Your Smiling Face

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"Your Smiling Face"
File:Your Smiling Face Dutch cover.jpg
Dutch cover
Single by James Taylor
from the album JT
B-side "If I Keep My Heart Out of Sight"
Released September, 1977
Genre Pop
Length 2:30
Label Columbia
Writer(s) James Taylor
Producer(s) Peter Asher
James Taylor singles chronology
"Handy Man"
(1977)		 "Your Smiling Face"
(1977)		 "Honey Don't Leave L.A."
(1977)

"Your Smiling Face" is a hit single by singer James Taylor. First available on the album JT, and released as the disc's sophomore single in September 1977, "Your Smiling Face" peaked #11 in Cash Box magazine and at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 near year's end. It reached #11 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada.[1][2] On Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, it reached #6.[1][3]

Lines like "Isn't it amazing a man like me can feel this way?" reflect Taylor's surprise at his newfound happiness in his relationship with Carly Simon.[4] Rolling Stone Magazine critic Peter Herbst described it as being "unabashedly happy."[5] However, according to Taylor biographer Timothy White, the song was written for Taylor's and Simon's then three-year-old daughter Sally.[6] White described the song as a "pop sonnet."[6] Taylor described it as a "good, light-hearted pop love song."[6] Herbst praises Taylor's vocal for being " a pretty convincing rock singer" on the song.[5]

"Your Smiling Face" was a fixture in Taylor's live shows, but he had to abandon it for a while because he went through a period where he had difficulty reaching the falsetto notes.[6]

Popular culture

Chart performance

References

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