Jim Croce
This goo was worth a point in September 2023.
publication date: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 (part of September 2023)
category: 
Music
clue: If you had a bottle containing the time that he's been gone, it would now be forty years full.
explanation: Croce scored a #1 hit with "Time in a Bottle" after his death in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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