 Taylor won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("You've Got A Friend").
 Taylor hit the
Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By
You)."
from the LP Gorilla
Billboard
chart run: 20 - 17 - 15 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 5 -
5 - 16 - 29 - off
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Year-End Chart
Position: # 68
 Taylor won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Handy Man").
Taylor was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Up On The Roof").
 Taylor hit the Top 40 with J.D.
Souther on "Her Town Too."
from the LP Dad
Loves His Work
ARC chart run: 29 - 23 - 20 - 16 - 9 - 7 - 7 - 18 - 30 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 95
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 Taylor hit the Top 10 with J.D.
Souther on "Her Town Too."
Taylor won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Album (Hour
Glass).
 Ranked # 65 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 59 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
Taylor could be heard on the
compilation, Elton
John And Tim Rice's Aida, with "How I Know
You."
 Taylor could be heard
on Sting's LP Brand
New Day.
VH1: 100
Greatest Rock Songs included Taylor's
"Fire And Rain" at # 80.
Taylor was inducted into the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
 Taylor could be heard
on Mark Knopfler's LP Sailing
To Philadelphia.
VH1: 100
Greatest Albums includes Sweet Baby
James (1970)
at # 77.
 Taylor won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"
from Michael Brecker's The
Nearness Of You).
Taylor was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("October Road").
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included Sweet Baby
James (1970) at # 103.
Tracks: "Sweet Baby
James" - "Lo And Behold" -
"Sunny Skies" - "Steamroller
Blues" - "Country Road" -
"Oh, Susannah" - "Fire And
Rain" - "Blossom" -
"Anywhere Like Heaven" - "Oh
Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lips On Me" -
"Suite For 20 G"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
also available on vinyl
 Taylor won a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("How's The
World Treating You" with Alison
Krauss from the Livin',
Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers compilation).
Rolling Stone:
The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of
All Time included Taylor at # 84.
Taylor could be heard on Ray Charles' LP Genius
Loves Company.
 The
Best Of James Taylor was certified
platinum.
Taylor could be heard on the Hurricane
Ground Hurricane Benefit Relief Concert compilation with
"Never Die Young."
 Taylor could be heard on Tony Bennett's LP Duets:
American Classic on the track "Put
On A Happy Face."
Taylor released the holiday LP James
Taylor At Christmas.
James
Taylor At Christmas was certified gold.
Taylor could be heard on the
tribute LP A
Tribute To Joni Mitchell with the
track "River."
 Taylor released the CD/DVD One
Man Band (Billboard peak: # 17 - Rolling Stone:  ).
Taylor was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (James
Taylor At Christmas).
 One
Man Band was certified gold.
Taylor released Covers (Billboard peak: # 4 - Rolling Stone: ).
 Rolling Stone:
'The Greatest Singers' includes Taylor at # 74.
Taylor was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Witchita Lineman") and Best Pop Vocal Album (Covers).
 Taylor released Other
Covers (Billboard peak: # 122).
Taylor and Carole King
released the CD/DVD Live
At The Troubadour.
 James released the holiday LP James
Taylor At Christmas.
The
Essential James Taylor was released.
 September 2: Taylor released Letter.
Tracks:
"Everyday" - "The
Letter" - "You're The One I
Love" - "Rainy Day Man" -
"Knocking 'Round The Zoo" -
"Something's Wrong" -
"Night Owl" - "Brighten
Your Night With My Day" -
"Kootch's Song"
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