I could see a s.a. "joke" if it was his record, but on this record he's sort of just "one of the band."

"Played" the granfalloon would sort of mean he was the leader of the band, maybe(?) if it was meant as a "commentary." Taylor is listed as "guitar" on four other numbers on the album - so it seems a little strange that "guitar and granfalloon" only appears on the 5th.

There's no date anywhere on the Carole King album, or on the record, but it was probably out at about the same time as a couple of James Taylors that SWMBO has - 1968 and 1969. My Cat's Cradle shows Vonnegut's copyright at 1963 (although the one I snatched off the shelf is a Dell "Forty-Seventh printing 1973").

The problem is that I was a serious student and missed almost all of the sixties - and it seems like those who were "there" don't remember much......

John