This day in music history.

September 20, 1973, Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen were killed when their twin engine plane hit a tree on take off in Louisiana. They were on their way to play a concert in Sherman, Texas. The two men had been playing together since 1970 and they died one day before releasing Jims third album, "I Got A Name", it would be his biggest success with three hit singles "I Got A Name", "Workin' At The Car Wash Blues" and "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song." After his death several of his older songs became hits as well including "Time in a Bottle," which went all the way to number one.
Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that Id like to do
Is to save every day
Till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
Id save every day 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 want to do
Once you find them
Ive looked around enough to know
That your the one I want to 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 want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That your the one I want to go
Through time with