Can't believe it's been 40 years. From Bob Dearborn's The Olde Disc Jockey Almanac...
September 20, 1973…Singer/songwriter (Bad Bad Leroy Brown, I Got A Name, I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song, Time In A Bottle, Operator) Jim Croce and five others were killed when their small charter plane hit a tree just after take-off in bad weather in Natchitoches, Louisiana, on their way to a concert in Sherman, Texas. Croce was 30 years old.
