, and folk.

In 1968, the Croces were encouraged by record producer Tommy West to movement to New York City. The couple spent time in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx and recorded their first album with Capitol Records. During the side by side ii years, they collection more than 300,000 miles (480,000 km),^[16] playing small-scale clubs and concerts on the college concert circuit promoting their anthology Jim & Ingrid Croce.

Becoming disillusioned past the music business and New York City, they sold all but 1 guitar to pay the hire and returned to the Pennsylvania countryside, settling in an old farm in Lyndell, where he played for $25 a dark ($174 in 2021 dollars^[11]), which was non plenty money to live on. Croce was forced to take odd jobs such as driving trucks, construction work, and teaching guitar to pay the bills while standing to write songs, often nearly the characters he would meet at the local bars and truck stops and his experiences at piece of work; these provided the material for such songs as "Big Bike" and "Workin' at the Car Launder Blues."^[17]

1970s [edit]

The Croces returned to Philadelphia and Croce decided to be "serious" about condign a productive member of society. "I'd worked construction crews, and I'd been a welder while I was in higher. But I'd rather do other things than become burned." His determination to exist "serious" led to a job at a Philadelphia R&B AM radio station, WHAT, where he translated commercials into "soul". "I'd sell airtime to Bronco's Poolroom so write the spot: 'Y'all wanna be cool, and you wanna shoot pool ... dig it.'"

In 1970, Croce met classically trained pianist-guitarist and vocalizer-songwriter Maury Muehleisen from Trenton, New Jersey, through producer Joe Salviuolo. Salviuolo and Croce had been friends when they studied at Villanova University, and Salviuolo had met Muehleisen when he was teaching at Glassboro Country Higher in New Jersey. Salviuolo brought Croce and Muehleisen together at the production role of Tommy Due west and Terry Cashman in New York Metropolis. Croce at offset backed Muehleisen on guitar, only gradually their roles reversed, with Muehleisen adding a pb guitar to Croce's music.^{[ citation needed ]}

When Jim Croce and Ingrid discovered they were going to accept a child, Croce became more than determined to make music his profession. He sent a cassette of his new songs to a friend and producer in New York City in the promise that he could get a record bargain. When their son Adrian James (A.J.) was built-in in September 1971, Ingrid became a stay-at-home mom while Jim went on the road to promote his music.

In 1972, Croce signed a three-record contract with ABC Records, releasing 2 albums, You Don't Mess Effectually with Jim and Life and Times. The singles "Yous Don't Mess Around with Jim", "Operator (That'southward Not the Mode It Feels)", and "Fourth dimension in a Canteen" all received airplay. Also that yr, the Croce family moved to San Diego, California. Croce began actualization on goggle box, including his national debut on American Bandstand ^[18] on August 12, The Tonight Show ^[19] on August 14, and The Dick Cavett Show on September 20 and 21.

Croce began touring the U.s. with Muehleisen, performing in large coffee houses, on college campuses, and at folk festivals. All the same, his financial situation remained precarious. The record company had fronted him the money to record, and much of his earnings went to pay back the advance. In February 1973, Croce and Muehleisen traveled to Europe, performing in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, Zurich and Dublin and receiving positive reviews. Croce made telly appearances on The Midnight Special, which he co-hosted on June 15, and The Helen Reddy Evidence on July 19. Croce's biggest unmarried, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," reached Number 1 on the American charts in July.

From July 16 through Baronial iv, Croce and Muehleisen returned to London and performed on The Old Grey Whistle Test, where they sang "Lover's Cantankerous" and "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" from their upcoming album I Got a Proper name. Croce finished recording the anthology just a week before his decease. While on tour, he grew increasingly homesick and decided to take a suspension from music and settle with Ingrid and A.J. when his Life and Times bout ended.^{[20] [21]} In a letter to Ingrid which arrived after his death, Croce told her he had decided to quit music and stick to writing short stories and moving-picture show scripts every bit a career and withdraw from public life.^{[5] [22]}

Decease [edit]

On the night of Thursday, September 20, 1973, during Croce's Life and Times tour and the day before his ABC unmarried "I Got a Proper name" was released, Croce and all five others on lath were killed when their chartered Beechcraft E18S crashed into a tree during takeoff from the Natchitoches Regional Airdrome in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Croce was 30 years one-time. Others killed in the crash were pilot Robert N. Elliott, Croce's bandmate Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking amanuensis Kenneth D. Cortese, and route director Dennis Rast.^{[23] [24] [25]} An hour before the crash, Croce had completed a concert at Northwestern State University'south Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches; he was flight to Sherman, Texas, for a concert at Austin Higher. He died a 24-hour interval afterward fellow musician Gram Parsons.

An investigation by the NTSB^[26] named the probable cause as the airplane pilot's failure to see the obstruction due to physical harm and because fog reduced his vision. The 57-twelvemonth-former Elliott suffered from severe coronary artery disease and had run iii miles to the airport from a motel. He had an ATP certificate, 14,290 hours total flight time, and ii,190 hours in the Beech 18 type plane.^[26] A later investigation placed the sole blame on pilot mistake because of his downwind takeoff into a "black pigsty" of astringent darkness, limiting his use of visual references.^[27]

Croce was buried at Haym Salomon Memorial Park in Frazer, Pennsylvania.

Legacy [edit]

The album I Got a Proper noun was released on December 1, 1973.^[28] The posthumous release included three hits: "Workin' at the Car Launder Blues," "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song," and the title vocal, which had been used as the theme to the film The Last American Hero, which was released two months prior to his expiry. The album reached No. ii, and "I'll Accept to Say I Honey You in a Song" reached No. 9 on the singles chart.

While ABC had non originally released the song "Time in a Bottle" every bit a unmarried, Croce's untimely death gave its lyrics, dealing with bloodshed and the wish to take more than fourth dimension, an additional resonance. The song after received a large amount of airplay as an album track, and need for a single release built. When information technology was eventually issued as a vii", information technology became his second and final No. one striking.^[29] After the unmarried had finished its two-week run at the summit in early January 1974, the album Yous Don't Mess Around with Jim became No. ane for 5 weeks.^[30]

A greatest hits album entitled Photographs & Memories was released in 1974. Afterward posthumous releases have included Home Recordings: Americana, The Faces I've Been, Jim Croce: Classic Hits, Downwardly the Highway, and DVD and CD releases of Croce's television performances, Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live. In 1990, Croce was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[31]

Queen's 1974 anthology Sheer Center Attack included the vocal "Bring Dorsum That Leroy Brown", whose title and lyrics reference Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".

In 2012, Ingrid Croce published a memoir about Croce entitled I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story. ^[32]

In 1985, Ingrid Croce opened Croce's Eating place & Jazz Bar, a project she and Jim had jokingly discussed over a decade earlier, in the historic Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego. She owned and managed it until it closed on December 31, 2013. In Dec 2013, she opened Croce'southward Park West on 5th Artery in the Bankers Hill neighborhood virtually Balboa Park. She closed this restaurant in January 2016.^[33]

Croce's music has appeared in several pop movies and television shows, such every bit Invincible; The Hangover Part Ii; Django Unchained; X-Men: Days of Hereafter By; Logan; Hobbs & Shaw; I Know This Much Is Truthful; New Girl; Dissipated Son; American Gods; Psych and Stranger Things.

Discography [edit]

• Facets (1966)
• Jim & Ingrid Croce (1969)
• You Don't Mess Effectually with Jim (1972)
• Life and Times (1973)
• I Got a Name (1973)

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External links [edit]

• Jim Croce official website
• Jim Croce at Songwriters Hall of Fame
• "Wall of Fame". Upper Darby High School. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
• Jim Croce at Discover a Grave
• Jim Croce discography at Discogs

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