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 ...

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 ...

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 ...