Jim Croce - You don't mess around with Jim (1972)

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He was killed at age 30 in Septem1973 in Louisiana, he was doing what he had done many times before - taking off at night in a light plane from a small airstrip. He was raised Catholic, but Croce converted to Judaism (Judaism is the ethnic religion of the Jewish people) so he could marry Ingrid Jacobson. His wife said; “Jim (Croce) sold air time for a radio station. When he got out of college, his parents wanted him to get a good 9-to-5 job. We had always intended to do music, but he'd had a college education and the first to graduate from his family with a college education, they wanted him to become a professional, to really do something that would get pension, and good solid work. This song was Croce's first single. After several years of struggling for success and battling music industry politics, the song got the promotion it deserved when rep at ABC/Dunhill named Matty Singer visited radio stations in the Philadelphia area to promote the song.