Time in a Bottle
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"Time in a Bottle" was a posthumous No. 1 hit for singer-songwriter Jim Croce, reaching the top of the charts in December 1973, three months after his death in a plane crash. The song, written for his son A.J. Croce, appeared on his first album in 1972, You Don't Mess Around with Jim. Croce would subsequently shoot to fame with his summer 1973 hit single "Bad Bad Leroy Brown", just months before a plane crash on September 20, 1973.
The song started receiving widespread airplay in the fall of 1973, after it was featured in an ABC TV movie She Lives! that starred Desi Arnaz Jr. and Season Hubley.
| Preceded by "The Most Beautiful Girl" by Charlie Rich |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single December 29, 1973 — January 5, 1974 |
Succeeded by "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band |
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