Editing Jim Croce (section)

== Legacy ==
The album ''[[I Got a Name]]'' was released on December 1, 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/croce_jim/albums.jhtml?albumId=373780 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225101440/http://www.mtv.com/artists/jim-croce/discography/373780/ |archive-date=December 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |title=Jim Croce Album I Got A Name|website=[[VH1]] |access-date=October 6, 2023}}</ref> The [[List of works published posthumously|posthumous]] release included three hits: "[[Workin' at the Car Wash Blues]]", "[[I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song]]" and the [[I Got a Name (song)|title song]], which had been used as the theme to the film ''[[The Last American Hero]]'', released two months prior to his death. "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" reached No. 9 on the singles chart.

While ABC had not originally released the song "Time in a Bottle" as a single, Croce's untimely death lent its lyrics, dealing with mortality and the wish to have more time, an 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 one, it became Croce's second and final No. 1 hit.<ref>[[Joel Whitburn|Whitburn, Joel]]. ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 7th ed., Billboard Books, 2000, p. 159. {{ISBN|
9780823076901}}</ref> After the single 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.<ref>[[Joel Whitburn|Whitburn, Joel]]. ''[https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop0000whit_a4l6/page/n519/mode/2up|The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits]'', Record Research Inc., 1985, p. 88, 505. {{ISBN|0898200547}}</ref> Seven weeks after its release, ''I Got a Name'' reached No. 2, behind ''You Don't Mess Around with Jim''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=October 5, 1991|title=Chart Beat|last=Grein|first=Paul|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1991/BB-1991-10-05.pdf|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=4|access-date=February 15, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1974-01-26|work=[[Billboard 200]] |title=January 26, 1974}}</ref>

A greatest hits album titled ''[[Photographs & Memories]]'' was released in 1974. Later posthumous releases have included ''[[Home Recordings: Americana]]'', ''[[The Faces I've Been]]'', ''Jim Croce: Classic Hits'', ''[[Down the Highway (album)|Down the Highway]]'', ''[[Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live]]'' and DVD and CD releases of his television performances. In 1990, Croce was inducted into the [[Songwriters Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C119|title=Songwriters Hall of Fame – Jim Croce|publisher=[[Songwriters Hall of Fame]]|access-date=July 11, 2011|archive-date=June 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629120458/http://songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C119|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Queen (band)|Queen]]'s 1974 album ''[[Sheer Heart Attack]]'' included the song "Bring Back That Leroy Brown"; its title and lyrics reference Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".

In 2012, Ingrid Croce published a memoir about Croce entitled ''I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Croce, Ingrid |author-link1=Ingrid Croce |author2=Rock, Jimmy|title=I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story|year=2012|publisher=Da Capo Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Vq4KZ4hUaUC |isbn=978-0-306-82123-3}}</ref>

In 1985, Ingrid Croce opened Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar, a project she had jokingly discussed with Croce, in the historic [[Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego|Gaslamp Quarter]] in downtown San Diego. She owned and managed it until its closure on December 31, 2013. In December 2013, Ingrid Croce opened another restaurant, Croce's Park West, on 5th Avenue in the [[Bankers Hill, San Diego|Bankers Hill]] neighborhood near [[Balboa Park (San Diego)|Balboa Park]]. She closed it in January 2016.<ref>{{cite news |first=Andie |last=Adams |url=http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Croces-Park-West-Closes-for-Good-366499371.html |publisher=[[NBC]] San Diego |title=Croce's Park West Closes for Good |date=January 25, 2016 |access-date=March 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Croce |first1=Ingrid |author-link1=Ingrid Croce |last2=Rock |first2=Jimmy |title=Croce's Park West is Closed |url=http://crocesparkwest.com/croces-park-west-is-closed/ |website=Croce's Park West |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130224924/http://crocesparkwest.com/croces-park-west-is-closed/ |archive-date=January 30, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2022, a [[Pennsylvania historical markers|Pennsylvania Historical Marker]] honoring Croce was installed outside his farmhouse in [[Lyndell, Pennsylvania|Lyndell]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 30, 2022 |title=Jim Croce historical marker installed in Lyndell |url=https://www.dailylocal.com/2022/03/30/jim-croce-historical-marker-installed-in-lyndell |access-date=January 21, 2023 |website=Daily Local |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 31, 2022 |title=Jim Croce Receives Historical Marker in Pennsylvania |url=https://bestclassicbands.com/jim-croce-historical-marker-3-31-222/ |access-date=January 21, 2023 |website=Best Classic Bands |language=en-GB}}</ref>