Croce cut an album in 1969, and when it failed to sell, he became a truck driver until he and Ingrid moved to a farm in Lyndell, Pennsylvania.
When money ran low, Croce went back to construction work, doing some session singing for commercials on the side.
Finally, after one rejection from ABC/Dunhill (which Croce had framed and put on the wall next to his first gold record; the rejection regretting that his songs were "not strong enough for us"), he signed with the label and cut a couple of songs he'd written in a truck cab, on his construction job: "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" and "Operator."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jim-croce-five-others-die-in-plane-crash-19731025
When money ran low, Croce went back to construction work, doing some session singing for commercials on the side.
Finally, after one rejection from ABC/Dunhill (which Croce had framed and put on the wall next to his first gold record; the rejection regretting that his songs were "not strong enough for us"), he signed with the label and cut a couple of songs he'd written in a truck cab, on his construction job: "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" and "Operator."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jim-croce-five-others-die-in-plane-crash-19731025
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ReplyDeletewelcome... but, what are you thinking me for? The post about Croce? Or the info that he was a trucker that didn't give up on trying to achieve his dream of being a successful musician?
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