"Your Smiling Face" is a hit single by singer James Taylor

James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....

. Released in June 1977 on the album JT

JT (album)

JT is singer-songwriter James Taylor's eighth album, and his first album for Columbia Records. Released in 1977, it contains hit singles in "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face" and was Taylor's highest charting album since Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.This album also contains several Taylor...

, the song peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

. It also reached #6 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

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 chart, #11 on the Canadian Singles Chart

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 and #4 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary Chart.

Popular culture

The song was used in the 1978 film FM

FM (film)

FM is a 1978 directed by John A. Alonzo, and starring Michael Brandon, Eileen Brennan, Alex Karras and Cleavon Little. The screenplay was written by Ezra Sacks.This film was produced by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theaters in 1978....

, starring Michael Brandon

Michael Brandon

Michael Brandon is an American actor who resides in the United Kingdom and United States.-Life and career:Brandon was born Michael Feldman in Brooklyn, New York to Miriam and Sol Feldman...

 and Eileen Brennan

Eileen Brennan

Eileen Brennan is an American actress of film, television, and theater. Brennan is best known for her role as Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the TV adaption and won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy...

 and parodied in the South Park

South Park

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 season 4 episode Fat Camp

Fat camp

A weight loss camp is a term for a type of program where overweight and obese people of all ages go to lose weight. However in common parlance the term "fat camp" is today also often used to refer to residential programs, usually in rural settings, where adults stay to eat nutritious foods,...

 in which Chef teaches Stan, Kyle and Kenny about prostitutes.

Cover versions

• Filipino R&B band Side A also covered the song from their 10th Anniversary live album, Side A Live!: The 10th Anniversary Album released in 1995.