One of the most notable songs by Jim Croce, and one of his biggest hits, is actually at least partially inspired by a real person.

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 ...

1. "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" Croce was inspired to write this masterpiece of a song when he was serving in the Army. He would see around 200 soldiers lining up, waiting to use the phone ...

Legendary singer-songwriter Jim Croce had one of the biggest songs of the summer in 1973, but less than two months after scoring his first No. 1 hit, he was dead. The late icon released "Bad, Bad ...

A Gen Z music producer listens to Jim Croce's Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, exploring its playful storytelling, catchy rhythm, and ...

On this day (July 21) in 1973, Jim Croce started a two-week run at the top of the Hot 100 with “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” Like his debut single, “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” this hit is about a big, ...

Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle” was recorded in New York City and became a generational soft rock hit that still resonates decades later.

I shared a playlist of some of my favorite phone songs. Over the past week, plenty of you wrote in to share your own favorite ...

Miranda Lambert covers a posthumous 1973 Jim Croce for her new disco inspired country album, Cisco.

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 ...

As the younger Croce grew up in California, he learned about his dad not just from his mother, Ingrid, but also through Jim’s music and public persona. “The fame factor is a very bizarre thing, ...