Billy Joel A to Z

It's the podcast AND the album nobody wanted -- but we had to. Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Volume III. A lackluster collection of songs that mostly includes the entire album of Stormfront so -- just buy Stormfront if you're such a huge Stormfront lover. Yipes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Billy's Joel's hugest, oddest, final number one hit that for some reason or another brings the crowd to its feet when he performs it as an encore on every single show for the past 15 years. You may love it, you may hate it, and if you do love it, you just can't figure out why. Billy himself says it's the worst melody he's ever written so WHY, is this 1989 song STILL popular 35 years later? Let's t...

Well this is it. Billy's Joel's hugest, oddest, final number one hit that for some reason or another brings the crowd to its feet when he performs it as an encore on every single show for the past 15 years. You may love it, you may hate it, and if you do love it, you just can't figure out why. Billy himself says it's the worst melody he's ever written so WHY, is this 1989 song STILL popular 35 yea...

It's the exciting V's Wrap Up. Our 5 episode series that. . . . just kidding. We're wrapping up the only V song in Billy's catalogue, our just becoming doctors guests and the Stranger Album. But what you'll really want to listen carefully for is the rankings. Oh, whatever, we'll just tell you -- we both rank Vienna as our number 1 V song. 🤪 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

This is it -- The Stranger Album Wrap Up. Billy Joel's greatest album AND one of the greatest albums of all time. Every song is a groundbreaking gem. Five of the nine songs are still played at every concert every month almost 50 years later. This three part Billy Joel A to Z episode includes the usual rankings and Weird Elon parodies and, of course, the magic of Paul Loren. As they say in the 1977...

This is it -- The Stranger Album Wrap Up. Billy Joel's greatest album AND one of the greatest albums of all time. Every song is a groundbreaking gem. Five of the nine songs are still played at every concert every month almost 50 years later. This three part Billy Joel A to Z episode includes the usual rankings and Weird Elon parodies and, of course, the magic of Paul Loren. As they say in the 1977...

This is it -- The Stranger Album Wrap Up. Billy Joel's greatest album AND one of the greatest albums of all time. Every song is a groundbreaking gem. Five of the nine songs are still played at every concert every month almost 50 years later. This three part Billy Joel A to Z episode includes the usual rankings and Weird Elon parodies and, of course, the magic of Paul Loren. As they say in the 1977...

On May 5, 2023 Billy Joel played his monthly show at Madison Square Garden. However, for some reason he clearly heard our cries and went crazy and played multiple deep cuts that he rarely plays - AND, if he does - he certainly doesn't play them all in one concert. Dave's niece Dory and her roommates, Desi and Victoria, from medical school all went to the concert. Only one had ever been to a Billy...

Although never released as a single, people worship this song that kicks off the second side of Billy Joel's greatest album of all time. Vienna has reached new heights of popularity through Tik Tok, movies and TV and Billy plays it most every night at the MSG residency. It's constantly a favorite song choice of contestants on American Idol and the Voice as well. This song is going nuts and if that...

Yes it's a lovely Wrap Up show for the letter "U". We'll talk Liberty DeVitto; the concert Danny, Dave and Elon attended; our "U" guest, Bob Golden; listener feedback and of course the two songs that begin with the letter "U". It's always a good time on Billy Joel A to Z. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on Billy Joel A to Z we are talking to Bob Golden. Bob writes many of the television themes you may have heard of including the early 2000's classic for comedian Dave Attell's Insomniac show. If you have children you may know him as the zany drummer in the Laurie Berkner band. But the reason he's on this episode is because in 1982 a cocky 19 year old Bob interviewed Billy Joel on a plane to...

Elon and I went to our second residency show together but we also found out that our friend Danny Vermont (Real Time with Bill Maher) went to the Sofi Stadium double bill show with Stevie Nicks. This episode was an absolute must to compare notes and figure it all out since the pairing is so odd. Do they sing together, do they do each other's songs? Who's the guest at MSG this month? Let's get the...

And. . . the Album Wrap-Ups continue as we bring you Parts 1 and 2 of An Innocent Man Album Wrap-Up. This mega-smash album that came out in 1983 shouldn't have been popular at all. Where would it make sense that a 70's rock star would make hits referring to 50's doo wop music in the 80's. But it worked and it worked big. We've got the rankings, the parodies and, of course, our ace in the hole, Pau...

And. . . the Album Wrap-Ups continue as we bring you Parts 1 and 2 of An Innocent Man Album Wrap-Up. This mega-smash album that came out in 1983 shouldn't have been popular at all. Where would it make sense that a 70's rock star would make hits referring to 50's doo wop music in the 80's. But it worked and it worked big. We've got the rankings, the parodies and, of course, our ace in the hole, Pau...

It's time for the legendary song that kicks off side 2 of 1983's An Innocent Man album, Uptown Girl. This song is and was a smash hit and is performed at every single concert as one of the encore numbers. The music video was an MTV Classic and the Royal Family even knows about it, although they refer to him as Billy Jo-el, as if he's from Krypton. But, whatever the case may be, it is a Billy Joel...

Our first song in the "U's" is a little known song off of 52nd Street entitled, Until the Night. It's a whopping Six Minutes and 35 seconds that is a pretty good song BUT probably could have been cut down to 3:05.  😀 In this episode find out what Phil Ramone and James Bond have in common. Exciting! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After 7 months it all comes to an end today as we wrap up the wrap up and the T's. We just love the word Wrap Up obviously. Anyway, this episode has all your favorites in a Wrap Up - rankings, the whistling contest, lots of music and listener feedback. The usual Wrap Up stuff. There, I think we said Wrap Up a good five or six times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Probably the most exciting guest we can ever have on, sans Billy himself -- The legendary drummer and co-captain of every important Billy Joel album ever recorded. Liberty DeVitto is our guest in this incredible episode. He is extremely fun and forthcoming and we had a blast interviewing him. When you have a guy who, thank goodness, told Billy "you've GOT to finish" Summer Highland Falls after Bil...

Probably the most exciting guest we can ever have on, sans Billy himself -- The legendary drummer and co-captain of every important Billy Joel album ever recorded. Liberty DeVitto is our guest in this incredible episode. He is extremely fun and forthcoming and we had a blast interviewing him. When you have a guy who, thank goodness, told Billy "you've GOT to finish" Summer Highland Falls after Bil...

It's Billy Joel's final studio album today on Billy Joel A to Z entitled, River of Dreams, released August 10, 1993. The one where he decided to call it quits and retire at the ripe old age of 44. The album debuted at #1 on the charts, went 5x Platinum and was nominated for Album of the Year. Join Elon, Dave and musician supreme Paul Loren as we have an absolute blast going through the rankings, p...

It's Billy Joel's final studio album today on Billy Joel A to Z entitled, River of Dreams, released August 10, 1993. The one where he decided to call it quits and retire at the ripe old age of 44. The album debuted at #1 on the charts, went 5x Platinum and was nominated for Album of the Year. Join Elon, Dave and musician supreme Paul Loren as we have an absolute blast going through the rankings, p...

Today's episode finds us at the 24th and final "T" song in Billy Joel's catalogue entitled, Two Thousand Years . Two Thousand Years is not only the pen-ultimate song off of Billy's 12th and final studio album, River of Dreams BUT his pen-ultimate song EVER. It was played live on New Year's Eve 1999 just before the year 2000. It's like We Didn't Start the Fire but covers alot more time. A fitting e...

Turn Around kicks off the second side of Billy's first album, Cold Spring Harbor, and when I say, "kicks off" that may be the wrong way to use the term. It is the only song on the album to feature Sneaky Pete Kleinow -- who? Exactly. Although he created the theme song for an epic show just before he recorded this. So -- good trivia today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

In this episode we are discussing the song that kicks off the Piano Man album entitled Travelin' Prayer . It's a country blue grass song that doesn't really fit in the Billy Joel catalogue BUT when Dolly Parton covered it in 2000, she was nominated for a Grammy so. . . it definitely showcases his masterful songwriting. Anyway, we have alot of fun with this one since the instrument showcased is cal...

Well this is a heck of a song with so many different reasons of what could make it great or what could make it bad if you listen to Glen Gamboa from New York Newsday. Tomorrow is Today is the 8th song off of the legendarily poorly recorded first album. If you listen to the 1971 recording it has an entire orchestra. If you listen to the 1983 re-recording it's only piano. Which one do you like best?...