14 Dec Classic Tracks: Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle”
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It was a life cut tragically short and a song that eerily captured the meteoric rise and brevity of its author’s career. “Time in a Bottle” reached the top slot on the pop charts in December 1973, but this posthumously released single was not Jim Croce‘s only Number One record, as his producers Tommy West and Terry Cashman vividly recall.
West was a senior at Philadelphia’s Villanova University in 1962 and in charge of the university’s Glee Club auditions when he first met Croce. “I…