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 ...

On this day, December 29, 1973, this tragically short-lived songwriter scored his second and final No. 1 hit on the Billboard ...

Jim Croce was bound for his next concert when he boarded a chartered plane in Natchitoches, Louisiana, on Sept. 20, 1973. But in his own mind, he’d already arrived. After spending the better part of a ...

NATCHITOCHES, La. - Fifty years ago singer Jim Croce died in a plane crash near the Natchitoches Regional Airport. Croce and his band had just completed a concert on the campus of Northwestern State ...

Singer-songwriter and Upper Darby native Jim Croce died in a plane crash in 1973 at, what was arguably, the height of his popularity. He was coming off a No. 1 single (“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”) and ...

A.J. Croce, a Billboard-charting singer/songwriter and son of the legendary Jim Croce, is set to honor his father’s memory with a special performance at The Palladium on March 30. This concert is part ...