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Jim Croce: The night the music died in Natchitoches, Louisiana on Sept. 20, 1973
NATCHITOCHES, La. — Jim Croce was on the cusp of superstardom in 1973.
His smash hit "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" had reached No.
1 and came on the heels of albums "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" and "Life and Times" that landed on the pop charts.
Three other singles — "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" and "Time in a Bottle" — all charted that year, and the 30-year-old singer was working on his third album "I Got a Name."
Croce was nearing the end of a grueling European and U.S.
tour when he had a date to play a concert in the small college town of Natchitoches, Louisiana, on the campus of Northwestern State University.
He was joined by talented guitarist Maury Muehleisen and comedian George Stevens, who opened the show for the musicians at Prather Coliseum on Sept.
20, 1973.
Less than an hour after leaving the stage, Croce, Muehleisen, Stevens, agent Kenneth