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Jim came up with this song while he was in the Army reserves boot camp and saw young guys placing phone calls home, only to find out that their girlfriends or wives were now seeing someone else. Often someone they knew. So in a way it's dedicated to all the Dear John's
Got a Dear John while in Boot Camp myself. She ended up dating one of my best friends as well. Made my way back home to stay after four years. Re-kindled
my relationship with my best friend. Never saw nor did I call the girl. I guess my relationship with my friend was more important.
@@bebarchick1 Really !!?? Fuck that guy too !! Both of them would be dead to me !!!
TAD to Japan, Saturday in line at the MARS(Military Auxiliary Radio System) I was calling home, they were calling their GF or wife but getting Dear John. One of the many favorites from Mr. Croce.
"There's something in my eyes, you know it happens every time I think about the love that I thought would save me" ... 🎶 ♥️ 💔
"You can keep the dime" is my favorite line. Beautiful song by a beautiful man who departed too soon...
His voice when he says that line goes straight to my soul.
Me too. It's so sad and wistful. What a legend he was.
Yeah, that line...a gesture of generosity, a last gasp of hopelessness and resignation for a love betrayed. It's a dark and empty place to be.
Ingrid Croce opened a restaurant and bar of her own in 1985 called Croce's that served to honor Jim's memory.
In 2000, the Martin guitar company produced 73 guitars in honor of Jim Croce. In each of these guitars, an uncirculated 1973 dime was inserted in the third fret fingerboard in honor of this song and the final line, "You can keep the dime." Peace out.
Nearly 51 Years On Never Forgotten RIP Jim Forever Young 😢
This guy writes stories . Great song writer. Sad he passed away way to soon
Way too soon
He wrote stories you could see in his song.
He had several classic songs, however I feel like his most impactful is probably "Time in a Bottle"
I agree. Peace, Love!!
Time in a bottle is his best to me.
Genius song!!!
As a veteran and a father both hit really close to home but a parent is always going to chose their kids that is why for me it is also "Time in a Bottle".
I'm hoping for a reaction to Time in a Bottle!
It became popular because it’s a beautifully written song that conveys honestly emotion. He wants to be healthy about it but it still chokes him up from the hurt of betrayal
That 10 cent phone call is also the source of the phrase, "Drop a dime" on someone.
This song should come with Cliffs Notes for younger generations explaining pay phones, telephone operators, and paying for long distance calls. And matchbooks (how long has it been since I've seen one of those?!)
I had a 8-track of Jim Croce that I listened to all the time! Glad people are finding out what a great singer and storyteller he was.
Same hear
Oh man, take me back! I was in the 9th grade and was dating a guy who played guitar. He really liked Jim Croce, and he would bring his guitar to my aunt's home, and he would sit on the floor and sing to me. When he sang Croce, he sounded just like him! He was crazy good, and yeah, he made me swoon. I remember thinking how sad this song was, how the levels of wanting to hear her voice, wanting to tell the both of them that he's doing fine, and then "Operator, let's forget about this call. There's no one there I really wanted to talk to." Jim painted pictures with his songs, and I died a little when he died.
On the other hand, "Time in a Bottle" is beautiful, such a lovely song to sing to the one you love. Please react to this!
"Operator" was released in the early 70s. A lot of people played "If Loving You is Wrong, I Don't Want to be Right," "Afternoon Delight," that stupid "Piña Colada Song," and many others really did underline the free love attitude of the times. Looking back, I feel the magical, musical time it was. I hope I always will.
Bad bad Leroy Brown and You Don’t Mess Around With Jim are fun story songs. Hey Tomorrow and I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song are just really nice songs.
It is became popular because it is a pinnacle of songwriting and Croce’s music is just so beautiful and warm.
Love Jim Croce. He and Maury did some great stuff. Thanks for the memories.
Simply put, drunk calling your ex is nothing new. 😂 The key is the Jim wrote about it in a beautiful way that everyone could relate to, listen to, and enjoy.
I guess us Gen-Xers are probably the last ones who remember the days of payphones and live operators. Don't forget Croce's 'Roller Derby Queen' and 'Workin at the Car Wash Blues,' or 'Box #10.'
Older millennials remember them too.
RIP Jim and Maury. Anything by JC is good. Try "I've Got A Name".
Jim Croce was a fantastic storyteller/ musician/ singer. His songs always made you stop and think about the message. Thanks so much for your reaction to this. Love your channel sir. 👏👏🇨🇦
One of the best artists ever.
Tremendous heartbreak. Such emotion in this song.
He tragically died way too young before his potential could be reached. He is under valued in the world of music history.
Another great song by Jim Croce to check out is "Lovers Cross".
Lets never forget that fabulous voice and person Maury Muehleisen
I absolutely love this song!
“You can keep the dime” hits me every time.
You should check out some of his other songs-
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
You Don’t Mess Around with Jim
One Less Set of Footsteps
Time in a Bottle
I love Jim Croce. I grew up listening to him with my Dad. If you get the chance, listen to "I'll have to Say I Love You in a song" (my absolute favorite) and "Photographs and Memories". They're both beautiful. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Photographs and Memories is both mine and my grandfather's favorite song of his
Jim Croce is one of the best story tellers of all time …. Go listen to his entire catalog before he was taken away :(….. 🐐
Loved how you got so wrapped up in the story.
If you liked this you need to listen to Time In A Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown and You Don't Mess Around With Jim. Croce (pronounced crow chee) was an amazing talent that died way too soon.
The guitar is absolutely beautiful!
Great acoustic masterpiece by the late JIm Groce. Amazing memories of the 70s.
Jim Croce is the master of both the heartfelt (Operator, I Got a Name, Time in a Bottle) and the light hearted (Bad Bad Leroy Brown, You Don’t Mess Around With Jim) we were truly robbed of his genius.
He wrapped his heart around his songs. Whether exact real or just a story, he believe the narration of this story.
CROW-CHEE is how you say his name.
In the 70s we mainly listened to the radio, songs had to grab your imagination or reach your heart to be memorable and then we bought the records. This is why there are so many iconic singers and songs from 70s and early 80s. Once video hit we could watch TV but we still heard songs first on the radio. Check out Queen' Radio Ga Ga song which is about how important it was to people ❤
As touching, and unfortunately true now just as it was then. Psychic pain put to incredibly beautiful music and sung softly, passionately and unforgettably. We're all the poorer for having lost such a talent so soon.
Songs of my youth! Peace, Love!!
I was 12 when this came out...I loved Jim Croce. I had this on 8 track.....
Photographs and Memories, owned it on 8 track, vinyl, 3 cassettes, 2 cds, still one of the greatest albums of my lifetime!
Time in a Bottle is one of the best songs ever.
Jim Croce’s story is firstly incredibly too short, and lastly incredibly sad. He & his wife were first a folk duo when he struck as a solo artist. He was really only in mainstream view for about 3.5 years. Missing his wife & baby boy intensely, he wrote her saying when the current tour was done, he was coming home to stay. He would focus on her, AJ, & songwriting. He died in a plane crash before he could do so; his wife received the letter a week after he passed.
It’s amazing what he left us in those 3.5 years. He had such a unique sound & his classical guitar skills were beyond compare. AJ, even after suffering his own tragedy in childhood, is an artist himself.
Time In A Bottle, The King’s Song, Hard Way Every Time, Lover’s Cross (think you would LOVE this), Have To Say I Love You… so so many. Again, it’s amazing what he left us in too lil time.
Always enjoyable; Thank You.
Stay safe & love much💖
The guitar work is some of the greatest ever.
'New Yorks Not My Home' is a great song. It's about Jim making the "big time" and realizing he got fucked on his record deal.
His wife and son got none of the money. Terrible story there.
I love New York’s Not My Home and I Got a Name. But every song Jim Croce wrote and sang were good!!
First. You should do more Jim Croce. One of the best singers. He was taken from us way too early.
We need more croce!!! 😂. Im probably the youngest croce fan at 35 yrs old but damn he has the hits. Time in a bottle, rapid roy, so many others. Lfg
beat you by 17 years there my friend. I'm 18 and my grandfather introduced him to me last year
15 mate
@@jairynbullinger you are the type of youth that will save the next generation 😂. 👏. That makes me happy
@@Bald_Cat2007 if you are really 15 and are a croce fan….. that also makes me happy.
Happens to often. Wrong girls. Song always brings a tear to my eyes. I guess you could say past hopes and dreams, and then later you are glad. But not at the time. Lost Loves. Some times I thank God for unanswered Prayers. That's a Garth Brooks tune you should hear.
His songs have been a large part of my life. The days of talking to the operator on a pay phone for a dime. He was supposed to be the opener for the Carpenters when I was 12 in 1972 but he got laryngitis and couldn't play. He died shortly after. He was a wonderful singer and songwriter. Time in a Bottle is a beautiful song that he wrote for his baby son but came out after he died in a plane crash.
I miss those simpler days... I'm 62...the milkman would deliver to your house..rotary dial phones ... AM radio..Paul Harvey..
I miss those simpler days... I'm 62...the milkman would deliver to your house..rotary dial phones ... AM radio..Paul Harvey..
Jim's a king
Walkin' Back To Georgia!
It was a hit simply because it's a damn good song. ✨
I grew up loving Jim Croce his dying so young was a true tragedy I can just imagine how much more amazing music he would have made.
More Croce please and thank you
Such a great poet/songwriter, gone too soon. Thanks for your reaction.
The emotional roller coaster that you put yourself through sometimes when thinking about exes is about as long as this song and it's pretty amazing songwriting RIP Jim Croce, another song that you should check out is Box #10 by Jim Croce
It would have bbeen amazing to be in another timeline where he wasn't taken so early, just to see what other songs he would have written.
Those glasses are on point! lol love the vid brother keep them comin! 🍻
I think the song became popular because it was a great story and song. It touched you whether you'd lived through a situation like that or not.
about time you reviewed this song. Good review and perspective(s). Ya, Time in a Bottle, Bad bad Leroy Brown are 2 well known songs of his as well.
That's a lovely song 😊😊
Try “Rapid Roy”, “Big bad Leroy Brown”, or “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim”
Roller Derby Queen is good too
It seems like many great solo male singers died due to plane crashes. Jim Croce is pronounced Jim Crow-chi. Hope that helps. Love your articulate reactions.
This situation happens in the Military enlisted life alot
Other songs about telephone calls from back in the pre-cellphone days:
"Telephone Line" by Electric Light Orchestra
"Hello, It's Me" by Todd Rundgrin
"Sylvia's Mother" by Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
The last one will wring your heart out.
Ahh- I loved all of those songs!! Thanks for sharing!
I grew up with Jim Croce's greatest hits. My dad was left by his grade school sweetheart when he left for Vietnam. But that's why i'm here, he married the cousin of his colleague roommate when he came home
This happened to my brother. His wife ran off with his best friend to California. It was a very real trauma for my brother.She took their kids with her.
This song hit home with a lot of us while we we In-Country., (Vietnam). The "Dear John" song to help us move on.
The song was about his time in National Guard training he was standing there in the rain at a payphone. And he was listening to these stories of all these guys, the 'Dear John' stories, that were standing in line waiting their turn in the rain with these green rain jackets over their heads - I can just picture it, all of them in line waiting for their 3-minute phone call. Most of them were getting on the phone and they were okay, but some of them were getting these 'Dear John' letters, or phone calls. I think that was the most important aspect of the song, because it was just so desperate. You know, 'I only have a dime' and 'You can keep the dime' because money was very scarce and very precious, and I think if you look at the words to the song there are so many aspects of our generation that are in it. Ingrid Croce, who was married to Jim from 1966 until his death in 1973 said I'm picturing Jim out in the rain and this long line of guys where they're really trying to reach somebody. It was hard to get through, so you always had the operator do it for you." Peace out.
He died in a plane crash when I was 14 years old.....I cried and cried. "Time In A Bottle" will forever and always be one of my favorite songs of all times. Thank you for this reaction! Happy New Year!!
I cry when I am reminded that he died when he was 30
I was also 14 when he was killed in the plane crash. I had just bought his album right before that and kept listening to it over and over. I was devastated when I heard he was killed.
Croce rhymes with the Japanese rice cake "mochi" or the Russian Olympics venue "Sochi".
My father loves Jim Croce and showed me his albums when I was very young. He was going to be a huge star its a shame he died so soon.
Croce was a fantastic writer, musician, and singer. This song hits home for me, because it's pretty much happened to me with an ex-wife.
You should check out cat's in the cradle. Fantastic song about priorities.
Oh, and it is pronounced Crow-che.
Cat's in the Cradle is by Harry Chapin, another great singer/songwriter. As to Jim Croce, his songs are so easy to relate to.
this is one of my dads favorite songs and i haven't heard it in quite a while... thank you
please. i BEG you. listen to photographs and memories by him. its short and bittersweet and one of my all time favorite songs
It's simply a case of love gone wrong. Very few people can escape it at least once in their life. So relatable.
And not just love gone wrong. This is the betrayal of both your lover and your so called best friend. Bigger hurt than a regular breakup.
This is one of the best songs ever imo gone too soon rip
It happens!
The melody sounds like a test run for his song I'll Have To Say I love You In A Song.
Along with Jim…was James Taylor! A must discover.
the size of my smile when I hear him say, "Don't call her." and I know what's coming on the next verse.
A poet. A singer. Played a mean guitar. Gone too soon. Think of what he could have written. Fortunately we have these songs to appreciate!
Another song like this is Sylvia's Mother by Dr Hook.
"Time in a Bottle" dude. We have a similar sensibility.
I don't know when I learned this song, before I learned to talk really.
Great song and appreciate your reaction/ insight. Pronounced kro-chee, BTW. Re... Best friends lost to girlfriends, Amos Lee, "Careless" is a more recent version of that issue... another troubadour in a similar tradition to Jim C who left us way to early
Rip croce. Wish he had more time to make more impact. 😢
I believe it's pronounced like crow-chee.. He has a lot of upbeat songs.. but this and time in a bottle get to me. To me it's more like, he's regaining his life and nostalgic, he was betrayed by his girl and his best friend, yet he misses them both.. he doesn't want her back or even the relationships of both fully back, he just wants some sort of closure in it all to say he's no longer angry even if it does still weigh on his mind.
His best well known song is probably “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” also a personal favorite of his!
Yep, pay phones on every corner used to take .10 cents for a call. That is the dime he or time of a call referred to.
One of the great storytellers of the 70s. Sadly it gained popularity shortly after his death at only 30 years old.
He did lot of broken relationship songs...my favorites are "One Less Set of Footsteps" and "Lover's Cross"
Great reaction, love your content. Spot on following the story.
Other Jim Croce songs that you should listen to? 🤔
*ALL* of them. - No joke. 😶
However, I would personally suggest: Lover's Cross, One Less Set of Footsteps, Roller Derby Queen, Rapid Roy, Workin' at the Carwash Blues, Walkin' Back to Georgia, and ... by then, you should be hooked. 😉
P.S.
The commercial hit of the period was Leroy Brown, but the musically better song (and type of story) was You Don't Mess Around With Jim.
I don't watch a lot of "reaction" videos ... but I do loves me some Croce! ✌🏼
Jim was a star, We lost him too soon.
Aside from the beautiful lyrics and story, the guitar work is fantastic. Maury Muehleisen, who backs Croce here, plays some incredible fills. He died with Croce in that awful crash. Croce was 30. Muehleisen was 24.
This man was a legend, with such range, "You don't mess around with Jim" and "Bad bad Leroy Brown" seem to be better known, but his love ballads are just so amazing, This is my favorite song of his, Followed by "I'll have to say I love you in a song" I See you reacted to "Time in a Bottle already so need to watch that next
My mom had his album in the early 70s. I appreciate it more now in my 50s.
I personally love “I have to say I love you in a song” by Jim. But if you’ve never heard of Avenue Q- you must check out “Mix Tape”
I TRULY luv ur videos and ur accent im a first gen American my family all have heavy accents due to English being their second language and Portuguese being their first so to hear a accent that's so different sounds so nice and smart to me, lk ur words no matter what u say sound smarter than what I hear on a daily in my life and family .no disrespect to my fellow Portuguese cuz that's who I am and VERY proud of it but I ❤ how u sound ...and ur words of wisdom lk don't call this girl in the song lol wear are u from by the way
His name is pronounced KRO-chee.