Long before Time in a Bottle became one of the most recognizable songs of the 1970s, Jim Croce’s story ran straight through Delaware County.
Croce wrote songs that worked like short stories set to music, with hits like Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels), You Don’t Mess Around with Jim, and I Got a Name.
His characters were tough, funny, heartbroken, unlucky, and charming, and most of them were just trying to get through the day…