JIM CROCE Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites CassetTE Operator PHOTOGRAPHS &
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1 Item Set of Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites; Jim Croce. Includes:
ITEM 1.) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites; Jim Croce;
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown;
I'll Have to Say I Love You In A Song;
Railroads and Riverboats;
Which Way Are You Goin';
Time In A Bottle;
Photographs and Memories;
Operator (That's Not the Way It feels);
The Way We Used To;
Complete in 1 Cassette; In Original Plastic Case;
CEMA Special Markets - Captiol-EMI, ?, ?; 4XL 57445;
SPCN: ?;
UPC: 0-7777-57445-4-5;
BASED ON VISUAL INSPECTION: Very Good Condition; May or May Not Have Been Used; Side Case has been cracked, but Case works OK;
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HISTORICAL NOTE: "James Joseph "Jim" Croce (pronounced CROW-chee) January 10, 1943–September 20, 1973 was an American singer-songwriter. Between 1966 & 1973, Croce released five studio albums & 11 singles . His singles "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown " & "Time in a Bottle " were both number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Croce, was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , on January 10, 1943, to Jim & Flora Croce, & grew up in a family of Italian background. Croce took a strong interest in music at a young age. At five, he learned to play his 1st song on the accordion , "Lady of Spain ." Croce attended Upper Darby High School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania . After his graduation in 1960, Croce went to Malvern Preparatory School for one year before deciding to enroll at Villanova University in 1961. During his time as a student, Croce became a member of the Villanova Singers & the Spires . When the Spires performed off-campus gigs or made professional recordings, it was under the name The Coventry Lads. Jim was also a student disc jockey at WKVU . Croce did not take music seriously other than as a hobby until his time at Villanova, where he formed various bands, performing at fraternity parties, coffee houses , & at universities around Philadelphia , playing "anything that the people wanted to hear: blues, rock, a cappella , railroad music... anything." One of those bands was chosen for a foreign exchange tour of Africa & the Middle East. Croce later said of the experience that "we just ate what the people ate, lived in the woods, & played our songs. Of course they didn't speak English over there but if you mean what you're singing, people understand." Croce met his future wife Ingrid Jacobson at this time during a hootenanny at Philadelphia Convention Hall where he was judging a contest. From the mid-1960s to early 1970s, Croce performed with his wife as a duo. At 1st, their performances included songs by artists such as Ian & Sylvia , Gordon Lightfoot , Joan Baez , & Woody Guthrie , but in time, they began writing their own music. During this time, Croce got his 1st long-term gig at a rural bar & steak house in Lima, Pennsylvania , called The Riddle Paddock . His set list included every genre from blues to country to rock 'n roll to folk. In 1968, Jim & Ingrid Croce were encouraged by record producer Tommy West to move to New York City. The couple spent time in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx and recorded their 1st album with Capitol Records . During the next two years, they drove more than 300,000 miles playing small clubs & concerts on the college concert circuit promoting their album Jim & Ingrid Croce driving trucks & doing construction to pay the bills while continuing to write songs, often about the characters he would meet at the local bars & truck stops . The couple returned to Philadelphia & Jim decided to be "serious" about becoming a productive member of society. But it was hard to make a living playing in a band & his previous employment experiences had lost their appeal. "I'd worked construction crews, & I'd been a welder while I was in college. But I'd rather do other things than get burned," he would later say. His determination to be "serious" led to a job at a Philadelphia R&B AM radio station, WHAT, where he translated commercials into soul . "I'd sell airtime to Bronco's Poolroom & then write the spot: "You wanna be cool, & you wanna shoot pool... dig it ." Increasingly frustrated, he quit to teach guitar at a summer camp & enlisted in the U.S. Army . He did not have a very illustrious military career but said he would be prepared if "there's ever a war where we have to defend ourselves with mops". In 1970, Croce met the classically trained pianist/guitarist & singer-songwriter Maury Muehleisen from Trenton, New Jersey through producer Joe Salviuolo (aka Sal Joseph). Salviuolo had been friends with Croce when they attended Villanova University together, & Salviuolo later discovered Muehleisen when he was teaching at Glassboro State College in New Jersey. Salviuolo brought the Croce & Muehleisen duo together at the production office of Tommy West & Terry Cashman in New York City. Initially, Croce backed Muehleisen on guitar at his gigs but in time their roles reversed, &h Muehleisen adding lead guitar to Croce's down-to-earth music. In 1972, Croce signed to a three-record deal with ABC Records & released two albums, You Don't Mess Around with Jim Life & Times You Don't Mess Around with Jim ", "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) ", & "Time in a Bottle " (written for his then-unborn son, A. J. Croce ) all received airplay. Croce's biggest single, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown ", hit #1 on the American charts in July 1973. On September 20, 1973, the day that his ABC single, "I Got a Name ", was released, Croce, Muehleisen, & four others were killed in the crash of a chartered Beechcraft E18S upon takeoff from the Natchitoches Regional Airport in Natchitoches, Louisiana . Croce had just completed a concert at Northwestern State University 's Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches & was flying to Sherman, Texas , for a concert at Austin College , when the plane crashed about an hour after the end of the concert. According to results of an investigation, upon takeoff the plane did not gain enough altitude to clear, & the pilot did not maneuver to avoid a pecan tree at the end of the runway, which investigators said was the only tree for hundreds of yards. The flight conditions were reported as dark, clear sky, calm winds, & over five miles of visibility with haze. The official report from the NTSB lists the probable cause as pilot failure to see & avoid objects or obstructions with factors of pilot physical impairment & fog obstructing vision. The report remarks that the 57-year-old charter pilot had just run about three miles to the airport from a motel & suffered a heart attack. The pilot had an ATP Certificate , 14,290 hours total flight time & 2,190 hours in the Beech 18 type. A later investigation, source unknown, placed sole blame for the accident on pilot error due to his downwind takeoff into a "black hole". Croce is buried at Haym Salomon Cemetery in Malvern, Pennsylvania . Muehleisen is buried at Saint Mary's Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey . The album I Got a Name posthumous release included three hits: "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues ", "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song ", & the title song, which had been used as the theme to the film The Last American Hero Time in a Bottle " had been featured over the opening & closing credits and during a scene in which Desi Arnaz Jr. is opening the 'Don't Mess Around With Jim' album in the ABC made-for-television movie She Lives! st album the year before, hit number-one on December 29, 1973, the 3rd posthumous chart-topping song of the rock era following Otis Redding 's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay " & Janis Joplin 's recording of "Me & Bobby McGee ". A greatest hits package entitled Photographs & Memories Home Recordings: Americana Facets Jim Croce: Classic Hits , Down the Highway Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live Songwriters Hall of Fame . Jim & Ingrid Croce 's son Adrian James Croce was born September 28, 1971, & is now an accomplished singer-songwriter, musician, & pianist, performing under the name A.J. Croce , as well as serving as the owner/operator of his own record label, Seedling Records. Ingrid Croce owns & manages Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar ---a project she & Jim had jokingly discussed a decade earlier---in the historic Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego. She opened the business in 1985.";
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