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Song of the Day #5,746: ‘I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song’ – Jim Croce

Jim Croce finished recording his fifth album, 1973’s I Got a Name, just a week before his death. On September 20, he and friend Maury Muehleisen (and four others) died in a plane crash while flying between gigs in Louisiana and Texas.

He died a day before the title track of the new album was released. One of the few covers he recorded since his debut album, the track reach #10 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The album made it to #2, right behind You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, which saw a resurgence in sales following his death.

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Song of the Day #4,079: ‘I Got a Name’ – Jim Croce

Continuing my countdown of the films of Quentin Tarantino:

#8 – Django Unchained

Maybe it says more about my opinion of Westerns than about the films of Quentin Tarantino, but I just realized the bottom of my list is made up of QT’s explorations of Western tropes.

Django Unchained looks at American slavery through the lens of a Black bounty hunter on a quest to win back his wife from a plantation owner. And for most of its nearly three hour running time it is one of Tarantino’s best films.

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