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  • 60 poor souls will never know good music!

  • Listening to his music takes me back to my high school days, just hanging out with friends.

  • RIP Jim..god we need singers like him again and not these souless children they give us...

  • I'm off to Fort Jackson this summer to do my basic training at the same place Jim did his. I know lots of guys go there every couple of months, but it makes it just a little bit more special to me.

  • Time for a bologna sandwich!

  • Where were you when you heard of his death? I remember! I also remember when JFK was assasinated, his brother, Bobby, Martin Luter King, Jr, John Lennon, and oh so many more! Songs like this are the sound-track of my life!

  • He was such a good man.....my stepfather met him, and to this day, we still share a love for him. If it weren't for that plane crash, I would kill myself to meet him.

  • The commitments artists have and still do make to their music is humbling. You couldn't have paid me to fly in a plane 30 years ago yet these guys did it practically every night to share their music with the world. RIP Jim.

  • Great music, great time.

    

  • I had the old "tape" of his albumn at the time. I lost it when my daughter totalled our 1965 bronze mustange. I never got the tape back and have missed that particular one ever since.

  • Yep, MY dad!

  • fucking beautiful, simply amazing.

  • These songs held meaning for the artists as well as their audience. They came onstage in their unglamorous awesomeness and did what they do best. Play music. The popular music now is just so empty. And then you listen in the MP3 format which takes away most of the tone. Where Jim's music is like an antique table made of mahogony, artists nowdays are making cardboard tables with a coat of neon spray paint

  • i just cant beleive music today :(

  • Happy Birthday, Jim Croce! R.I.P.

  • Jim was a great songwriter, but he didn't write this one. Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel wrote it.

  • Mort Goldman brought me here!

  • I just love how every song told a story. Croce had so much talent. May he rest in peace.

  • 5000+ likes and 60 DISLIKES?????? I don't get it. Who DOESN'T like this song?????

  • man, compared to this modern music is really corrupting the souls of our youth! Modern music injects the wrong values in them.

  • I was one of the lucky ones to grow up in this era of music when it told a story and left you with a good feeling I saw Jim the night his plane went down in Louisiana I remember getting home from the concert turning on the tv and hearing the sad news one thing good out of this is though Jim perished at such an early age his like many others music will live on for an eternity I've handed this music to my children and I hope they will hand it down to theirs

  • @musicman42152 wow that's an amazing story. I remember these songs from when I was very young in the '70s, I only knew him as "that singer who died in the plane crash"

  • @Janet1968 believe it or not u'll find those stories in underground rap.

  • @LoveLoyaltyRespect3 Thats cause they cant write any better lyrics...

    

  • He was the best, IMO

  • He's the Super Mario of Folk!

  • 30 short years on this earth, but a life time full of memories...RIP Jim.

  • Jim and Maury passed September 20,1973 in natchitoches la shortly after a concert when their chartered plane crashed! Found by NTSb to be pilot error! Many people who helped Jim career, namely Maury his lead man, and others helped his career! Some have never gotten due credit! Don't believe all you read about his life there are alot of hard feelings and untold truths!!

  • This is one of those "Where were you when" you heard. I was in the front seat of my then boy-friends car, waiting for cass to start, when we heard over the radio that Jim Croce had died in a plane crash, after doing a concert he was ful-filling, after he & his band couln't make the 1st. Yep, another "Day the music died"!

  • DUDES! He is a great musician but he is one ugly man! Oh, well. ;-)

  • @tubeforkathy Yea, but hell got more pussy that you could possibly imagine.

  • If I'm not mistaken, he died within a week of this performance. I believe his backup guys, or one of them died too. They all were so talented. This song moves me every time I hear it. It makes you think about your self worth in this world. Nobody can take that away from you, unless you get thrown in prison, I guess.

  • The guy on the right, Maury Muelheisen, backup guitarist/singer died with Jim. He was only 24. He was very talented and vital to the Croce sound. Tommy West is playing piano here. He was one half of the production team along with Terry Cashman (of Talkin' Baseball fame). Much as one can appreciate his work on Jim's records, Ingrid had to fight for years to claim royalties that were due Jim. Up till then he made more driving a truck. This is after touring and selling many many records.

  • @jwphx1962 yeah he dies sept 30 along with his guitarist Maury Muehleisen.

    in a plane crash pilot had a heart attack

  • i was headed to work,i started doing a guitar---paino singles in houston i make sure i did some jim croce .loved playing his songs,now i'm 62 relearning those sang songs and git back on stage ,i was at my locker at HS when jfk got shot.the world has changed since our time i think it'z time for a change!!!!!

  • I was in the front seat of my boy-friends car, waiting for class to start when the news came over the radio that Jim Croce had died in a plane crach. It's kinda like, "Where were you when you heard JFK was shot? Music is the story of my life, & yours as well , whether you know it or not.

  • 59 idiots have viewed this

  • I didn't know Luigi was a singer...

  • He equals Cat Stevens in clarity of live performances. Beautiful.

  • This is a great performance! Sounds as good as the original.

  • Jim was my idol when I was 16. I had been playing guitar for 4 years and when I saw this on TV, I immediately gravitated to his style and even tried but failed to grow his signature mustache! Due to my Czech/Scottish/English decent I suppose. I still have pencil sketches I drew of him. My favorite song of his was Rapid Roy.

  • Jim never fails to touch my heart. And Maury was a fabulous guitarist who didn't get the recognition he deserved. RIP Jim and Maury.

  • @RevCindi Maury released 1 LP called Gingerbread. His family has bought the rights from Capitol and it is available in CD format also an additional CD of demos from the same release. Well worth seeking out. Maury was the magic that pulled Jim together. 2 of my alltime favorite artists, tragic loss.

  • Great Musician.

  • I love this song, I love this man's heart. Thank you Jim Croce.

  • @Contakum I'd like to thank Jim too. He had a beautiful heart and Soul. i'm sure he's entertaining God now. All the best singers die early, because Heaven needs them.

  • The other guitarist is Maury Muehleisen. He also died that September day in 1973. A lot of people forget that he was taken from us too.

  • It was a sad day when he died. So much great music that never got made and a life cut way too short.

  • "They can change their mind but they can' t change me." Damn right!!!

  • i agree janet1968

  • kinda sounds a little like don mclean

  • "Like the fool that I am and I'll always be, I got a dream, I got a dream. They can change their mind but they can't change me! I got a dream, I got a dream." Amazingly powerful lyrics, particularly as you get older and understand what they truly mean. Jim told wonderful stories with his music. I miss that.

  • @Janet1968 makes u realize just how far ahead he was for such a young guy.

  • @Janet1968 There's still lots of fun stuff: Try Jason Mrax I'm Yours (Live On Earth Single Video) and I'm just getting started.

  • @Janet1968 You are so right! Great comment...

    I love Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot and, James Taylor's music... ;)

  • dope

  • The great ones make look so easy. Bless you, Jim. 

  • This song was released as a single on the day he died.

    RIP Jim

  • love this song

  • A 20th Century Troubadour. Rest Well, Jim...

  • Beautiful music.

    His collaborator was killed in the crash also. I've watched numerous documentaries about Croce and little is said about Maury Muehleisen.

    The significant others are often overlooked and underestimated when it comes to music groups. A TV show host once introduced Richard Carpenter as the 'piano player' for the Carpenters. Someone like that would probably introduce Maury as 'the guy that helps play guitar for Jim'.

  • I really like this song a whole too.

    Especially got a name.

    The acoustic guitar too.

    Heidi

  • Invincible brought me here

  • @cesclongbottom Jim Croce brought me here

  • If There's A Rocking Roll Heaven..........look for Jim Croce he will be the one picking with John Denver.

  • @hotstuffandicecream I'm surprised he isn't in the Rocking Roll hall of fame yet.

  • @TheIdiotninja

    He's not?! Let's burn the fucker down..

  • @TheIdiotninja FYI it's Rock and Roll.

  • Is this his last recorded performance?  So unfortunate that he was lost so young...

  • Great song...one of my favorites that Jim performed. And one of his few big hits (maybe the only one) that he didn't pen himself.

  • @JohnnyCxviii If you're ever in San Diego, try to stop into "Croce's" restaurant, in the gas lamp district. Ingrid Croce has many of Jim's hand written song lyrics framed and hanging on the wall. The food is good too! I Got a Name is from the 1973 movie, The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges as Junior Jonhnson. IMHO, this is one of his best songs.

  • @iluvguildguitars Thanks for the tip. I was just in San Diego last spring and I wish I would have known about it then. I'll go to Croce's on my next stop. I saw that Jeff Bridges movie some years back but I don't remember the song--heck, I barely remember the movie. I'll be sure to DVR it the next time it runs. Thanks again!

  • @iluvguildguitars The song was also featured in "Invincible" with Mark Wahlberg

  • Superb song and perfomance. Better to hear this song once than Lady Gaga 1 million of times

  • wow this guy was awesome...where is all that good music now? because what i hear on the radio is not music but pure garbage and nonsense, but this is music! man.....where did all this good music go?! R.I.P Jim

  • Two songs bring back that time to me.... This one and Don McClean's "American Pie".

  • Man those bell bottoms are a flashback to my younger days. RIP JIM and Maury.

  • if only he wouldnt have died think of all the great music he could have made

    r.i.p Jim Croce

  • this just in...breaking news..55 dickheads dont have a name

  • @crashkilldamage he died in the 70's douchebag

  • @Duhello88 LOL i was about to say the same thing!

  • ...didnt he drift off into porn in the 80s ??

  • Jim Croce... (May he rest in peace) ... Proving, like so many other musicians of the era, that the Ovation is one of the greatest acoustic guitars ever made... xD

  • My mom, dad and me moved into his house in rural Pennsylvania shortly after he past away.  I have been a fan ever since.

  • when i heard this song ,before my Daddy died i never though of HIM. Now I think of Him evertime... THANKS JIM. R.I.P...

  • Récordar es vivir

  • :) great music real

  • I came for the mustache, stayed for the song.

  • @Coldpepper touche

  • @Coldpepper shut the f-up LOL

  • Thank you Jim for all you have done for this world. 

  • Thank  You

  • why does jim croce remind me of john oates. mmm?

  • I love this song.  This guy was brilliant.

  • Love the fact he has that "cat" shirt on WAY before that was considered cool.

  • @krichards816 Is it considered " cool " now ?

  • @mrstevehartman

    Yep. Not sure where you live but the blue collar look is in (in some areas) Sorry if my comment does not ring true to you in your neck of the woods. But thanks for the comment.

  • @krichards816 It just looks a little strange. But again, John Lennon liked wearing Army fatigue shirts for years....

  • Man..this guy was amazingly talented!!...perhaps one of the more underrated songwriters of the 20th century...yes, he does get recognition, but not enough--due to the sublime level of both his music and lyrics...to all potential singers and songwriters--we need another Jim Croce in the world...where are you at?...

  • @jokerswildio I'm a musician... CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! xD I wish I was half as talented as Jim! Haha, but he is one of my influences in music, and I hope to one day be as popular as he was...

  • @jokerswildio totally agree man i love jim croce his lyriics are so inspiring this song here describes a dream hes followed and continued to do even when people kept telling him he couldnt or wouldnt do it.they call him a fool but he showed them all i love this song so much i love all his songs they are masterpeices

  •  one of my biggest inspirations:) this guy was amazing

  • @jokerswildio Tou are so right Jim Croce is one of the most talentedinger?songwriter i have ever heard!

  • many good songs were made (at least shown and heard) in 1 9 7 3  good songs in the 80s to but now all's i have to say is WAT HAPPEND TO MUSIC? Tada age 12

  • One of the best singer/songwriter of all times.

  • jim was the creative individual behind all the music

  • Croce was a real talent with a wonderful soul that was apparent in his music.

  • love Jim Croche

    

  • Maury,the other guy playing acustic gutiar,is the reason Jim sounds so good. Please don't get me wrong....Jim was a gifted singer/songwriter.....but without Maury,he wouldn't sound the same.

  • @nerblebun I feel they should've had a band name instead of it just being 'Jim Croce'. Without each other, none of them would sound as good

  • @Wtfgtfoooo I have also thought this..but who wrote all the lyrics and music?

  • @Danyerd My guess is Jim Croce, seeing that the band name is Jim Croce he must've done at least 90% of the writing

  • @Wtfgtfoooo They were never a band in the traditional sense. Jim wrote the songs and employed musicians to record the albums. His good friend Maury was his sidekick, providing amazing guitar and vocals. When they performed in concert is was usually just the two of them.

  • @Zenbone65 ...and some of those musicians included Eric Weissberg (Dueling Banjos) he's on "Careful Man", the late Ellie Greenwich (70's Disco singer)She's on most all background vocals, Rick Marotta (Drummer for many California Folk Rock Musicians) and Willie McCoy (you know, ...'but back home they call me Slim. Yea I'm lookin' for the King of 42nd street..) And yet his live performances stood close to their studio sound. God, how I miss them.

  • This song seems so optomistic, but for me , I think its really sad!

  • SONGWRITER!

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  • they dont write songs like this anymore, stupid hip hop lady gaga, black gibberish rap bullshit

  • @sewerrod your right they don't write songs like this anymore but you sound ignorant when you make statements like, "Stupid hip hop lady gaga, black gibberish rap bulllshit", stop trying to troll becasuse its making me and a lot of other people sick (source cited: your profile).

  • @blameitonthefatkid99 what the fuck is this troll bullshit,,,, what is troll am i a bridge monster ha ha ha that puts me in stitches

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  • i remember my collegiate days..when this song is no. 1....

  • I was so lucky to see him live, as an opening act for Woody Allen, no less. He and Maury played and Jim told stories that I swear were funnier than Woody's stand up. It was at the Valley Forge Music Fair. I remember them literally running off the stage when they were done so this song is very poignent for me - the bit about "moving me down the highway...so life won't pass me by" really seems to be the way he lived his life. What a beautiful man and props to his guitar player, Maury.

  • Proud to have Croce as my last name!

  • @NickBot112 aint that nice man.

  • That 'stache is boss.

  • Listened to Jim while in High School, had the 8 tracks and the day he died I did a little as well. I drove a truck later in life maybe because Jim did, maybe I was looking for him out on the road.

  • @TheStevenAyers wow! I predicted the demise of the 8 track. they woul'nt fit in the glovebox as many as cassette's. I didn't predict Jim's death. Hell, he went to my high school

  • 38 years ago today we lost an Icon. He had a name. It was Jim Croce. Rip Jim, and Fly with the Angels In Rock n Roll Heaven ♥

  • Good old fashioned music... Timeless

  • @heinibimmler thank god for that old fashion music !!!!!! since that period is gone forever, since the power of the recording music world is now in the hands of a new age self made so called artist that will not allow others music you know the kind you can sing play real instrument and doesn t nead to exploite the female (BITCHES) buts and explicit video that sadly young girls and boys ears everywhere......my only joy is knowing that they will never be performing some 30 or + like the real ones

  • this guys was a pure angel... nuff said

    

  • @MegaBiscuiteater This guy? He has a name, you know.

  • 53 dickheads don't have a name

  • @676ctf Hello Youtube. Stop doing this fucking shit...16 people don't blah, 57 people can't blah. Let it die you unoriginal twats. Thank you.

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  • @676ctf they're just upset because the dislike bar is the same size as their dicks lol

  • @SoftSailz One of the best comments Ive read in a loooooong time. Thanks for making me laugh! 

  • @SoftSailz shut the hell up they do so well at least they are better then u u lil bitch...

  • @676ctf 55 now. Weird.

  • @676ctf lol

  • @676ctf well they're 55 now and still growing. fucking jerks they shouldn't even be on this earth.

  • He only lived to be 30, and life didn't pass him by-inspiring song, especially when you consider that.

  • even though i was adopted i still remeber my dad and i went to court to get my birth name back

  • Hey, Virgo396...I do suck cock...this song is my very first favorite song and still is today...I agree anyone who doesn't like anything by Jim Croce is either deaf or simply jackasses. So rethink your comment...

  • One of the Greatest Singers/Songwriters ever to live although it was a short life for him RIP Jim Fans still Love Ya!!

  • I always thought it was "I got it Made"

  • One of the best ever!! As usual gone too soon...

  • One of the finest songwriters, whom Elohim took from this earth, to enter into His kingdom.

  • One of my favorites of Jim's. Miss him. It was a simpler time for all of us.

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  • Jim Croce is awsome R.I.P Jim

  • This song will forever make me think of my father, and the road trips we took together.

  • what about harry chapin , does that mean nobody can drive on the L.I.E ? "long island express way" or in a car for that matter, but back to the reason im here, croce was frickin awesome !

  • I make a motion that talented people are no longer able to fly. We've lost too many incredible artists in plane crashes.

  • People like Jim Croce were put on this earth for a reason. True beauty permeates through his song. His song gives me hope and strength. Croce was a true spiritual and musical genius. A God send to us all.

  • I like what I like and you like what you like.So why the ignorant comments.nuff said

  • They do not make music like this anymore and we might never see this quality ever again. Download them and save them for your children and their children.

  • How can there be 53 dislikes for this? 53 morons?

  • awsome vidio

  • An emotionally stirring song from one of the greatest singers and songwriters who ever lived. His life was tragically cut short, one can only imagine how prolific Jim would have been if he had lived. No music being made today sounds half as good as this.

  • is that mickey gilley on the piano

  • Just like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Mr. Croce died in a plane crash. I wish that he was still living today. His music was great.

  • @kja427 amen

  • @kja427 amenhen revival of his music and a tragic death

    like Stevie personal redemption t

  • Shhh everybody. Just listen to the beautiful music.