Jim Croce (1943-1973) recorded a number of lovely songs in the late 1960s to early 1970s before a plain crash took his life. This is one song that I particularly like. Enjoy!
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i know this song well. I was a big fan of Jim Croce. From truck drive to semi-major artist who I imagine was always a songwriter and story teller at heart. Thanks for the great memory of this and so many of his other songs.
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Glad you enjoyed it Michael. 🙂
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I love this song , this guy moves me to tears… I have not thought of this song for years … thank you for the memory Colin . Love to you all and healthy vibes to Ray 💜💜💜
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Always happy to share music with you Willow, and everybody here is doing well! 🙂
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I am so pleased to see that 💜💜💜
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This wonderful song was on the album, “Life and Times”, that was released in July 1973 prior to Jim Croce’s death. The last album was released posthumously in December of 1973, the well loved “I Got A Name.” Altogether there were 5 great albums in his short but productive life. I do not have the first one, the 1966 “Facets” that has an interesting story behind it. I do have the second one from 1966 “Jim & Ingrid Croce” that has a song that I loved “Age” that appears again on the posthumous 5th album too. Ingrid, as you may know, was his wife and sang with him until the birth of their only child in late 1971. One of my other Croce favorites is “Time in a Bottle” from the 3rd album in 1972 “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim”. “Operator” is also on that same album. His son, Adrian James, known as “A. J.” has followed in his Father’s footsteps and looks remarkably like Jim with a similar sound. He has released a number of his own albums. A.J.’s life has had many ups and downs, beginning with his Father’s death and most recently in 2018 when his wife of many years succumbed to a rare heart virus. A few years ago I saw and listened to A.J. singing this very song whilst playing Jim’s guitar to honor a recent birthday anniversary of Jim Croce. I no longer recall exactly where that was, but perhaps it can still be found by some internet exploring. It would be worth your time to do so. I also like his rendition of “I Got A Name”, although the source of that is forgotten too. Though “These Dreams” is not Jim Croce’s most well known or highly rated songs, it is one of many that I love. Thank-you!
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As usual … a wealth of information. Thank you so much Ellen. 🙂
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I agree with Colin, you always have interesting facts to share! I love looking for your comments. Brad and I want to look up A.J.’s music. It was fun to be able to share about a musician with Brad who he hadn’t heard of. That doesn’t happen very often!
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Beautiful song. In some way, this song reminds me a bit of John Denver. A little creepy that they shared the same destiny.
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Both wrote some lovely personal songs didn’t they. 🙂
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Oh, yes, they really did!
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He would have had a great career, if he only would have stayed off that plane. So many talented musicians have died that way.
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Sadly that is true. Buddy Holly immediately comes to mind and, much later, John Denver … and that is without thinking about it! 🙂
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Let’s see, Google also says, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (Big Bopper) (both died with Buddy Holly), Randy Rhoads of Quiet Riot, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Otis Redding, Ricky Nelson, Glen Miller, Jim Reeves, and Patsy Cline, to name a few.
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Such talented individuals. 😦
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Some of these names were coming to my mind too. It is very sad how many there are.
I also thought of Reba MacEntire . She didn’t die, but her whole band did when their airplane crashed.I can’t remember why she didn’t go with them, but I can’t imagine how she must have felt losing her whole band, who had become dear friends, and knowing she would have died as well if she had been with them!
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Life’s circumstances can certainly be very thought provoking. 🙂
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Indeed!
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Goes to show how little I’ve kept up with things. Either that or I’ve forgotten all about this crash. What a tragedy. That’s just like losing a bunch of coworkers, who you’ve grown close to.
I once interviewed Reba, back in 1981 when her career was just starting to gain momentum. She was a nice lady. And very patient, as I was a lousy interviewer. She helped me make the interview go well.
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My husband and I are not big fans of Country music but we do have some favorites and Reba is definitely one of them. We have most of her CD’s. I forget when the crash happened but it was quite a few years ago. Her “For my Broken Heart” CD was dedicated to the friends she lost.
But wait, you actually interviewed her??? How cool is that! Can I have your autograph? 🙂 Any other famous people that you have interviewed?
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Yeah, I was a country music deejay in the early 80s, at a small radio station in New Mexico. She was giving a concert in our area, and we were one of the sponsors. So she came into the station and I interviewed her.
I also interviewed Mundo Earwood, and I hung the phone up on Gene Watson, when he called in to be interviewed (that was a mixup I never lived down). Earwood was a minor singing star, but he wrote some big hits, such as “The Games People Play”. Watson was a fairly big country star at the time, but seems now to be largely forgotten. One of his big hits was “Pick the Wildwood Flower.”
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Ahh, that is an interesting fact to learn about you.
I can see you being good at being a deejay, I had always thought that would be a fun job.
I don’t recognize the names you mentioned but I can imagine your embarrassment at hanging up on a star! 🙂
On second thought I probably wouldn’t make a good deejay. Just think of Cat Steven’s and no more needs said!
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Harry Chapin might agree with you. But every deejay makes mistakes. I went from a country deejay to a pop deejay, and had some difficulties with that transition. For instance, there was a pop star named Sade, but I didn’t know it was pronounced Shar-Day. That was a little embarrassing.
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LOL! My apologies again to Harry Chapin. But it was a logical mistake to make. Well logical in my mind at least. 🙂
I bet you never mispronounced Sade’s name again!
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No I didn’t. Ol’ Sady would be proud of me.
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When I think of Jim Croce I always think of “Time in a Bottle”, love that song! I wasn’t as familiar with this one, but I enjoyed it. Another one of my favorites of his is “I’ll have to say I love you in a song.” I remember listening to that one over and over when I was younger.
Thanks for bringing back memories.:)
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You’re welcome. Isn’t it amazing how music goes way beyond simply producing something pleasant to listen to. So many of us use music as an association with events in our past. They become musical milestones in our life journey. 🙂
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So very true!! I may not remember something from just the other week but let me hear a song and I will be taken back to a moment in time and be able to tell you what I was doing and how I was feeling. 🙂
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Such is the importance of music … and yet how much time does our/your education system dedicate to it? Sadly, it is a business model that is driving education, and not a personal development model. Sir Ken Robinson is on YouTube (check out “Do schools kill creativity”)
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Yes the importance of music is being lost in our education system! When the budget needs cut music and the arts is the first thing to be cut and creativity is so very important!
But the need for a $$$$$ new scoreboard for the football stadium is so important!
I will look up that video.
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Brad and I still shake our heads over the money that our kids HS spent on a new scoreboard. We loved the one 16 year old student from the school that was quoted in the paper by saying how a new scoreboard is not going suddenly make our football team better. It will still display 0 wins!
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Perhaps money was involved? A local company offered to help pay for it on condition of advertising?
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That could be a possibility but I am not aware of that. I just know there was a big outcry from the community for the same year the electronic scoreboard was bought our school taxes went up.
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Here we have a choice of which school board gets our education taxes, and also which school board members to vote for at the next election. If you have a similar arrangement, just remember that scoreboard when you check off the selection boxes!
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That would be really nice to have those choices but sadly we don’t have a choice.
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Another new one on me Colin. How tragic to die so young.
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I believe his “Time in a Bottle” made him popular in UK. Another lovely song. 🙂
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I remember that. A very haunting melody.
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