The Best of James Taylor

Tracklist

• 1
  Something in the Way She Moves
  2:26
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Sweet Baby James
  2:53
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Fire and Rain
  3:25
  4.3 ★
• 4
  Country Road (single version)
  3:31
  3.6 ★
• 5
  You’ve Got a Friend
  4:30
  4.4 ★
• 6
  You Can Close Your Eyes
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Long Ago and Far Away
  2:21
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
  2:36
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Walking Man
  3:34
  4.5 ★
• 10
  How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)
  3:36
  3.8 ★
• 11
  Mexico
  2:59
  4.5 ★
• 12
  Shower the People
  4:32
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Golden Moments
  3:31
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Steamroller (live)
  5:06
• 15
  Carolina in My Mind
  3:59
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Handy Man
  3:19
  4.6 ★
• 17
  Your Smiling Face
  2:47
  4.6 ★
• 18
  Up on the Roof
  4:21
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Only a Dream in Rio
  5:02
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Bittersweet
  3:44

More by James Taylor

Sweet Baby James

Sweet Baby James 1970

Before This World

Before This World 2015

The Essential James Taylor

The Essential James Taylor 2013

Original Album Classics

Original Album Classics 2010

Live at the Troubadour

Live at the Troubadour 2010

Other Covers

Other Covers 2009

Release credits

• Andrew Gold
  background vocals [15], reed organ [15]
• Andy Muson
  bass [9]
• Arif Mardin
  conductor [18], strings [18]
• Bill Lazerus
  engineer [2-4]
• Bobby West
  double bass [3]
• Bobbye Hall
  triangle [13]
• Byron Berline
  fiddle [15]
• Carly Simon
  background vocals [10, 12]
• Carole King
  piano [2-3, 7]
• Chris Darrow
  violin [2]
• Clarence McDonald
  Rhodes piano [10, 12], instrument [12], keyboard [16-17], piano [10, 14]
• Dan Dugmore
  pedal steel guitar [15]
• Danny Kortchmar
  acoustic guitar [5], congas [5, 7], electric guitar [10-11, 14, 18], guitar [16-17]
• David Campbell
  conductor [17], strings [17]
• David Crosby
  background vocals [11]
• David Spinozza
  electric guitar [9], producer [9]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [11, 13]
• Gene Orloff
  concertmaster [9], strings [9]
• George Ybara
  assistant [18]
• Graham Nash
  background vocals [11]
• Harry Maslin
  engineer [9], mix [9]
• James Taylor
  acoustic guitar [2-3, 5-7, 9, 11-12, 14-18], background vocals [5, 7, 9, 12, 16-17], electric guitar [11], lead vocals [2-4, 12-18]
• Jim Keltner
  drums (drum set) [10]
• John London
  electric bass guitar [2]
• Joni Mitchell
  background vocals [5, 7]
• Kenny Ascher
  electric piano [9]
• Leah Kunkel
  background vocals [16]
• Lee Herschberg
  engineer [10-11, 14], mix [10-11]
• Leland Sklar
  bass [10-11], bass guitar [5, 7, 12-13, 16-18], electric bass guitar [14-15]
• Lenny Waronker
  producer [10-11, 14]
• Lincoln Clapp
  additional [18], assistant [18]
• Michael O’Reilly
  additional [18], assistant [18]
• Milt Holland
  percussion [11]
• Nick de Caro
  conductor [12-13], organ [12-13], strings [12-13]
• Peter Asher
  cabasa [16], producer [2-8, 14-18], tambourine [16]
• Ralph MacDonald
  percussion [9]
• Red Rhodes
  pedal steel guitar [2]
• Richard Sanford Orshoff
  engineer [5-7]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Robert Appère
  mix [8]
• Russ Kunkel
  cabasa [5], congas [5], drums (drum set) [2-3, 5, 7, 10-12, 14, 16-18], percussion [12, 16-17], shakers [11], tambourine [10]
• Russ Titelman
  producer [10-11, 14]
• Val Garay
  engineer [15], mix [14, 16-18], recording [16-18]
• Victor Feldman
  tubular bells [12], vibraphone [12]
• Waddy Wachtel
  electric guitar [18]
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Issues

• 

  T
  The Best of James Taylor

  CD
  8 April 2003
• T
  The Best of James Taylor

  CD
  2003
• 

  Y
  You’ve Got a Friend: The Best of James Taylor

  CD
  2003
• 

  T
  The Best of James Taylor

  CD
  2003
• Y
  You’ve Got a Friend: The Best of James Taylor

  CD
  2003
• 

  Y
  You’ve Got a Friend: The Best of James Taylor

  CD (pressed by Laser Disc Argentina – 23459)