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Sat Mar-05-05 05:14 PM
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Who else here loves Billy Joel? |
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I love "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" and "Movin' Out"....How about you guys? What are your favorites?
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Sat Mar-05-05 05:17 PM
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Edited on Sat Mar-05-05 05:18 PM by Longgrain
I love Billy Joel, even seen him in concert a few times...
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant and Miami2018 are a few of my faves...
Dylan's better tho! IMHO
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Sat Mar-05-05 05:47 PM
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8. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant |
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The Stranger Goodnight Saigon Allentown Piano Man Uptown Girl We Didn't Start the Fire Still Rock and Rock to Me You May Be Right
and many more...I luv Billy in concert! :yourock:
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Sat Mar-05-05 10:09 PM
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16. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant |
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Table out with a red gingham cloth...2 people seated by a maitre de and with candles on the table ...then Billy sings:
A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rose instead We'll get a table near the street In our old familiar place You and I - face to face A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends upon your appetite I'll meet you any time you want In our Italian Restaurant.
<Piano allegro>
Things are okay with me these days Got a good job, got a good office I got a new wife, got a new life And the family is fine We lost touch long ago You lost weight I did not know You could ever look so nice after so much time.
Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green? Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans Oh, you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans Cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies And the king and the queen of the prom Riding around with the car top down and the radio on Nobody looked any finer Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner We never knew we could want more than that out of life Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.
Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75 when they decided the marriage would be at the end of July Everyone said they were crazy "Brenda you know that you're much too lazy and Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life." Oh, but there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
Well they got an apartment with deep pile carpets And a couple of paintings from Sears A big waterbed that they bought with the bread They had saved for a couple of years They started to fight when the money got tight And they just didn't count on the tears.
And Rock and Roll!
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style But it's always the same in the end They got a divorce as a matter of course And they parted the closest of friends Then the king and the queen went back to the green But you could never go back there again.
Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of '75 From the high to the low to the end of the show For the rest of their lives They couldn't go back to the greasers The best they could do was pick up the pieces We always knew they would both find a way to get by That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie Can't tell you more 'cause I've told you already And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
<andante with horns>
A bottle of red, a bottle of white Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight I'll meet you anytime you want In our Italian Restaurant.
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Sat Mar-05-05 05:19 PM
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2. I think he's at his best with "James" and "Summer -- |
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Sat Mar-05-05 05:22 PM
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Edited on Sat Mar-05-05 05:23 PM by HeyManThatsCool
My favorites are
You May Be Rght, A Matter of Trust, Allentown & of course Piano Man.
There are many more I could add but those are my favorites
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Sat Mar-05-05 05:22 PM
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4. & he is amazing in concert too. n/t |
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Sat Mar-05-05 05:25 PM
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5. i agree - great in concert, love him. |
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Sat Mar-05-05 06:45 PM
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11. Spectrum.Philly. October 14th,1993 The Night after Phil's Clinch pennant |
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Edited on Sat Mar-05-05 07:41 PM by GalleryGod
BJ rides the elevator from beneath the stage to Randy Newman's overture from "The Natural" Oh!:wow: What A Nite! 3:00 Hrs!
:yourock: :headbang: :yourock: :grouphug: Goodnight,Saigon:hug:
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Sat Mar-05-05 06:49 PM
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14. He definately gives you your moneys worth in concert |
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last time I saw him was at the First Union Center in Philadelphia- 3 hours. Amazing. He did EVERY song= of course Philly crowd goes INSANE for Allentown
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Sat Mar-05-05 05:26 PM
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My aunts and mom went to his high school... before he dropped out.
Hicksville LI
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Sat Mar-05-05 05:29 PM
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7. Do I look like an Uptown Girl ? |
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Sat Mar-05-05 06:28 PM
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9. He wasone of my dad's role models |
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As a muscian. I grew up listening to his records and having my dad play and sing his music. I like We Didn't Start the Fire but really I like most of it.
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Sat Mar-05-05 06:43 PM
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I thought I was the only one here who did (and I'm only 24).
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Sat Mar-05-05 06:46 PM
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13. Bill Bridges the Generations |
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Saw him first in 1973; opened for the Doobie Bros. at the Academy of Music in Philly.
2nd encore: "CAPTAIN JACK":loveya:
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Sat Mar-05-05 06:46 PM
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12. I like his song "My Life" and "Honesty" and "Piano Man" |
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He's a genius if they're ever was one. I loved it when he played Elton John's songs at a tribute to Elton. What a nite!
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Sat Mar-05-05 06:51 PM
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15. Crap. I 4got to put Honesty on my list & that is my absolute favorite. |
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It's also one of my fav songs in general
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