How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) his album "Gorilla" (1975). Taylor's 1975 single has been the most successful remake of the song to date, hitting No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart and No. 5 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. In addition to James Taylor on lead vocals and guitar, other personnel include Carly Simon on harmony vocals, David Sanborn on saxophone, Clarence McDonald on piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano and possibly ARP String Ensemble, Lee Sklar on bass and both Jim Keltner and Russ Kunkel on drums with Kunkel doubling on tambourine. Author Ian Halperin believes that the song was included on "Gorilla"
Sweet Baby James (song) lonely grown-up James singing in the second verse. On the other hand, author James Perrone suggests that the young cowboy James in the first verse as well as the James traveling the Massachusetts Turnpike in the second verse are both the adult James who is singing the song. Perrone notes that the two are linked near the end of the song when Taylor sings that the nighttime dreams of the first stanza cowboy and the dreams of the second stanza traveller "still inspire all who 'take to the highway.'" "Sweet Baby James" was included on Taylor's diamond-selling "Greatest Hits" 1976