Mockingbird - Carly Simon & James Taylor No Nukes Concert “Mockingbird” is a 1963 song written and recorded by Inez and Charlie Foxx, based on the lullaby “Hush, Little Baby”. American singer-songwriters and then husband-and-wife duo Carly Simon and 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