Jim Croce – Time In A Bottle

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Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle

“Time In A Bottle” is a song by Jim Croce from the You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (1972). Charted #1 in US.

Jim Croce wrote this reflective song the night that he found out his wife, Ingrid, was pregnant. The couple had been married for five years, and Ingrid found out she was pregnant when she went to a fertility specialist. She recalls a mix of terror and delight in Jim’s reaction when she told him the news. The child was a boy named Adrian, who grew up to become the singer-songwriter A.J. Croce.

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“Time In A Bottle” hit #1 in America 14 weeks after Croce was killed in a plane crash. Croce started touring after he completed his last album, I Got A Name. On September 30, 1973 a plane carrying Croce and five others crashed upon takeoff as he was leaving one college venue to another 70 miles away. No one survived the accident, and among those killed was Maury Muehleisen, who played guitar on Croce’s albums. Terry Cashman, who produced Croce, told us, “Jim and Maury got together and all of the sudden Jim started writing these great songs, and Maury came up with these really wonderful guitar parts – the two guitars were like an orchestra.”

“Time In A Bottle” entered the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending December 1, 1973 and finally reached #1 for the week ending December 29, a little over three months after he died.

Jim Croce Time In A Bottle Official Video

“Time în A Bottle” a intrat în Billboard  Top 40 Billboard la 1 Decembrie 1973 și a ajuns pe primul loc la 29 Decembrie unde a rămas pentru următoarele 3 luni.

Jim Croce a compus această melodie în noaptea în care a aflat că soția să, Ingrid, este însărcinată. Ei erau căsătoriți de 5 ani, iar Ingrid a aflat că este însărcinată după ce a consultat un specialist în fertilitate. Copilul a fost un băiat, Adrian, care a devenit cântărețul A.J. Croce.

Această melodie a apărut pe albumul You Don’t Mess Around With Jim din 1972, și nu au fost planuri să devină single. Dar, “Time În A Bottle” a devenit un hit la un an după lansarea albumului, când melodia a fost folosită în filmul pentru TV realizat de ABC, She Lives,  despre o femeie pe moarte din cauza cancerului.

Filmul a fost la TV în seară zilei de 12 Septembrie 1973. Stațiile de TV au fost bomardate cu telefoane de la tele-spectatori care doreau să afle unde pot cumpără discul cu această melodie. În ziua următoare ABC Records au primit 50.000 de comensi pentru albumul You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, iar până la sfîrșitul lunii Septembrie 1973 sau vândut peste 200.000 de discuri.

Jim Croce a murit într-un accident de avion la 20 Septembrie 1973.

 

Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle

 

Versuri:

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d 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
I’d 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
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re 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 you’re the one I want to go through time with

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  1. Mariana Stroe on December 30, 2019

    Singura parte bună a acestei povesti sfârșite atât de trist, este ca a apucat sa guste un pic din celebritate.

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