When I attended grade school, our music classes often provided time for singing old folk songs from a state-approved textbook. I remember, in particular, “Erie Canal” and “Bicycle Built For Two.” For ...

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 ...

UPPER DARBY – Peggy Eckenrode of Drexel Hill remembered hearing Jim Croce singing his song ‘Operator’ when she was 11 years old. ‘He was an inspiration,’ Eckenrode said. ‘I wanted to play the guitar ...

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 ...

Jim Croce wasn't meant to be a soldier. He was destined to be a singer. But some of the folk-rock artist's biggest hits were inspired by his time in Columbia during Army basic training at Fort Jackson ...