Sweet Baby James (song)
| "Sweet Baby James" | ||||
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| Single by James Taylor | ||||
| from the album Sweet Baby James | ||||
| B-side | "Suite for 20 G" | |||
| Released | April 1970 | |||
| Recorded | December 1969 at Sunset Sound | |||
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| Length | 2:54 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | James Taylor | |||
| Producer(s) | Peter Asher | |||
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"Sweet Baby James" is a song written and recorded by James Taylor that serves as the opening and title track from his 1970 breakthrough album Sweet Baby James. It was released as the first single from the album but did not chart. Nonetheless, it is one of his best-known and most popular tunes. Taylor considers it his best song.
"Sweet Baby James" was included on Taylor's diamond-selling Greatest Hits 1976 compilation.