Poor Croce - he died before he achieved national prominence, right?
Oh no! He had a shit ton of hits before he died, and had his own summer TV show and all that.
Love makes you do the wacky.
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
DavidS - Jun 22, 2010 11:31:36 am PDT #3153 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2010 11:31:50 am PDT #3154 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You don't tug on Supermans's Cape
You don't speed into the wind
You don't pull the mask off an ol' Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim
DavidS - Jun 22, 2010 11:32:31 am PDT #3155 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Right, plus "Operator" and "Don't Mess Around With Jim" and they released "Time in a Bottle" posthumously and it was huge hit.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2010 11:33:53 am PDT #3156 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh no! He had a shit ton of hits before he died, and had his own summer TV show and all that.
It looks like he had great success in '72 and died in '73. Huh.
Kathy A - Jun 22, 2010 11:34:29 am PDT #3157 of 6436
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
tommy, I think you might be confusing Croce with Harry Chapin.
ETA: Then again, that might be just me. I was just reading Chapin's entry at Wikipedia, and found out he had several years between "Taxi" and "Cat's in the Cradle" and his death.
Amy - Jun 22, 2010 11:35:25 am PDT #3158 of 6436
Because books.
When I was a kid, late 70s, people two blocks over put a poster of Harry Chapin on their front door after he died and left it there for years.
Okay, he died in 1981, so I must be remembering junior high. Unless it was a poster of Croce, but I'm pretty sure it was Harry Chapin. Stupid memory fail.
Fred Pete - Jun 22, 2010 11:35:29 am PDT #3159 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
And "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" was a hit when we was alive.
And I remember "I Got a Name" being all over the radio right after he died. As in, it was his current hit at the time.
ETA: And how could I forget his posthumous "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song"? One of the greatest love songs ever.
Kathy A - Jun 22, 2010 11:48:04 am PDT #3160 of 6436
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think I remember Croce singing "Leroy Brown" on The Sonny and Cher Show. Or maybe it was just Cher singing it?
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2010 11:49:26 am PDT #3161 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I remember some show featured the song, including an animated video! Maybe the Carol Burnett show?
Kathy A - Jun 22, 2010 11:50:14 am PDT #3162 of 6436
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For me, the trifecta of mid-70s dark-haired singer-songwriters were Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, and Gordon Lightfoot. At the time, I tended to confuse them with each other if I saw them on TV.