Coming up….Jim Croce was an emerging superstar whose promising career started to enter its peak when he made a decision to quit the business altogether to spend time with his wife and newborn son. But a fatal moment would tragically change it all. At that point, after years of futility, he became a hit parade, marching off 5 consecutive Top 40 singles, including I Got A Name, Don’t Mess Around with Jim, Bad Bad Leroy Brown and today's classic song: Time in A Bottle. this was a song he buried on his new album that shot to the top of the charts after it was used in an ABC movie of the week.. the 70s pop classic would prove to be a beautiful and endearing omen. The story of a timeless song and career is next on Professor of Rock.

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So it’s time for another edition of our series The New Standards. This show takes an in-depth look into songs that transcend genre, decade, and fads - songs that are monumental touchstones in our culture and society. Today’s song is a heart-wrenching hit that makes those who hear it take some stock in their lives created by a singer-songwriter who left us far too soon.

At approximately 4am on, September 21st, 1973, Ingrid Croce was awakened by a phone call from her mother-in-law. The call interrupted a portentous, fitful dream where Ingrid was having trouble making contact with her husband who was away from home on a long road tour. Ingrid’s mother-in-law began the conversation with a question….Are you awake? To which Ingrid replied, "Yes, I was just having a disturbing dream about not being able to reach Jim."

Incredibly, the dream proved to be a premonition for what Ingrid’s mother-in-law was about to tell her….. There was a plane crash… and Jim, along with 5 other passengers on board….did not survive. The bulletin about the crash was devastating to Ingrid, her mother-in-law, Flora, and the rest of the Croce family. It was also a heartbreaking tragedy for Croce’s multitude of fans that he had captivated around the world.

A few months before his untimely death, Jim Croce sent a letter to Ingrid that he had made a liberating decision….Once the Life & Times Tour ended, he was going to get off the road for good, quit the music business, and find a way to earn a living that would not take him away from his wife, and Adrian James, his infant son. For his next chapter, Jim wanted to write short stories and movie scripts and step away from the public spotlight.

The thought of missing out on those precious moments of life with his family had been festering in Jim’s heart & soul ever since Ingrid gave him the exciting news in early 1971, that after 5 years of trying, she was pregnant with their first child Ingrid recalled that when she told Jim that she was pregnant after a visit with the fertility specialist, Jim was both overjoyed & terrified…. I’m sure many watching can relate to this. I certainly can.