James Taylor - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

• He provided acoustic guitar accompaniment for several tracks on Joni Mitchell's 1971 album Blue.
• He provided a guest voice to The Simpsons episode "Deep Space Homer" where he played some of his songs to Homer, Buzz Aldrin, and Race Bannon when they were in space. He also appeared later on in the series when the family put together a jigsaw puzzle. His face was the missing final piece.
• Performed "Second Star to the Right" on Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films in 1988.
• Taylor performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Game 2 of the World Series in Boston on October 25, 2007, at Game 1 of the 2008 NBA Finals in Boston on June 5, 2008, and at the NHL's Winter Classic game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins.
• He appeared on Sesame Street performing the song "Your Smiling Face" although the song was sung "Your Grouchy Face" as he sang it to Oscar the Grouch. He also appeared on the Sesame Street video compilation Silly Songs, and the album In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record, performing the song "Jellyman Kelly".
• Has appeared on NBC's Saturday Night Live six times as a musical guest
• He appeared on The West Wing where he played Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come.
• He appeared on the The Johnny Cash Show, singing "Sweet Baby James", "Fire and Rain", and "Country Road", on February 17, 1971.
• His song "Fire and Rain" was in the movie Remember the Titans and the movie " Running on Empty" in 1988 .
• He provided vocals for the song First Me, Second Me by the Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese
• He made his debut for his 24th album Other Covers on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 10, 2009.
• He appeared on the final of Star Académie, the Quebec version of American Idol, on April 13, 2009.
• On May 29, 2009, he made a guest appearance and sang Sweet Baby James on the final episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno before Leno was replaced by Conan O'Brien.
• Taylor appeared briefly in the 2009 movie Funny People, where he played Carolina in My Mind for a MySpace corporate event as the opening act for the main character.
• He appeared in 2011 in the ABC comedy Mr.Sunshine as the ex-husband of the character played by Allison Janney; they exchange some sardonic dialogue and then perform a duet of sorts on Leon Russell's 1970 classic "A Song for You".
• On January 19, 2012 Taylor performed a version of "Carolina in my Mind" with Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."
• He is mentioned in Taylor Swift's single "Begin Again".