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 ‎– James Taylor's Greatest Hits Label:  ‎– K 56309,  ‎– K56309 Format: , LP, Compilation 
Country: Released: Genre: Style: Tracklist A1Something In The Way She Moves3:07A2Carolina In My Mind3:57A3Fire And Rain3:20A4Sweet Baby James2:48A5Country Road3:21A6You've Got A Friend4:29B1Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight2:34B2Walking Man3:30B3How Sweet It Is3:30B4Mexico2:44B5Shower The People3:52B6Steamroller5:19 Notes This version: LP sides are titled One/Two - unlike other UK version with sides titled 1/2 

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Review by William Ruhlmann 

 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 , was on Elektra Records, part of the Warner 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 '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 '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 's undeniable warmth and facility for folk/country-tinged pop. By the next summer,  was back in the Top Ten on Columbia, and  was out of date. But it remains a good sampler of 's more popular early work.

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