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Jim Croce (January 10, 1943 – September 20,
1973) was an United States|American
singer-songwriter.  He began playing music in
college, finally signing to ABC Records|ABC in
1972, releasing You Don't Mess Around With Jim and
Life & Times that year. The singles "Time in a
Bottle" (written for his newborn son, A.J.
Croce|A.J., who is now an accomplished musician
and songwriter in his own right,), "You Don't Mess
Around with Jim" and "Operator (That's Not the Way
It Feels)" helped the former album reach #1 on the
charts in 1974.

Croce died in a plane crash on September 20 1973
in Natchitoches, Louisiana, only days before
releasing the third ABC album, I Got a Name.  The
plane crashed after the pilot reportedly suffered
a massive heart attack in mid-air.  The posthumous
release included three hits, "I Got a Name,"
"Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" and "I'll Have to
Say I Love You in a Song".  Several releases since
have sold moderately well.  Croce was interred in
the Haym Soloman Memorial Park cemetery in Frazer,
Pennsylvania.

Recently, his widow, Ingrid, was allowed to obtain
from Jim's daughter Heidieh the permissions for
all of his songs. Since then, she has allowed a
PBS special to be made from archive footage as
well as footage from the Croce family collection,
in order to, in her words, "keep his legacy
alive".

==Samples==
*Media:TimeinaBottle.ogg|Download sample of "Time
in a Bottle"

==External links==
*http://www.jimcroce.com/ Official site
*http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=84416&ke
y=0 US NTSB Report on plane crash