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Fred Kennedy was born on 22 December 1909 in Ainsworth, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Rio Grande (1950), Jeep-Herders (1945) and The Charge at Feather River (1953). He died on 5 December 1958 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.- Music Artist
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Jim Croce was born on Sunday, January 10th, 1943 in a working-class section of Philadelphia, in an Italian-American family. While a teenager, he began playing the accordion, and then learning to play an acoustic guitar when he was 18. After a short stint in the U.S. Army, where he supposedly met the character who inspired the song "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," Jim entered Villanova University for a degree in psychology, but he spent a lot of time working with bands, playing musical instruments and performing musical solos, more than 90% of the time.
Jim worked as a construction worker after graduation, after surviving from a diesel accident, he then worked temporarily as a school teacher of a Junior High school in South Philadelphia. On Sunday, August 28th, 1966, Jim Croce married his wife, Ingrid Jacobson. Then in 1967, they moved to New York City where they performed together, as a folk duo performing in city nightclubs & coffeehouses & recorded an album, that's titled "Another Day, Another Town".
Jim and Ingrid moved back to Pennsylvania where they bought a farmhouse and became parents to their only son, A.J. Croce. A.J.'s name at birth was Adrian James Croce. Adrian was born on Tuesday, September 28th, 1971, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, while Jim was a diesel truck driver to earn & pay their daily food & all other monthly utility bills. A year later, one of Jim's long time college friends advised him to record some of his newer songs & send them to ABC Records, where they signed Jim up and his first solo album, "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" was released in 1972 & it was one of the top 20 best selling albums of 1972, in the United States of America.
Combined, in 1972 to 1973, Jim Croce' performed in more than 250 concerts, he was a guest-star as TV shows and released his second album in mid 1973 titled "Life and Times." This album, featured his all time and most popular hit song, (solo 45 RPM, or 33 RPM album), of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown!".
He also recorded his third album, "I've Got a Name" and the title song was used in the soundtrack of The Last American Hero (1973). It starred Jeff Bridges, and the complete album which was released on Monday, July 23rd, 1973.
His song, "Time in a Bottle" from his first solo album, received sudden national sales after being featured in "She Lives" a made for ABC-TV movie which originally aired on Wednesday, September 12th, 1973, during the. evening hours.
Eight days later, Thursday, September 20th, 1973, Jim Croce's life and career came to a sudden end when he and his musical partner, Maury Muehleisen and others boarded a private airplane in Natchitoches, Louisiana to travel to a gig in Texas when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff killing everyone on board.
His third album includes the songs "I Got a Name," and "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" which were posthumous hits. In all, Jim Croce had eight top-10 singles and three top-10 albums from 1972 to 1974.
In the lyrics to the hauntingly wistful "Time in a Bottle", Jim left his own best epitaph as if he had foresaw his own death. Lyric: "There never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them".
Jim Croce's lifetime: Sunday, January 10th, 1943, to Thursday, September 20th, 1973, was 11,211 days, (equaling 1,601 weeks & 4 days). His life-loss date, Thursday, September 20th, 1973, was also the date of a famous tennis match, in Houston, Texas' Astrodome, nicknamed "The Battle of the Sexes", as female tennis player, Billie Jean King defeated male tennis player, Bobby Riggs, because he was an egotistical narcissistic darer & challenge maker. Earlier in the 1970's decade, Bobby RIggs dared another female tennis player, in a male-versus-female tennis match & he defeated her. Riggs' second dare, was much more than he expected.
Jim Croce was a loving father of his only child & son, A.J. Croce for the final 723 days (103 weeks & 2 days) of his life & Jim Croce was the husband of Ingrid Jacobson. The duo were married on Sunday, August 28th, 1966, & it lasted until Thursday, September 20th, 1973, it was his last 2,580 days equaling 368 weeks & 4 days. Jim Croce's marriage was 1,857 days when parenthood began on Tuesday, September 28th, 1971, when Ingrid bore their son, A.J. Croce.- Grits Gresham was born on 21 June 1922 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. He died on 18 February 2008 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.
- Norm Fletcher created four items of a collection that are the manuscript words and music by Norm Fletcher to "The Cane River Country," his handwritten account of how he composed the tune, and the Resolution making his the official song of the City of Natchitoches (known as Chinquapin in Steel Magnolias).
For many years he worked at KNOC-AM and KDBH-FM of Natchitoches and was known as "the voice of the (Northwestern State University) Demons. - Maury Muehleisen was born on 14 January 1949 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. He died on 20 September 1973 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.
- Jerry Pierce was married to Regina Bruce. Jerry died on 8 November 2022 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.
- Additional Crew
Blane Foshee was born on 11 June 1984 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Blane is known for Biggest and Baddest (2012). Blane died on 8 December 2016 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.- Kent Waldrep was born on 2 March 1954 in Austin, Texas, USA. He was married to Lynn. He died on 27 February 2022 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.
- Tom Petitjean was born on 15 November 1956 in Rayne, Louisiana, USA. Tom was a writer, known for Alta comedia (1965), Another World (1964) and As the World Turns (1956). Tom died on 5 May 2006 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.