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James Taylor Greatest Hits (Retail) 1976 HHI

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Artist......: James taylor
Album.......: Greatest hits
Grabber : EAC
Encoder : LAME v3.90.3
Release Date: Nov 1976
Rip Date....: Feb-17-2004
Genre.......: Rock
Quality : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Playtime : 43:48 min
Ripper : Happy Hacker Industries
Supplier : HHI
CD Songs : 12
Label.......: Warner Brothers
Album Info..:

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 Warners 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out of date.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. And,
decades later, it remained the only Taylor compilation in print in the U.S.







Track Listing....:
01.Something in the way she [03:14]
moves
02.Carolina in my mind [04:00]
03.Fire and rain [03:26]
04.Sweet baby james [02:55]
05.Country road [03:26]
06.You've got A friend [04:33]
07.Don't let me be lonely [02:39]
tonight
08.Walking man [03:36]
09.How sweet it is [03:39]
(to be loved by you)
10.Mexico [03:01]
11.Shower the people [04:01]
12.Steamroller [05:18]
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43:48 min
63,0 MB

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