James Taylor-Greatest Hits-(Retail)-1976-HHI

| 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..: |

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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 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|out of date.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. |

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| 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