Musician Jim Croce and guitarist Maury Muehleisen performing on Episode 104 of The Helen Reddy Show.Fred Sabine/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images Produced by Terry Cashman ...

1. "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" Croce was inspired to write this masterpiece of a song when he was serving in the Army. He would see around 200 soldiers lining up, waiting to use the phone ...

On Sept. 20, 1973 beloved singer and songwriter Jim Croce died when the chartered plane he was flying in crashed into a tree during takeoff in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Croce, who wrote the hit songs ...

For a long time, A.J. Croce wasn't interested in playing his father's music. It wasn't that he had anything against "Operator" or "Time in A Bottle," or the other songs that endured after the elder ...

Singer-songwriter Jim Croce made a name for himself with "I Got a Name," “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” “Operator,” and other hits. Just 30 years old, he died in a plane crash in northwest Louisiana in 1973, ...

Seconds after taking off from an airport in Natchitoches, La., on the night of Sept. 20, 1973, the small plane carrying musician Jim Croce clipped a tree in the darkness and crashed, killing all six ...