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    early 1970s, his fortunes turned. Croce's breakthrough came in 1972, when his third album, You Don't Mess Around with Jim, produced three charting singles...
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    Jim Croce was an American singer-songwriter with five studio albums and 12 singles to his credit. His posthumously-released fifth studio album was completed...
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  • Jim & Ingrid Croce is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, the only one performed as a duo with his wife Ingrid. It was originally...
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  • 1971, Ingrid performed as a duo with her husband, Jim Croce, releasing the album Jim & Ingrid Croce in 1969. Ingrid Jacobson was born and raised in Philadelphia...
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  • singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in January 1973. The album contains the No. 1 Billboard chart hit "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". Croce was nominated for...
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  • You Don't Mess Around with Jim is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in April 1972 by ABC Records. The album was...
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    September 28, 1971, the son of singers Jim Croce, who was from an Italian Roman Catholic family, and Ingrid Croce, who is Jewish. His father died in a plane...
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  • studio album and first posthumous release by American singer-songwriter, Jim Croce, released on December 1, 1973. It features the ballad "I'll Have to Say...
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  • Around with Jim" is a 1972 strophic (all verses have the same tune) story song by Jim Croce from his album of the same name. It was Croce's debut single...
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  • Jim Croce Live: The Final Tour is a live album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, originally released in 1989, roughly 16 years after his untimely...
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  • Time in a Bottle (category Jim Croce songs)
    singer-songwriter Jim Croce. He wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant in December 1970. It appeared on Croce's 1972 ABC debut...
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  • Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) (category Jim Croce songs)
    by Jim Croce. Croce's record was released on August 23, 1972. It was the second single released from Croce's album You Don't Mess Around with Jim. It...
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  • Chain Gang (song) (category Jim Croce songs)
    on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Cooke's first top-ten single there. Jim Croce had his last Hot 100 hit in 1976 when Lifesong Records released "Chain...
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    official winner with "Vic", which is short for "Victory". Singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash hours after finishing a 1973 concert on the NSU...
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  • Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (category Jim Croce songs)
    an uptempo, strophic story song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a No...
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  • accompaniment, and impact on the music of Jim Croce. Muehleisen died in the same plane crash that killed Croce. Maurice T. Muehleisen was born on January...
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  • Villanova, joined the group. In 1961, West auditioned fellow student Jim Croce for The Spires and an enduring friendship was formed. After graduating...
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    Edgar Winter Group, Wings, Jim Croce, Maureen McGovern, Stories, Grand Funk, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Charlie Rich. Jim Croce is the third person to...
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  • I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song (category Jim Croce songs)
    posthumously released single by the American singer-songwriter Jim Croce. The song was written by Croce and was originally released on his album I Got a Name....
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  • Workin' at the Car Wash Blues (category Jim Croce songs)
    "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" is a 1974 single written and recorded by Jim Croce. It was the third single released from his album I Got a Name. It reached...
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    Facets (album) (category Jim Croce albums)
    debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released and self-published in 1966. Croce had five hundred copies of the album pressed, financed...
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  • I Got a Name (song) (category Jim Croce songs)
    recorded by Jim Croce with lyrics by Norman Gimbel and music by Charles Fox. It was the first single from his album of the same title and also Croce's first...
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  • Time in a Bottle: Jim Croce's Greatest Love Songs is a greatest hits album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce. It was released after his 1973 death...
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    Wings 23 "The Most Beautiful Girl" Charlie Rich 24 "Time in a Bottle" Jim Croce 25 "Annie's Song" John Denver 26 "Let Me Be There" Olivia Newton-John...
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  • Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live is a live album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 2006, over thirty years after his death. The album...
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  • more number ones than 1975, at 36, if including "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce, which initially topped the Hot 100 on December 29, 1973, and stayed atop...
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  • Photographs & Memories (category Jim Croce albums)
    album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released on September 26, 1974, by ABC Records. The album was Croce's second posthumous release following...
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  • construction worker, enjoyed playing guitar and exposed him to the music of Jim Croce; his mother taught piano for a living in addition to playing the flute...
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  • singer-songwriter and wife of Jim Ireneo della Croce (1625–1713), Italian preacher Jim Croce (1943–1973), American singer-songwriter Luigi Croce (born 1940), Italian...
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  • Mama Tried (song) (category Jim Croce songs)
    A demo recording of "Mama Tried" was recorded by Jim Croce. It was released in the 2003 Jim Croce compilation Home Recordings: Americana. Other recorded...
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