On Sept. 20, 1973 beloved singer and songwriter Jim Croce died when the chartered plane he was flying in crashed into a tree during takeoff in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Croce, who wrote the hit songs ...

When I was a kid, one of my dad's favorite musicians was Jim Croce, so, by proxy, he was one of my favorites, too. I remember sitting on our living room's orange shag carpet (it was the 1970s) and ...

Seconds after taking off from an airport in Natchitoches, La., on the night of Sept. 20, 1973, the small plane carrying musician Jim Croce clipped a tree in the darkness and crashed, killing all six ...

Jim Croce was like a streaking comet in the rock ‘n’ roll sky, but his young life was cut short in an airplane crash on Sept. 20, 1973. Ten of his songs charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with five of ...

After years of trying to make it in the music industry, he found his breakthrough in 1972 with the album You Don’t Mess Around With Him. Sadly, much of the success surrounding that record was ...

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A.J. Croce was eight days shy of his second birthday when he lost his father, folk-soft rock star Jim Croce, but he is helping to keep the late balladeer's music alive. Since last year, the younger ...