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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...