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Title: What, if anything, has gotten better or what, if anything, are you looking forward to?
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Published: Nov 11, 2005
Author: christine
Post Date: 2005-11-11 19:59:17 by christine
Keywords: anything,, anything,, looking
Views: 593
Comments: 79

This was timetobuildaboat's idea. Since we mostly doom and gloom (with good reason) around here, time thought it might be fun and beneficial for us to have an ongoing thread on which we can share these things with one another.

Someone else will have to go first. I'm still wracking my brain trying to think of something. :P

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#2. To: timetobuildaboat (#0)

ping-a-ling!

christine  posted on  2005-11-11   20:14:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I give up.

Can anyone post That Summer by Garth?

Lod  posted on  2005-11-11   20:51:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

That Summer

christine  posted on  2005-11-11   21:03:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Thanks a bunch.

...burning both ends of the night - the sweat, the moonlight, and the lace...

What great imagery.

Lod  posted on  2005-11-11   21:28:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

What a talent.

Lod  posted on  2005-11-11   21:32:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

WOW - Thanks Lod, I never heard that song.

Saw Croce in...'69? in Texarkana, Tx. with the Grassroots.

tom007  posted on  2005-11-11   21:54:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

James Croce was born in Philadelphia, PA, on January 10, 1943. Raised on ragtime and country, Croce played the accordion as a child and would eventually teach himself the guitar. It wasn't until his freshman year of college that he began to take music seriously, forming several bands over the next few years. After graduation, he continued to play various gigs at local bars and parties, working as both a teacher and construction worker to support himself and his wife, Ingrid. In 1969, the Croces and an old friend from college, Tommy West, moved to New York and record an album. When the Jim and Ingrid record failed to sell, they moved to a farm in Lyndell, PA, where Jim juggled several jobs, including singing for radio commercials. Eventually he was noticed and signed by the ABC/Dunhill label and released his second album, You Don't Mess Around with Jim, in 1972. The record spawned three hits: "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)," and "Time in a Bottle." The latter would become Croce's breakthrough hit, shooting all the way to number one on the Billboard charts. Croce quickly followed with Life and Times in early 1973 and gained his first number one hit with "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown."

After four years of grueling tour schedules, Croce grew homesick. Wishing to spend more time with Ingrid and his infant son Adrian James, he planned to take a break after the Life and Times tour was completed. Unfortunately, the tour would never finish; just two months after "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" topped the charts, Croce's plane crashed in Natchitoches, LA. Croce and the four other passengers (including band member Maury Muehleisen) were killed instantly.

Ironically, Jim Croce's career peaked after his death. In December of 1973, the album I Got a Name surfaced, but it was "Time in a Bottle," from 1972's You Don't Mess Around with Jim which would become his second number one single. Shortly afterwards, "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" reached the Top Ten. Several albums were released posthumously, most notably the greatest hits collection, Photographs and Memories, which became a best- seller. Several other compilations have since been issued, such as the 1992 release The 50th Anniversary Collection and the 2000 compilation Time in a Bottle: The Definitive Collection. Listening to the songs Croce recorded, one cannot help but wonder how far his extraordinary talents could have taken him if he would have perhaps lived a few years longer. Unfortunately, such a question may only be looked at rhetorically, but Jim Croce continues to live on in the impressive catalog of songs he left behind. ~ Barry Weber, All Music Guide.

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He's one of my all time favs...the lyrics touch my heart, spirit, and past.

Lod  posted on  2005-11-11   22:07:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Croce

Loved him. Add Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2005-11-11   22:11:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Croce

Loved him. Add Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin.

Hmmm, there might be something dangerous about being a singer/songwriter/storyteller.

That reminded me of an old National Lampoon radio hour skit where Hunter Thompson has picked up a hitchhiking hippie who has amnesia from getting kicked in the head by a Hell's Angel at a concert and is heading north for the big Janis Joplin/Jimi Hendrix concert. "I had some bad news for Rip Van Ripple. Janis is dead." OH NO MAAAAAN. "And so's Jimi." OH MAAAAAAN, NOT JIMI!!! "And Jim Morrison." No, NOT JIM MAN! "And Jim Croce." OH NOOOOO, wait, who's Jim Croce?

Real old joke, only for us old people.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-11-11   22:24:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#37. To: Mekons4 (#33)

Real old joke, only for us old people.

I hear ya' (barely)(g)

Jethro Tull  posted on  2005-11-11 22:34:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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