Taylor, James -and The Original Flying Machine-
1967
This album holds the recordings by American singer-songwriter James Taylors band The Flying Machine. The original issue of this album wasnt published until 1971 following the success of James Taylors solo career. "We first knew Kootch and Joel. It was the winter of 66. They were in a group called the "King Bees" and we were all working on a rock film that for good reason never escaped. During that time Kootch kept telling us about his friend James and that they were planning to start a new group. After the film was completed, the group (Kootch, James, Joel and another friend) came up to our office at 1650 Broadway and played us some songs that James had written. Somewhere between the Night Owl (thats the place in the village where they were working) and 1650 we made plans to make some records. There were the usual hassles in getting things going but we finally got into the studio and did some work. Night Owl was released as a single and made some noise. Next thing we knew James was going off somewhere to get himself together. After a while the Apple album was released and then another. But this is where it all started...