Now you need to do "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" Billy Joel seriously crazy song but SOOOO awesome. Also great workout song and video is his song "Pressure".
No two songs from Billy are the same and regardless of how many times you hear one, it doesn't get old. I was a NYC actor in 1977 when my girlfriend's brother came in all excited to play an album of this"new guy" he discovered playing a club downtown. We were hooked. "For the Longest Time" is full on doo-wop and "River of Dreams" will take you to church. A true artist, Billy Joel's music will live forever.
He’s a national treasure ,, thank you for this great song and reaction. I think, deep down, every American wants NYC to be a great city again. God willing, it will be.
@@katscully which word are you confused about? The letter f which is being shorthanded for a four letter word that TH-cam won't let me post? Or it is the word "that", that is tripping you up? Maybe you are confused by what "noise" is?
Billy Joel had 100 great songs by the time I was in 4th grade in 1980. This channel part of my daily routine, it reminds me of really cool stuff I haven't thought about for decades.
If you want to check out how good a whistler he is, check out "The Stranger." It will amaze you. I,m pretty sure you'll like the message of the song too.
A love letter to New York City - yes, that's exactly what it is. :) BTW, I'm a soon-to-be 63 year old white woman and I think Nas is an incredible talent. Have a good one.
Having grown up in the Bronx in the 70’s, Brooklyn in the 80’s, and now living just across the water in NJ (can see the skyline just around the corner and down the street) I can say that native New Yorker Billy Joel’s “New York State Of Mind”, with his jazzy, bluesy, dramatic delivery is simply THE perfect NYC song. 🗽🗽🗽❤
Billy Joel is a bona fide hit machine - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Piano Man, Only the Good Die Young, Still Rock and Roll, Just the Way You Are, Movin' Out, Always a Woman, Goodnight Saigon, Captain Jack - he'll amaze you with his diversity.
Billy Joel holds the record for the most performances by any artist at Madison Square Garden.According to MSG, Billy Joel has sold out the arena over 100 times, solidifying his status as a musical legend. The record-breaking residency began in January 2014 with Joel playing one show every month at the Manhattan venue for, as he said at the time, “as long as the demand continues.” Every show has sold out since he began. his residency for 10 year coming to an end this July
He came up with the idea for the song while he was on the Hudson River line and was coming home. He basically wrote this song in an hour and a half. He ran home and wrote the entire song
To see his range of styles: “Goodnight Saigon,” “Secens from an Italian Restaurant,” “Miami 2017 (The Lights Went Out on Broadway,” “Allentown,” “She’s Always a Woman,” many others but that’s a great start. To connect this to Piano Man - which you also reacted to: Billy lived in LA for years trying to make it (working gigs in piano bars in the meantime) and this song is in part about his desire to be out of the LA scene and back home in NY. He’s also said the style is very much his tribute to Ray Charles’ music - which really comes through in this performance.
I been to over 200 concerts throughout my life & I have a lot of great memories, great times & have seen some great performances. But I have to say that seeing Billy Joel was absolutely AMAZING!! Definitely 1 of the top 5 & would DEFINITELY go see him again!!
Right after September 11th, there was a national televised fundraiser and Billy sang this. It was so beautiful and emotional. You should check it out. Also check out Billy’s song Goodnight Saigon.
He is an amazing and very sophisticated musician. I was able to go to a concert he did with Elton John and I was so blown away by how jazzy and sophisticated his music was. Just amazing.
Now to understand his new song "Turn the lights back on " you'll understand why all of us die hard Billy fans get so emotional. .... waiting for over 20 years for a new song ! And no he didn't wait to long it was perfect time.....the world needed it ❤
BP moved to NYC at 18 from FL. Sis made mixtape all NYC songs. This was 1st. Always in my heart. Became home! City was awesome early 90’s. Spent few nights per week at jazz clubs! FYI treat- Billy does once a month MSGs concert. Last month was 100th consecutive month. Aired live on TV. You want to see this song with NYers going crazy, you must check it out!!!!
This is why at 75 he still sells out MSG (more than 100 times over the last 10 years!) just doing his hits from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Just released his first new song in more than 20 years.
Paris had been the art capitol of the world, but after WWII, it moved to NYC. You might say Billy is a member first generation of artists in the new capitol. NYC had a strong post-war zietgeist then, and his father being a German Jew escaping the Nazis, came to NYC as a classical pianist. He was born for this music.
I was lucky enough to see Billy live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada twice. Words cannot express how fabulous his shows 😮 were. I think he plays the sax as well. Too much. Thanks for reacting to him 🙏
Wrote the song in 10 minutes. Inspiration on the exact bus trip to his home. My favorite version of this song. It's the same band members today. Think his drummer retired after 35 years.
Not trying to be a dick here but none of the band members here are in Billy's band today, although most did stay for several years starting from around 1976. His bass player here Doug Stegmeyer sadly committed suicide in 1995 having no longer been in Billy's band since 1989, guitarist Russell Javors was no longer part of the band from that same year, saxophonist Richie Canata left in the early 80s and drummer Liberty DeVitto has not been part of Billy's band since 2006. The last three currently play in a band called The Lords of 52nd Street performing Billy's music, with 52nd Street being the name of one of Billy's albums that they all played on. 52nd Street was incidently the very first commercially mass-produced CD.
Billy Joel is from Long Island NY. No matter what part of New York one is from it’s a vibe. I myself was born and raised in NYC. Thank you for reacting to this one and would love to see react to Frank Sinatra’s New York song.❤️🗽
Just noticed up in the back ground !! OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST…With the whispering legend of Bob Harris.. oh what a joy… that is from the U.K. ! That must have been filmed here in the U.K.!
Billy had a Broadway show done about his music and it was combined with a rock ballet choreographed by Twila Tharp. I’ve seen the thing three times live. It’s not on Broadway anymore, but you oughta at least see if you can find it and watch it because it intertwines Billy songs and attaches them to three couples as they’re living their lives, it’s absolutely phenomenal. I know you wouldn’t react to it because you’re not like a movie reaction channel or Broadway reaction channel but off the show is called movin’ out! And it’s out of this world.
Was born in Nyack right outside the city. Love that he also mentions the greyhound up the Hudson River Line, ton of recording studios, performing art centers, Woodstock... music everywhere 😈🤘
Absolute GREATNESS! Please react to GOODNIGHT SIAGNON. Lyrics are Bars and its about Vietnam. He always has disabled vets on stage singing the chorus. Billy is so humble, down to earth and real!!
He has a great song he wrote for his daughter titled "Lullabye" that you might like for your new little one. In it he talks about how his song is a part of him, and how if his daughter sings it to her kids a little piece of him will never die but be carried on forever. Great song by a great artist--it's hard to say which is his best quality--his piano playing, song writing or singing/performing.
He grew up in Hicksville, NY (Long Island) a suburb 30 miles from NYC , I grew up on Long Island too and my father grew up in Hicksville. He loved his hometown and never left until recently. He had other homes in other states, but always came back.
Billy Joel is so smooth he married 5'9 multiple Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, Christy Brinkley. He's amazing! Love your channel, love your reaction! Keep em' coming, I'm here for it. ❤❤
I’m a 52 year old white boy and even I know that Sleep is the cousin of death 😝 I bought Illmatic when it first came out. Nas is a top 3 rapper no question! But if you grew up in NY in 70’s, 80’s or 90’s you were required by law to own Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits.
My favorite Billy Joel moment happened the last time (that Im aware of) he performed at the Grammy's. An artist was going a bit long on a lifetime achievement acceptance speech, so the network went to commercial in the middle of the speech. Mr. Joel was up to perform when they came back from commercial, and he dead stopped in the middle of the song. He sat in silence for minute before saying into the mic "You are wasting valuable advertising time now.". For that Billy Joel will always have my respect.
Nice reaction. This song shows off his playing skills but it also shows off his song writing skill. It's really nice to hear him say he is writing again, can't wait till that first album drops.
Hearing you guys talk about the musical styles in New York just goes right to another Billy Joel song. "...Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk, It's still Rock & Roll to me."
This was from legendary BBC music. Show ..the old grey whistle test...normally band would get to perform 3 songs in an empty studio...for Billy they gave him an hour and a small crowd of about 200
Billy Joel "Miami 2017", "Goodnight Saigon", great songs. He is so popular, he sold out the most consecutive concerts of all time at Madison Square Garden, and still counting.
I saw him in concert in the late 70's. At one point he made the Forum in Inglewood feel like a small jazz club. His ability to create atmosphere is unmatched.
The saxophone player here is Richie Cannata who was a multi-instrumentalist in Billy's band at the time but left in the early 1980s. He is still alive though and is aged 75 and plays in a band called The Lords of 52nd Street. That band is made up of past Billy Joel band members, and 52nd Street is the name of one of Billy's albums and was the first commercially mass-produced CD in 1978. You might be thinking of jazz saxophonist Phil Woods, who died in 2015 and played saxophone on Billy's song Just the Way You Are from his The Stranger album in 1977. Billy started a run of around six albums being produced by Phil Ramone, and he wanted to use Phil Woods for the saxophone part on that song. Richie Cannata had played saxophone on this song New York State of Mind from Billy's album Turnstiles in 1976 and the performance of that song in this video is from 1978, from a BBC programme called The Old Grey Whistle Test and I think perhaps Richie wanted to show what he could do, after having be replaced on the recording of Just the Way You Are.
We love Billy!! Do more of his songs!! We ❤ NY 4-Ever!! NYC is our favorite City to visit!!!❤ btw love your reactions,some of them crack this old woman up!
A classically trained pianist who one day decided to do his own thing and we love him for it! My personal favorites: Allentown and We didn't start the fire.
"The Last Play at Shea" is a must-see documentary - a magical last event at Shea Stadium that is PURE NEW YORK, PURE BILLY JOEL. And yes, New York and NY bands at CBGB's, The Mudd Club, and Max's Kansas City (Ramones, Dead Boys, Blondie, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, New York Dolls, Television...) were hugely influential on the British Punk scene and bands like Sex Pistols and The Clash.
Somewhere along the line from this same concert is amazing. Zanzibar live in 79 scenes from an italian restaurant from live from long island. Live from long island 1982 I believe is his best concert ever. 🍻
He grew up in the same town as I did. His song Scenes From an Italian Restaurant talks about a lot of things in the area. The has the most amazing songbook. He’s a musical treasure.
Billy Joel is one of those singer / songwriter / performers where the answer to "which of his songs are essential?" requires a double album or more. A crazy range of genres, styles, moods -- everything from sappy to snarky, moving to hilarious. Jazz, doo wop, latin, R&B, pop, soul, folk... he has hits in all of those. An American legend. Some awesome corners of his range are "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", "Angry Young Man", "Vienna", "Piano Man", "Rosalinda's Eyes", "Just the Way You Are", "Uptown Girl", "We Didn't Start the Fire", "Goodbye, Saigon", "The Stranger", ...
I was lucky one time in I went to see a cover band with my parents on Long Island and the bands sax player was sick and couldn’t make it. But he knew the sax player who played in the video Richie Cannata Billy Joel’s sax player. It way a beautiful thing to hear that solo in person
Billy Joel is iconic! He's so smooth he was married to 5'9, supermodel, multiple covers of Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model Christy Brinkley. Love you guys! Keep em' coming! ❤🎵👙
Summer Highland Falls live. There's a live performance of him on TH-cam in Germany (quite a while ago) where he interacts with the audience and someone asks him about the origin of the beautiful lyrics. He explains then plays it for them. Summer Highland Falls is one of my favorites of his that almost no one has heard or knows. His explanation of the meaning of the lyrics and his performance are definitely worth a look. Amazing.
My favorite Billy Joel is "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
Me too!!! Oh, and also Vienna Waits For You.... ;-)
I also love that song. Why he didn't do that one with the amazing storytelling is beyond me.
Thats Billy Joel’s favorite song too:)
Live
@@floyd2222 Definitely Vienna!
When Billy performed this at the Concert for 9/11 with a fireman's helmet on his piano....absolutely moving and priceless
I read you comment and had to go back and watch it - amazing...
The perfect song on that night.
YES
I keep saying and saying until you hear me...
." Goodnight Saigon".
YES!
Yes! This will definitely show them another different side to Billy. Bonus is that the official video is also a live performance.
YES!!!!
Yep, Goodnight, Saigon. Especially with your contact with the military.
Omg yes; cannot hear it and not tear up 😢
In this performance, he's channeling Ray Charles, his singing style and mannerisms, as a tribute. If you didn't catch it, go back and watch it again.
I was coming here to say that about him channeling Ray Charles in this. Ray was one of his BIG influences
His oldest daughter is named Alexa Ray Joel after RAY Charles.
And he got to duet with Ray on his song Baby Grand
@@CTX700girlShe is a wonderful musician too
100%. Imitation is the best form of flattery.
Now you need to do "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" Billy Joel seriously crazy song but SOOOO awesome. Also great workout song and video is his song "Pressure".
"JUST THE WAY YOU ARE", one of Billy Joel's finest!
My Wife a Broadway actress says: Billy Joel is show tunes for people that don't like to admit that they like show tunes
There are people who don't like show tunes? The world is a strange place.🤔
No two songs from Billy are the same and regardless of how many times you hear one, it doesn't get old. I was a NYC actor in 1977 when my girlfriend's brother came in all excited to play an album of this"new guy" he discovered playing a club downtown. We were hooked.
"For the Longest Time" is full on doo-wop and "River of Dreams" will take you to church. A true artist, Billy Joel's music will live forever.
He’s a national treasure ,, thank you for this great song and reaction. I think, deep down, every American wants NYC to be a great city again. God willing, it will be.
We need another Guiliani. 👍🙏
@@katscully f that noise.
@@thestonedgeek8928 try again in straight English.
@@katscully which word are you confused about? The letter f which is being shorthanded for a four letter word that TH-cam won't let me post? Or it is the word "that", that is tripping you up? Maybe you are confused by what "noise" is?
Giuliani was a scum bag of a mayor and I hope katscully doesn't live in my great town.
Billy is the goat!! He is so talented, song writing , musicianship and performance. Unbeatable!
You forgot story telling….he’s brilliant.
They don't make music like this anymore. So beautiful !!
They do. You just dont listen to it. Lawrence is a great example. Allan Stone, Leon Bridges, Mayer Hawthorne.
@@iceman10129 thank you, its getting tiring hearing people say this, its definitely out there but you just gotta search for it a little harder now
cuz not enough people will listen to it
I guess you prefer crap wrap
I would also recommend "Vienna" and "Only the Good Die Young. "
Yes!!! 2 of my favourites!!!
This is my fav Billy Joel song by far. So emotive, so jazzy, so real.
Seen Billy Joel at least 10 times over the last 40 years. He is definitely a show man and excellent performer.
Billy Joel has some great songs, you haven't heard those yet, The Stranger album holds many of his greatest.
Billy Joel was my first concert, in 1989. No opening act, just Billy and his band for 3 and a half hours!!!!!!!! Amazing, simply amazing.
That tour was my first concert too. When He came to Melbourne Aus
Billy Joel had 100 great songs by the time I was in 4th grade in 1980. This channel part of my daily routine, it reminds me of really cool stuff I haven't thought about for decades.
that is exactly how I feel
Huge Billy Joel fan and I’m born and raised Southern California. The man is a national treasure to be celebrated and appreciated!
If you want to check out how good a whistler he is, check out "The Stranger." It will amaze you. I,m pretty sure you'll like the message of the song too.
A love letter to New York City - yes, that's exactly what it is. :) BTW, I'm a soon-to-be 63 year old white woman and I think Nas is an incredible talent. Have a good one.
Same. Love love love Nas.
Having grown up in the Bronx in the 70’s, Brooklyn in the 80’s, and now living just across the water in NJ (can see the skyline just around the corner and down the street) I can say that native New Yorker Billy Joel’s “New York State Of Mind”, with his jazzy, bluesy, dramatic delivery is simply THE perfect NYC song. 🗽🗽🗽❤
Much better than that Empire State of Mind knock- off.
Billy Joel’s song “It’s Still Rock N Roll To Me” is about all the influences you talked about.
“Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways…” 👍💐
Hot punk, cool funk even though it's old junk
Billy Joel is a bona fide hit machine - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Piano Man, Only the Good Die Young, Still Rock and Roll, Just the Way You Are, Movin' Out, Always a Woman, Goodnight Saigon, Captain Jack - he'll amaze you with his diversity.
Billy Joel holds the record for the most performances by any artist at Madison Square Garden.According to MSG, Billy Joel has sold out the arena over 100 times, solidifying his status as a musical legend. The record-breaking residency began in January 2014 with Joel playing one show every month at the Manhattan venue for, as he said at the time, “as long as the demand continues.” Every show has sold out since he began. his residency for 10 year coming to an end this July
The last MSG show was tonight. The demand is still there, but I think the band is needing a change.
My man was scatting (improvising) musically on that sax.... Killed it
I heard in an interview that Billy doesn't consider himself a singer but a player. I certainly get that.
Man, that voice, though. ❤
Billy Joel "SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT" ❤❤❤
He came up with the idea for the song while he was on the Hudson River line and was coming home. He basically wrote this song in an hour and a half. He ran home and wrote the entire song
To see his range of styles: “Goodnight Saigon,” “Secens from an Italian Restaurant,” “Miami 2017 (The Lights Went Out on Broadway,” “Allentown,” “She’s Always a Woman,” many others but that’s a great start.
To connect this to Piano Man - which you also reacted to: Billy lived in LA for years trying to make it (working gigs in piano bars in the meantime) and this song is in part about his desire to be out of the LA scene and back home in NY. He’s also said the style is very much his tribute to Ray Charles’ music - which really comes through in this performance.
I been to over 200 concerts throughout my life & I have a lot of great memories, great times & have seen some great performances. But I have to say that seeing Billy Joel was absolutely AMAZING!! Definitely 1 of the top 5 & would DEFINITELY go see him again!!
Right after September 11th, there was a national televised fundraiser and Billy sang this. It was so beautiful and emotional. You should check it out. Also check out Billy’s song Goodnight Saigon.
He is an amazing and very sophisticated musician. I was able to go to a concert he did with Elton John and I was so blown away by how jazzy and sophisticated his music was. Just amazing.
Another amazing one from him is River of dreams. A complete shift in style again 😊
Now to understand his new song "Turn the lights back on " you'll understand why all of us die hard Billy fans get so emotional. .... waiting for over 20 years for a new song ! And no he didn't wait to long it was perfect time.....the world needed it ❤
As a native New Yorker, this is so precious.
Billy is from Long Island. Truly a NY guy. He professed his love for his spot in this song.
BP moved to NYC at 18 from FL. Sis made mixtape all NYC songs. This was 1st. Always in my heart. Became home! City was awesome early 90’s. Spent few nights per week at jazz clubs! FYI treat- Billy does once a month MSGs concert. Last month was 100th consecutive month. Aired live on TV. You want to see this song with NYers going crazy, you must check it out!!!!
This is why at 75 he still sells out MSG (more than 100 times over the last 10 years!) just doing his hits from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Just released his first new song in more than 20 years.
Paris had been the art capitol of the world, but after WWII, it moved to NYC. You might say Billy is a member first generation of artists in the new capitol. NYC had a strong post-war zietgeist then, and his father being a German Jew escaping the Nazis, came to NYC as a classical pianist. He was born for this music.
I was lucky enough to see Billy live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada twice. Words cannot express how fabulous his shows 😮 were. I think he plays the sax as well. Too much. Thanks for reacting to him 🙏
Wrote the song in 10 minutes. Inspiration on the exact bus trip to his home. My favorite version of this song. It's the same band members today. Think his drummer retired after 35 years.
Not trying to be a dick here but none of the band members here are in Billy's band today, although most did stay for several years starting from around 1976.
His bass player here Doug Stegmeyer sadly committed suicide in 1995 having no longer been in Billy's band since 1989, guitarist Russell Javors was no longer part of the band from that same year, saxophonist Richie Canata left in the early 80s and drummer Liberty DeVitto has not been part of Billy's band since 2006.
The last three currently play in a band called The Lords of 52nd Street performing Billy's music, with 52nd Street being the name of one of Billy's albums that they all played on. 52nd Street was incidently the very first commercially mass-produced CD.
Another good one is Scenes from an Italian restaurant or his duet with Ray Charles Baby Grand
Billy Joel - Pressure - Only the Good Die Young - Moving Out - My Life
Billy Joel has always kept his home in NY his whole career!❤️
Keep the Billy Joel reactions coming BP.😊
you guys have no idea how excited i get when i see a new Billy Joel reaction come up on my feed! lol
"She's got a way" is a great Billy Joel song. He has so many it us amazing.
Billy Joel is from Long Island NY. No matter what part of New York one is from it’s a vibe. I myself was born and raised in NYC. Thank you for reacting to this one and would love to see react to Frank Sinatra’s New York song.❤️🗽
Here is the totality of inspiration Nas got from this song, the title, that's all. The words, tune, feel, genre, sentiment, vibe. All different.
Just noticed up in the back ground !! OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST…With the whispering legend of Bob Harris.. oh what a joy… that is from the U.K. ! That must have been filmed here in the U.K.!
The Downeaster Alexa is an overlooked masterpiece. You likely wont see someone else recommending it, but it’s an unmissable song.
I agree. Have to say, though, that “And So It Goes” is my absolute favorite!
Dude! You see he is paying tribute to Ray Charles, that’s why he uses that big dark glasses . Do “ Baby Grand” a duet with Ray. You’ll love it .
I was born in Brooklyn.
Billy Joel so nailed it.
For the Ages.
Would love to see a reaction to Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) - one of my personal favorites of Billy Joel's
Billy had a Broadway show done about his music and it was combined with a rock ballet choreographed by Twila Tharp. I’ve seen the thing three times live. It’s not on Broadway anymore, but you oughta at least see if you can find it and watch it because it intertwines Billy songs and attaches them to three couples as they’re living their lives, it’s absolutely phenomenal. I know you wouldn’t react to it because you’re not like a movie reaction channel or Broadway reaction channel but off the show is called movin’ out! And it’s out of this world.
Was born in Nyack right outside the city. Love that he also mentions the greyhound up the Hudson River Line, ton of recording studios, performing art centers, Woodstock... music everywhere 😈🤘
Absolute GREATNESS! Please react to GOODNIGHT SIAGNON. Lyrics are Bars and its about Vietnam. He always has disabled vets on stage singing the chorus. Billy is so humble, down to earth and real!!
Love Billy Joel! His 52nd Street was the first and last album I ever heard that I still listen to every single song.
You should give Turnstiles and The Stranger a listen, if you have not already.
@@seanscanlon9067 Yup!! Been a fan for 40 years! The Stranger is my husband's favorite
This song always brings me home. No matter where you go, home is always home.
Obviously, this is a Tribute to his home town N.Y. But he always said Ray Charles had a HUGE influence on him. I saw Ray Charles in this one.
100%
He has a great song he wrote for his daughter titled "Lullabye" that you might like for your new little one. In it he talks about how his song is a part of him, and how if his daughter sings it to her kids a little piece of him will never die but be carried on forever. Great song by a great artist--it's hard to say which is his best quality--his piano playing, song writing or singing/performing.
And of course Downeaster Alexa. His boat was named Alexa after his daughter with Christie Brinkley.
I’m a NYer who first saw Billy Joel in 1976. His music was the soundtrack of our college years. Listen to You’re My Home to hear his romantic side
If you really want to see Billy go crazy on the piano you need to listen to his song Angry Young Man!
Root Beer Rag
favorite billy joel song.did a great performance of it at the concert for new york after the 9/11 attacks
He grew up in Hicksville, NY (Long Island) a suburb 30 miles from NYC , I grew up on Long Island too and my father grew up in Hicksville. He loved his hometown and never left until recently. He had other homes in other states, but always came back.
He is truly the Piano Man. Loved your reaction! ❤❤❤
Billy Joel is so smooth he married 5'9 multiple Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, Christy Brinkley. He's amazing! Love your channel, love your reaction! Keep em' coming, I'm here for it. ❤❤
I’m a 52 year old white boy and even I know that Sleep is the cousin of death 😝 I bought Illmatic when it first came out. Nas is a top 3 rapper no question! But if you grew up in NY in 70’s, 80’s or 90’s you were required by law to own Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits.
I agree with the poster who suggests Good Night Saigon; for another song in the vein on New York State of Mind, try Summer, Highland Falls.
My favorite Billy Joel moment happened the last time (that Im aware of) he performed at the Grammy's. An artist was going a bit long on a lifetime achievement acceptance speech, so the network went to commercial in the middle of the speech. Mr. Joel was up to perform when they came back from commercial, and he dead stopped in the middle of the song. He sat in silence for minute before saying into the mic "You are wasting valuable advertising time now.". For that Billy Joel will always have my respect.
This is my fav Billy Joel song, but I’m definitely biased because NYC is my hometown ♥️
He sang this at the 911 fundraising concert. We were all a mess.
Very much so.
Nice reaction. This song shows off his playing skills but it also shows off his song writing skill. It's really nice to hear him say he is writing again, can't wait till that first album drops.
Hearing you guys talk about the musical styles in New York just goes right to another Billy Joel song. "...Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk, It's still Rock & Roll to me."
One of Richie Canata's best sax solos. In his 70's and still plays like that. He's been unwell and would prob love the italian food reference!
The Entertainer & Scenes from an Italian Restaurant are my faves
This was from legendary BBC music. Show ..the old grey whistle test...normally band would get to perform 3 songs in an empty studio...for Billy they gave him an hour and a small crowd of about 200
Billy Joel "Miami 2017", "Goodnight Saigon", great songs. He is so popular, he sold out the most consecutive concerts of all time at Madison Square Garden, and still counting.
Listen to Scenes of an Italian Restaurant.
River of Dreams is an absolute must. It is another whole vibe of its own!
YES !!! Music in perfection ❤! I would love Vienna, not only because I am from Austria 😊
He’s a musical thesaurus…sprinkled with magic 🤍🏴
The Hudson River Line goes along the Hudson River. It's beautiful, country, trees, ocean, lakes, etc.
I saw him in concert in the late 70's. At one point he made the Forum in Inglewood feel like a small jazz club. His ability to create atmosphere is unmatched.
AND Billy wrote this, and most of his songs. Something so much better in the performance when they are singing their own words
In this one Billy gives me a Ray Charles feel and sound. I believe that the Sax player is the one that just passed.
The saxophone player here is Richie Cannata who was a multi-instrumentalist in Billy's band at the time but left in the early 1980s. He is still alive though and is aged 75 and plays in a band called The Lords of 52nd Street. That band is made up of past Billy Joel band members, and 52nd Street is the name of one of Billy's albums and was the first commercially mass-produced CD in 1978.
You might be thinking of jazz saxophonist Phil Woods, who died in 2015 and played saxophone on Billy's song Just the Way You Are from his The Stranger album in 1977. Billy started a run of around six albums being produced by Phil Ramone, and he wanted to use Phil Woods for the saxophone part on that song.
Richie Cannata had played saxophone on this song New York State of Mind from Billy's album Turnstiles in 1976 and the performance of that song in this video is from 1978, from a BBC programme called The Old Grey Whistle Test and I think perhaps Richie wanted to show what he could do, after having be replaced on the recording of Just the Way You Are.
@@seanscanlon9067 Thanks for the correction.
All Time Bad Boy of Piano. Thanks for this.
As a performer @Black Pegasus I think you would love Billy Joel’s “The Entertainer”
We love Billy!! Do more of his songs!! We ❤ NY 4-Ever!! NYC is our favorite City to visit!!!❤ btw love your reactions,some of them crack this old woman up!
A classically trained pianist who one day decided to do his own thing and we love him for it! My personal favorites: Allentown and We didn't start the fire.
Billy Joel predicted the future in the 1970s with his song “Miami 2017”. Missed it by 3 years.
Incredible song! Billy has a ton of huge hits and albums with music that may not have hit big but still are incredible.
You’re my Home is one of my favs. Takes me back to high school and road trips.
"The Last Play at Shea" is a must-see documentary - a magical last event at Shea Stadium that is PURE NEW YORK, PURE BILLY JOEL.
And yes, New York and NY bands at CBGB's, The Mudd Club, and Max's Kansas City (Ramones, Dead Boys, Blondie, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, New York Dolls, Television...) were hugely influential on the British Punk scene and bands like Sex Pistols and The Clash.
Somewhere along the line from this same concert is amazing. Zanzibar live in 79 scenes from an italian restaurant from live from long island. Live from long island 1982 I believe is his best concert ever. 🍻
He grew up in the same town as I did. His song Scenes From an Italian Restaurant talks about a lot of things in the area. The has the most amazing songbook. He’s a musical treasure.
Billy Joel is one of those singer / songwriter / performers where the answer to "which of his songs are essential?" requires a double album or more. A crazy range of genres, styles, moods -- everything from sappy to snarky, moving to hilarious. Jazz, doo wop, latin, R&B, pop, soul, folk... he has hits in all of those. An American legend. Some awesome corners of his range are "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", "Angry Young Man", "Vienna", "Piano Man", "Rosalinda's Eyes", "Just the Way You Are", "Uptown Girl", "We Didn't Start the Fire", "Goodbye, Saigon", "The Stranger", ...
I was lucky one time in I went to see a cover band with my parents on Long Island and the bands sax player was sick and couldn’t make it. But he knew the sax player who played in the video Richie Cannata Billy Joel’s sax player. It way a beautiful thing to hear that solo in person
Billy Joel is iconic! He's so smooth he was married to 5'9, supermodel, multiple covers of Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model Christy Brinkley. Love you guys! Keep em' coming! ❤🎵👙
Summer Highland Falls live. There's a live performance of him on TH-cam in Germany (quite a while ago) where he interacts with the audience and someone asks him about the origin of the beautiful lyrics. He explains then plays it for them. Summer Highland Falls is one of my favorites of his that almost no one has heard or knows. His explanation of the meaning of the lyrics and his performance are definitely worth a look. Amazing.
I love it , too!
Get chills every time at the end
Saw Billy 4 times in the 70s. Saw YES 36 times in FORTY years. Roundabout off the Fragile album