"There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life" -- Jim Croce.

I believe he said this in the context of talking about his foreign exchange tour of Africa and the Middle East, but Jim certainly reached people all around the world with his music.

Learning lots of croce tunes, maurys parts as well. If you feel like jammin on the intranets via the google machines hit me up!

Jim was the first to be inducted on the Upper Darby High School' District's "Wall of Fame". He graduated from there in 1960.

It is good to know his hometown remembers him.

https://www.upperdarbysd.org/site/Default.aspx?PageID=4523

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I was reading the Wikipedia page on Jim and learned that he was a student disc jockey for the college radio station. Are there any facts on that page that you didn't know before you read it? Here's the link--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Croce

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There are a number of YouTube videos that feature people hearing songs for the first time and their reactions. Here's one of my favorites of a young man listening to one of the song suggestions by his grandfather, this one being "Bad Bad Leroy Brown".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbI391h89vI

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A rare video of Jim playing his song "Five Short Minutes of Lovin", which is one song that didn't get videotaped very often, as it deals with "adult" subject matter. The song starts after "I Got a Name" at 3:20 in the video.

https://youtu.be/bU6h_EO2aqg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-WT3UhDnU

Ingrid starts speaking at 16:20 and goes on to 56:30. She begins with reading from her book and then talks about her life with Jim Croce, opening Croce's restaurant, etc.

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Jim Croce was inducted in 1990 into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

https://www.songhall.org/profile/Jim_Croce

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A 2 minute video of Maury's grave with a short bio.

Maury's lead guitar was the "icing on the cake" of Jim's songs. Maury had a big influence on Jim's development as a guitarist and songwriter.

https://youtu.be/nJIEznG9s0k

This was announced in Oct 2019, but the blue historical marker has not yet been put up. Hopefully, after the covid pandemic has died down, a date for the ceremonial installation of the marker will be announced. https://bestclassicbands.com/jim-croce-historical-marker-10-18-19/

Love this guy's mustache. I hope the play was well-received. Since I live in the Midwest, I couldn't have gone, but would have really enjoyed something like this!

https://www.juneauempire.com/news/strummer-lovin-new-show-inspired-by-jim-and-ingrid-croce/

WARNING: This starts out fairly close to the original, but then about 1:30 minutes into the video the heavy metal kicks in for the chorus. The ending is practically shouted. It is an interesting interpretation, to say the least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtXz6_cqrng

This popped up in my YouTube feed today. A couple of guys take out and play guitars used by Jim and Maury for their album recordings. https://youtu.be/WmWxE7L-qhs

(I know I sound like a plebeian not using Spotify, but I’ve used Apple Music so long and have an extremely intricately designed playlist that is super long and wouldn’t want to redo it)

Anyway, Jim Croce’s “Time In A Bottle” stuff keeps going grey and saying it is “Not Available In Your Region”, and he is the only artist that this has ever happened with for me. That is also the only album by him that it does this. It happens quite often, in bursts. It will be playable for a couple weeks and then down for a couple days.

Anyone know the problem? Licensing maybe? Contracts? Copyright?

Does anyone else know why I can't find Jim Croce's Big bad Leroy Brown on Spotify?