Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are (Live 1977)
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- In 1977, Billy Joel released his album The Stranger, his first critical and commercial success which spent six weeks at #2 on the charts. Watch the official music video for his first top 10 single 'Just The Way You Are'.
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Lyrics:
Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.
Billy Joel's official TH-cam channel features music videos, live performances, interviews, TV appearances and more. Best known for his first hit song, 'Piano Man', in 1973, Billy has written and recorded thirty-three Top 40 hits in the United States. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 150 million records worldwide. Billy Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States.
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I sung this to my daughter when she was born to try to get her to sleep. I still sing it to her now and she’s 33 ❤️❤️❤️
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
wow premo im 59 hope yr live is so good
❤
That’s actually a good take now that I think of the lyrics that way.
Cap
On 3/29/86, I married my best friend Yvonne, from Queens, NY, and we danced to this wonderful song at our wedding reception...Married almost 25 yrs! She got sick and passed away. Who knew how true the lyrics would be?
We had good times/and bad times but, we took Eachother “just the way we are.” I love this song more now, than ever, but whenever I hear it, I’m in Long Island, dancing with my Beautiful bride! 😍
Thank you Mr. Joel
I lost my darling wife of 27 years today, this very morning. She always wondered if she was good enough. I wondered what made her SO good. She was only 58 this year. This song is not just for her, it IS her.
Keep hanging out in Long island 😄👌🙏🇦🇺
😓PRICELESS
David King I’m sorry to hear that /: I hope all is well. Goodluck with life man
Sorry for this lost.
I believe that somewhere in the world, there are people who feel the same emotions that I feel when I listen to masterpieces like this song.
Óh eu aqui😊❤
Im 16 and my friends always call me old man for listening golden age songs. But Billy Joel is still on list of best to me.
One day they’re going to understand, and you’ll be able to show them hundreds of great old songs
Don't let them tell you what you like, enjoy the old music👍👍
You have great taste in music. Don’t listen to them. Eventually they will realize you were right all along.
Keep it up go further back as well
You need new friends!
No autotune - just a man of pure talent and his voice
Duuuh bro it was the dawn of creation
True
My thoughts exactly.
and rhodes!!!!
Yes!!! It’s very beautiful!
Who still listens in 2021? Yesss!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Me!!
This is exactly what I need in 2021
Me~
Been hearing it since 1977...seems like yesterday wish those days were still here...
I'm learning english through this song Yes
What a year 1977 was !
Sí
2024 still here ❤
Yes!! This song is mesmerizing. I want to listen to it over and over again.
Hey
🙂🤪
Kids, there was a time not too long ago when artists wrote and sung their own songs and played piano live without autotune or lipsyncing.
very well said!!
+Todd Boden Just go out of the Pop-Genre and you will find a lot of artists like that, even today!
+Todd Boden Is your response to this song really to have a rant about the talentless youth of today? Try just enjoying the music. There is plenty of great stuff being made, if you lose the miserable old man attitude you might find some you enjoy!
Agreed!
+Captain Obvious Yeah plenty? Hardly chief, hardly.
Absolutely ❤
In Italy we love Billy Joel ! How you can not love this song! Greetings to all 🇮🇹👋🏻👋🏻😊😊
Happy 75th Birthday to Billy Joel, always a blessing for U 🎉🌹♥️
'I don't want...clever conversation...I don't ever want to work that hard' No man can question his honesty after those words.
His pitch is incredible for playing live under heavy lights and playing keyboards
He got TALENT....
It's called practicing all day , for years
It's an easy key
@@lostintime8651 Let's hear your version, please.
He has perfect pitch. 😉
There will only be one Billy Joel.. 🕯️
It is 2022. Still listen. I insist on playing this in my son's wedding celebration coming up next month 9th.
I am a minister officiating their wedding. Praise the Lord. Awesome song by Billy Joe.
hey man, how did that wedding go??
@@dottothedon9123 no very good
Wanting a new wife
Where are from?
@@mr.richardsimmons I'll marry ya. If it isn't any issue, I'm a man.
Are we still listening to this rn in 2024?
Yes
Oh yes
2124 let's gooo
Some of us never stopped listening
Just give me a hot cup of coffee and a newspaper in a subdued light with the music of Billy Joel with this tune in the background, this would suit me anywhere in the world. Thank God this song was released to the public.
I got to live my life with Billy Joel's music.
Thankyou Billy.
Billy could always Bring It
this is in my opinion one of the sweetest songs ever written, which makes the story behind it all the more depressing...(cue violin music)
billy wrote this for his first wife elizabeth. they met when he was a teenager, a high school dropout who barely had a cent to his name. fast forward 7 years and billy's quickly becoming an international success, so he writes her this song and sings it to her in front of all their friends as a birthday present to show her that he may be rich and famous, but there's no need to change because of it - he loves her just like he always did, just the way she is.
now, i'd like to think of myself as a pretty tough guy but if someone did that for me i'd be curled up on the floor in floods of tears. but what did elizabeth do? well, she didn't thank him. she didn't tell him she liked the song, or anything to that effect. she didn't even smile. she just said "i hope i get the publishing rights". billy thought (well, probably hoped) it was a joke, but according to billy's friends, she later really did slag him off because he didn't give her publishing rights (remember, being both his manager and his wife at this point she really didn't have to worry about money).
billy was letting her know that she didn't have to try and fit what people expected 'billy joel's wife' to be, and she didn't have to make herself seem any better for him because to him, she was perfect. but he said this song actually spelled the beginning of the end for their marriage -- as she became more cold, manipulative and far more wrapped up in the celebrity lifestyle than he ever was, he realised he was saying 'don't go changing' to a woman who had already changed.
:( i love Billy
Wow, that is tragic.
Damn😮
Ironic
Did he also write Big Shot about her?
I listen in 2024 ❤️❤️❤️Nj
Billy Joel = music genius and legend.
Music and Joel got a certain relationship.
@@zuhiong1657 yup
Hands down one of the best singers ever
I was kid back in 70s and now 55 Years old in 2024 in Los Angeles CA
Songs like this just isn't made anymore.
Nopeeee soooo saddd
Feelings are gh or real.
Perfect song
people aren;t cultured enough today for that.
Yes, they are, but they dont get much attention, dont get to the mainstream
Who are the 1,128 dummies that gave this beautiful tune a thumbs down?
+Emerson Bryan It can't be the tune that's for sure. I'd like to think it's not because he's Jewish but it most likely is. Very sad. I just love this tune so damn much.
Lady Gaga fans
+Agung Trisetyarso I would say no for she likes this kind of tune, more like Miley Cyrus fans IMO. ;-)
+gautier Perlouze One of the best ever. IMO.
+Coolrockndad fairly less than the almost 18k that have voted for it :D
What kind of clown would vote this down? That's what music is meant to be.
+Dontae Esparza False, just your opinion.
+buffalohawk65 No, I just googled it. He's right.
DiscoveredNotCreated Lol, still wrong. I really like the song myself. I've been a huge fan of his since Piano Man, but to state that liking this song is a criteria for being a man is absurd.
buffalohawk65 Yeah, I think what he meant was he can't understand how anyone would ever dislike this. I'm pretty sure there's always some jackass out there doing it for kicks. It happens on every video.
DiscoveredNotCreated I get what you mean. There are crackpots out there. I haves seen videos of fantastic music that are time tested and clearly labeled with dislikes.
Thank you Billy Joel for recording this. I remember the seeing on public access TV here in Canada when I was a kid, it’s crazy to think now how well the stuff holds up being an adult and knowing so much other music.
It’s just perfection.
THE most romantic song ever penned. Unconditional devotion and love.
ditto!
Amen
denisejustdenise true
GREAT
My fiance and I will be dancing to this song at our wedding. It's perfect
I'm 18 and I love billy Joel songs :)
From Russia with love!
Peace
🙂🤪
A true artist........this song is A CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want you just the way you are. 💘
Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before, mmm
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far, mmm
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
🎷🎷
Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair, mmm
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard, mmm
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are
🎷🎷
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
Oh, but what will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you?
I said I love you, that's forever
And this I promise from the heart, mmm
I couldn't love you any better
I love you just the way you are, right
🎷🎷🎷
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard, mmm
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
What a golden voice
What's crazy is when you listen to the same song live now.... he sounds the exact same.
Yes,yes,yes.....bro.
TheJofrica 0
Vinchenzo C a gift from God you're born with it ..you can't teach it
That's true talent. He sounds the same live. Awesome!
Almost 50 years, I still love this song. One of my very very favorite.
Hello francis nice meeting you here
@@williamssamuel6689 same here.
Is my favorite
Billy Joel is such an international treasure. His vocals, piano skills unmatched. His music has made my life so much better, loved every album!!
Agreed!
Affirmative! Great song, super singer!
And intelligent meaningful lyrics
@Janeclayton151. He wrote a classical piano piece entitled " Invention in C".opus 6. It is a fugue. It was transcribed for stringed instruments and I heard a performance of it. The program listed the composer as 'William Joel"
I saw this episode and will never forget his performance. I was 14. Just the Way you are won him a Grammy for Song of the Year.
ビリージョエルの数多くある名曲の中で、個人的には1番好きな曲です。
Back when singers played instruments and also had talent woah
I can play for you
Billy Joel also wrote all his lyrics 😁
@@miguelalejandro4357 beautiful
Ikr all it is just mumble some lines send it to an auto tune machine have a drum and synth to back it up and there you go tasteless music that MOST (not all) millennials enjoy i miss 60’s to 80’s music
There are still some artists out there that right their own music, play instruments and that can sing without auto tune.
I said I love you, and that's forever. My mantra. Never take that lightly
I don't understand why I never hear this song on the radio, I think it is honestly one of Billy's best songs.
cuz this generation doesn't even know this song exists. they all listen to Bruno Mars shit
Bruno Mars has his own contribution, and he's not shit.
Freks Flex right he is not shit but gay. Tired of his voice. Every singer now tried to make his voice gay.
Freks Flex I will tell you what Billy will be remembered all time but Bruno Mars will be forgotten in 10 years
yes, he will be that I'm sure of
OLD BUT GOLD 😭
I'd be sad if my one year old grows up without knowing this song and the work of Billy Joel.
Wow that is so touching! You're an awesome parent!
This is THE PERFECT song to describe how a real man's emotions work.
Hands down 60's,70's,80's music is the best!
right you are man, take it to the marse
Don’t forget the 90’s
Yup 90's was the last great decade as well for music indeed also
@@wolfganghornung3493 qq
@@ingemarhilmersson8078 °___°
I was 20 back in 1977.....Billy still rules, as does Barry!
Our wedding song, 36 years ago and now going on 37! What a Great Song!
What a golden voice
My Mum was 20 that year too and she loved these two great singers as I do too. She was only 17 when she had me anf so we like the same type of music.😀
Babes loves buzz 10-25-77 till death
My wedding song also
Hello how are you doing
Our wedding song, 36 years ago and now going on 37! What a Great Song!
La miglior canzone di sempre.
Paul V JR congratulations on that. Hopefully many good years for you
@@suzanner1630 I agree with you Suzanne. Hope you also experience this love.
Paul V JR 😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍
Wao
The 1970s best singers best talent from disco to punk to soul ❤❤
❤
billy Joel rocks my ass!!
Ashlee Bucy me too......if you knew me
Maybe not. You look very young
Billy Joel is synonymous with absolute perfection
The greatest love song ever written...
L❤o❤v❤e it 👍
Bella e semplice.
the realest love song ever
"Something" by George Harrison.
Something , just the way you aré , god only knows ,etc ❤️
One of my best memories is getting to see Billy do a live show for my 17th birthday.
If ever I do get married, I WANT THIS TO BE MY WEDDING SONG!
:D You will meet that special person
even to get married, it's so hard
Why do say that ?
good luck on that
Good song choice man, and good luck!
This song is about unconditional love
💙
Indeed!
Dog love ! Billy Joel wrote this to his back in the day he divorce years after
Babes loves buzz 10 25 77
this actually definition of "Don't Go changing"
extraordinary voice
What an amazing song that has stood the test of time.👏
You always have my unspoken passion. 💘
Let the music do the talking. 💘
This is my favorite Billy Joel song of all times.
I have to agree with you, it brings back many sweet, sweet emotional memories.
Fantastic!!
Still in our hearts!
친애하는 빌리님 감사합니다. 항상 좋은 음악을 보내주셔서 잘듣고 있습니다.
This was our wedding dance song in 1984. Beautiful.
Share mo lang
Quick note to everybody: if ur crush wants to know what ur favorite song is and u say just they way you are by Billie Joel, she'd either call u a creepy fuck or think you are one kind soul
Could help to the right choice of girls.
+Liam Frey now that's also correct
Nothing wrong with this song
Sarz z didn't say there was
+Sportsgeek34 What sort of girl would think like that
Master piece song ❤❤❤❤❤
I could not leave you in times of trouble.... we never could have come this far.....I'll take the good times, I'll take the bad times.... are those not the most touching words coming from someone who loves you?... takes my breath away...
That's what i'm talking about:
-pure music
-great voice
-no auto tune
-pure talented singer.
That's it...period
I listened to it when I was a child and I still love it so much!!! ❤❤❤
I was a Junior in college at SUNY Plattsburgh in 1977 ... this song was playing at all the dorm and floor parties all around campus ... playing in the bars downtown too ... awesome song, awesome year at school and so many great memories! ... thanks Billy!
I wonder how satisfying its gonna be for these talented guys to look back on their lives and realize they've left us all a legacy of songs that put into expression such deep emotion. Songs that belong to all of us. Well, I hope they realize anyway. I'm sure appreciative.
Crazy golden voice 😭😭😭😭😭
@@ariofajariawan8830 thats true huhuho :(
interesting thought!
When i was young my dad said that
Billy Joel's song still famuse more
than 30 years.
And right now my dad was won
Billy Joel's song still alive and always
sweet.
Billy Joel said that the melody for this song came to him in a dream. In some unconscious sense this song strikes at the very core of love for those in my generation.
I heard him tell the story of how this tune came into his head while he was at a meeting with his record company, and had to excuse himself and run home to the piano to get it down so he would not forget it...he kept repeating ad lib lyrics..like "I'm going crazy"...over and over so as not to forget what he was hearing.
UncleHarry My source that the melody and lyrics came while he was dreaming was an interview on Sirus XM billy joel station. Wikepedia sites another source too. I think you are confusing this song with another song of his. I think I remember hearing this story too.
Mike Stout I am here right now because I awoke with his song Keeping the Faith playing in my head...
McCartney said the same about "yesterday". It's strange how things seem to fall down to us.
What actually happens in such cases is that a musician on a higher plane composes it, connected with him in his sleep and allowed him to take songwriting credits for it.
The fact that this trooper is still making songs to this day is nothing short of incredible.
Good on him, he’s talented, even decades later.
This masterpiece is forever.
RIP Phil Woods. Great sax work on this song.
David Logsdon _ that's good to know...Thank you.
I love you just the way you are. 💘
Always 💘
Such powerful words, but no one wants to say them not even in letters no more. N that is painful. I just wish someone would love me just as much as I love n not give up when things get tuff. But this day n age when things gets tuff they run. I was wanting someone to love me, be loyal, be proud to tell everyone that I am his... Nothing else, I have everything else. But that is to much to ask for... I live with the pain every day now, go to bed in tears still. N I have decided I won't get with no one else, month ago was the last, the end. Its to painful. He might be ok, with going out with other women, n that is ok, cuz I know my heart was pure. N my love I can't turn off, never could even when it hurts. But that is how real love works.
I remember my dad, mom and I driving in Manhattan in the late 80s listening to this music in our car 👌🏼👌🏼
Just the way you are. 💘
"Just The Way You Are"
Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take 'till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.
I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from my heart
I couldn't love you any better
I love you just the way you are.
ha he
ha he thank you very much .
ha he a
thanks
ha he how awesome song
Song hits home still…..thank you Billy!!
*"I just want someone that I can talk to, I want you just the way you are". This song makes me feel deeply in love. Probably one of my favorite songs* ♥️
Me too
Always my favorites
Great love song. Always
Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before, mmm
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far, mmm
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair, mmm
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard, mmm
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
Oh, but what will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you?
I said I love you, that's forever
And this I promise from the heart, mmm
I couldn't love you any better
I love you just the way you are, right
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard, mmm
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are
Don't go changing
変わらないで
To try and please me
僕を喜ばせようとしてさ
You never let me down before
君をがっかりしたことなんて一度もないよ
Don't imagine
想像しないで
You're too familiar
君がありふれているなんて
And I don't see you anymore
そんなことを心配している君なんか見たくないよ
I wouldn't leave you
僕は君を独りぼっちにはしない
In times of trouble
どんなときも
We never could have come this far
ここまで僕たちはやってこられただろ
I took the good times
これまで良い時も
I'll take the bad times
この先悪い時も
I'll take you
僕は君とずっと一緒だよ
Just the way you are
だから、素顔のままの君でいて
Don't go trying some new fashion
流行のファッションなんてしなくていいよ
Don't change the color of your hair
髪の色も変えたりしないでね
You always have my unspoken passion
君は僕が口に出したりしないけど愛していると確信して
Although I might not seem to care
疑ったりしないで
I don't want clever conversation
僕は気の利いた会話をしたいわけじゃない
I never want to work that hard
無理してそんなことは絶対にしたくない
I just want someone that I can talk to
僕はただ、気楽に話せる相手がほしいんだ
I want you
それが君であってほしい
Just the way you are
だから、素顔のままの君でいて
I need to know
どうしても知りたい
that you will always be the same old someone that I knew
あなたはこれからもずっとこれまでの君のままでいてくれるか
What will it take till you believe in me
どうしたら僕を信じてくれるかな
The way that I believe in you?
僕が君を信じているように
I said
僕は言った
I love you and that's forever
“永遠に君を愛する” って
And this I promise from the heart
そしてこのことを僕は心の底から誓う
I could not love you any better
どうしようもないくらい君のことが好きだよ
I love you
愛している
Just the way you are...
素顔のままの君を...
Thank you so much.
Every time i fell unhappy i'm always thinking about what my dad told me
Do something to make you happy or improve your felling ,
My dad suggest me Billy Joel's song and practice piano with his song because Billy Joea he's my dad fovorite pianist , when i miss my dad and keep thinking what he has ever told me when you aren't felling well or unhappy , music or sport will be the best , away those felling , that why my dad must dedicate his time after finished his job for look after me teach me sport and music skill.
Songs like this have helped heal so many in times of need.
emily potter mk loo
More money mo
Your like 12
@@lfsdesigns2472 and what does it matter?
Artist like Billy Joel aren’t treasures like they were back then. Incredibly talented artists like this aren’t mainstream anymore cuz they’re not talking about wet ass pu$$y 🤷🏽♀️🤦🏾♀️😂😫😭
The real Piano 🎹 Man
I have an old soul in my young body.
Then let start your formation in old Blue-Eyed Soul Music.....with you 1988 Daryl Hall th-cam.com/video/AI7rwDeaaX8/w-d-xo.html
Not really just good music taste
Same 🥰
Lmao, I'm a 70s disco funk dad inside of a 12 year old 😂
Same
I saw him in concert around this time. Great show! He had so much energy and passion.
I do believe that, 50,000 years from now, when beings from other galaxies sift through the remains of what had been civilization on this planet, they're likely to be more impressed with this song, and this VERSION of it, than anything else they come across. It's all of articulate, melodic, and passionate, and who could ask for more from a song?
Kurt Cobain
This is my Dad's song, I will always love him, and miss him, he had, and still has amazing taste in music, thank you Billy Joel, 😋
I like it how he introduced the song and even started playing the first few chords, and no one started screaming... the song was just released, people still haven't caught up.
Just the way you are. 💘
That dude playing the sax will never get enough credit.
Gggggg g b G@@tedsta b g
hear this song in 2017 and feeling is the best love song ever
Hear the song in 01 /10/ 2020 and I guess this is going to be with for life long
Seriously‼️ This is music and one of the BEST love songs ever❣️💯
A loving song about accepting someone as they are .. always have a special place in my heart
I love when he takes that note up at the end. Seriously one the the most talented musicians in history.
Sang it for my now-ex at our wedding reception. It is a fantastic love song notwithstanding.
I just have to draw attention to his piano lines. So bold and effective, but with a few dark notes in most chords to provide tension. And in service to the bass guitar.
Cheryl this was our song you're always there for me no matter what the situation was you left again no explanation you have and always will be the one my true love
Please Billy, just one more song like this for your fans and family forever! You can do it!
Forever, remain a masterpiece.
Billy Joel ,one of the" greatest songwriters of all time"
Oh Billy, if only we could say the same thing as sweetly as you - and get through - what a life we could have.