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* ReferencedBy: Music/WeirdAlYankovic references the chorus to "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" in "CNR" from Music/{{Alpocalypse}}:
--> ''Cause you can spit in the wind or tug on Superman's cape, but Lord knows you just don't mess around with CNR''
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* ReferencedBy: Music/WeirdAlYankovic references the chorus to "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" in "CNR" from Music/{{Alpocalypse}}:
--> ''Cause you can spit in the wind or tug on Superman's cape, but Lord knows you just don't mess around with CNR''
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* ColbertBump: "Time in A Bottle" being used in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' (in the film's SignatureScene, no less) led to a renewed interest in his music.

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* ColbertBump: "Time in A a Bottle" being used in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' (in the film's SignatureScene, no less) led to a renewed interest in his music.
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...and that's an averted Trivia trope.


* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Unlike most musicians who died in their prime, this trope is averted with Croce. He had already decided he was going to leave the music business when he died, so even if he had lived we wouldn't have gotten anything more from him.

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Misuse; the death must be during production to count.


* AuthorExistenceFailure: Croce had a few chart hits after his death, most notably the Top 10 hit "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Unlike most musicians who died in their prime, this trope is averted with Croce. He had already decided he was going to leave the music business when he died, so even if he had lived we wouldn't have gotten anything more from
him.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Unlike most musicians who died in their prime, this trope is averted with Croce. He had already decided he was going to leave the music business when he died, so even if he had lived we wouldn't have gotten anything more from
from him.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)". Both due to it being rooted in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar [[note]]Croce said the song was inspired by his time spent in the military, as he watched long cues of men line up to use the only phone on base to call their significant others and find out if the [[DearJohnLetter Dear John Letters]] they just received were true.[[/note]] and its entire premise of having a conversation with the phone operator, a profession that [[TechnologyMarchesOn went the way of the dodo]] decades ago.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Unlike most musicians who died in their prime, this trope is averted with Croce. He had already decided he was going to leave the music business when he died, so even if he had lived we wouldn't have gotten anything more from him.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)". Both due to it being rooted in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar [[note]]Croce said the song was inspired by his time spent in the military, as he watched long cues of men line up to use the only phone on base to call their significant others and find out if the [[DearJohnLetter Dear John Letters]] they just received were true.[[/note]] and its entire premise of having a conversation with the phone operator, a profession that [[TechnologyMarchesOn went the way of the dodo]] decades ago.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Unlike most musicians who died in their prime, this trope is averted with Croce. He had already decided he was going to leave the music business when he died, so even if he had lived we wouldn't have gotten anything more from him.from
him.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)". Both due to it being rooted in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar [[note]]Croce said the song was inspired by his time spent in the military, as he watched long cues of men line up to use the only phone on base to call their significant others and find out if the DearJohnLetters they just received were true.[[/note]] and its entire premise of having a conversation with the phone operator, a profession that [[TechnologyMarchesOn went the way of the dodo]] decades ago.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)". Both due to it being rooted in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar [[note]]Croce said the song was inspired by his time spent in the military, as he watched long cues of men line up to use the only phone on base to call their significant others and find out if the DearJohnLetters [[DearJohnLetter Dear John Letters]] they just received were true.[[/note]] and its entire premise of having a conversation with the phone operator, a profession that [[TechnologyMarchesOn went the way of the dodo]] decades ago.
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* ColbertBump: "Time in A Bottle" being used in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' (in the film's SignatureScene, no less) led to a renewed interest in his music.

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* ColbertBump: "Time in A Bottle" being used in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' (in the film's SignatureScene, no less) led to a renewed interest in his music.music.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)". Both due to it being rooted in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar [[note]]Croce said the song was inspired by his time spent in the military, as he watched long cues of men line up to use the only phone on base to call their significant others and find out if the DearJohnLetters they just received were true.[[/note]] and its entire premise of having a conversation with the phone operator, a profession that [[TechnologyMarchesOn went the way of the dodo]] decades ago.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Unlike most musicians who died in their prime, this trope is averted with Croce. He had already decided he was going to leave the music business when he died, so even if he had lived we wouldn't have gotten anything more from him.
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* ColbertBump: "Time in A Bottle" being used in Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast (in the film's SignatureScene, even) led to a renewed interest in his music.

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* ColbertBump: "Time in A Bottle" being used in Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' (in the film's SignatureScene, even) no less) led to a renewed interest in his music.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Croce had a few chart hits after his death, most notably the Top 10 hit "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Croce had a few chart hits after his death, most notably the Top 10 hit "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".Song".
* ColbertBump: "Time in A Bottle" being used in Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast (in the film's SignatureScene, even) led to a renewed interest in his music.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Croce had a few chart hits after his death, most notably the Top 10 hit "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".

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