In 1978, Art Garfunkel recorded the song at a slow tempo, with Paul Simon and James Taylor alternating as lead and backing vocalists. This reached number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 15 on the Cash Box Top 100. The Garfunkel version also became a number-one US Adult Contemporary hit for five […]
JT is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor. It was released on June 22, 1977 via Columbia Records, making it his first album released for the label. Recording session took place from March 15 to April 24, 1977 at The Sound Factory in Los Angeles with Val Garay. Production was handled by […]
“Honey Don’t Leave L.A.” is a song written by Danny Kortchmar. It was first recorded by Attitudes, a band consisting of Kortchmar, Paul Stallworth, Jim Keltner and David Foster, who met while backing George Harrison on his album Extra Texture (Read All About It). It was released on Attitudes’ self-titled debut album in 1976. It […]
“Your Smiling Face” is a hit single by singer James Taylor. First available on the album JT, and released as the album’s sophomore single in September 1977, “Your Smiling Face” peaked at number 11 in Cash Box magazine and at 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 near year’s end. It reached number 11 on the […]
“Handy Man” is a song written by singer Jimmy Jones and songwriter Otis Blackwell. Recordings by Del Shannon and also The Sparks Of Rhythm list Charles Merenstein as a co-writer, as does BMI. The Sparks Of Rhythm version on the Apollo 541 single version released in 1959 credits Andrew Barksdale and Merenstein as writers omitting […]
Randy Newman’s Faust is a 1995 musical by American musician and songwriter Randy Newman, who based the work on the classic story of Faust, borrowing elements from the version by Goethe, as well as Milton’s Paradise Lost, but updating the story to the modern day, and infusing it with humorous cynicism. In this retelling, God […]
Never Die Young is singer-songwriter James Taylor‘s twelfth studio album. It was released in 1988, three years after his previous effort, That’s Why I’m Here. The album reached No. 25 on the Billboard 200 and eventually was certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 80 on the […]
“Never Die Young” is the title track from James Taylor‘s 1988 album Never Die Young. It peakes at #80 on the US Billboard Charts.
Libby Titus is an ablum by Libby Titus, released in 1977 on Columbia. Elizabeth “Libby” Titus (born July 6, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and concert producer. Tracks 1 Fool That I Am (Al Kooper; Libby Titus) 03:49 2 Kansas City (Jerry Leiber; Mike Stoller) 03:29 3 Can This Be My Love Affair […]
Kate Taylor is the second studio album by singer Kate Taylor, released May 4, 1978. The album included Taylor’s solo chart single: her version of “It’s in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)”, recorded in August 1977 to peak at number 49 that autumn; the Kate Taylor album also introduced the singer’s remakes of “A […]