Name: James Taylor Shares His Top Five James Taylor Songs, And Teases Taking "Fire and Rain" To Broadway
Uploaded: 2026-02-07T17:19:42.000Z
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Folks, you know my guest tonight is a six time Grammy award winning musical legend who is in the songwriters and rock and roll halls of fame.

Please welcome back to the late show our friend and yours, Mr. James Taylor.

Last year it was announced that your songs inspired a musical called Fire and Rain that is being written by Tracy Letts, that's doing the book.

And I that fantastic, big fan of Tracy's, big fan of yours.

I feel as though I stepped into this world at the very top possible level.

A friend of mine, Gail Berman, who's a producer and an agent in Los Angeles, called up and sort of floated the idea and you know, she's fantastic.

And Tracy and our director, David Cromer.

I mean, it's like it's a dream team really.

So I just feel, you know, I'm just waiting for, for the, for the whole thing to fall to pieces and I wake up.

You know, the, the trajectory for these things is really quite, quite long sometimes.

No, I don't think I've got quite that much time.

typically I'm told it can be from the time somebody first hatches the idea to when it actually opens on Broadway.

You know, we got the Springsteen biopic, we got Dylan, we got Elvis a couple years ago.

I listened to your audible sort of memoir.

I will tell you why there is no James Taylor biopic yet.

Yeah, I mean, I did that audible piece and that was the first 21 years, which was, you know, basically nobody could really check it because there's no proving or disproving any of it.

And most of the people involved are or don't care anymore.

But once you get, once I get past 1970, basically, yeah.

I Start running into trouble if I, you know, those people are still walking around.

Yes, there's a paper trail, but at the very least, how about this?

Wouldn't you want to see somebody portray you?

If you could pick the actor, you know, who's gonna, you know, Jeremy White play Springsteen.

Timothy Chalamet did Dylan, you know, you know, Austin Butler did Elvis.

No, I. I think maybe like, Mo from the Three Stooges could do.

Various musicians this question before about their own work.

What are James Taylor's top five James Taylor songs?

They told me you were going to ask that question.

They're not supposed to tell you, but I get.

You know, Paul McCartney got in touch with me at one point.

You asked this question of Paul, too, didn't you?

And he commented on a song that I had written, said he really liked it, that he bought the album because of it.

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