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  • @silver_bullet682
    @silver_bullet682 19 днів тому +71

    Anyone here in 2024 reminiscing?

    • @user-kn1fr1iu1d
      @user-kn1fr1iu1d 12 днів тому +3

      Me

    • @petev.2120
      @petev.2120 11 днів тому +3

      Absolutely

    • @jeph33
      @jeph33 9 днів тому +1

      Big time! Jim Croce was one of my Dad's favorites 😪

    • @lanicollins4768
      @lanicollins4768 7 днів тому +1

      I listen and transport

    • @OnoUdnt8
      @OnoUdnt8 6 днів тому +1

      I play guitar because my father played it

  • @ClassicPass_
    @ClassicPass_ 2 роки тому +2875

    Can we all take a second to praise the boss man Maury Muehleisen. Holding down those melodic doublestops and sick harmonies... songs not the same without him.

    • @gabrielbotsford791
      @gabrielbotsford791 Рік тому +120

      Let's take 10 seconds

    • @robiesauquillo3443
      @robiesauquillo3443 Рік тому +80

      the best backup of music maury muehleisen

    • @roygolden2628
      @roygolden2628 Рік тому +53

      Jim would be less without him

    • @EsotericDave
      @EsotericDave Рік тому +83

      100%. Well said. Fits in perfectly. He sung and played in a way that didn't make it about him. RIP to a master along with Jim.

    • @QuestionEverythingMang
      @QuestionEverythingMang Рік тому +59

      I was going to say the same.. the guy is the most underrated guitar player of all time imho.

  • @goldennuggetofwisdom5068
    @goldennuggetofwisdom5068 9 місяців тому +239

    He was just too pure. He didn't die young, he just got called home early.

    • @lvait957
      @lvait957 3 місяці тому +12

      That's the way it goes.

    • @DuaneClark-wo7eu
      @DuaneClark-wo7eu 2 місяці тому +1

    • @tw6256
      @tw6256 2 місяці тому +3

      Your comment hit me hard! .. thank you

    • @jameswahnee-vn5nt
      @jameswahnee-vn5nt 2 місяці тому +2

      Very Spiritual choice of words. We honor your Soul.

    • @braunwilliammusic
      @braunwilliammusic 2 місяці тому +1

      Wow, choked me up w/ this 1. Amen

  • @jameschancey251
    @jameschancey251 10 днів тому +16

    This song came out when I was in high school. Now it's 2024 and I'm listening to it for the seventh time in a row now.

  • @andrewjackson7758
    @andrewjackson7758 2 роки тому +1580

    I was born in 1971, so this song reminds me of being really small with my mom and dad crusing in the Plymouth deep in the woods of the Ozarks. It's incredibly peaceful like a security blanket. Mom isn't doing well. Dad died in 2017. But this song gives me peace of mind.

    • @Mahlercougar
      @Mahlercougar 2 роки тому +44

      71 here too.. No words.. My dad used to sing along with Leroy Brown when I was so young. We are going to miss you Jim.. Such a down to earth -blue jeans man.

    • @davidweyland1253
      @davidweyland1253 2 роки тому +38

      Andrew...God Bless yor for your words. You move back in with Mom if you have to....lf you can. I am going through the same mess. Mom is falling down and we can't afford a home attendant. Prayers up. I do remember this song cruising with Mom and Poppa in his Buick Electra. Lol. Peace and love to All. I am Praying for you and yours Brother!!!! I was born in 1975! Music is timeless.

    • @joshd6853
      @joshd6853 2 роки тому +28

      71 here....The love and beauty this song brings back makes me cry with warmth and happiness. So weird to be old enough to remember amazing beauty like this....

    • @thomasbayer3311
      @thomasbayer3311 2 роки тому +32

      Born in 70. Remembering family road trips with the AM radio on...sending hugs out to all that are missing someone as much as I miss my Mom and Dad right now

    • @nc_cntrylife
      @nc_cntrylife 2 роки тому +21

      I was also born in 1971. I heard this song on my older brother's Jim Croce album. I have loved this music ever since. Croce was so talented and we lost him much too soon.

  • @corygreen3713
    @corygreen3713 2 роки тому +1041

    Wow. No drums. Nothing but strings and voice telling a sad and beautiful story.
    We are lucky to have this gorgeous music available to our tired souls.

    • @ronaldjohnston7918
      @ronaldjohnston7918 2 роки тому +14

      I agree and I could not have said it better than you did. THANK YOU!

    • @jrvapor
      @jrvapor Рік тому +22

      Yes indeed Cory Green! Yes its clichè to say they don't make'em like they used to. In this case they really don't, Jim Croce and those artist had sincerity in their songs, it makes you feel something because these old timers meant it!

    • @thomastimlin1724
      @thomastimlin1724 Рік тому +14

      Yes...total quality. Really sets the computerized sounds back into the category of BS junk...technocrats...auto tune put to shame. Maury Muehleisen was really the other half of Jim Croce, and I think Jim knew that when it came to performing and recording...truly these two are way above the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bull crap.

    • @sandyw1891
      @sandyw1891 Рік тому +9

      OMG he was gone too soon. but isn't that how it goes?

    • @anton2417
      @anton2417 Рік тому +1

      rory gallagher

  • @dianealdrich710
    @dianealdrich710 День тому +2

    Jim.
    Lived and died at a time when America was much much different than we lived in today. !

  • @rickharrison2120
    @rickharrison2120 19 днів тому +13

    “My best old ex friend Ray…” The layers of information in each line tells so much of a story. Every word placed perfectly. I get lost in this song every time. I can’t think of a time I didn’t mist up hearing it.

    • @jeph33
      @jeph33 9 днів тому

      Me too, Rick. How he got some little comfort from the operator, glad to hear a friendly voice..even a stranger. Plus I think of my Dad, who loved Croce's music..and it's a lite shower 😪

    • @soyevquirsefron990
      @soyevquirsefron990 День тому

      The number on the matchbook is old and faded… the phone number used to stay at the same address, so she still lives at the same place with Ray. She hasn’t moved but that’s the same number she wrote down on a free matchbook years ago

    • @lessharratt8719
      @lessharratt8719 День тому

      A man she knew, and sometimes hated.

  • @tempestmkiv
    @tempestmkiv 2 роки тому +1018

    The sycronised guitar playing is unbelievable, what a masterpiece!

    • @alex_from_texas_
      @alex_from_texas_ 2 роки тому +1

      🎸

    • @yunotchotch
      @yunotchotch 2 роки тому +41

      That guy backing him up is a serious musician

    • @moniquedhooghe
      @moniquedhooghe Рік тому +21

      @@yunotchotch maury muehleisen

    • @kitsmith806
      @kitsmith806 Рік тому +1

      Bob, 👍🏽🎯💯 absolutely ❤️

    • @darrellstaples7011
      @darrellstaples7011 Рік тому +8

      What a master guitar player to me, they complimented each other so welll🇨🇦👍

  • @DRLIT
    @DRLIT 11 років тому +1930

    One of the most perfect songs ever written.

    • @PoliticusRex632
      @PoliticusRex632 2 роки тому +71

      He had many "perfect" songs. Such a shame he's all but forgotten today.

    • @KoloaKane
      @KoloaKane 2 роки тому +14

      True

    • @philmullins136
      @philmullins136 2 роки тому +36

      I remember him. I also remember when his plane went down. His story & his music still brings tears to me. Best wishes to you.

    • @scottlockhart6057
      @scottlockhart6057 2 роки тому +17

      "Yes ma'am""" 😇💞 I remember "" first hearing 👂this song 🎵 when I was younger over #40 years ago """""" 🥰😎

    • @mauricewascom658
      @mauricewascom658 2 роки тому +4

      Yeahyaright❗🙁💔

  • @daltxn
    @daltxn Місяць тому +30

    To be frank, there are not many 29 year olds who could write let alone sing a song with such precision, poise, harmony, vocals and just plain talent.

    • @mickjagger8439
      @mickjagger8439 Місяць тому +4

      He was truly gifted!

    • @freddy7304
      @freddy7304 Місяць тому +6

      Hard to believe he died at 30 . He looks a lot older yeah , but he sings with the wisdom and soul of a 50-60 something who had already lived a long life .

    • @mickjagger8439
      @mickjagger8439 Місяць тому +4

      @@freddy7304 WAY too young 😞

    • @soyevquirsefron990
      @soyevquirsefron990 День тому

      @@freddy7304on one hand I thought if Jim was going to die young, he might as well have died a little sooner and joined the famous 27 club.
      But then I thought about it and I know that Jim did a whole lot of living in those couple extra years and I’m sure he wouldn’t trade that for the world. I hope that you and I should all have our own couple years like that

  • @endertwelve
    @endertwelve Місяць тому +26

    "I think about the love that I thought would save me"
    This breaks me up inside every time I hear it. Ain't that the truth...

  • @ktm42080
    @ktm42080 3 місяці тому +73

    Damn it. I'm 47, at work and there's something in my eyes.....

    • @duanegeorges9339
      @duanegeorges9339 2 місяці тому +3

      Ya know it doesn't happen all the time till you're 59 haha - jeez just slipped a disc writing that

    • @user-le7pq1em2l
      @user-le7pq1em2l 2 місяці тому +3

      I remember my dad playing this album on his stereo and being 6 or 7. Good music never fails. I've always wondered how big he could have become

    • @jimmytwomontez
      @jimmytwomontez 2 місяці тому +2

      Same...was not expecting that. 💪

    • @soyevquirsefron990
      @soyevquirsefron990 20 днів тому +1

      @@user-le7pq1em2las a kid I remember my father played a funny song about how “you can keep the dime” and only decades later did I realize this was the song and how much wisdom is in it

    • @DugrozReports
      @DugrozReports 9 днів тому +4

      You know it happens every time ...

  • @Lord_Baphomet_
    @Lord_Baphomet_ 2 місяці тому +49

    I don’t think I’m asking for a lot when I say I wish I could hear this song for the first time again.

    • @sealyoness
      @sealyoness 21 день тому +1

      I wish I could hear him again.

    • @jeph33
      @jeph33 9 днів тому +1

      You kinda can, if you give some songs time. Then after awhile, you hear it fresh, thinking about where you were, what you were doing, how life was...

  • @mistressofthedark1476
    @mistressofthedark1476 2 місяці тому +87

    This song describes perfectly what it feels like when you want to contact someone that you loved and still love, but they've moved on, and you want to want to wish them well, but you can't because it hurts to damn bad, so you don't even make the phone call.

  • @aburke0823
    @aburke0823 Рік тому +331

    I was born in 74, and my Dad was a guitar playing music teacher (k-12) who loved Jim Croce. If I close my eyes and sit very still while I listen to these songs it makes me feel like Dad’s in the room with me.❤

  • @mogwaistrange
    @mogwaistrange Місяць тому +7

    Jim, you were so underrated! God bless you! Fly free!

  • @larrycanepa
    @larrycanepa Рік тому +724

    It's sad to think about how much music we were robbed of when these two amazing men passed away so young... 😔

    • @thebuffalo2263
      @thebuffalo2263 10 місяців тому +11

      Lost forever❤😢

    • @ThatOneGirlThatPlays
      @ThatOneGirlThatPlays 9 місяців тому +11

      His son is following in his footsteps ❤

    • @25jimbone
      @25jimbone 9 місяців тому +27

      They don't make music like this anymore.

    • @bluefandango
      @bluefandango 8 місяців тому +17

      it's not the way to see things. i prefer to think that someone or something decided that they had given us what they had to.
      maybe something better awaits them, somewhere else

    • @charlescousinscjr7855
      @charlescousinscjr7855 8 місяців тому +4

      ❤ very true gone to soon but their legacy lives on 😢

  • @rogerjames5730
    @rogerjames5730 7 місяців тому +152

    The guy was only 30 when he passed. He would have gone down in history as the best folk singer EVER. He wrote most of his hits in just a few weeks time. Amazing talent!

    • @wwaldo2525
      @wwaldo2525 3 місяці тому +2

      Folk? Idk about that. I hate pigeon holing an artist

    • @dukenukem69
      @dukenukem69 3 місяці тому

      ​@@wwaldo2525polk?

    • @dukenukem69
      @dukenukem69 3 місяці тому

      ​@@wwaldo2525polka dot?

    • @athmaid
      @athmaid 3 місяці тому +2

      And Maury was even younger, only 24! I'm 25 now, crazy to think about. It feels like my life has only just started and this guy was already on the top, and then everything just stopped for him. It's so sad

    • @user-yb4rk7bo7q
      @user-yb4rk7bo7q 3 місяці тому +2

      30 going on 60. Seems like he lived a pretty full life.

  • @JohnDoe-12
    @JohnDoe-12 24 дні тому +5

    Jim will live forever.

  • @liam4343
    @liam4343 Місяць тому +7

    Jim left us with amazing tunes. But every time I listen, I can't help but think of what other gifts he would have left us with. RIP Jim

  • @temptemp2881
    @temptemp2881 8 місяців тому +215

    50 years today (20 September) Jim was taken so tragically and way too early. His music and voice still lives on after all these years. Legend 🙏🙏🙏

    • @user-up9mo9fi1b
      @user-up9mo9fi1b 7 місяців тому +2

      he had actually just sent a letter to his wife that he was planning to retire from show touring to live his life with her

    • @jbs256
      @jbs256 7 місяців тому +4

      Maury was on that plane, too… 🙏💔

    • @bsoz9759
      @bsoz9759 6 місяців тому

      @@user-up9mo9fi1b Oh Dear GOD.

    • @bsoz9759
      @bsoz9759 6 місяців тому +2

      @@jbs256 Oh Dear God, is that true?
      I am so sorry for Maury and his family.

    • @jbs256
      @jbs256 6 місяців тому +1

      @@bsoz9759 sadly, yes.

  • @barrygrant2907
    @barrygrant2907 Місяць тому +10

    A treasure lost. "Time in a bottle" is my all-time favorite.

  • @angelmatos9143
    @angelmatos9143 Місяць тому +4

    One of the most beautiful & original songs ever written. 😇

  • @chuck5279
    @chuck5279 10 місяців тому +36

    2 guys + 2 guitars + 4 microphones = history.
    .
    So simple.

  • @ThePenquinoS
    @ThePenquinoS 20 днів тому +5

    Guy she knew well and sometimes hated has so much meaning to it. Such a good story teller

  • @royalbleu7406
    @royalbleu7406 3 місяці тому +32

    The beautiful guitar work was what first drew me to this song. But as I grew older, the depth of the lyrics is what really make it timeless. There is so much unstated backstory in them - and yet on the surface all it consists of is a one-sided conversation with a telephone operator.
    Operators don't exist anymore, nor do phone booths. Dimes are probably going to be around for a while, but they are mostly an irrelevancy in today's world. But this song will never grow old.

    • @Sabe53
      @Sabe53 3 місяці тому +2

      For me it's the lyrics,always has been, love this song. Every time I here it, it just takes me back to a simpler time.

    • @joannagipson12
      @joannagipson12 13 днів тому +1

      Yes...🦋💖🌟💖

  • @FercPolo
    @FercPolo 2 місяці тому +19

    Dude in the back CRUSHING the lead licks during Croce's epic singing.

  • @SweetasaStrawberry10
    @SweetasaStrawberry10 Рік тому +114

    Artificial intelligence may be able to create some mindless dance grooves, but it will never be able to write a song with this level of feeling, pathos, and understanding of what it means to love, and to lose. When you hear a song like this, you remember what it means to be human. Thank you for this wonderful music, Jim & Maury.

    • @sleepybot3905
      @sleepybot3905 10 місяців тому +1

      Yes it will. A.i will take over the entertainment industry in the next 3 years..

    • @BattShytKuhraezy
      @BattShytKuhraezy 9 місяців тому

      ... ¿y N 0 T??

    • @braunwilliammusic
      @braunwilliammusic 2 місяці тому

      @@sleepybot3905 Taking over an industry has nothing to do with song writing of this caliber.

    • @sleepybot3905
      @sleepybot3905 2 місяці тому

      @@braunwilliammusic a.i will write songs like this, give it 3 years

  • @user-dq8wf6wc8u
    @user-dq8wf6wc8u Рік тому +221

    Almost 50 years ago now. Truly a timeless classic. RIP Jim and Maury.

  • @gregroye3395
    @gregroye3395 8 місяців тому +18

    Rest in peace, Jim and Maury. 50 years ago today 😢

  • @guslevy3506
    @guslevy3506 Рік тому +31

    “You can keep the dime…”
    This song is perfect…

  • @athmaid
    @athmaid 2 роки тому +430

    The harmonies, the little lead lines, these two were a great team. Haven't heard many live performances that clean

    • @garychambers5850
      @garychambers5850 2 роки тому +6

      These guys were one in a million! Like The Beatles, this will never happen again... Maybe in Heaven!

    • @isaiahknecht652
      @isaiahknecht652 2 роки тому +8

      The only other person I've seen like this is Gordon lightfoot in the early days with Red Shea. They were a good duo too

    • @reynoldreyno3368
      @reynoldreyno3368 2 роки тому

      The other voice /guitar player name please?

    • @dennissmith9259
      @dennissmith9259 2 роки тому +11

      @@reynoldreyno3368 Maury Muehleisen, who died with Jim Croce in the plane crash. Jim was 30 years old, Maury was 24.

    • @1bls
      @1bls 2 роки тому +5

      Clean is a good word. They were, clean and precise

  • @Cheekiemoney
    @Cheekiemoney Місяць тому +18

    Remember when singers sounded the same live compared to their records?

  • @meeraaudio
    @meeraaudio Рік тому +275

    Jim Croce is so underrated

    • @mickjagger8439
      @mickjagger8439 Рік тому +34

      Only by those that never heard him.

    • @doriscorea7776
      @doriscorea7776 Рік тому +19

      But each of us here rate him at 100+%! He’s the best!

    • @dizbang3073
      @dizbang3073 Рік тому +6

      Not by me.

    • @darrellstaples7011
      @darrellstaples7011 Рік тому +1

      I don't underrated he died to young

    • @feellucky271
      @feellucky271 Рік тому +1

      @@darrellstaples7011 all you have to do is listen to the music to understand why everybody loves him

  • @devious187
    @devious187 Рік тому +30

    Here in Canada we just lost Gordon Lightfoot, a man who i always felt was Jims spiritual brother, RIP to you both and thank you for blessing us with your beautiful music

  • @beverlyclark174
    @beverlyclark174 2 роки тому +227

    It's so hard to believe that it's been nearly 50 years ago that we lost Jim. I would have loved to see how his career would have been. RIP Jim Croce

    • @jamesaleman
      @jamesaleman Рік тому +3

      I was born in March of that year, grew up admiring this artist. The world lost a great musician.

    • @michaelsix9684
      @michaelsix9684 Рік тому +4

      true musical genius, so lucky we had him

    • @JohnGadzaJr.
      @JohnGadzaJr. Рік тому +10

      Basically, Jim Croce had made all kinds of plans while he was still around in the beginning of 1970s. In a letter to his wife Ingrid which arrived after his untimely death on September 20, 1973 from a plane crash, Jim told her that he had decided to quit music for good in order to stick to writing short stories along with movie scripts as a new career and withdraw from public life completely. Basically, Jim Croce was supposed to retire because he grew increasingly homesick as he was missing his family. Sadly, all of the wonderful plans that Jim Croce had would never materialize because of his unexpected death. May he rest in peace.

    • @exspiravit6920
      @exspiravit6920 10 місяців тому +1

      @@JohnGadzaJr. Screenplays and scripts....short stories!?!?!? Jeez talk about being versatile.

    • @VincentBernhard-hn2vw
      @VincentBernhard-hn2vw 8 місяців тому

      OMGosh! 50 years??

  • @muffs55mercury61
    @muffs55mercury61 2 роки тому +381

    Fortunately Jim lived to see his success take off (for about 14 months) and saw four hit singles and two hit albums on the charts before that fateful night in Sept, 1973. His guitarist with him, Maury Muehleisen was also killed in the crash.
    No lip synching here, we see Jimmy as he was. From what I've heard Jim liked small venues so he could be close to his fans. You don't hear much of that from performers now days.

    • @sgenetti77
      @sgenetti77 2 роки тому +16

      Not sure how/why I landed here randomly listening to music before I pick up the axe on a Saturday night (with zero intentions of playing something this laid back, lol!) but I'm glad I did. Oh, I've heard this plenty of times, always liked it, but never listened to this particualr version before, nor learned of the story of his guitarist that perished with him. Nor have I heard it with these ears at this age intentionally for the purpose of "hearing" all the parts. The guitarist's harmonies are great with this too. Nice, interesting finger picking progression as well

    • @muffs55mercury61
      @muffs55mercury61 2 роки тому +22

      @@sgenetti77 I was in high school at the time and the guys who liked hard rock also liked Jim's music. There was no real explanation for it as they simply thought he was cool.

    • @jeddyhi
      @jeddyhi 2 роки тому +17

      Jim was down to earth guy and I'm not sure he realized the magnitude of the success he was on the cusp of. At the time of his death, he still lived on the farm in Pennsylvania and was still wearing jeans and flannels and t-shirts. "Time in a Bottle" hit number one after his death at age 30.

    • @sweatypackage
      @sweatypackage 2 роки тому +4

      @@sgenetti77 Reddit rabbithole brought me here, and same this was not the music route i planned on but its working lol.

    • @muffs55mercury61
      @muffs55mercury61 2 роки тому +8

      @@jeddyhi I like the down to earth personalities like that. So many others are so full of themselves & I can't stand them. "Time In a Bottle" was a hit by accident. It was in a TV film called "She Lives" about a woman dying of cancer. It was aired one week before Jim's passing. They already released "I Got a Name" so buyers either had to wait til November or buy the LP to get the song. It was the last #1 of 1973. Great memories though sometimes sad in Jim's case. He had so much ahead of him.

  • @rickwebermusic
    @rickwebermusic Рік тому +109

    This is simply one of the best live performances ever created. RIP Jim & Maury.

  • @hellosunnymorning
    @hellosunnymorning День тому +1

    Thank you for your time. You've been so much more than kind. You can keep the dime.

  • @conscience-commenter
    @conscience-commenter 2 роки тому +574

    Musicians are some of the most underated contributors to society . The best ones like Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen are irreplaceable in what they offer medicinally to people's spirit and souls .Two talented souls taken way too soon.

    • @MrHitomiplum
      @MrHitomiplum 2 роки тому +9

      @The mysterious Miss X This is ain't the right take chief.

    • @globalheartwarming
      @globalheartwarming 2 роки тому +8

      @The mysterious Miss X That's not the way it _feels._

    • @user-zv7yb4yp9g
      @user-zv7yb4yp9g 2 роки тому +8

      @The mysterious Miss X
      “Without music, life would be a mistake.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
      Without spiritual/emotional things like music we would not be very different from animals

    • @globalheartwarming
      @globalheartwarming 2 роки тому +2

      @@user-zv7yb4yp9g _Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrthum._ I especially love it for the evolutionary perspective (which comes to my whimsical mind in the English version), like if we and some other species hadn't evolved to make music, the whole adventure of having life on earth at all would have been a mistake! Of course that's silly, right? but sing something for Earth Day, which happens to be my birthday. I just sang the chorus of "'O sole mio" to a sunshower here in Seattle, USA. Now it's your turn ❤️🌎🕊️

    • @murphyr31
      @murphyr31 2 роки тому +5

      Exactly! Well said, music is an integral part of my insides. It’s the way my heart and mind put words to feelings and allow me to emote things that are sometimes too difficult to make sense of.

  • @JuneLynn
    @JuneLynn 10 років тому +447

    Jim is still so missed...rest in peace Jim & Maury..

    • @michaelmeeks7649
      @michaelmeeks7649 2 роки тому +14

      I have always wondered who the gentleman was backing up Mr. Croce.

    • @kabayodakila2481
      @kabayodakila2481 2 роки тому +19

      Maury Muehleisen

    • @luisbohorquez7096
      @luisbohorquez7096 2 роки тому +10

      Such a beautiful soul taking far too early .. sorely missed..💕💞❤️🙏🙏👼👼

    • @luisbohorquez7096
      @luisbohorquez7096 2 роки тому +15

      @@michaelmeeks7649 Died with Jim in the plane crash...R.I.P.💞🙏

    • @classicfightsboxingph252
      @classicfightsboxingph252 2 роки тому

      @@michaelmeeks7649 thought it was johnny lennon

  • @Oogieone
    @Oogieone Місяць тому +3

    One of my favorite songs to sing in karaoke even though he died before I was born. Amazing singer-songwriter

  • @jimburkett9799
    @jimburkett9799 10 місяців тому +53

    Perhaps the greatest song ever written. It’s a guided emotional journey.

  • @robertryan2542
    @robertryan2542 2 роки тому +63

    Still watching here in Ireland , 2022. A classic.

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 2 роки тому +2

      Watching in Detroit but my heart is in Kilkenny with my family

    • @robertryan2542
      @robertryan2542 2 роки тому +3

      I hope you have a most blessed Easter Dale.

  • @kostyapolykova9879
    @kostyapolykova9879 2 роки тому +77

    This man wrote some of the most beautiful and haunting songs of all time

  • @PWatts-ff2fd
    @PWatts-ff2fd 3 місяці тому +16

    "She's livin' in LA with my best old ex friend Ray."
    I just love the way Jim played with words and meaning in his songs. He was more than a musician and song writer. He was an old fashioned Bard.
    Jim, you are my favorite artist ever. I still miss you!❤❤❤

  • @arthurathanassiou3948
    @arthurathanassiou3948 Рік тому +149

    This was my "gateway" song into the wonderful music of this man. I got a tear in my eye the first time I heard it - 40yrs on and my eyes still do the same.

  • @paverinstalls7655
    @paverinstalls7655 2 роки тому +61

    His eyes show a pained soul but his voice shows a beautiful soulful passion

    • @PWatts-ff2fd
      @PWatts-ff2fd 10 місяців тому

      I agree 1,000%!

    • @elizabethharalson7903
      @elizabethharalson7903 9 місяців тому +3

      His eyes , wisdom and burning fate. Look in the eyes of John Lennon, Martin King Jr., and Abraham Lincoln. That look, gentle wisdom .

    • @leonardnordenstrom6239
      @leonardnordenstrom6239 6 місяців тому

      you knew his pained soul.

    • @WoodManDaBomb
      @WoodManDaBomb 5 місяців тому

      This is the best description of his expressions singing his heartfelt songs, thanks man

  • @phyllisferguson747
    @phyllisferguson747 2 роки тому +90

    Still listen to the original vinyl album at 66 years. His music goes straight to the heart. Living in the beautiful Ozarks and thankful to be here. Prayers for you.

    • @gregnormal5101
      @gregnormal5101 Рік тому +1

      Hello!!! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan..... Stay safe!

  • @invisigoth777
    @invisigoth777 2 місяці тому +5

    these days, and beyond, no one will know what an operator was, besides us older people, keeping these songs alive

  • @Ariel-T-Friesner
    @Ariel-T-Friesner 7 місяців тому +21

    All these years later, Jim Croce still makes me cry: "I've overcome the blow. I've learned to take it well."

  • @alanmorganstein2699
    @alanmorganstein2699 4 місяці тому +75

    It should have been a crime for the camera not to get maury's fingerwork

    • @cam_ca973
      @cam_ca973 Місяць тому +3

      Learning his parts on guitar currently, he was incredibly talented.

    • @user-ex4si2md6r
      @user-ex4si2md6r Місяць тому +2

      He was a fantastic guitar player....

    • @isaacjoseph2918
      @isaacjoseph2918 Місяць тому +3

      So true the the guitars is classic as well

    • @user-ex4si2md6r
      @user-ex4si2md6r 13 днів тому

      @@isaacjoseph2918 so true indeed 🎸

  • @petegrierson
    @petegrierson 2 роки тому +365

    Stunning performance, beautiful story telling!

    • @butameremortal9424
      @butameremortal9424 2 роки тому +11

      One of the GREATEST storytellers ever 💕

    • @johnmaki3046
      @johnmaki3046 2 роки тому +2

      He was the BEST at songs that INVOLVED!

    • @LemonsAndSalt69
      @LemonsAndSalt69 2 роки тому

      It isn’t being performed. It recorded.

    • @anireseegam6128
      @anireseegam6128 Рік тому

      @@LemonsAndSalt69 you don't know what you are talking about. Artists performed live back in those days. Fool

  • @crtnylstrk_imagery
    @crtnylstrk_imagery Рік тому +48

    Only discovered Jim Croce recently thanks to a Spotify radio and this has been the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. Cannot stop listening to Jim

  • @CaneFu
    @CaneFu 9 місяців тому +13

    Sadly, just when both of these artists were starting to experience great success with hit songs they died in the same plane crash on September 20, 1973. I like to imagine that Jim is looking down from Heaven and getting some joy out of the fact that millions of people are still listening to his music 50 years later. Jim would be 80 years old if he were still alive.

  • @trevormiles5852
    @trevormiles5852 2 роки тому +19

    I remember going to his wifes restaurant in San Diego on 5th. Classy place that really kept his spirit. Live music on Valentine's Day with my girl dressed in red. Truly the meaning of time in a bottle.

  • @Martin.Wilson
    @Martin.Wilson 2 роки тому +26

    Music from back in a time when the world made sense.

    • @TheJ0shuaTree7
      @TheJ0shuaTree7 2 роки тому +4

      The early 70's made sense? The U.S. was in the middle of Vietnam, there was crazy inflation, a fuel shortage, political unrest. It sounds a lot like the world we live in now. The big difference is pop/rock artists actually made music that made sense, today not so much. There's good music out there still but it's not "main stream". The world has always been a crazy place, what we need is good music to help us deal with it.

    • @photonjones5908
      @photonjones5908 2 роки тому +2

      Vietnam was not defensible, it tore a hole in our country, but at least we still had heroes and not the gaslit shitshow we have now.

    • @Martin.Wilson
      @Martin.Wilson 2 роки тому

      @@photonjones5908 Exactly...back in the day when people could still trust the news to tell them the truth.

    • @diggie9598
      @diggie9598 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah, the good old days, when everything was better. Even the future.

  • @SundayCookingRemix
    @SundayCookingRemix Місяць тому +3

    My first memory of music is this song, thee entire album. My birth year. My mom loved Jim Croce!! And so do I!! ❤❤❤

  • @willb5240
    @willb5240 Рік тому +70

    Both of them so talented. Such a tragic loss, but they have never been forgotten.

  • @osceolaassassin3188
    @osceolaassassin3188 2 роки тому +9

    My uncle used to play this on his guitar for me when I was a boy. He rests in Heaven with Jim & Maury now. God bless them.

  • @genejacobson2843
    @genejacobson2843 4 місяці тому +8

    I’ll never stop missing this man, hearing his words in my head. I can’t even begin to imagine what more he could have given, taught, us with more time.

  • @mda_0214
    @mda_0214 26 днів тому +2

    My Dad and I listened to some country folk songs from an old DVD which they're popularized. When I first heard this original song, it became one of my favorites and I really love it. Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen did it well. ❤

  • @davidhayes7596
    @davidhayes7596 Рік тому +7

    The industry won't let this happen again

  • @danadowning2065
    @danadowning2065 2 роки тому +18

    Old enough to remember when this song came out.
    I wonder how many listening today have no idea what, "You can keep the dime" means? 😊

    • @gregnormal5101
      @gregnormal5101 Рік тому

      Hello!!! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan..... Stay safe!

  • @christopherdavison652
    @christopherdavison652 2 роки тому +114

    Always loved Maury's perfect harmonies and stellar acoustic picking. These guys together were pure magic.

    • @markmcarthy596
      @markmcarthy596 2 роки тому

      What’s Maury’s last name?

    • @christopherdavison652
      @christopherdavison652 2 роки тому +8

      @@markmcarthy596 Mark, Maury's last name (and I hope I spell it right) was Muehleisen. He was Jim's right hand man, and best friend.

    • @markmcarthy596
      @markmcarthy596 2 роки тому +1

      @@christopherdavison652 🙏

    • @1bls
      @1bls 2 роки тому +6

      Glad you mentioned him, he is mostly unheard of, but he had a killer voice

    • @tabathastaples7884
      @tabathastaples7884 2 роки тому

      Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Pastor Murray is an Anointed Servant of GOD who teaches the Word of GOD with Authority!!!!!!!

  • @kevinknight1474
    @kevinknight1474 5 місяців тому +3

    Jim love You man. Left too soon. 😢❤

  • @wwaldo2525
    @wwaldo2525 3 місяці тому +3

    Thank you for your time

  • @JohnNiemsMusic
    @JohnNiemsMusic 2 роки тому +13

    I bought my D-35 MARTIN guitar in 1972 as I played many JIM CROCE songs on it back in the day at coffee houses and seeing them both play MARTIN guitars here makes me proud to still have my guitar and still writing songs on it too! RIP JC as you are still missed!

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 2 роки тому +2

      I wish I could play like that. JC, one of my all time favorite singer-songwriters.

    • @stephenrivera4382
      @stephenrivera4382 2 роки тому +2

      Bought my D-35 after being inspired by Crosby, Stills & Nash, but I love Croce’s music too. Wish I could play like Maury!

    • @JohnNiemsMusic
      @JohnNiemsMusic 2 роки тому +1

      @@stephenrivera4382 Check out my music at my channel here when you get time. Many of my songs I write on my MARTIN!

  • @apotheosis2065
    @apotheosis2065 2 місяці тому +3

    Young kings if you've made it here you'll live forever! Rest easy..

  • @axiomist4488
    @axiomist4488 Рік тому +66

    Nobody could beat Jim at song writing and nobody still can. The music, the guitars so perfectly synchronized, and it's just these two men with the only electronic assistance being the microphones . The audience is riveted, as well as I was, listening .

    • @arthurpeterson3641
      @arthurpeterson3641 Рік тому +3

      Try John Lennon, Paul McCarthy. Lol.

    • @davidheiser2225
      @davidheiser2225 Рік тому +1

      @@arthurpeterson3641 that's hardly fair - there were 2 of them.

    • @milamba
      @milamba Рік тому +1

      Maury could

    • @mr.rogers1962
      @mr.rogers1962 8 місяців тому

      Gordon lightfoot

    • @customsongmaker
      @customsongmaker 8 місяців тому

      ​@@arthurpeterson3641the Beatles were a boy band. Their music didn't matter, girls were screaming too loud to hear the music.

  • @warrenp.5916
    @warrenp.5916 8 місяців тому +9

    Here it is 2023 and 50 years have passed since we lost these two amazing people. ‘72 I just graduated and was going to get my draft card and heard this song playing on the car radio. I was struck by the words and music. On my way home I stopped at the music store and found the 45. I wore it out trying to learn the song. Impossible to duplicate at my young age, so the next day I went and bought the song book with the cords and sheet music. I’m looking at it right now and playing along and wondering what they would have done next…. My heart breaks every time I hear their songs, but I’m thankful and blessed that their music lives on 🫶🙏
    Thank you Jim, Thank you Maury. Rest in peace 💙

  • @1mongorock
    @1mongorock 2 роки тому +19

    Maury Meuhleisen, the musical genius behind the amazing storytelling by Jim Croce

  • @arobinson1362
    @arobinson1362 2 роки тому +21

    The lost art of performance… it's almost hard to believe this is a live recording.
    Thank you for your beautiful music Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen, your eternal gift to this world. RIP.

  • @FercPolo
    @FercPolo 2 місяці тому +3

    I was introduced to Jim Croce when Space Ghost told Tenacious D that he wanted to hear "anything by Jim Croce". He became one of the most important musical influences in my life after I grabbed an album at Amoeba on a whim and discovered his music.
    Thanks Space Ghost.

  • @jasonwadejohnson
    @jasonwadejohnson Рік тому +9

    All without looking at his guitar. True legends gone too soon.

    • @daveyvane9431
      @daveyvane9431 10 місяців тому +2

      You must have missed the parts when he looks at his guitar

    • @jasonwadejohnson
      @jasonwadejohnson 10 місяців тому

      @daveyvane9431 I did notice I was generally speaking about he can sing and play without looking. I should have worded that differently but it's just you tube. I really respect artists that can sing and play without looking most of the time. Most guitar players stare at the fretboard as a crutch. I do it haha. Thanks for the reply

    • @bcal4877
      @bcal4877 9 місяців тому

      Yeah, i was just watching Duane Allman and Dickey Betts jamming on Elizabeth Reed, those losers kept looking at their guitars. So lame. They were obviously no good

    • @michaeldodds731
      @michaeldodds731 3 місяці тому

      I know what you mean if your taught by someone who plays classical guitar one of the things they teach you is to not look at your guitar and make it look like its easy to play

  • @wolfeyes9357
    @wolfeyes9357 2 роки тому +13

    Maury was a genius pucking notes to all those songs!

  • @sandrabentley8111
    @sandrabentley8111 2 роки тому +134

    His songs bring me so much joy, perfect blend of great song writing and HIS voice, just feels so right!

    • @iohnxxxx
      @iohnxxxx 2 роки тому +4

      so. true I. been listening 2. Jim. since 1975

    • @iohnxxxx
      @iohnxxxx 2 роки тому +1

      ⁰ I believe in crist

    • @iohnxxxx
      @iohnxxxx 2 роки тому +1

      I believe in jesus

    • @tonyallen6510
      @tonyallen6510 2 роки тому +2

      Yes RIP Jim

  • @SmokeRingsPipeDreams
    @SmokeRingsPipeDreams Рік тому +6

    When Jim Croce died, the world became just a little bit darker. He was a light that shinned in the darkness.

  • @barrykime5580
    @barrykime5580 10 місяців тому +5

    He passed away when I was 16. Such a wonderful person. Also a tremendous song writer. It hurt a lot when he had to leave us. All around great man. 😢

  • @elcorrio86
    @elcorrio86 2 роки тому +61

    Absolutely flawless

  • @jayd.rosenblum3975
    @jayd.rosenblum3975 2 роки тому +175

    True Story: Croce opened for Zappa at a concert in Albuquerque in the 70's. Strangest double bill in history, and maybe the best. Croce was absolutely hysterical in concert, told filthy, funny jokes. Zappa played lead guitar as well as anyone ever has, I was genuinely surprised. Those were good days. I read one time Croce would have been the great talk show host of rock culture had he lived...I believe it.

    • @TheLastComa
      @TheLastComa 2 роки тому +18

      The thick mustache battle

    • @Namath1000
      @Namath1000 2 роки тому +19

      I think Jimi Hendrix once opened for The Monkees.

    • @moonmunster
      @moonmunster 2 роки тому +8

      @@Namath1000 Yes, in the Charlotte Coliseum .

    • @klmullins65
      @klmullins65 2 роки тому +11

      @@Namath1000 Jimi opened a few shows for The Monkees, before management finally realized that The Monkees' teenybopper audience wasn't ready for Jimi. The craziest billing Ive seen personally was Bob Seger opening for Black Sabbath in '76!

    • @a2ndopynyn
      @a2ndopynyn 2 роки тому +4

      - _Zappa played lead guitar as well as anyone ever has, I was genuinely surprised._
      Zappa was a monster of a guitar player. This my favorite of his; settle in comfy and grab a beverage: ua-cam.com/video/NotZxyuZ3v0/v-deo.html

  • @jamiecurling4378
    @jamiecurling4378 Рік тому +12

    Man this is crazy, there's no way such a talented group of gentlemen should have died like the way they did 😢 im literally so freaking sad right now.

    • @markoshea6833
      @markoshea6833 11 місяців тому

      i never noticed Leonard Cohen was right, Is it getting darker, Do want more?

  • @neilbrooks6372
    @neilbrooks6372 Місяць тому +2

    So I was playing 70s music for my grandson who is now in his 20s and I told him about Jim Croce… Played operator for him and he didn’t know what an operator was, or a matchbook… I explained it to him but wow there really is a generational divide lol

  • @dennisdemark8151
    @dennisdemark8151 2 роки тому +109

    Such a timeless song...
    RIP 🙏🏼🕯️🙏🏼 Jim and Maury.

  • @burtw.9018
    @burtw.9018 2 роки тому +5

    When these two passed away Maury was laid to rest in the cemetery I grew up living across the street from. Such a tragic loss. Rest in Peace guys. 🙏

  • @jimfishkin4039
    @jimfishkin4039 Рік тому +5

    No lip sync, no voice augmentation, just a great voice and a spectacular storyteller in every song. I listen to him over and over for ours. It goes down so easy.

  • @fredranger7385
    @fredranger7385 11 місяців тому +3

    61 here. Love this Tune ...

  • @kennethbaker1672
    @kennethbaker1672 Рік тому +4

    Drinking a beer with my son listening to some of the best music ever written

  • @carmin1999
    @carmin1999 2 роки тому +5

    His accomplished side kick should be well known also!
    Miss you Jim. Thanks!

    • @garygardner3562
      @garygardner3562 Рік тому

      Maury did release a solo LP, called Gingerbread if I remember correctly. Have no idea if it's available today.

  • @windellmcspindell3652
    @windellmcspindell3652 11 місяців тому +5

    I'm 65 years old and I remember when this song was released and I thought wow he's cool. Then in the late 70s, 80s and 90s, I thought he wasn't cool. Then in the 2000s he was okay. Now, once again, he's the coolest cat ever again. Ain't that the way it goes.

  • @glennvastine4118
    @glennvastine4118 10 місяців тому +6

    On my top 100 greatest song writers ever. He has a restaurant in San Diego but they don’t play his music. WTF? Every song brilliantly done. A true uncompromising genius.

  • @ardaayval6033
    @ardaayval6033 2 роки тому +162

    he has such a relaxing voice i love it

    • @tonyallen6510
      @tonyallen6510 2 роки тому +2

      Mine mother love him👍😁

    • @TheSnoopindaweb
      @TheSnoopindaweb 2 роки тому

      And He is a "Rapid Roy". Yup.! G-G 🎸🎶

    • @skoto8219
      @skoto8219 2 роки тому +2

      the dude singing backup too. delicate, kind of androgynous but perfect match

  • @mash1551
    @mash1551 2 роки тому +5

    Two guitars and so much music

  • @CMUBruin
    @CMUBruin 10 місяців тому +1

    I was born in Chicago, moved to CA when i was 8 and spent most of my life there..aside from 2 years in Pittsburgh for grad school. While i was there, WVA was al2ays being put down by my Northeastern classmates. Years later, i took my kids to Harpers Ferry, WVA and it was breathtakingly beautiful, charming, and historic. While we were there a car full of young women came through the town with this song blaring and them singing at the top of their lungs. The timing was epic and memory so unforgettable…that trip to one town in WVA will forever bring a smile to my face….my kids too. With respect to this song,…if you don’t sing along, i don’t want to know you.

  • @charlottebuckley08
    @charlottebuckley08 Рік тому +22

    you know theyre good when the live version sounds exactly like the recorded version

  • @KUPHAN0812
    @KUPHAN0812 2 роки тому +13

    Back when music was pure and worth paying for and listening to

  • @troywayne8759
    @troywayne8759 2 роки тому +59

    The song.... the voices... amazing... But the guitar playing? PERFECTION!!

    • @larryhatfield7372
      @larryhatfield7372 2 роки тому +3

      Real talent, total perfection

    • @bcal4877
      @bcal4877 7 місяців тому

      So true !!! Listening to this…what could make it better? Truly NOTHING, so I agree, isn’t that the definition of of perfection?

  • @Trip2929
    @Trip2929 3 місяці тому +2

    Nothing but talent in this video

  • @wwaldo2525
    @wwaldo2525 16 днів тому +1

    Might be the best song of all time