@@conradoandino1172 No esperaba encontrar gente que sienta lo mismo, especialmente después de tanto tiempo. Cuán profundo llegaron sus letras y su bellísima voz a personas de distintas partes del mundo… como para que sigamos “piantando un lagrimón” cada tanto por su trunca historia. 😢❤
Beautiful ! 'I Got A Name' is my favorite and gets me every time , too , .... "like the fool I am , and I'll ALWAYS be " ..... in a beautiful , happy way ! Y'know ?
God bless you Jim I played drums in a band we did festivals at your mount salom cemetery in Frazer pa in 1978 79 and 80 entertained approx 300 people about 100 ft from your grave what a privilege rip
I can still hear him singing " time in a bottle " I was a young boy playing in the back yard when I heard of the tragedy. Still makes me think how many more beautiful songs he would of written.
Cool screen name! I was a "pinball wizard" when i was a kid. I could make those machines "pop" all day long and walk out with 10 free games left on the board......good times! 🥹
@@suryadas6987 Right. Those were the good ole days, for sure. Nowdays with the gaming there ain't no child/teen going to walk out and leave any game, anymore. 😂😅😂😅😂😅 We prolly couldnt pay them enough to put down the games, to play pin ball wizard. 😅😂😅😂😅😂 They don't even stop to eat. 😂😅😂😅😂😮 They don't stop for calls from anyone. 😅😂😅😂😅😂 Most teens have nothing to talk about, unless its game related. 😅😂😅😂😅😂
My Papaws name was “Leroy Brown” (seriously!) He had the song “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” playing on his answering machine…😆 I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for Jim Croce …Thanks for the memories Jim ❤
I have always loved Jim Croce's music, even though I was only 11 years old when he died. At first, I would hear the first few notes of "Operator" coming from my sister Kathy's stereo and thought she was playing "My Maria". I loved this song! This was another popular tune at the time, which was covered by Brooks and Dunn in 1996. My sister Kathy is ten years older than I am. She was the one who first introduced me to Jim. She would play Jim's album, "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" and I would come barrelling into our bedroom, happily yelling , "My Maria! My Maria!!". "No Patty! This is Jim Croce, singing 'Operator'! I keep telling you that!" At first I was soooo disappointed. Over time, Jim Croce became my favorite artist of all time. He still is. In reading about Jim's life and times, I uncovered some very interesting information about Jim. James Joseph Croce was born on January 10, 1943. My parents were married on that date in 1947. Jim died on September 20, 1973, one day before the release of his hit single "I've Got a Name". My dad was born on September 21, 1926, 47 years earlier.
Yeah I couldn't figure out what he was saying in Operator either for the longest time. Jim was great. I wish he lived longer he seemed like an awesome guy.
@@EdCollects I guess I don’t understand the way it works, I figured after you had a few hits that you were filthy rich. Jim was obviously a huge talent. Somehow I’ve got a feeling that he was a good guy. 👍🏻
I love Jim Croce, whenever me and my spouse would go on long road trips we’ll play his music, photographs and memories and working at the car wash blues are some of my favorite songs of his. Very influential singer and I wish he could have lived longer imagine the other songs we would have been lucky enough to hear ❤
I had 3 big brothers and one was born in the mid 40s, one in the mid 50s and one in 1960 and they turned me onto their music and handed down their 8 tracks and albums to me. Music by Cream, 10cc, the Winter Bro's and just a bunch of great rock and roll. I was 11 when our mother died and that's when they started feeding me music. Anyway, my oldest brother gave me his You Don't Mess Around with Jim, telling me to let it help me grieve. I must have played Time in a Bottle a 1000 times. Music really is powerful and healing. Two of my brothers have passed on but I carry them with me through the tunes they loved. I still have that Croce album and I cherish it. In addition to Croce's storytelling, his guitar player, Maury Muehleisen is the one who inspired me to beg my father for my first guitar. A used Yamaha acoustic for $50. Well, Maury and David Gilmour of course and I still have my Yamaha. I'm sentimental like that 😊.
Yes we are loosing so many good ones now, sadly .. but I’m sooo glad to have lived during that era of great music! I love the 50’s,60’s, 70’s etc music.. ( born in 52)
Why isn't sad his music helped me so much I am telling you I need music to live sounds crazy God bless his son I don't know what else to say but I feel his son pain isn't it a beautiful thing to still here his music i keep his music in rotation ❤
A tremendously talented musician with so much ahead of him. I remember when his first album came out , operator was a smash , so was bab , bad Leroy Brown. He left this world much too young , but left a legacy with his beautiful music , and therefore left the world a better place . May he rest in peace in the Lord's house, may he bless him, guide him, lead him and comfort him. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen! 🙏🕊️❤️
Jim was my late husband's all time favorite singer song writer. He often talked about the effect of learning of his death. I'm going to hear AJ sing his dad's songs. So sad that he passed so young. Long live the music of Jim Croce.
Theres a place somewhere that all the great unwritten songs live. The songs the young great song writers like Jim Croce and Buddy Holly etc never got to write here. That place is called "Heaven" and your lost loved ones are there right now listening to those songs ... LIVE, songs we will never here in this life but left us with a hunger for those others we will hear when the time is right. Dont be in too much of a hurry to get to hear them, theyre there forever and as fresh the 1000th time as they were the first ... thats why its called Heaven.
I love Croce, listen to him nearly every day, but you can't talk about Jims success without Maury Muehleisen, who also died in the plane crash, Jim was hired to back up Maury on a Tour for his first album, Maury recognized Jims talent, become his guitarist, it was with his arrangements along with Jims talent when Jims music hit it big, they made magic that lasts to this day.
Jim was/is GREAT ! What the heck is it with GENIUS musicians and airplanes ?!? R.I.P. , Jim . I love you , man ! My fav is "I Got A Name" , but love them all !
The comments here are so respectful and heartfelt. My attraction to Jim’s artful sound came after his death, or maybe at about that time, probably. I was almost 8, just a couple of weeks shy. My all-time favorite is of course, I’ve Got a Name. Along with Harry Chapin’s, Cats in the Cradle, these two songs are almost autobiographical; with a few minor changes. I’ve not had children of my own, but I can so relate with the relational discomforts and missed opportunities between a dad and a son, which both songs depict. For my high school senior year picture, I quoted IGAN, as the lyric, “and I’ll go there proud,” was my attitude, for entering the world and making a name for myself. BTW, I am a “Junior,” which makes the song even more poignant.
A much younger me would've answered the "Which gone-too-soon musician would you bring back from the dead if you had the power to do so?" question with the usual suspects: either one of the bombastic, larger-than-life '60s rock stars that we lost as the Psychedelic era was coming to a close in '69/'70, or John Lennon. But, the older that I get (just turned 52 a week ago), the more I appreciate the radio-friendly folk-rock of the early '70s that I used to diss in my late childhood and teens back in the '80s, bc those songs remind me of times when I would be riding with either or both of my parents in either of their cars while these songs would be playing on the car radio or its 8-track player. While I didn't necessarily enjoy listening to those songs back then, those memories now have a retrospective sentimental value that puts a semi-weepy smile on my face when I recollect them five decades hence; so, even though I still hella love the music of Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Janis Joplin, and John Lennon, my answer to that question would now be Jim Croce -- with Nick Drake as a close second
Losing my musical idol was very hard for me, a 16 year old at the time. Don McLean wrote a song that echoed the feelings of a young guy when Buddy Holly died. Whenever I hear the words " the day the music died" it has a special meaning to me. Yes, i'd say that if I could go back in time, it would be James Joseph Croce.
R.I.P. Mr. Croce. 🕊 I remember hearing his music when I was a kid in the 70's and it really made an impression on me! 🎶 📻 🎶 I have a few suggestions: Waylon Jennings, Freddy Fender and Aron Neville(sp?). Waylon is tied to a lot of cool cats. He was roommates with Johnny Cash at one time. 🫡 😎🤙
@@EdCollects You got it my friend! How 'bout Billy Joe Thomas? Leo Sayer? 😛 I'll reserve further suggestions until I see the rest of your videos. 😎👍🏻✨️💯✨️
It still hurts. An extraordinary body of work. Not one bad song. Beautiful voice.
🙏🙏👊😔
YES , IT STILLS HURTS ! 😪
Not one!❤
@@conradoandino1172 No esperaba encontrar gente que sienta lo mismo, especialmente después de tanto tiempo. Cuán profundo llegaron sus letras y su bellísima voz a personas de distintas partes del mundo… como para que sigamos “piantando un lagrimón” cada tanto por su trunca historia. 😢❤
Fick yeah..i cry every time i hear ..i got a name
You don't tug on superman's cape,you don't spit into the wind,you don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger,and you don't mess around with Jim😎
Yes,...and you don't mess with Jim.
Thank you for the post ✌️
amen to that brother
he got a custom continental
he got an el dorado too
he got a .32 gun in his pocket fulla fun
he got a razor in his shoe
@@user-fh7cz7eo8l that was Bad bad leroy Brown
“Time in a bottle” gets me every time. 😢
Yes! I love that song also!
I cry every time!
Beautiful ! 'I Got A Name' is my favorite and gets me every time , too , .... "like the fool I am , and I'll ALWAYS be " ..... in a beautiful , happy way !
Y'know ?
Just saw his son AJ in concert here in Charleston SC last night. Played a lot of his dad’s songs. Great show!!
Always loved the Songwriters era of the 70s.. Jim was a fantastic songwriter 💕
God bless you Jim I played drums in a band we did festivals at your mount salom cemetery in Frazer pa in 1978 79 and 80 entertained approx 300 people about 100 ft from your grave what a privilege rip
Taken from us way to soon. What a wonderful man. Thank you so very much for your music ☮️
Yes R.I.P.
He didn't die, die. He's alive through everyone who listens and plays his music and as an evolved version of himself at another dimension.
I can still hear him singing " time in a bottle " I was a young boy playing in the back yard when I heard of the tragedy. Still makes me think how many more beautiful songs he would of written.
Great song!!! 🤗🥰 ⏰ 🍾 📻 🎶
Cool screen name! I was a "pinball wizard" when i was a kid. I could make those machines "pop" all day long and walk out with 10 free games left on the board......good times! 🥹
@@suryadas6987
Right. Those were the good ole days, for sure.
Nowdays with the gaming there ain't no child/teen going to walk out and leave any game, anymore.
😂😅😂😅😂😅
We prolly couldnt pay them enough to put down the games, to play pin ball wizard.
😅😂😅😂😅😂
They don't even stop to eat.
😂😅😂😅😂😮
They don't stop for calls from anyone.
😅😂😅😂😅😂
Most teens have nothing to talk about, unless its game related.
😅😂😅😂😅😂
@@cindyjohns6222 So true (and tragic) my friend! 😂😢😂😢😂🧙♂️
My Papaws name was “Leroy Brown” (seriously!) He had the song “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” playing on his answering machine…😆 I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for Jim Croce …Thanks for the memories Jim ❤
My dad died young & I could never have enen pictured him as an old man. Same thing with Jim. The Good Die Young!
The irony of his life cut so short…yet wrote a masterpiece like time in a bottle.
Sad and horrible ending for such a seemingly lovely man.
I have always loved Jim Croce's music,
even though I was only 11 years old when he died.
At first, I would hear the first few notes of "Operator" coming from my sister Kathy's stereo and thought she was playing "My Maria". I loved this song! This was another popular tune at the time, which was covered by Brooks and Dunn in 1996.
My sister Kathy is ten years older than I am. She was the one who first introduced me to Jim. She would play Jim's album, "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" and I would come barrelling into our bedroom, happily yelling , "My Maria! My Maria!!".
"No Patty! This is Jim Croce, singing 'Operator'! I keep telling you that!"
At first I was soooo disappointed. Over time, Jim Croce became my favorite artist of all time. He still is.
In reading about Jim's life and times, I uncovered some very interesting information about Jim. James Joseph Croce was born on January 10, 1943. My parents were married on that date in 1947.
Jim died on September 20, 1973, one day before the release of his hit single "I've Got a Name".
My dad was born on September 21, 1926, 47 years earlier.
Yeah I couldn't figure out what he was saying in Operator either for the longest time. Jim was great. I wish he lived longer he seemed like an awesome guy.
I didn’t realize he was so young when he died. RIP Jim, and my condolences to his family, and everyone who loved him.😘
Yeah, such a sad loss. Just when he was finally starting to make money after struggling for so many years.
@@EdCollects I guess I don’t understand the way it works, I figured after you had a few hits that you were filthy rich. Jim was obviously a huge talent. Somehow I’ve got a feeling that he was a good guy. 👍🏻
Grew up with his music. Beautiful song writer...
His great music never dies,
His was the first 8 track I ever bought. Saved babysitting money
He gave something like 4 million 1976 dollars to charities. The Croce foundation continues that with record sales and royalties.
How cool is that? Awesome!
I love Jim Croce, whenever me and my spouse would go on long road trips we’ll play his music, photographs and memories and working at the car wash blues are some of my favorite songs of his. Very influential singer and I wish he could have lived longer imagine the other songs we would have been lucky enough to hear ❤
What a beautiful tribute you've done here, thank you!
I appreciate it, thanks for watching!
I had 3 big brothers and one was born in the mid 40s, one in the mid 50s and one in 1960 and they turned me onto their music and handed down their 8 tracks and albums to me. Music by Cream, 10cc, the Winter Bro's and just a bunch of great rock and roll. I was 11 when our mother died and that's when they started feeding me music. Anyway, my oldest brother gave me his You Don't Mess Around with Jim, telling me to let it help me grieve. I must have played Time in a Bottle a 1000 times. Music really is powerful and healing. Two of my brothers have passed on but I carry them with me through the tunes they loved. I still have that Croce album and I cherish it. In addition to Croce's storytelling, his guitar player, Maury Muehleisen is the one who inspired me to beg my father for my first guitar. A used Yamaha acoustic for $50. Well, Maury and David Gilmour of course and I still have my Yamaha. I'm sentimental like that 😊.
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘👊
Great story, thanks for sharing!
Loved your story, and yes- music is powerful. It's how we stay connected with the ones who have gone ✌🏼
@@olly8
You are Olly ,I am Sven!
A Great musician singer song writer!
✊🏾👏🏽👏🏽
Another tragic loss!😔💔
Another Angel returned home
too soon!😇
This guy was my father's favorite! And everything that I hear of him reminding of my father.
So many great songs!
sad loss so many musicians died in plane crashes Rip Jim
Yeah, so sad 😞
I loved his songs, and his voice . So much fun to sing along to. It really struck me when he was killed in the plane crash. I was 11 years old.
I was lucky enough to buy an original press vinyl of his. Every song is great! EVERY SINGLE SONG
I love his music! I love Gordon Lightfoot, too!
I'm sort of getting into his music.
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", baby!!!!! Woop-woop! I live near the Great Lakes. 🤙I dig Gorodon Lightfoot (and Jim Croce, too of course). 🫠
@@suryadas6987 Me, too! We might be near each other! 🥰😍💋😁😆🤣😂
@@MikeysMorgue Nice! 😎🤙🕺😶🌫️😀
Yes we are loosing so many good ones now, sadly .. but I’m sooo glad to have lived during that era of great music! I love the 50’s,60’s, 70’s etc music.. ( born in 52)
Whatagreatsingerheiloveallofhismusiciloveyousomuchjimcroceyour1fanforlife
Always loved his music but I’ve started really just enjoying all of it. Insane talent, beautiful music, amazing man
Awesome talent, taken way too soon.
Why do all the greats die in plane crashes…
I know! So many! It's crazy.
I know, sad isn’t it ! 😢
Only the good die young"
I LOVE HIS MUSIC 🎶 🎵, WHAT A WONDERFUL LEGEND, HIS MUSIC LIVES ON !!!❤❤❤❤
R.I.P. Jim Croce. A legendary musician.
🥊🥊🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💖✝️
He carried me through those young years and to this day…I find comfort listening to my hero Jim Croce❤️Big lesson… Don’t spit into the wind 😂❤️
😔🙏🙏👊👊
You don't mess around with Jim
You dont piss into the wind
Thank you Master Yoda 😎
Thanks for the unforgettable music Jim that came from your soul 📞
🙏🙏🙏
You don't tug on Superman Cape you don't spit into the wind such a phenomenal song love you Jim 😊
I still listen to Workin at the car wash blues everyday, rest in peace Jim Croce ❤
I love him 😢 I was 4 years old when operator came out
Me too! Great songs, great singer!
Why isn't sad his music helped me so much I am telling you I need music to live sounds crazy God bless his son I don't know what else to say but I feel his son pain isn't it a beautiful thing to still here his music i keep his music in rotation ❤
Indeed true, friend!
He was amazing! One of the greatest I think about growing up in the 70's! Didn't know he died so young..how tragic!
What an incredibly beautiful artist. We are so blessed by his genius and talent🙏💗.
I love his music
He was a great loss! I love all he did ❤️ RIP
😔🙏🙏👊
RIP 💐 🙏 Jim Croce ❤ 🕊 🇵🇭
I always thought he was Mexican. He wrote what we felt.
Miss you Jim , so very much
I remember this time period. May he
! R. I. P.
Such a heartbreaking loss. I still love his music.
😔🙏👊👊
The great storyteller.
RIP To Jim Croce he made some great songs
Jim was one of the greatest. I love this guy's music so sad he died so young.
A tremendously talented musician with so much ahead of him. I remember when his first album came out , operator was a smash , so was bab , bad Leroy Brown. He left this world much too young , but left a legacy with his beautiful music , and therefore left the world a better place .
May he rest in peace in the Lord's house, may he bless him, guide him, lead him and comfort him. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen! 🙏🕊️❤️
He is probably my favorite artist ever. I love his music so much. I don't know of many of his songs I don't like
Yeah, one of the best for sure 👊
The greatest singer songwriter to ever live
Yes! He was so amazing! 👊
So sad,such a great guy , the people you love you can't keep and the people you hate you can't kill.
He was more than just a singer/songwriter. He was a bard, he told stories and experiences through his music. RIP
Jim was my late husband's all time favorite singer song writer. He often talked about the effect of learning of his death. I'm going to hear AJ sing his dad's songs. So sad that he passed so young. Long live the music of Jim Croce.
😔👊👊🙏🙏
I am very sorry he was a really great singer I give my Sympathy to his Family and friends anotherGREAT person in heaven
I was just listening to the song recently.I've got a name and I always love that song.He had some nice music.What a loss
Just imagine the great songs he could have written if he lived longer 😔
@@EdCollects oh yes
I'm lucky, l grew up on his music.
Wonderful musician
One of the best
Jim is timeless!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Theres a place somewhere that all the great unwritten songs live. The songs the young great song writers like Jim Croce and Buddy Holly etc never got to write here.
That place is called "Heaven" and your lost loved ones are there right now listening to those songs ... LIVE, songs we will never here in this life but left us with a hunger for those others we will hear when the time is right.
Dont be in too much of a hurry to get to hear them, theyre there forever and as fresh the 1000th time as they were the first ... thats why its called Heaven.
🙏🙏🙏🙏
One of the very best 😢😢😢❤❤❤❤ R. I. P. Jim ❤
What a profound loss, he was an incredible artist
Love his music❤❤
I love Croce, listen to him nearly every day, but you can't talk about Jims success without Maury Muehleisen, who also died in the plane crash, Jim was hired to back up Maury on a Tour for his first album, Maury recognized Jims talent, become his guitarist, it was with his arrangements along with Jims talent when Jims music hit it big, they made magic that lasts to this day.
One of the best hands down
Jim was/is GREAT ! What the heck is it with GENIUS musicians and airplanes ?!?
R.I.P. , Jim . I love you , man !
My fav is "I Got A Name" , but love them all !
I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was at at 11 years old when I heard this news. I was heartbroken. 😥❤️
Loved his music
TIME IN A BOTTLE,, MY FAV.
Such a great song!
I still listen to his music. ❤️
Me too! It's timeless! 👊
And i just started getting into his music 🎶 this Year 😁 too
Jim is literally my hero.
I won't lie I am a massive fan but I truly believe this man is the one of the BEST LYRICISTS to have ever played. Bob who?
I was a little girl who loved listening to his music 🎶 🎵
🙏🙏👊
I'll have to say i love you in a song and time in a bottle are just ✨✨✨
Those are amazing songs!
One of my favorite artists. I just LOVE singing along to his music. What a shame he died so young. The world was a better placevwith him in it.💜
His music is awesome!
Absolutely!
Gone too soon. 😢
Rest in Peace,
Borat. 😢
Still miss him. 😢
The GOAT.... Absolutely
Time in a bottle was my first real slowdance ❤
🙏🙏👊👊
💞We miss you Jim🕊️"
Should be in the rock n roll hall of fame. One of my favorites. Sad that he died when my cousin told me.
an amazing artist
So many STARS fall.from the sky n DIE. Too the art they would have made dies with them. And we will never know or enjoy it.
Miss his music
The comments here are so respectful and heartfelt. My attraction to Jim’s artful sound came after his death, or maybe at about that time, probably. I was almost 8, just a couple of weeks shy.
My all-time favorite is of course, I’ve Got a Name. Along with Harry Chapin’s, Cats in the Cradle, these two songs are almost autobiographical; with a few minor changes. I’ve not had children of my own, but I can so relate with the relational discomforts and missed opportunities between a dad and a son, which both songs depict. For my high school senior year picture, I quoted IGAN, as the lyric, “and I’ll go there proud,” was my attitude, for entering the world and making a name for myself. BTW, I am a “Junior,” which makes the song even more poignant.
Jim is still respected today and he always will be.
Needs to be in. The hall of fame!!!
A much younger me would've answered the "Which gone-too-soon musician would you bring back from the dead if you had the power to do so?" question with the usual suspects: either one of the bombastic, larger-than-life '60s rock stars that we lost as the Psychedelic era was coming to a close in '69/'70, or John Lennon. But, the older that I get (just turned 52 a week ago), the more I appreciate the radio-friendly folk-rock of the early '70s that I used to diss in my late childhood and teens back in the '80s, bc those songs remind me of times when I would be riding with either or both of my parents in either of their cars while these songs would be playing on the car radio or its 8-track player. While I didn't necessarily enjoy listening to those songs back then, those memories now have a retrospective sentimental value that puts a semi-weepy smile on my face when I recollect them five decades hence; so, even though I still hella love the music of Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Janis Joplin, and John Lennon, my answer to that question would now be Jim Croce -- with Nick Drake as a close second
Losing my musical idol was very hard for me, a 16 year old at the time. Don McLean wrote a song that echoed the feelings of a young guy when Buddy Holly died. Whenever I hear the words " the day the music died" it has a special meaning to me. Yes, i'd say that if I could go back in time, it would be James Joseph Croce.
AMAN BROTHER ✝️😇🙏❤✝️
Just a heartbreaking shame that he died in that plane crash. Someday they need to make a film of his life would have a fantastic soundtrack
R.I.P. Mr. Croce. 🕊 I remember hearing his music when I was a kid in the 70's and it really made an impression on me! 🎶 📻 🎶
I have a few suggestions: Waylon Jennings, Freddy Fender and Aron Neville(sp?). Waylon is tied to a lot of cool cats. He was roommates with Johnny Cash at one time. 🫡 😎🤙
I've done Freddy already, but yeah, the other 2 will be added to my list, thanks!
@@EdCollects Sweet! 😀🤙 I thought I'd seen all of your videos...guess I got some more to search out.....kickass! You're the man, man! 🤠🎸🎶
@@suryadas6987 thank you, it's appreciated!
@@EdCollects You got it my friend! How 'bout Billy Joe Thomas? Leo Sayer? 😛 I'll reserve further suggestions until I see the rest of your videos. 😎👍🏻✨️💯✨️
@@suryadas6987 yeah, I'll add them also! 👊
Loved his music...shoulda been there...early 70's twas a wonderful time for mainstream music across all genres. 😂
Definitely true!
Fortunately for us, he recorded his music for us to enjoy. Good music! I don’t know he was from South Philly.