CD TAYLOR, JAMES ~ GREATEST HITS

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Sony Music Distribution (USA) ( September 02, 2002 ), Genre: Rock & Pop

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Personnel: Taylor Dayne (vocals); Bob Cadway, Chuck Loeb, Tommy Byrnes, Michael Landau (guitar); Richie Cannata, Joel Peskin (saxophone); Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Bill Reichenbach (trumpet); David Foster (piano); Rich Tancredi (keyboards, percussion, drum programming); Steve Skinner, Jere McAllister, David Cole (keyboards); Shep Pettibone, Tony Shimkin (keyboards, programming); Donald Gladstone, Kevin Jenkins, Neil Stubenhaus (bass); Joe Franco (drums); Robert Clivilles (drums, percussion); Frank Desaro (tom, cymbal); Babe Pace (hi-hat); Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Ric Wake (percussion, programming); Ricky Crespo, James T. Alfonso (programming); Casey Warner, Shelly Peiken, Michael L. Gray, Billy T. Scott, Jamillah Muhammad, Ricky Nelson, Gloria Weems, Kathy Toccoli, Warren Wiebe, Audrey Wheeler, Cindy Mizelle, Paulette McWilliams (background vocals).Producers: Shep Pettibone (tracks 1, 12, 14); Ric Wake (tracks 2-3, 5-10, 13); Robert Clivilles, David Cole (track 4); Humberto Gatica (track 11).Engineers: P. D

Release Date: 2011-03-30, Audio CD, Hip-O (UC)

Release Date: 2011-03-30, Audio CD, Hip-O (UC)

First signed to The Beatles Apple label, gifted American troubadour James Taylor released his eponymous debut album in 1969. Back in the states in 1970, he delivered Sweet Baby James as his Warner Bros. label debut. Throughout the 70s he continued to build his reputation as one of pop s most beloved and influential recording artists, following up with multimillion-sellers like Mud Slide Slim and The Blue Horizon, One Man Dog, Walking Man, Gorilla, In The Pocket, and his first Greatest Hits album chronicling his Warner Bros. output, which has since sold more than 12 million copies. After switching to Columbia Records in 1977, Taylor s hit streak continues to this day. He has 4 Grammys under his belt, as well as inductions into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1998 he was honored with the Billboard Century Award. Now, as his career is once again on the upswing thanks to his latest platinum two-time Grammy-nominated October Road CD, the timing is perfect to renew the love affair America has had with his early work - with THE BEST OF JAMES TAYLOR.

The gospel-tinged and decidedly soul-inflected 1963-1968 blues sides of Little Johnny Taylor on Galaxy Records benefitted from marvelous horn-powered arrangements by Ray Shanklin that brilliantly pushed Taylor's melismatic vocals. Naturally, the impassioned "Part Time Love" is included, along with the Bobby Bland-tinged mid-tempo groover "You'll Need Another Favor, " a delicious "Since I Found a New Love, " and the blistering "You Win, I Lose." Seventeen tracks in all, many of them bolstered by Arthur Wright's stinging guitar. ~ Bill Dahl

The gospel-tinged and decidedly soul-inflected 1963-1968 blues sides of Little Johnny Taylor on Galaxy Records benefitted from marvelous horn-powered arrangements by Ray Shanklin that brilliantly pushed Taylor's melismatic vocals. Naturally, the impassioned "Part Time Love" is included, along with the Bobby Bland-tinged mid-tempo groover "You'll Need Another Favor, " a delicious "Since I Found a New Love, " and the blistering "You Win, I Lose." Seventeen tracks in all, many of them bolstered by Arthur Wright's stinging guitar. ~ Bill Dahl