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{{Infobox album
| name = Kate Taylor
| type = Album
| artist = [[Kate Taylor]]
| cover = Kate Taylor Self Titled Album Cover.jpeg
| alt =
| released = May 4, 1978
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Rock
| length =
| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| producer = [[James Taylor]]
| prev_title = [[Sister Kate (album)|Sister Kate]]
| prev_year = 1971
| next_title = [[It's in There]]
| next_year = 1979
}}

'''''Kate Taylor''''' is the second studio album by singer [[Kate Taylor]], released May 4, 1978. The album included Taylor's sole chart single: her version of "[[The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)|It's in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)]]", recorded in August 1977 to peak at number 49 that autumn; the ''Kate Taylor'' album also introduced the singer's remakes of "[[A Fool in Love]]", "[[It's Growing|It's Growin']]" and "Stubborn Kind of Woman" (originally "[[Stubborn Kind of Fellow]]"); the track "It's Growin'" was issued as a single in July 1978. The album's other tracks included the debut versions of two [[James Taylor]] compositions: "Happy Birthday Sweet Darling" and "Slow and Steady", and also Kate Taylor's rendition of "Rodeo", composed by her brother [[Livingston Taylor]] for his 1973 album ''[[Over the Rainbow (Livingston Taylor album)|Over the Rainbow]]''. ''Kate Taylor'' also included the [[A-side and B-side|B-side]] of "It's in His Kiss": the self-penned "Jason & Ida", and introduced "Tiah's Cove" — written by Kate Taylor's husband Charlie Witham – and also the Walter Robinson composition "[[Harriet Tubman]]": the latter is described by James Taylor biographer [[Timothy White (editor)|Timothy White]] as "a searing latterday [[spiritual (music)|spiritual]]" which is "the highpoint of Kate's exceptional eleven song set."<ref>{{cite book|last=White| first=Timothy| title=Long Ago And Far Away: James Taylor – His Life And Music|url=https://archive.org/details/jamestaylor00timo|url-access=registration| year=2001| publisher=Omnibus Press| location=London| ISBN=978-0-85712-006-9}}</ref><ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |title=Kate Taylor - Kate Taylor |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/kate-taylor-mw0000555945 |website=AllMusic |access-date=13 September 2021}}</ref>

==Track listing==
# "[[A Fool in Love]]" — ([[Ike Turner]])
# "Smuggler's Song" — (Clay Jackson, Ethan Singer)
# "Harriet Tubman" — (Walter Robinson)
# "Stubborn Kind of Woman" — ([[Marvin Gaye]], [[William "Mickey" Stevenson]], George Gordy)
# "Happy Birthday Sweet Darling" — ([[James Taylor]])
# "[[It's in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)|It's in His Kiss]]" — ([[Rudy Clark]])
# "Slow and Steady" — (James Taylor, Zach Wiesner)
# "[[It's Growing|It's Growin']]" — ([[Warren "Pete" Moore]], [[Smokey Robinson]])
# "Tiah's Cove" — (Charlie Witham)
# "Rodeo" — ([[Livingston Taylor]])
# "Jason & Ida" — (Duane Giesemann, Kate Taylor)

==Personnel==
* Kate Taylor – vocals
* [[Ken Ascher|Kenny Ascher]], [[Ken Bichel|Kenneth Bichel]], [[Richard Tee]] — piano
* [[Rubens Bassini]], Errol "Crusher" Bennett, [[Ralph MacDonald]] — percussion
* [[Randy Brecker]] — trumpet, tenor saxophone
* [[Don Brooks]] — harmonica
* [[Ron Carter]], [[Will Lee (bassist)|Will Lee]], [[Tony Levin]] — bass guitar
* [[Ronnie Cuber]] — baritone saxophone
* [[Jessy Dixon]] — backing vocals
* [[Cornell Dupree]], Onnie McIntyre, Jeff Mironov — guitar
* [[Steve Ferrone]], [[Steve Gadd]], Gary Mure — drums
* [[Don Grolnick]] — organ, piano
* John Hall – backing vocals
* Elsa Harris – backing vocals
* Bingo Hodges – backing vocals
* [[Arif Mardin]] — strings, arranger
* [[Lou Marini]], [[David Tofani]] — tenor saxophone
* [[Alan Rubin]] — trumpet
* [[David Sanborn]] — alto saxophone
* [[Carly Simon]] — backing vocals
* [[David Spinozza]] — guitar, horn
* [[Alex Taylor (musician)|Alex Taylor]] — backing vocals
* David Taylor – trombone
* [[James Taylor]] — guitar, arranger, horn, backing vocals

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