One thing that may not be evident to Brits is that BJ’s American fanbase is very much regionally skewed (far more than Springsteen’s for example), most specifically to the working-to-middle-class suburbs of the Boston-NY-Phila-DC northeast corridor.
It’s good to see him getting a fair shake by many here as it’s pretty much a requirement to be a Serious Music Critic in America that Thou Must Hate Billy Joel, including writing at least one article about why the man and his fans represent everything that is wrong with popular music over the past 40 or whatever years…. Not entirely surprised to see this song and BJ in general be so polarizing in the comments. « CULTURE CLUB – “Karma Chameleon” THE FLYING PICKETS – “Only You” » Comments « 1 2 3 All
Those endless runs of “oh-oh-whoas” are the main reason to listen to the song, and they’re a tip off as to where it’s really coming from, in spirit if not in music: not the street heat of Frankie Valli but the lusty lads-together innocence of the Beach Boys. It isn’t a record about bedding an uptown girl or wanting to bed an uptown girl, it’s a record about remembering wanting to bed an uptown girl, and boasting to your blue-collar buds that that’s what you were gonna do, and wanting to have blue-collar buds to boast to! The video makes this explicit with Christine Brinkley as pin-up come to life, but it’s in the song too, in the husky, hearty interplay of those cascading backing vox, whose prominence makes it obvious that the guys – not the girl – are the chief audience for Joel’s talk. Of course Billy Joel is smart enough to realise this, and “Uptown Girl” works because it’s history written by the winners. There’s nothing at stake in “Uptown Girl” – how could there be? Rock and roll moved uptown long ago. The street music – doo-wop and rock’n’roll – that “Uptown Girl” draws energy from was able to speak so powerfully to sexual and social codes partly because the act of addressing those codes head-on was itself a breach of them. 1.76€ $1.Billy Joel pays tribute to the music of his childhood, and so inevitably there’s something childish about “Uptown Girl”: its instant singability makes it sound like a Grease outtake, except there was more sex and chemistry in Grease’s flirtatious goofery. The song features Billy Joel singing the lead vocals and all backing vocals along with an accompaniment of bass guitar, solitary snare drum, and finger snaps.This arrangement emulates the close harmony of Billy Joel?s original and offers ideas for adding percussion and a bass guitar or string bass. The album charts Joel?s musical influences and The Longest Time follows this theme paying tribute to the doo-wop style of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. The Longest Time? was penned in 1983 and released as a single in 1984 after featuring on Joel?s album An Innocent Man. Scored for SSATB, it can also be performed with additional percussion and a bass guitar or string bass. This fun arrangement of 'The Longest Time' captures many features of the original and will be a great addition to your choir's repertoire. I want you just the way you are 4.41€ $4.99 #Piano solo #Billy Joel # Mario Stallbaumer #Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are #Mario I want you just the way you are 4.41€ $4.99 #Piano, Voice #Billy Joel # I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I would not leave you in times of trouble
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Here are the full lyrics to Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are": If you like this arrangement, please consider leaving a review - it would mean a lot. It's certainly one of the greatest and most iconic love songs from the 70s - with this piano sheet music, you can play it in the most beautiful way! It became his first top 10 hit in the US, and won two Grammy Awards ("Record of the Year" and "Song of the Year") in 1977! "Just the Way You Are" is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 album "The Stranger", and served as the album's lead single. However, this piano sheet music also comes with a system for the singer, and includes the song's full lyrics! The full melody is included in the piano part, so it makes for a wonderful instrumental (piano solo) cover. With this sheet music, you get a playable piano arrangement of "Just the Way You Are" which sounds beautiful.
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Here's how to play "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel on piano!
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