Jim Croce Anthology (Songbook) by Ingrid Croce

Author:Ingrid Croce
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781458495488
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Published: 2013-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

Hey Tomorrow

Written by Jim and Ingrid Croce in the Bronx, 1970

By the close of the ’60s, we were experiencing firsthand that America was in great turmoil. Racism was tearing the country apart and activists were busy with anti-war demonstrations. While Jim and I were performing as a duo on the college concert circuit, we got caught in the middle of riots in the cities and on college campuses where students were closing down student unions and striking against the war in Vietnam.

The excitement we had experienced promoting our Capitol album, Jim and lngrid Croce, was over. Jim became disillusioned with the “music business.” We had no money to pay for gas and his frustration only increased when he finally heard our album for the first time. It was not at all what Jim had expected.

“We did an album and I couldn’t understand why it became a trade secret. They ground it up and made Grand Funk records out of it,” Jim would say, with small malice and a big grin. “It sold six copies in PX’s in Thailand. We were playing these small colleges, a thousand miles apart, working them for a week, have one day off and driving a thousand miles to the next one, sometimes a 24-hour drive, getting there exhausted, just in time to play.”

After a year on the road, we returned to a tiny rented apartment in a big, dirty old building in the Bronx. It was awful. It even had bars on the windows so you wouldn’t jump out! Without any gigs or money, there we remained, cooped up, practicing and writing every day, patiently waiting for our careers to take a turn for the best. It was then that we met John Stockfish. He had played bass for Gordon Lightfoot, one of our favorite singer-songwriters. John was an amazing musician. He liked our music and needed a place to stay. So, Jim invited him to move in with us for a while. John brought his bass and his wife; they stayed for six months. These were cramped and tense times, but Stockfish helped us refine our act and recorded with us, too. By the summer of 1970, Jim and I had written over 20 original American folk songs for a children’s show we were hoping to do in Boston. When we were ready to present our music to the producers, we sadly discovered Hoagy Carmichael had gotten the job. And we wrote “Hey Tomorrow.”

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