UPPER DARBY – Peggy Eckenrode of Drexel Hill remembered hearing Jim Croce singing his song ‘Operator’ when she was 11 years old. ‘He was an inspiration,’ Eckenrode said. ‘I wanted to play the guitar ...

For a long time, A.J. Croce wasn't interested in playing his father's music. It wasn't that he had anything against "Operator" or "Time in A Bottle," or the other songs that endured after the elder ...

Jim Croce wasn't meant to be a soldier. He was destined to be a singer. But some of the folk-rock artist's biggest hits were inspired by his time in Columbia during Army basic training at Fort Jackson ...