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James Taylor: Greatest Hits

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Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 1976.11.01
Time:
 43:42
Category: Folk-Rock
Producer(s): Peter Asher, David Spinozza, Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jamestaylor.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Something in the Way She Moves [1976 Version] (J.Taylor) - 3:14
[2] Carolina in My Mind [1976 Version] (J.Taylor) - 4:00
[3] Fire and Rain (J.Taylor) - 3:26
[4] Sweet Baby James (J.Taylor) - 2:55
[5] Country Road (J.Taylor) - 3:26
[6] You've Got a Friend (Carole King) - 4:33
[7] Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight (J.Taylor) - 2:39
[8] Walking Man (J.Taylor) - 3:36
[9] How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved By You] (Holland/Dozier/Holland) - 3:39
[10] Mexico (J.Taylor) - 3:01
[11] Shower the People (J.Taylor) - 4:01
[12] Steamroller [Live] (J.Taylor) - 5:19

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James Taylor - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

Kenny Ascher - Electric Piano on [8]
Byron Berline - Fiddle on [2]
Michael Brecker - Tenor Saxophone on [7]
David Crosby - Harmony Vocals on [10]
Nick Decaro - Hornorgan, Voiceorgan on [11]
Craig Doerge - Piano on [7]
Dan Dugmore - Steel Guitar on [1, 2]
Victor Feldman - Orchestra Bells, Vibes on [11]
Andrew Gold - Harmonium, Backing Vocals on [2]
Milt Holland - Percussion on [10]
Jim Keltner - Drums on [9]
Carole King - Piano, Backing Vocals on [3-5]
Danny Kortchmar - Electric Guitar on [7,9-10,12], Acoustic Guitar & Congas on [6]
Russ Kunkel - Drums on [2-7,10-12], Congas on [6-7], Cabasa on [6], Tambourine on [9], Shaker on [10]
Gayle Levant - Harp on [10]
John London - Bass Guitar on [4]
Rick Marotta - Drums on [8]
Ralph Macdonald - Percussion on [8]
Clarence Mcdonald - Piano on [2,9,12], Fender Rhodes on [9,11], Voiceorgan on [11]
Randy Meisner - Bass Guitar on [5]
Joni Mitchell - Backing Vocals on [6]
Andy Muson - Bass Guitar on [8]
Graham Nash - Harmony Vocals on [10]
Gene Orloff - Strings (Concert Master] on [8]
Herb Pedersen - Backing Vocals on [1]
Red Rhodes - Steel Guitar on [4]
David Sanborn - Saxophone on [9]
Carly Simon - Harmony Vocals on [9,11]
Leland Sklar - Bass Guitar on [1-2,6-7,9-12]
David Spinozza - Electric Guitar & Acoustic Guitar on [8], Producer
Bobby "Wild Wild" West - Double Bass on [3]

Peter Asher - Producer
Russ Titelman - Producer
Lenny Waronker - Producer
Val Garay - Audio Engineer, Engineer, Mixing
Lee Herschberg - Engineer
Bill Lazerus - Engineer
Harry Maslin - Engineer
Richard Sanford Orshoff - Engineer
Phil Ramone - Engineer
Blaise Castellano - Assistant Engineer
David Henson - Assistant Engineer
Robert Appere - Mixing
Bernie Grundman - Mastering
Kosh - Art Direction, Cover Design, Design
Norman Seeff - Photography

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James Taylor had scored eight Top 40 hits by the fall of 1976 when Warner Brothers marked the end of his contract with this compilation. One of those hits, the Top Ten gold single "Mockingbird," a duet with his wife Carly Simon, was on Elektra Records, part of the Warner family of labels and presumably available, but it was left off. "Long Ago and Far Away," a lesser hit (though it made the Top Ten on the easy listening charts), wasn't used either. In addition to the six hits -- "Fire and Rain," "Country Road," "You've Got a Friend," "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)," and "Shower the People" -- that were included, the album featured a couple of less successful singles, "Mexico" and "Walking Man," the album track "Sweet Baby James," and three previously unreleased recordings -- a live version of "Steamroller" and newly recorded versions of "Something in the Way She Moves" and "Carolina in My Mind," songs featured on Taylor's 1968 debut album, recorded for Apple/Capitol. The result was a reasonable collection for an artist who wasn't particularly well-defined by his singles. One got little sense of Taylor's evolution from the dour, confessional songs of his first two albums to the more conventional pop songs of his sixth and seventh ones. But one did hear isolated examples of Taylor's undeniable warmth and facility for folk/country-tinged pop. By the next summer, Taylor was back in the Top Ten on Columbia, and Greatest Hits was out of date. But it remains a good sampler of Taylor's more popular early work.

William Ruhlmann - All Music Guide



James Taylor's mid-'70s departure from Warner Bros. may be one of the best things that ever happened to the label; otherwise, it might not have been in such a rush to compile his Greatest Hits, one of the company's biggest sellers ever at 11 million and counting. Taylor's style, which all but defines the word diffident, has more backbone than it's often given credit for. Here, as surprisingly complex songs like "Carolina in My Mind" (in a newly recorded version) and "Steamroller" stack up, he sounds like an artist worth spending some time with. At the least, few of his singer-songwriter cohorts came up with a melody as lovely as "Sweet Baby James."

Rickey Wright - Amazon.com



Greatest Hits is singer-songwriter James Taylor's first compilation album. Released on November 1, 1976. To this day, it is the best-selling album of his career. The album featured newly recorded versions of "Carolina in My Mind" and "Something in the Way She Moves", and a previously unavailable live version of "Steamroller". The album did not rise higher than #23 on the Billboard albums chart on its original release. However it became a steady seller for many years, and Greatest Hits has sold over 11,000,000 copies certifying it as a platinum album eleven times over, and a diamond album once (for 10 million copies). In August 2012, the album re-entered the Billboard albums chart at #15, which gave the album a new peak.

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