TIME IN
A BUTTLE
JIM
CROCE
SONGWRITER:
JIM CROCE
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: YOU
DON’T MESS AROUND WITH JIM
LABEL: ABC
RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 1973
James Joseph Croce (/ˈkroʊtʃi/;
January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock
singer-songwriter. Between
1966 and 1973, Croce released five studio albums and numerous singles. During
this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to pay bills while he continued to
write, record, and perform concerts. After forming a
partnership with songwriter and guitarist Maury
Muehleisen his fortunes turned in the early
1970s. His breakthrough came in 1972; his third álbum You Don't Mess Around with Jim produced
three charting singles, including "Time in a Bottle",
which reached No. 1 after his death. The follow-up album, Life and Times, contained the song "Bad,
Bad Leroy Brown", which was the only No. 1
hit he had during his lifetime.
On September 20, 1973, the day before the
lead single to his fifth album, I Got a
Name, was released, Croce, (along with five
others), was killed in a plane crash, at the height of his popularity. Croce's music continued to chart
throughout the 1970s following his death. His wife,
Ingrid Croce,
was his early songwriting partner and she continued to write and record after
his death, and his son A. J. Croce himself
became a singer-songwriter in the 1990s.
"Time in a Bottle" is a hit single
by singer-songwriter Jim Croce.
Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant, in
December 1970. It appeared on his 1972 ABC debut album You Don't Mess Around with Jim and was
featured in the 1973 ABC made-for-television movie "She Lives!". ABC
originally did not intend to release the song as a single; but when Croce was
killed in a plane crash in September 1973, its lyrics, dealing with mortality
and the wish to have more time, had additional resonance. The song subsequently
received a large amount of airplay as an album track and demand for a single
release built. When it was eventually issued as a 7",
it became his second and final No. 1 hit. After the single had finished its
two-week run at the top in early January 1974, the album You Don't Mess
Around with Jim became No. 1 for five weeks. In 1977, "Time in a Bottle"
was used as the title for a compilation album of Croce's love songs.
If I could save time
in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
It's to save everyday till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save everyday like a treasure and then
Again I would spend them with you
But there never seems
to be enough time
To do the things you wanna do
Once you find them
I looked around enough to know
That you're the one I wanna go through time with
If I had a box just
for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty except for the memory of how
They were answered by you
But there never seems
to be enough time
To do the things you wanna do
Once you find them
I looked around enough to know
That you're the one I wanna go through time with.
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