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My West Catholic Boys French Teacher.. Can't speak a word of French but I know every word to all Jim Croce's Songs. Mike is an Amazing Guy!

Tommy played Piano on'Bad Bad Leroy Brown 'didn't he?

Ah yes, summer of 1973, painting the hallway of my parents house. My uncle lent me an old table top radio with a large speaker and every time WABC 77 (on your radio dial) played the intro to Bad Bad Leroy Brown, the hallway rocked!

Around 2009 I wore a Jim Croce T-shirt to my former workplace (Pennington, NJ Post Office). One of my former co-workers...a mail carrier...said "Did you know that Maury's family lives right here in Pennington?". I was stunned and caught completely off guard. He told me the address and I decided to visit whomever resided there. I brought along with me one of the Jim Croce Gold Records that was in my collection presented to the legendary BILL DRAKE of KHJ Fame. (Biggest TOP 40 radio station in California). I also brought along a Radio Show on Vinyl that had a photo of Jim and Maury playing at the final concert before the crash on the album cover. I was greeted by Maury's Mom who I think was at least 90 years old at the time. She welcomed me into her home and took me into the family room. All of Maury's Gold Records were hanging on one of the walls....Surprisingly the particular one I had brought with me (Called a DISC AWARD) was not present. I gave her the Radio Show LP as a gift. She hadnt seen any photos from the last concert so she was quite moved. We sat there talking for about 2 hours. She told me she heard about Maury's death from a Neighbor who had seen it on the news the next morning. I thought to myself how screwed up is that to find out that way that your son had died. She sang me one of Maury's songs. I couldnt believe how SHARP this woman was to be that old and to have such an amazing memory. The story sadly doesnt end so well. One of her daughters came home from shopping I think and was "disturbed" that her Mother was sitting with some Dude nobody knows on the couch. So basically I didnt feel "welcome" anymore and I left. Fast forward a year or two later and I got into a conversation with one of Maury's other sisters....whichever one runs his website. She told that my visit caused quite an uproar within the family and a whole bunch of drama followed. Certainly not my intention. I'll always be grateful I had those hours to spend with Maury's Mom. Im sure she has long since passed on. Just thought I would share my story with other Jim/Maury fans

50 kilowatt compressed AM stations...lol. It's a good thing that the music from this era was so damn good, because the medium most of us heard it on sounded pretty bad!

This was one of the few songs that Jim didn't write himself. The song was written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, Maury helped make the "Croce" sound. His lead work was always enjoyable to hear. He knew just how to enhance the composition and putting the right lead in the right places. I truly enjoyed his work. Be proud of him!

He seems a bit rough with those guitars....and why did he have them and not JIm's family? I know he's a piano player, but he sure can't play a guitar. I am sorry Tommy passed away.

RIP Mr picardo

Great people! RIP Maury.

Had the pleasure of meeting Mike some 35 yrs. ago at a Catholic Church prayer meeting ... Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, he spoke of the effect Jim had on his life at the meeting... I again met him at Jim's tribute concert some 12 years ago at Upper Darby H.S. where he performed... memorable night...also had the pleasure of meeting Maury's brother and sister, that was the highlight for me.

Love this ! RIP 🙏🏼🕯️🙏🏼 Tommy, Jim and Maury.🎸

Love this story... RIP Tommy 🙏🏼🕯️🙏🏼

Maury's guitar picking really added so much to Jim's song! RIP 🙏🏼🕯️🕊️🕯️🙏🏼 Jim and Maury.

I loved Maury. What a loss and a talent .

To hold those guitars 😢😢 oh man.

I “Maury” in December and am head over heels about him. This video made me cry 💜.

Yep there was no missing that song when it came on the radio. Even the loudmouth deejays who talked over the intro couldn't compete with Tommy. Somewhere I have a tape of WSAI's Doug Silver blabbing over the intro.... but you can still hear it.

R.I.P. Tommy. Thank you for all of the beautiful music you wrote, played and sang.

RIP Tommy. So very sad. Thank you for the beautiful music you wrote, played and sang, as well as what you wrote and produced for others. Such a great talent and a kind person.

R.I.P. Tommy. You will be missed. So very saddened that you are no longer with us. Your music was the soundtrack to my life and you were a kind soul.

God Bless you Tommy. May God guide you home.

REST in PEACE TOMMY. ✝️🙏🏼🛐

Maury and jim live forever

Consistently superb sound on every record he's ever produced. All the Jim Croce albums had such beautiful sound. I was reading an article on the Universal fire today, the disaster that destroyed millions of master recordings, and just about everyone who had been on ABC/Dunhill had their masters wiped out. But I looked and happily did not see ABC's Jim Croce on the list. My guess is that Cashman and West purchased the masters for their Lifesong label and took them elsewhere. Good guess?

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RIP Maury 💔😢🙏 you were the best!!! Say hello to Jim for me! Hope if I'm lucky enough to get to Heaven, y'all will shake my hand...

Thank you for sharing. Keep the memory of Jim and Maury alive. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Tommy ! Genuine GOODNESS.

what about his martins?

So wonderful .....

Are they Martins? I know Jim played an Ovation also.

thanks for posting. i also did a tribute at maurys final resting place on you tube.

I agree with buddyhoot... I know it's not a vatican holy relic, but still... it's not a storebought beater either!

It was such a fun time for me shooting this video and getting to meet Tommy West,Jim Croce's producer, and playing some of Jim and Maury's guitars.The dream of a lifetime!

I knew Phil Petillo. He did excellent work on my Gibson and Martin guitars. Not only an excellent luthier but a tremendous person, too.

Just watching this kinda made me nervous.. He handles the guitars so quick and matter of factually! Then it's handed straight over to play! I would have been freaked about banging the guitars into something!!! Nice to know their in good hands!!! :-D

I like this!

Thank you for posting this, it brought back some good memories. God bless you!

How did you get in touch with Tommy?

Geez, how cool is that!!! This tune got me my first run-in with trouble with a capital "T". I was in Mrs. Copeland's kindergarten class in fall of '73 and this song is playing everywhere, all the time! So naturally I am a 4 year old kid belting it at the top of his lungs in class... Except of course the lyric contains a very edgy (for 1973!) naughty word... And Mrs. C is Reverend Copelin's wife and... Yeah that didn't go over too well. But who can forget what a firestorm this tune was on AM back in the day. And Tommy's intro set it all off. Thanks for sharing this. John

Thanks a lot for the info. When I hear Ovations I hear a tinny sound being produced and that's what I was picking up in a few of Jim's songs. Thanks again.

According to Tommy, they used these guitars on all of the tracks, and he should know as he was there recording them.

I few years back I was in contact with Maury's sister Mary on her website. Very nice person and informative. I asked her the question if Maury and Jim recorded with the Ovation guitars that they were often photographed with. She said that the recordings were never done with Ovations and that the Ovations were used on the road because they took a better beating. I found that interesting. My only problem is Photograph & Memories and New York's Not My Home still sound like Ovations. Any input?

words just can't express how that must feel, to hold the instruments which projected the dreams and visions of two of the most prolific musicians to ever grace the planet. like holding heaven in your hands!

WOW what talent Jim, Maury ,and Tommy had !

If you're in Italy, you might also want to contact the Barbara Belloni Band. They are an Italian Jim Croce tribute band.

Yes, Umberto, we do. In fact we have the 40th anniversary coming up in two weeks from now. It'll be a weekend gathering in Philadelphia plus a tribute show at Upper Darby, Jim's old school. Where are you located? All the details of the upcoming gathering can be found at the Jim Croce fans website.

Hi Ron, thanks for the video. I think i'm the number one italian fan of Jim and Maury. I'm in love with their music since the 80's. Do you still meet together with other fans in these gatherings?