Billy Joel A to Z

Each year all the college basketball teams have a tournament that includes 64 teams that play elimination games until the last one is standing. Elon and Dave have decided to do that with Billy Joel songs and YOUR votes, which were calculated through Instagram in March and April of 2025. The Four Number One Seeds were calculated from our final rankings podcast and they are: From the New York Region...

Each year all the college basketball teams have a tournament that includes 64 teams that play elimination games until the last one is standing. Elon and Dave have decided to do that with Billy Joel songs and YOUR votes, which were calculated through Instagram in March and April of 2025. The Four Number One Seeds were calculated from our final rankings podcast and they are: From the New York Region...

The final episode of Billy Joel A to Z. After 4 years and over 250 episodes it comes down to this. The top 50 Billy Joel songs of all time as ranked by your hosts Elon and Dave. Thank you to all our amazing new friends all over the world who we got to meet and talk to along the way. What a wonderful way to bond with all of you - over the true master of music. We loved recording the podcast and lov...

The final episodes of everyone's favorite podcast, Billy Joel A to Z continues. After 4 years and over 250 episodes it comes down to this. In this second out of three Elon and Dave will countdown the rankings of every song Billy Joel ever wrote (140 songs). This, second part episode will cover songs 100 to 51. We had such a good time recording these episodes. Thanks for all of our amazing listener...

Hello friends. The final episodes of everyone's favorite podcast, Billy Joel A to Z. After 4 years and over 250 episodes it comes down to this. In these three episodes Elon and Dave will countdown the rankings of every song Billy Joel ever wrote (140 songs). This, first part episode will cover songs 140 to 101. We had such a good time recording these episodes. Thanks for all of our amazing listene...

Everything's coming to a close as Billy Joel ends his residency at Madison Square Garden in New York City and Elon & Dave were there. Thursday July 25, 2024 to a sold out crowd as usual was the final night. Tickets were not cheap and the place was rockin'. HOWEVER, what our heroes may have been expecting was not what they received. This week's podcast is Elon & Dave's very different takes...

To wrap up the Z's - we decided to do a LIVE show combined with the Comedy Cellar Nightly Show Dave hosts every week down in the West Village at the legendary Comedy Cellar. Listeners were told in advance to zoom in and talk Billy Joel A to Z with us. So it's Elon and Dave live in studio, Paul Loren on remote (with his piano of course) and comedian Dan Naturman, who thought he knew Billy Joel but...

To wrap up the Z's - we decided to do a LIVE show combined with the Comedy Cellar Nightly Show Dave hosts every week down in the West Village at the legendary Comedy Cellar. Listeners were told in advance to zoom in and talk Billy Joel A to Z with us. So it's Elon and Dave live in studio, Paul Loren on remote (with his piano of course) and comedian Dan Naturman, who thought he knew Billy Joel but...

The final album wrap up is one of the greatest Billy Joel Albums in 1978's 52nd Street . We have a great time today welcoming our third co-host in as always, the great Paul Loren to discuss the terrific nine songs off of this grammy winning album. 52nd Street is the incredible follow up to Billy's break out album, The Stranger and it delivers. So join us today and for the next few episodes as we d...

The final album wrap up is one of the greatest Billy Joel Albums in 1978's 52nd Street . We have a great time today welcoming our third co-host in as always, the great Paul Loren to discuss the terrific nine songs off of this grammy winning album. 52nd Street is the incredible follow up to Billy's break out album, The Stranger and it delivers. So join us today and for the next few episodes as we d...

The final album wrap up is one of the greatest Billy Joel Albums in 1978's 52nd Street . We have a great time today welcoming our third co-host in as always, the great Paul Loren to discuss the terrific nine songs off of this grammy winning album. 52nd Street is the incredible follow up to Billy's break out album, The Stranger and it delivers. So join us today and for the next few episodes as we d...

This is it: The last song in the alphabet by Billy Joel. Today is Zanzibar. The absolute fan favorite off of 1978's 52nd Street. Elon and Dave find out today that the song is about a sports bar and not some exotic place in Tanzania. It kind of ruins the song a little bit BUT, it still grooves so. . . join the boys today on their final song episode - and remember - when we started this podcast a ne...

Once again, we haven't had a Wrap Up for a long time so we can keep you posted on everything going on in Billy Joel and Billy Joel A to Z land, so it's great to Wrap up these six songs and multiple album wrap ups on this episode. And, of course, the brand new Billy Joel song (still can't believe we're saying that). So here we go pretty much one last time, with rankings and listener feedback. And,...

We were really thrilled to have Tony winner, David Yazbek be our obvious "Y" guest for Billy Joel A to Z this episode. David has composed the Broadway musicals, The Full Monty , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , Tootsie and The Band's Visit, with which he won the Tony Award for Best Musical of the Year. His new play is entitled, Dead Outlaw and he's here today to talk about that, his musical influences an...

Hi everyone. There's no reason to make a wrap up of a Greatest Hits Album BUT, this was a special day as Elon, Dave and Paul were all together in the same room for the first time in 3 years and over 200 episodes. We usually record on zoom together so this was a special occasion and since we had just finished, "You're Only Human" we figured, why not just talk about everything, which is technically...

Hi everyone. There's no reason to make a wrap up of a Greatest Hits Album BUT, this was a special day as Elon, Dave and Paul were all together in the same room for the first time in 3 years and over 200 episodes. We usually record on zoom together so this was a special occasion and since we had just finished, "You're Only Human" we figured, why not just talk about everything, which is technically...

As we bring you our second to last Billy Joel song, we oddly bring you a big hit YET not on a standard album. Today we discuss "You're Only Human". A big hit for Billy Joel in 1985 off of his mega selling Greatest Hits Volumes One and Two albums. Go figure an upbeat ditty about teenage suicide would be such a smash, but it was and all of the proceeds went to National Committee for Suicide Preventi...

This was one incredible album that really had never been attempted before. An artist doing a live album of basically deep cuts off of his first 4 albums you may have forgotten about after he became a superstar. That's what Songs in the Attic is. Released on September 14, 1981 this album got his first song, "She's Got a Way" on people's radar. In many ways you can look at Taylor Swift's (Taylor's V...

Hello everyone and here we are to talk about Billy Joel’s second album – technically first album since no one knew where to find the first one. Recorded in September of 1973 and released on November 14, 1973 Piano Man would be Billy Joel’s “breakthrough album” and of course where he would record his signature song and receive his moniker that would follow him to this day. Released exactly 50 years...

Hello everyone and here we are to talk about Billy Joel’s second album – technically first album since no one knew where to find the first one. Recorded in September of 1973 and released on November 14, 1973 Piano Man would be Billy Joel’s “breakthrough album” and of course where he would record his signature song and receive his moniker that would follow him to this day. Released exactly 50 years...

Today we discuss the final song (alphabetically) off of Billy Joel’s second album, Piano Man , entitled, You’re My Home, released November 14, 1973.  You’re My Home was also recorded for the Songs in the Attic album in July of 1983 in Washington, D.C. This is a terrific song that was almost single-handedly ruined by Ms. Helen Reddy and we let Billy know we're on his side with his disgust...

Glass Houses was the final part of the trilogy of legendary albums in Billy Joel's "hey day" catalogue and the first album with a number one hit for the legend in "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me". The album was nominated for album of the year and he won best Male Rock Vocalist at the Grammys. The first side is all classics and the second side are all fan favorites and he continues to play at lea...

Glass Houses was the final part of the trilogy of legendary albums in Billy Joel's "hey day" catalogue and the first album with a number one hit for the legend in "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me". The album was nominated for album of the year and he won best Male Rock Vocalist at the Grammys. The first side is all classics and the second side are all fan favorites and he continues to play at lea...

Glass Houses was the final part of the trilogy of legendary albums in Billy Joel's "hey day" catalogue and the first album with a number one hit for the legend in "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me". The album was nominated for album of the year and he won best Male Rock Vocalist at the Grammys. The first side is all classics and the second side are all fan favorites and he continues to play at lea...

We don't even know what to say. This is incredible. After exactly 30 years - a brand new Billy Joel song. You're welcome. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.