Legendary singer-songwriter Jim Croce had one of the biggest songs of the summer in 1973, but less than two months after scoring his first No. 1 hit, he was dead. The late icon released "Bad, Bad ...

On this day (July 21) in 1973, Jim Croce started a two-week run at the top of the Hot 100 with “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” Like his debut single, “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” this hit is about a big, ...

When Jim Croce performed at Harper College in the winter of 1973, the singer-songwriter was on the cusp of superstardom. After landing “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim” on the pop charts in 1972, he ...

It would have been easy for A.J. Croce to piggyback on his famous father’s career. Jim Croce gave us “Time in a Bottle,” “Operator,” “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” five albums and 12 singles all before he ...

Upon his death at the age of just 30 years old in September 1973, Jim Croce's musical career had only just begun to flourish. In March of that year, the folk singer scored his first number one single, ...