(CBS11) - This week's Summer Song comes from 1973 by an artist from South Philadelphia. Jim Croce (born January 10, 1943), he graduated from Villanova University in 1965. He was a member of the ...
There really was a Leroy Brown. After Jim Croce got done with college, he signed up for the National Guard to avoid getting drafted and sent to Vietnam. At his South Carolina base, Croce met a Leroy ...
Singer-songwriter Jim Croce made a name for himself with "I Got a Name," “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” “Operator,” and other hits. Just 30 years old, he died in a plane crash in northwest Louisiana in 1973, ...