Turns out you can’t put time in a bottle.

Jim Croce's story is a sad one, a life lived halfway and broken at the moment of the turning point for success. Turns out you can’t put time in a bottle. 

In the mid-60’s he met his future wife, Ingrid Jacobson, whom he married  and with whom he recorded an album, which however was not successful.
Disappointed by the failure, they resumed a normal life, became parents and Jim made ends meet by working as a truck driver and a bricklayer. His passion for music did not abandon him and the opportunity of a lifetime came with a contract with ABC Record in 1972.
In the same year of the signing, the album "You don't mess around with Jim" was released.

Encouraged by his success, Jim threw himself into his work and the following year he released his new LP "Life and Times" which sold even more, climbing the charts to 7th place.

It was 1973 and the concert halls were always sold out on the tour organized for him; Jim could finally enjoy some of his well-deserved success, but on September 20, the plane carrying Jim Croce and guitarist Maury Muehleisen crashed during take-off.

The investigations found that the aircraft had not gained enough altitude and crashed into a pecan tree, the only tree for hundreds of yards around the runway.
A few days later the album "I got a name" was released, immediately number 2 in the US charts and Gold Record.

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