American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, then husband-and-wife duo with James Taylor, recorded a remake of "Mockingbird" in the autumn of 1973, and the track was released as the lead single from Simon's fourth studio album, Hotcakes (1974).

It was Taylor's idea to remake "Mockingbird", which he knew from a live performance by Inez and Charlie Foxx at the Apollo Theater in 1965, and which song Taylor and his sister Kate Taylor had often sung for fun as teenagers.

Simon overcame her fear of live performing to come onstage to sing "Mockingbird" with Taylor during his 1975 tour; the duo also performed "Mockingbird" live at the No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden in September 1979, the performance being recorded for the double LP album No Nukes:

The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future (1979) and the film version No Nukes (1980). In recent years, Taylor has performed "Mockingbird" live with his daughter, Sally Taylor, and Simon has performed the song live with her and Taylor's son Ben Taylor.

Thank you for listening to my cover of it.