＂You've got a Friend＂ By： James Taylor - ＂You've got a Friend＂ By： James Taylor

What this video is

This performance clip documents James Taylor at the apex of his early commercial breakthrough, just months after 'You've Got a Friend' reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — his only chart-topper — and won him the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The song, written by Carole King during the simultaneous January 1971 recording sessions for Tapestry and Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, was inducted into…

Why it matters

A primary document of the early 1970s singer-songwriter movement at its commercial and critical zenith. The BBC In Concert series, as the vehicle, was itself genre-defining — revolutionising how acoustic folk-pop artists were presented on television. Taylor's performance of the Carole King…

The director

Stanley Dorfman created, produced, and directed the BBC In Concert television series, which premiered on BBC Two on 9 October 1970. Known as 'the man the stars really trusted,' Dorfman persuaded artists who would not otherwise appear on television to perform…