Editing Jim Croce (section)

==Early life and education==
Croce was born on January 10, 1943 (although some sources say 1942),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2003/01/10/Today-in-Music-a-look-back-at-pop-music/23331042183800/ |title=Today in Music: A look back at pop music}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/10/UPI-Almanac-for-Friday-Jan-10-2020/8011578535365/ |title= UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 |work= [[United Press International]] |date= January 10, 2020|access-date=February 1, 2020 |archive-date= January 15, 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200115192229/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/09/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-9-2020/6871578415895/ |url-status=live|quote=… singer Jim Croce in 1943}}</ref> in [[South Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, to James Albert Croce and Flora Mary (Babusci) Croce, Italian Americans whose parents had emigrated from [[Trasacco]] and [[Balsorano]] in [[Abruzzo]] and [[Palermo]] in Sicily.<ref name= "KeningLimited1991">{{cite book |first1= Dan |last1= Kening |first2= David |last2= O'Shea |first3=Jay |last3= Paris |title= Too Young to Die |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_2quq0BXaoC|access-date=August 19, 2011|date= 1991|publisher=Publications International, Ltd. |page= 37 |isbn= 978-0-88176-932-6}}</ref>

Croce grew up in [[Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania]], seven miles west of [[Philadelphia]], and attended [[Upper Darby High School]], where he graduated in 1960. He then attended [[Malvern Preparatory School]] for a year prior to enrolling at [[Villanova University]], where he majored in [[psychology]] and minored in German.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite interview|work=89.3 KPCC|series=Take Two |url= http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2012/10/08/28748/new-book-looks-at-singer-songwriter-jim-croces-too/ |title=New book looks at singer-songwriter Jim Croce's too-short life |publisher=Southern California Public Radio |date=October 8, 2012 |first1= Alex |last1= Cohen |first2= A |last2= Martínez |access-date=April 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/17053704-421/jim-croces-hit-had-roots-in-boot-camp.html |title= Jim Croce's hit had roots in boot camp |newspaper= Chicago Sun-Times |location= Chicago |publisher= Sun-Times Media, LLC |date= December 16, 2012 |first= Dave |last= Hoekstra |access-date= April 11, 2014 |archive-date= November 13, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131113023833/http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/17053704-421/jim-croces-hit-had-roots-in-boot-camp.html |url-status= dead }}</ref> He was a member of the campus singing groups the Villanova Singers and the Villanova Spires. When the Spires performed off campus or made recordings, they were known as The Coventry Lads.<ref>{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813083353/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20090810_Croces_capture_time_in_a_bottle.html |title=Inquirer Anniversary: Croces capture time in a bottle |url= http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20090810_Croces_capture_time_in_a_bottle.html |archive-date= August 13, 2009 |date= August 10, 2009 |access-date=November 27, 2011 |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |first1=Stephen J. |last1=Sansweet |author-link1=Steve Sansweet }} [http://www.jimcroce.com/articles/inquirer-anniversary-croces-capture-time-in-a-bottle.html Alt URL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121203052/http://www.jimcroce.com/articles/inquirer-anniversary-croces-capture-time-in-a-bottle.html |date=January 21, 2012 }}</ref> Croce was also a student disc jockey at WKVU, which has since become [[WXVU]].<ref>Villanova ''Parents' Connection'' newsletter (Spring 2007).</ref><ref>{{cite web |last= Grottini |first= Kyle J. |url= http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Croce__Jim.html |title= Croce, James Joseph (Jim) |publisher= Pennsylvania Center for the Book |access-date= May 16, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100611020306/http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Croce__Jim.html |archive-date= June 11, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Stevens |first= Candace |url= http://www.villanovan.com/2.7322/time-to-tune-in-to-villanova-s-own-wxvu-1.1023038 |title= Time to tune in to Villanova's own WXVU |archiveurl= https://archive.today/20130706164433/http://www.villanovan.com/2.7322/time-to-tune-in-to-villanova-s-own-wxvu-1.1023038 |archivedate= July 6, 2013 |work= [[The Villanovan]] |date= September 21, 2006 |edition= January 18, 2010 |access-date= July 6, 2013}}</ref> In 1965, he graduated from Villanova with a Bachelor of Science in Social Studies degree.