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“Operator” on The Midnight Special 💛

Watch out for “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” 🧡

“These Dreams: The Jim Croce Story.” Co-directed by Danny Garcia and Crystal Diaz, and available to watch now on YouTube.

Nick Miller, a true Jim Croce fan. #NewGirl

“Top Hat Bar and Grille” was released on I Got A Name in 1973, just months before Jim’s passing. It’s one of his purest “slice of life” songs - built around a real-feeling place and the people inside it. Pure atmosphere. That’s what makes it stand out in a catalogue full of punchline endings.

Did you know ‘Time in a Bottle’ experienced a major boost in national sales after it was featured in the ABC television film She Lives, which originally aired on Wednesday, 12 September 1973?

A home rich with history - Jim’s Lyndell farmhouse was the setting for the ‘You Don’t Mess Around with Jim’ cover outhouse, and the place where he wrote ‘Time in a Bottle’ after learning Ingrid was expecting their son, Adrian James.

📸 Dave McCormick

A home rich with history - Jim’s Lyndell farmhouse was the setting for the ‘You Don’t Mess Around with Jim’ cover outhouse, and the place where he wrote ‘Time in a Bottle’ after learning Ingrid was expecting their son, Adrian James.

📸 Dave McCormick

A home rich with history - Jim’s Lyndell farmhouse was the setting for the ‘You Don’t Mess Around with Jim’ cover outhouse, and the place where he wrote ‘Time in a Bottle’ after learning Ingrid was expecting their son, Adrian James.

📸 Dave McCormick

These images were captured by photographer Benno Friedman in August 1973, during the photo shoot for Jim Croce’s album “I Got a Name”.

These images were captured by photographer Benno Friedman in August 1973, during the photo shoot for Jim Croce’s album “I Got a Name”.

These images were captured by photographer Benno Friedman in August 1973, during the photo shoot for Jim Croce’s album “I Got a Name”.

Just discovering Jim Croce? Start with these 3 standout tracks.

Track 1 - "Time in a Bottle"
Track 2 - "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Track 3 - "I Got a Name"

“Coal Tattoo” wasn’t written by Jim - it’s a Billy Edd Wheeler song - but Croce’s version on Facets (1966) shows exactly where his storytelling instincts came from. The song is about Appalachian coal miners, and Jim leans into that worn-down, working-class perspective that would later shape characters like Leroy Brown and Speedball Tucker. You can hear the blueprint forming here.

“Pig’s Song” didn’t surface properly until The Faces I’ve Been was released in 1975, after Jim’s death. It’s rougher, looser, and more satirical than most people expect from him. You can hear the humour in it. Something that often gets overshadowed by the hits.

Jim receiving his first gold record for “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”, presented by The Midnight Special producer, Burt Sugarman.