Singer-songwriter and Upper Darby native Jim Croce died in a plane crash in 1973 at, what was arguably, the height of his popularity.
He was coming off a No. 1 single (“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”) and about to release a new album and the song “I Got a Name.”
Croce was a staple on the radio all over the country and, to this day, is remembered as one of the greatest American musicians of all time…