He can make any subject a hit! BILLY JOEL - The entertainer REACTION - first time hearing
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BILLY JOEL - The entertainer REACTION - first time
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Billy Joel thumbing his nose to the music industry. He was at odds a lot with the critics back then. He often says he was his own worst enemy. He even burned bad reviews on stage during concerts. Thankfully the fans didn’t care if he played the political game with the industry. We just loved his music and his honesty. It was Piano Man that got cut down for radio play. The original version is over 5 minutes but got cut to 3:05 in the DJ version. I think he got the last laugh. Thanks Harri. Great reaction.
He is America’s greatest songwriter.
Written before he was a mega star. He hit some bumps early on, and Piano Man was the song that was cut down for radio play. In concert he use to run around the stage to multiple keyboards, pretty cool to see live.
That's why he re released it in the 80s with a video. (Piano Man)
This and "Allantown" are my two favourites of all of his awesome songs.
Liberty DeVitto is a very underappreciated drummer. Try "Angry Young Man"
In 1971, Billy Joel had a disastrous contract that he bought his way out of by giving up all rights to music he wrote up to that point. It left him rather jaded about the business and led to "Piano Man" which is quite good.
Billy took on the whole industry. Than, the industry gave him MSG.
BOSS
The first time I saw Billy on TV it was for this song on The Dianna Shore Show and when she come on to introduce him, she said that this is the most real song she had ever heard about the entertainment industry.
Saw Billy when he was the warm up act for the Beach Boys and he was the best part of the show
Wow! That is a very young Billy Joel singing a song from just before he really became a huge star. Always such a great writer and performer!
It was his take on the industry after he had a massive hit with the Piano Man single and album. Nobody could have gotten away with this slam on the music business. Except for Billy Joel. Then he went on to even greater success for another 18 years after that.
Can’t beat The Old Grey Whistle Test. Truly live performances in your neck of the woods.
Love it!
Yes, this was a criticism of the music business. He wrote this BEFORE hitting it big, he had guts to do bite the hand feeding him...another reason to admire him
Very nice Jami.💜
Harri your the best always enjoy your commentary, very sincere. Thank you
One of my favorites, you can feel it.
Genius!!!
I love this song & you are right about the meaning. "The Entertainer" is from Billy Joel's 1974 album "Streetlife Serenade". The song is a cynical & somewhat satirical look at the fleeting fame of a musician & fickle public tastes. One day you are a big star & then when someone new comes along, you are forgotten.
People covered this song in the 70s - I remember Anthony Newley singing it - I remember knowing it before I found out he wrote it - I became a fan just before The Stranger came out - saw him live at his 1st MSG concert in 1978 - Best Concert Ever!! 8:30-12:45 AM!!
I think the public must be very frustrating for entertainers too. It isn't enough to make it; you have to keep making it with every new song. And sometimes great songs don't catch the public's heart. My favorite Billy Joel song is Innocent Man, not an especially big hit. But it has brilliant lyrics. Sometimes a song like that can get really big if people take the time to listen to it carefully. Your take on The Entertainer pretty much matches what I think about it; he definitely made his feelings known.
Thinking most if not all of Billy's song are autobiographical. Wish you would play The Stranger, it's an amazing tune. Thanks Harri
He already has and quite a few other of Billy's songs other than the hits that he already knew, which I think has opened up his perception of Billy.
Not that I am saying Harri thought anything negative but you can tell that he was not aware that Billy's music was so wide-ranging in styles.
This may be my favorite BJ song...
Luckily for Billy Joel we knew from early on he was something great. And to this day he remains amazing.
This is so entertaining and delightful to hear the mini moog in the middle and end.
Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Jami for a treat. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Fantastic choice Jami! I have always love this one. Another great reaction from Harri. He always brings thoughtful insights to these videos 🌺✌️
One of my favorite Billy Joel songs! Of course, back when he wrote this one, he was still pretty much a nobody, so I think it reflects his take on the industry more than summarizing his own career.
He was a star. This is after Piano Man
Good pick!!!!! A personal favorite. If you haven't yet, check out, from the same concert, Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway). Also, IMHO, some of Billy Joel's best videos Matter of Trust, Pressure, Tell Her About It, All for Leyna, Big Shot.
Nice choice !
He doesn't say he has to write shorter songs. He says if the song is deemed too long, other people chop it down for radio without his input. That's what he hated. The line comes right after "took me years to write it..."
Piano is another autobiographical tune...a truly multi talented man...
Gotta check out Billy Joel Allentown and Green Day Wake Me Up When September Ends.
Loved that one Jami ! A departure from the norm for him, but he's always been one of my favorites! Loved the reference to 3:05 !! New to me, so thank you!
This is the "album version" of this song. There is a 7th verse (sung as the second verse) that he has done live several times, that was cut from the song on the album. There are several early live performances of this song that have the full complete song with the cut verse.
For anyone interested, the original second verse of the lyrics:
I am the entertainer
I dress to fit the style
I wear all kinds of sparkles
I flash the crowd my smile
And when the night is over
And I stand without my clothes
Perspiration stains and varicose veins
My eyes look shot
My belly's got a pot
And there's a pimple on my nose
This is my first listening to this piece. I am overwhelmed by the similarity to something Warren Zevon would write. Most excellent.
If you haven’t done it yet, you should react to Billy Joel’s “Only the good die young”
I think that is one of the few Harri has not done yet.
I say few but there are loads more but from memory I would say he has done 20-25 or so.
@@seanscanlon9067 then I hope he does it since Billy Joel’s playlist is about a mile long!
@@leeannmcdermott8313 He has done Half A Mile Away.
I love that song too. Especially since I was a 15 year old catholic girl when it came out. Lol. I promise I will request it soon.
@@jamishops I am from London, UK with an Irish Catholic background, although I am an atheist really, thank God as the joke goes, and was 11 in 1977 when The Stranger was released.
I have heard some people say Billy chose the name Virginia deliberately, but apparently the girl was his actual high school crush called Virginia Callahan, which sounds Irish too.
Perhaps she was related to Sergeant O'Leary, eh? 🙂
Billy wrote this song on the giutar. Yes he plays the giutar. A very talented man!
Great video Harri great hidden gem of a song to cover . I would suggest another great underappreciated song of his is a song called "Until The Night" from 1978s 52nd Street album
(inspired by The Righteous Brothers "Youve Lost That Lovin feeling" ) Its a true monster of a song that deserves to be heard more. cheers!
Bill Medley actually ended up covering Until The Night, although he has said that he was not happy with it and wished that he could have done it again.
a little known fact nowadays is (as you pointed out) he talks about a song "in order to be a hit" has to be cut short.(I think it says 3.05 but I could have the number wrong) it doesn't matter because whatever the number he said .. his 45 version of the song WAS cut down and ran the EXACT amount of time the song says!
Lennon and McCartney used to say when starting to write another song..."Let's write a swimming pool..."
The music industry is like a flavor of the month, if you don't continue to re-invent yourself people lose their taste for you, and you end up in the discount rack like another can of beans....Brilliant...
Piano Man non ha mai sbagliato un pezzo in tutti i tipi di musica ... Talento unico
Good catch on the synth, I thought the same. Is that the minimoog? How in the world I never had one of those as a kid! I would have loved it, my parents would have smashed it. All they wanted to hear was classical. Forget about any rockabilly or anything else. My old man hated me making "weird noises" and "Quit making all those g*d damned weird noises" and would backhand me across the room if I did it around him - they call it "beat boxing" now. Too early I guess. 🙃
He does play guitar on A Matter of Trust and We Didn’t Start The Fire….and in Allentown his best video he plays acoustic gotta check it out
He also does so live on No Man's Land on electric guitar and has done so at An Evening with..... type of events on acoustic guitar for The Entertainer and even Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changing, when he toured the former Soviet Union, which are both on here somewhere.
In fairness though, it is more a case that he can strum a few chords rather than actually play by picking out the individual notes or strings for a song.
TBF, he himself says "We Didn't Start the Fire" sounds like a polka on the piano and that it's a "guitar song". Hence, he plays guitar on it.
Billy Joel is kind of like if Lou reed kept writing at pickwick records and just got better at making songs the record companies would let him record lol. Still have a soft spot for this older stuff.
Notice how the song has no Chorus?
Billy got ripped off big time by his first manager and recording company - they took a lot of money from him. He couldn't get out of his contract so he moved to LA and sang in bars and night clubs for two years until his contract ran out - hence "Piano Man" and this song.
Does it get better than Billy Joel? No, I don’t think it does.
Yes, Billy was mad at the music industry. It is a real sleazeball business. He was cheated out of a lot of money.
ya that is a very big problem with the music business MONEY Remember the line "cut it down to 3 0 5. Ya and then speed it up so it plays in 2 5 5 to get more time for adds
This is why when I listen to music on radio it is only NPR