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James Joseph Croce (/ ˈ k r oʊ tʃ iː /; [1] January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he released five studio albums and numerous singles.
Croce was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1971, the son of singers Jim Croce, who was from an Italian Roman Catholic family, and Ingrid Croce, who is Jewish. His father died in a plane crash in September 1973, at age 30, eight days before A.J.'s second birthday.
Jim and Ingrid welcomed A.J., born Adrian James Croce, on Sept. 28, 1971. Before his father’s death, A.J. lived with his parents in a farmhouse outside of Philadelphia.
I Got a Name is the fifth and final studio album and first posthumous release by American singer-songwriter, Jim Croce, released on December 1, 1973.It features the ballad "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song", which reached number 9 in the US singles chart, and the ballad "Salon and Saloon", the last song Croce recorded in his lifetime.
Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released on September 26, 1974, by ABC Records. The album was Croce's second posthumous release following his 1973 death in an airplane crash.
Joseph Crocé-Spinelli (French: Joseph Eustache Crocé-Spinelli; 10 July 1845 – 15 April 1875) was a French engineer, aeronaut and inventor, one of the pioneers of aviation. Along with Gaston Tissandier and Théodore Sivel , he achieved a record altitude of 8,600 metres (28,200 ft) in the gas balloon Zénith .
The French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Indochina through Turkey to France and then to the United States and Canada.The operation started in the 1930s, reached its peak in the 1960s, and was dismantled in the 1970s.
James Joseph Patterson was born in England in 1923, and raised in Ossining, New York. He was the only son of Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News, and Mary King. She was the first female editor of the Chicago Tribune. [1] He was a great-grandson of Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune and mayor of Chicago. [2]