 They received five gold records for their work on Jim Croce’s hits - #1 singles "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle," and three albums (You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, Life and Times, and I Got A Name), and all three now have reached platinum status.Croce and Muehleisen perished in a small plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana on September 20, 1973.Cashman and West went on to record two more albums for ABC-Dunhill, "Moondog Serenade" and "Lifesong".