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This is the title track to Taylor's fifth album, released in 1974. Walking Man didn't contain any hits, but Taylor still made the charts that year with a cover of " Mockingbird ," his duet with wife Carly Simon that hit #5 US. More songs from James Taylor. More songs about a mother or father.
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Nov 18, 2015 · November 18, 2015 5:56 pm ET. In an interview with USA TODAY, Carly Simon finally revealed the answer to the biggest mystery in music: Who is the subject of her 1972 ultimate musical-burn,...
Carly Simon – backing vocals (2-6) Peter Asher – backing vocals (4, 6) Production. Producer – David Spinozza; Engineered and Mixed by Harry Maslin; Assistant Engineers – Blaise Castellano and David Henson; Design – Rod Dyer; Photography – Richard Avedon; Charts
- January 1974–April 1974
- David Spinozza
- June 1974
- Simon was a mascot of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Simon was the daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster, and she grew up splitting her time between a Greenwich Village townhouse and a rambling estate in Stamford, Connecticut, surrounded by celebrity guests such as Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Addams.
- She blew her inheritance on therapy. The Simon household wasn’t all glamour — the house was full of secret sexual assignations, some of which the adult Carly Simonis clearly still trying to unravel.
- She made a transatlantic crossing with Sean Connery. Simon’s first musical success came with the Simon Sisters, a singing duo with her older sister Lucy.
- Bob Dylan tried to recruit her. In 1966, the day before Simon turned 21, Bob Dylan called her up, encouraging her to sign up with Grosscourt, the management company that handled him.
Album Credits. Producers David Spinozza. Writers Chuck Berry, David Spinozza, James Taylor & 1 more. Acoustic Guitar James Taylor. Background Vocals Carly Simon, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney...
Check out our album review of Artist's Walking Man on Rolling Stone.com. ... And “Daddy’s Baby,” on which Carly Simon sings backup, is a touching acoustic lullaby to their infant daughter ...
