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Jim Croce
"Time in a Bottle" är en hit av sångaren och låtskrivaren Jim Croce. Croce skrev texten efter att hans fru Ingrid berättat att hon var gravid, i december 1970. Den fanns med på hans ABC-debutalbum You Don't Mess Around with Jim från 1972. ABC hade ursprungligen inte för avsikt att ge ut låten som singel, men när Croce dog i en flygolycka i september 1973 fick låtens text, som handlade om dödlighet och önskan om att få mer tid, ytterligare resonans. Låten fick därefter stor spridning som albumspår och efterfrågan på en singel ökade. När den slutligen gavs ut som en 7" blev den hans andra och sista nummer ett-hit. Efter att singeln hade avslutat sina två veckor på toppen i början av januari 1974 blev albumet You Don't Mess Around with Jim nummer ett i fem veckor. År 1977 användes "Time in a Bottle" som titel på ett samlingsalbum med Croces kärlekssånger.
Jim Croce
"Time in a Bottle" is a hit single by singer-songwriter Jim Croce. Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant, in December 1970. It appeared on his 1972 ABC debut album You Don't Mess Around with Jim. ABC originally did not intend to release the song as a single; but when Croce was killed in a plane crash in September 1973, the song's lyrics, dealing with mortality and the wish to have more time, had additional resonance. The song subsequently received a large amount of airplay as an album track and demand for a single release built. When it was eventually issued as a 7", it became his second and final No. 1 hit. After the single had finished its two-week run at the top in early January 1974, the album You Don't Mess Around with Jim became No. 1 for five weeks. In 1977, "Time in a Bottle" was used as the title for a compilation album of Croce's love songs.
Time in a Bottle