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Archive-name: music/james-taylor
Last-modified: 1994/01/27
Version: 1.22
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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for alt.music.james-taylor
Version 1.22
January 27, 1994
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Introduction:
This FAQ is an attempt to compile some useful information about James Taylor
and his music. I am by no means an authority on JT, so if you have anything
to add, please send it along.
Updated in this version are a list of JT's duets and songs on other albums,
more information about the Live in Rio recording, more on the Squibnocket
video, some specific info about JT's Saturday Night Live appearances,
and several other tidbits.
Please note the news about the former FTP site below.
If you have any more information to add or find errors, please E-mail:
jrisberg@garnet.acns.fsu.edu <Joel Risberg>
FTP SITE:
The former FTP site at pa.itd.com is no longer available. I'm currently
looking for a new site to post the FAQ, lyrics files, and GIFs. Please
mail me if you can suggest an alternate site.
BIOGRAPHY:
James Vernon Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 12, 1948
His father was the dean of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
medical school.
Brothers: Livingston (born 1950), Alex (1947-1992), and Hugh (b. ?)
Sister: Kate (b. 1949)
JT studied cello before giving it up for the guitar
All the siblings have recorded albums
JT met Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar while in school
JT and Kootch played folk gigs locally
1964 - JT moves to New York
1964 - JT forms a band, The Fabulous Corsairs, with brother Alex
Kootch and Joel O' Brien joined JT to form The Flying Machine
Released one single: "Night Owl" / "Brighten Your Night With My Day"
An album of The Flying Machine's first efforts was released years later
after JT hit it big. It was only released on vinyl.
17-year-old JT spends ten months in McLean Psychiatric Hospital in
Massachusetts
Song "Knocking 'Round the Zoo" on first album was inspired by his stay there
1968 - JT went to England and recorded demos
Introduced to Paul McCartney by Peter Asher and signed to the Beatles' record
label, Apple Records
December, 1968 - "James Taylor" released with little commercial success
1969 - Returns to U.S.
1969 - Enters Austin Riggs, another mental hospital in Massachusetts
1970 - "Sweet Baby James" released on Warner Brothers label, went to top ten
1971 - JT on the cover of Time Magazine, touted as originator of the
"singer/songwriter era".
1971 - Appeared in film "Two Lane Blacktop", which was panned by critics
1972 - Wins Grammy, "Best Pop Male Vocalist"
1972 - Marries Carly Simon -- son Ben from that marriage. Also has a
daughter, Sarah, who is the subject of "Sarah Maria."
1977 - Leaves Warner Brothers for Columbia Records
1982 - Divorces Carly
1986 - Comeback album, "That's Why I'm Here", released
ALBUMS:
"James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine" -- 1967 - Euphoria
Reference #: Z4RS-1335 (vinyl)
Not available on CD
Songs:
Rainy Day Man
Knocking 'Round the Zoo (lead vocal by JT)
Something's Wrong
Night Owl
Brighten Your Night With My Day
Kootch's Song (Danny Kortchmar)
Knocking 'Round the Zoo (lead by Kortchmar)
"James Taylor" -- 1968 - Apple Records
Remastered and re-released on CD and tape by EMI Records in 1991
Reference #: CDP 7975772 (U.S.) / SAPCOR3 (U.K.)
Songs:
Don't Talk Now
Something's Wrong
Knocking 'Round the Zoo
Sunshine Sunshine
Taking It In
Something In the Way She Moves
Carolina In My Mind
Brighten Your Night With My Day
Night Owl (later recorded by Carly Simon)
Rainy Day Man
Circle Round the Sun
The Blues Is Just a Bad Dream
"Sweet Baby James" -- 1970 - Warner Brothers Records
Reference #: 1843-2
Songs:
Sweet Baby James
Lo and Behold
Sunny Skies
Steamroller
Country Road
Oh, Susannah
Fire and Rain
Blossom
Anywhere Like Heaven
Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip On Me
Suite For 20G
"Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon" -- 1971 - Warner Bros.
Reference #: W2 2561
Songs:
Love Has Brought Me Around
You've Got A Friend
Places In My Past
Riding On A Railroad
Soldiers
Mud Slide Slim (with Carole King, Kate Taylor, et al.)
Hey Mister, That's Me Up On The Jukebox
You Can Close Your Eyes
Machine Gun Kelly (with Peter Asher)
Long Ago and Far Away
Let Me Ride (with Kate Taylor)
Highway Song
Isn't It Nice To Be Home Again
"One Man Dog" -- 1972 - Warner Brothers
Reference #: WAR 25933
Songs:
One Man Parade (with Carole King, Abigale Haness, and Carly Simon)
Nobody But You
Chili Dog
Fool For You
Instrumental I
New Tune
Back On the Street Again
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
Woh, Don't You Know (with Alex and Hugh Taylor)
One Morning In May (with Linda Ronstadt)
Instrumental II
Someone
Hymn
Fanfare (with Abigail Haness and Carole King)
Little David
Mescalito (with Carole King and Abigail Haness)
Dance
Jig
"Walking Man" -- 1974 - Warner Brothers
Reference #: WAR 2794
Songs:
Walking Man
Rock 'n' Roll Is Music Now (with Paul and Linda McCartney, Carly
Simon, and Rick Marotta)
Let It All Fall Down (with McCartneys and Simon)
Me and My Guitar (with Peter Asher and Simon)
Daddy's Baby (with Simon)
Ain't No Song (with Simon and Asher)
Hello, Old Friend
Migration
The Promised Land
Fading Away
"Gorilla" -- 1975 - Warner Bros.
Reference #: 2866-2
Songs:
Mexico (with Graham Nash and David Crosby)
Music
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - (with Carly Simon)
Wandering
Gorilla
You Make It Easy
I Was a Fool To Care
Lighthouse (with Nash and Crosby)
Angry Blues
Love Songs
Sarah Maria
"In the Pocket" -- 1976 - Warner Bros.
Reference #: 2912-2
Songs:
Shower the People (with Carly Simon)
A Junkie's Lament (with Art Garfunkel)
Money Machine
Slow Burning Love
Everybody Has the Blues
Daddy's All Gone
Woman's Gotta Have It
Captain Jim's Drunken Dream (with Garfunkel)
Don't Be Sad 'Cause Your Sun Is Down (with Stevie Wonder)
Nothing Like a Hundred Miles (with David Crosby and Graham Nash)
Family Man
Golden Moments
"Greatest Hits" - 1976 - Warner Brothers
Reference #: WAR3113
Songs:
Something In the Way She Moves (re-recording since debut album)
Fire and Rain
Carolina In My Mind (re-recording)
Country Road
You've Got A Friend
Shower the People
Mexico
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
Sweet Baby James
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Walkin' Man
Steamroller Blues (live version)
"JT" -- 1977 - CBS Records
Reference #: CK 34811
Also available in a new edition on a 24K gold CD with 20-bit recording
Reference #: CBS 53787
Songs:
Your Smiling Face
There We Are
Honey Don't Leave L.A.
Another Grey Morning
Bartender's Blues (with Linda Ronstadt)
Secret O' Life
Handyman
I Was Only Telling A Lie
Looking For Love On Broadway
Terra Nova (with Carly Simon)
Traffic Jam
If I Keep My Heart Out Of Sight
"Dad Loves His Work" -- 1978 - CBS
Reference #: CBS 37009
Songs:
Hard Times (with David Lasley and Arnold McCuller)
Her Town Too
Hour That the Morning Comes
I Will Follow (with Lasley and McCuller)
Believe It Or Not
Stand And Fight (with Lasley and McCuller)
Only For Me (with Lasley and McCuller)
Summer's Here
Sugar Trade
London Town (with Lasley and McCuller)
That Lonesome Road (with Peter Asher, Jim Gilstrap, Bernard Ighner,
Lasley, McCuller, and Jennifer Warnes)
"Flag" -- 1979 - CBS
Reference #: CD 36058
Songs:
Company Man (with Graham Nash)
Johnnie Comes Back
Day Tripper
I Will Not Lie For You
Brother Trucker (with Alex Taylor)
Is That the Way You Look?
B. S. U. R. (with Carly Simon)
Rainy Day Man
Millworker
Up On the Roof
Chanson Francaise
Sleep Come Free Me
"That's Why I'm Here" -- 1985 - CBS
Reference #: CK 40052
Songs:
That's Why I'm Here
Song For You Far Away
Only A Dream In Rio
Turn Away
Going Around One More Time
My Romance (only on CD version)
Everyday
Limousine Driver
Only One (with Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, et al.)
Mona
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (with Graham Nash)
That's Why I'm Here (reprise)
"Never Die Young" -- 1988 - CBS
Reference #: CK 40851
Songs:
Never Die Young
T-Bone
Baby Boom Baby
Runaway Boy
Valentine's Day
Sun On the Moon
Sweet Potato Pie
Home By Another Way
Letter In the Mail
First Of May
"New Moon Shine" -- 1991 - Columbia
Reference #: CK 46038
Songs:
Copperline
Down In the Hole
(I've Got To) Stop Thinkin' 'Bout That
Shed a Little Light
The Frozen Man
Slap Leather
Like Everyone She Knows
One More Go Round
Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha
Native Son
Oh Brother
The Water Is Wide
"James Taylor Live" -- 1993 - Columbia
Reference #: C2K 47056
Songs: (all new live versions recorded in concert)
Disc 1:
Sweet Baby James
Traffic Jam
Handy Man
Your Smiling Face
Secret O' Life
Shed a Little Light
Everybody Has the Blues
Steamroller Blues
Mexico
Millworker
Country Road
Fire and Rain
Shower the People
How Sweet It Is
New Hymn
Disc 2:
Walking Man
Riding On A Railroad
Something In the Way She Moves
Sun On the Moon
Up On the Roof
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
She Thinks I Still Care
Copperline
Slap Leather
Only One
You Make It Easy
Carolina In My Mind
I Will Follow
You've Got A Friend
That Lonesome Road
SINGLES:
Carolina In My Mind / Taking It In (3/69)
Something's Wrong (7/69)
Sweet Baby James / Suite For 20-G (4/70)
Fire and Rain / Anywhere Like Heaven (8/70)
Carolina In My Mind / Something's Wrong (11/70)
Country Road / Sunny Skies (1/71)
You've Got A Friend / You Can Close Your Eyes (5/71)
Long Ago and Far Away / Let Me Ride (9/71)
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight (10/72)
One Man Paradise / Hymn (2/73)
Hymn / Fanfare (3/73)
Daddy's Baby / Let It All Fall Down (7/74)
Walkin' Man / Daddy's Baby (8/74)
How Sweet It Is / Sarah Mariah (5/75)
Mexico / Gorilla (8/75)
Shower the People / I Can Dream of You (5/76)
You Make It Easy / Woman's Got To Have It (10/76)
Handy Man (4/77)
NON-U.S. COMPILATIONS:
"Classic Songs" -- 1987 - CBS/WEA (Germany)
Reference #: iMi10985
Songs:
Fire and Rain
Mexico
You've Got a Friend
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Carolina In My Mind
Something In the Way She Moves
Shower the People
Sweet Baby James
That's Why I'm Here
Everyday
Up On the Roof
Your Smiling Face
Her Town Too
Handyman
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
Only a Dream In Rio
"Best Classics" -- ? - ?
Reference #: ?
Songs:
?
"Starbox" -- ? - Alex Imports (Greatest hits collection from Japan)
Reference #: ALE 393
Songs:
?
"Live In Rio" -- ? - Columbia (Brasil)
Reference #: 700060
Songs:
Long Ago and Far Away
Carolina In My Mind
Up on the Roof
You've Got A Friend
Shower the People
Fire and Rain
Mexico
Walking Man
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
Knock on Wood
How Sweet it Is
OTHER WORK:
"A League Of Their Own Soundtrack" -- ? - ?
Reference #: ?
JT sang two songs: "Paper Moon" and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"
"Perfect Love" -- Cohn/JT duet on Cohn's self-titled album
"Mockingbird" duet with then-wife Carly Simon on her album, "Hotcakes," and
also on her Greatest Hits album.
"Song of Long Ago" -- Carole King/JT duet - 1971
"The Water is Wide" -- Karla Bonoff/JT duet - 1979
"Old Blue" -- Sung with violinist Mark O'Connor - 1987
"City Light" -- Duet with brother Livingston on his 1987 album, "Life Is Good"
"Back In the High Life" -- JT sang backup for Steve Winwood on this song
"Second Star To the Right" -- JT sang it on "Stay Awake," a collection of
Disney songs (A&M records number 3918)
OTHER TAYLOR FAMILY ALBUMS:
Alex:
"With Friends and Neighbors" -- 1971
"Dinnertime" -- 1972
"Dancing With the Devil" -- ?
Livingston:
"Livingston Taylor" -- 1970
"Liv" -- 1971
"Over the Rainbow" -- 1973
"Man's Best Friend" -- 1974
"3-Way Mirror -- 1978
"Good Friends" -- ?
"Our Turn to Dance" -- 1993
Kate:
"Sister Kate" -- 1971
"Kate Taylor" -- 1979?
WHERE TO FIND JT's ALBUMS:
All the U.S. albums are available on tape and CD in the U.S.
Most of the CDs, including the non-U.S. ones, are for sale online.
telnet holonet.net and login: cdc
Vinyl albums are harder to find, of course. If you can't find what
you're looking for locally, someone suggested Acoustic Sounds
at 1-800-525-1630
VIDEOS:
"Squibnocket" -- 1993 - ?
Pre-1992 tour covering through "New Moon Shine"
VHS, 65 minutes, stereo
Songs:
Secret Of Life
Wandering
Traffic Jam
(I've Got To) Stop Thinkin' Bout That
You've Got A Friend
Fire and Rain
Sun On the Moon
Frozen Man
Shed a Little Light
Copperline
Sweet Baby James
Country Road
Mexico
Your Smiling Face
You Can Close Your Eyes
(and several interviews)
APPEARANCES:
Many appearances on Saturday Night Live. Some highlights, according to
Ken Kwartler (kmklegal@corp.sgi.com):
Mid-October, 1976: Sang "Shower the People" and "Sweet Baby James"
1979: Sang "Johnnie Comes Back" and "Up On the Roof"
Also played small role in a skit as a ship's crewmember.
100th episode special (1980?): Sang with Paul Simon on "Sunny Skies,"
"Take Me To the Mardi Gras" (a Simon song), and "Cathy's Clown" (made
popular by the Everly Brothers).
others...
November 13, 1993: Sang "Memphis" (written by Chuck Berry, 1959) and "Secret
'O Life."
Several appearances on Sesame Street
Several benefit concerts aired on Public Television (U.S.)
[Anyone have more specific info/dates for these or others?]
TOUR INFORMATION:
I don't have any for now. Anyone have a list of future tour dates?
FAN MAIL:
Try reaching JT through his manager, Peter Asher:
James Taylor
c/o Peter Asher Management
644 North Doheny Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90069
And no, he probably doesn't have an E-mail address, but George
Massenburg, who co-produced and mixed JT's latest live album, does read this
group and has said that JT will eventually hear about it.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
A special thanks to Ken Kwartler (kmklegal@corp.sgi.com), the quintessential
JT guru, Norma Pincus (norma@hpcllmr.cup.hp.com) and others on amj-t
for their help in compiling this FAQ.
Please email any corrections, additions, or suggestions to the address below:
-= Joel Risberg =-
--
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"Me? I'm a fingersmith. I'm a professional fingersmith."
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