Time in a Bottle

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“Time in a Bottle”
“Time in a Bottle” cover
Single by Jim Croce
from the album You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Recorded 1972
Genre Folk Rock
Label ABC Records
Writer(s) Jim Croce
 Music sample:

"Time in a Bottle" excerpt

From the album I Got a Name
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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. Time in a Bottle was later used as the title for a compilation album of Croce's love songs.

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.

Covered in spanish by Ricardo Arjona. It was also used on an episode of The Muppet Show, sung by a whatnot Muppet voiced by Jim Henson.

Maureen McCormick sang the song in an episode of The Brady Bunch Hour.

The song served as the title and theme song to a story-arc of the American soap-opera, Port Charles. In the storyline, which ran from March through May of 2001, the character of Frank Scanlon is able to communicate to a girl from the year 1973. The girl turns out to be the mother of his girlfriend Karen Wexler. Through a series of events, Frank accidentally prevents Karen from being conceived. Frank travels back to 1973 to correct the timeline.

'Time in a Bottle' was also covered by Eddie Kendricks (ex-Temptations) on his 1974 album 'For You' (Tamla/Motown 335)

Time In a Bottle was also sung by Bo Bice from American Idol.

Preceded by
"The Most Beautiful Girl" by Charlie Rich
Billboard Hot 100 number one single
December 29, 1973January 5, 1974
Succeeded by
"The Joker" by Steve Miller Band