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On this day in 1973, the Jim Croce single “Time in a Bottle” went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (December 29)
Croce’s record company originally didn’t intend to release the song as a single; but when he was tragically killed in a plane crash in September 1973, its poignant lyrics, dealing with mortality and the wish to have more time, really hit home…
The song subsequently began to get a huge amount of airplay as an album track, and demand for a single release built.
When it was eventually issued as a 7", it became Jim Croce’s second and final #1 hit, after "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" in July 1973.
“Time in a Bottle” was the third posthumous Billboard #1 hit after "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding and "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin.
Elsewhere, the song that was included on the LP "You Don't Mess Around with Jim", went to #1 in Canada and #60 in Australia.
Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant, in December 1970…
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