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The Night Ingrid Told Him: How Jim Croce Wrote ‘Time in a Bottle’ for a Child Not Yet Born — and Never Lived to See It Hit No. 1
The Night Ingrid Told Him: How Jim Croce Wrote “Time in a Bottle” for a Child Not Yet Born — and Never Lived to See It Hit No. 1 In December 1970, in a kitchen in Pennsylvania, a twenty-seven-year-old man who had never had a hit record sat down at one end of the table…
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Jim Croce: The Heart Behind the Hits — Ingrid, A.J., and the Dream on Fifth and F
Jim Croce’s fame lasted eighteen months. His love story lasted longer — and in a way, it never ended. Behind the hit singles was a marriage that began at a hootenanny in 1963, survived poverty, a flop record, and a farmhouse with no money, and then survived the thing no marriage should have to survive.…
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How Jim Croce Created “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim”: Forty Rejections and an $18,000 Gamble
It is one of the great overnight-success stories in popular music, except for the part where it took seven years. When “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim” arrived in April 1972, it sounded like it had come out of nowhere: a warm, funny, heartbreaking record by a thirty-year-old nobody from Philadelphia, cut in three weeks…
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The Untold Story of Jim Croce: The Letter That Arrived Too Late, the Dear John Letters, and Thirty Years That Counted
He had eighteen months of fame. That is all the world gave Jim Croce — a year and a half between obscurity and a pecan tree in Louisiana — and in that sliver of time he wrote some of the most beloved songs of the seventies. He was thirty years old when he died, one…