Lover's Cross

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown -- Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels) -- Photographs And Memories -- Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) -- Time In A Bottle New York's Not My Home -- Workin' At The Car Wash Blues -- I Got A Name -- I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song -- You Don't Mess Around With Jim -- Lover's Cross -- One Less Set Of Footsteps -- These Dreams -- Roller Derby Queen Posthumous fame counts since the year dot to a job hazard for artists. It is clear that this not only happens to a personality from the renaissance or romantic but also somebody from the music business of the media modern age just as the fate of James Joseph "Jim" Croce, the man with the moustache, the big smile, shooting star of the year 1972 who has a certain semblance to the comedian Groucho Marx. He had a willful but never superficial noticeable personal style between folk motives and metropolitan rock. Two years before his death the Italian-American gained a huge reputation amongst appreciators and a lot of sympathies with the audience. However the true fame was building up against the backdrop of the steep rising career that was clipped off due to an airplane crash in September 1973. His sudden death generated a huge interest in Croce and his album "I Got A Name" which he finished just a few days before his death. It got to a top position in the charts. The song "Time In A Bottle" which was a song for his son A.J. who was born after his death, Croce had posthumous his second number one hit.

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