Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 20, 1973, beloved singer and songwriter Jim Croce died when his chartered plane crashed into a tree during takeoff in ...

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 ...

Fifty-three years ago today, Jim Croce was at the top of the Hot 100 for the first and only time before his tragic death.

SAN DIEGO -- Jim Croce's first album was supposed to end his musical career before it ever got started. In 1966, the young folk artist was planning to marry his sweetheart, Ingrid. As the oldest son ...

WEST CHESTER — Thirty years into his musical career, AJ Croce is embracing his father Jim Croce’s legacy and now performing many of Dad’s songs. Eight days short of A.J.’s second birthday, his father ...

Jim Croce was like a streaking comet in the rock ‘n’ roll sky, but his young life was cut short in an airplane crash on Sept. 20, 1973. Ten of his songs charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with five of ...

Legendary singer-songwriter Jim Croce had one of the biggest songs of the summer in 1973, but less than two months after ...