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re: 52 years ago today, Jim Croce’s plane went down in Natchitoches
Posted on 9/21/25 at 12:39 pm to TheSadvocate
Posted on 9/21/25 at 12:39 pm to TheSadvocate
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One of my favorites (I Got A Name)
He was great at dropping a line outside the structure of the lyrics.
"And I'm gonna go there free!" and "You can keep the dime" come immediately to mind.
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Posted on 9/21/25 at 2:22 pm to TutHillTiger
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Man I have no clue why all those rock stars in the 70s flew those little planes all over the South. It’s seems like a dozen of them crashed and killed everywhere. Several in Mississippi I know
I watched a documentary that said the plane thst Skynrd went down in was passed up by Areosmith because it was a pos.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 3:31 pm to chrome_daddy
Had a guy in Tennessee show me a generator he got from the Patsy Cline plane crash site
Posted on 9/21/25 at 3:56 pm to Splackavellie
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'Bad bad Leroy Brown'
That used to be wrassler Junk Yard Dog's , aka Sylvester Ritter(RIP) walk-out song.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 9:25 pm to thegambler
Posted on 9/21/25 at 10:10 pm to tigerfan84
A great talent gone way too soon.
“Time In A Bottle” is a masterpiece…
“Time In A Bottle” is a masterpiece…
Posted on 9/21/25 at 10:18 pm to tigerfan84
This is his son playing some of his songs and talking about his Dad...really good:
This post was edited on 9/21/25 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 9/22/25 at 7:36 am to GusAU
I went down a Maury Muelheisen rabbit hole yesterday and found his sister has a website in remembrance of him with stories about him related from siblings, friends and other artists.
Interesting that Jim origianally started as Maury's sideman (Maury had an album out first), but they worked together on Jim's songs and made a pact that whoever's career took off first the other would become his sideman.
I've linked to one of the remembrance pages where Maury and a girl he went to high school with reconnected years later (scroll down the end). It inspired the song "Salon and Saloon" and recreates the day about as well as you could.
Interesting that Jim origianally started as Maury's sideman (Maury had an album out first), but they worked together on Jim's songs and made a pact that whoever's career took off first the other would become his sideman.
I've linked to one of the remembrance pages where Maury and a girl he went to high school with reconnected years later (scroll down the end). It inspired the song "Salon and Saloon" and recreates the day about as well as you could.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:06 am to Mizz-SEC
Thanks for your contributions to this thread.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:13 am to Mizz-SEC
He was heading to Sherman Texas for a show at Austin College. I knew a few people at Austin College who had tickets for Croce's show.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:22 am to Twenty 49
I've always wondered how big he'd have gotten had he not been taken at such an early age. Still had a profound impact on music....
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:34 am to TutHillTiger
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Man I have no clue why all those rock stars in the 70s flew those little planes all over the South. It’s seems like a dozen of them crashed and killed everywhere. Several in Mississippi I know
Limited airport connections. BR airport isn't much better than a metro level
Posted on 9/22/25 at 9:04 am to tigerfan84
You would think they would put a marker somewhere in the area. I lived right there next to the airport about 20 years ago and never knew anything about it.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 9:55 am to tigerfan84
His wife released another album after he died. It did well. Wasn’t a fan of his Bad Bad Leroy music, but his other stuff was on point. Kinda like Cat Steven’s music with a little Neil Young thrown in.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 10:19 am to Twenty 49
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There was a big lawsuit by survivors, and the locals cut down the pecan tree that the plane clipped,
Note to airport planners: Don’t leave a big arse pecan tree out where a plane might hit it.
Was flipping through this thread trying to find out what happened.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 11:03 am to tigerfan84
One of the greatest story tellers of all time
Posted on 9/22/25 at 11:11 am to Reubaltaich
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That used to be wrassler Junk Yard Dog's , aka Sylvester Ritter(RIP) walk-out song.
Wasn't his song another one bites the dust?
Posted on 9/22/25 at 11:15 am to LSUGrad9295
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Croce had said in interviews not long before the crash that he was tired and needed a break because the road was hard, and he had a fairly young child at home.
Guys like Croce hustled hard back then, doing shows in back to back nights anywhere they could get a gig. The fact that so many of them lost their lives in plane crashes is mind-numbing.
Croce is known for signing an incredibly bad contract that earned him very little money during his most successful years. He was going to hang it up and the NSU show was to be the last for awhile. I think his wife eventually won some rights to the music so the family did get some rewards from his work.
This post was edited on 9/22/25 at 11:18 am
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