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 ...

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 ...

To A.J. Croce, Sept. 20 isn't about lamenting the 50th anniversary of the death of his father, singer-songwriter Jim Croce, and five others in a 1973 plane crash following his concert at Northwestern ...

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 ...

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 ...

With his big old moustache, Roman nose and dark eyes twinkling from a lived-in, olive-skin face, Jim Croce looked like one of the good guys whose families went to America as immigrants, seeking ...

DOWNINGTOWN — A historical marker honoring the late singer Jim Croce went up in Lyndell on Wednesday. The marker is located on Creek Road at Highspire Road. Croce was a graduate of Upper Darby High ...