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Billy Joel – Zanzibar
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Zanzibar is a song from Joel’s ‘'52nd Street’‘ album, and most characterizes the jazz direction Joel wanted to take after releasing the pop smash ’‘The Stranger’‘ a year earlier.
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Billy Joel – Zanzibar - Live At Shea, 2008
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Ali dances and the audience applauds / Though he's bathed in sweat he hasn't lost his style / Ali don't you go downtown / You gave away another round for free, woah / Me, I'm just
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Billy Joel – Zanzibar (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Ali dances and the audience applauds / Though he’s bathed in sweat he hasn’t lost his style / Ali don’t you go downtown, you gave away another round for free / Whoa oh oh… / Me, I’
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Billy Joel – 52nd Street
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[Verse 1] / They say it takes a lot to keep a love alive / In every heart, there pumps a different beat / But if we shift the rhythm into overdrive / Well, we could generate a lot
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Billy Joel – Zanzibar Samples
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See all of “Zanzibar” by Billy Joel’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Action Bronson – Brand New Car
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“Brand New Car” samples “Zanzibar” by Billy Joel. According to a press release, the Ronson-produced track’s sample was cleared after Bronson and Ronson convinced Joel to lend them
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Action Bronson – Brand New Car Samples
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See all of “Brand New Car” by Action Bronson’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Billy Joel – My Life
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Straying away from the piano ballad but still infused with New York soul, “My Life” from 1978’s 52nd Street was also a relatively big hit, reaching #2 on the U.S. adult
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Billy Joel – Honesty
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The second song off of Billy Joel’s 1978 album 52 Street.
A gripping song dissecting the lack of shame in society. The song was a leading single prior to the album’s release. Both
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Billy Joel – Half a Mile Away
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The 7th Track off of 52nd Street, the sound is very nostalgic to 50s and 60s R&B, it has a similar sound to his future album “An Innocent Man”. This song gives off an Earth, Wind
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Billy Joel – Stiletto
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The 5th track off of “52nd Street” this song, while not a single, popularized through FM airplay.
This song is a great metaphor, of course the woman in this song is not using a
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Spotify – This Is Billy Joel
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1. Uptown Girl / 2. Piano Man / 3. My Life / 4. She's Always a Woman / 5. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant / 6. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) / 7. Vienna / 8. New York State of Mind
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Billy Joel – Big Shot
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Following in the judgmental blame-game tactics of “Captain Jack,” “Big Shot” features Billy Joel berating someone for having to always out-do everyone else.
There are a lot of
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Billy Joel – New York State of Mind (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood / Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood / But I’m taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River Line / I’m in a New
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Billy Joel – My Life (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Got a call from an old friend we'd used to be real close / Said he couldn't go on the American way / Closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast / Now he
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Billy Joel – And So It Goes (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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In every heart there is a room / A sanctuary safe and strong / To heal the wounds from lover's past / Until a new one comes along / I spoke to you in cautious tones / You answered
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Billy Joel – She’s Right On Time (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Turn on all the Christmas lights / Cause baby's coming home tonight / I can hear her footsteps in the street / Turn the choral music higher / Pile more wood upon the fire / That
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Billy Joel – Prelude / Angry Young Man (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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There's a place in the world for the angry young man / With his working class ties and his radical plans / He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl / He's always at home with his
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Billy Joel – The Ballad of Billy the Kid (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia / Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand / And his daring life of crime / Made him a legend in his time / East and West of the Rio
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Billy Joel – Allentown (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Well we're living here in Allentown / And they're closing all the factories down / Out in Bethlehem they're killing time / Filling out forms / Standing in line / Well our fathers
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Billy Joel – It's Still Rock & Roll to Me (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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What’s the matter with the clothes I’m wearing? / (Can’t you tell that your tie’s too wide?) / Maybe I should buy some old tab collars? / (Welcome back to the age of jive.) / Where
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Billy Joel – Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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A bottle of white, a bottle of red / Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead / We'll get a table near the street / In our old familiar place / You and I, face to face, mmm / A bottle of
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Billy Joel – Rosalinda's Eyes
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This song was written by Joel as a hypothetical message to his mother Rosalind by his father Howard (who left the family for Cuba, and eventually Vienna).
It is a very Latin-
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Billy Joel – Big Shot (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Well, you went uptown riding in your limousine / With your fine Park Avenue clothes / You had the Dom Perignon in your hand / And the spoon up your nose / Ooooh / And when you wake
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Billy Joel – Laura (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Laura / Calls me / In the middle of the night / Passes on her / Painful information / Then these careless fingers / They get caught in her vice / Til they're bleeding / On my
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Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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(Uno. Dos. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro!) / All the waiters in your grand café leave their tables when you blink / Whoa-oh oh-oh-oh / Every dog must have his everyday, every drunk must
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Billy Joel – Everybody Loves You Now (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Baby all the lights are turned on you / Now you're in the center of the stage / Everything revolves on what you do / Ah, you are in your prime; you've come of age / And you can
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Billy Joel – Only the Good Die Young (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Come out Virginia, don't let me wait / You Catholic girls start much too late / Aw but sooner or later it comes down to fate, I might as well be the one / Well, they showed you a
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Billy Joel – She’s Always a Woman (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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She can kill with a smile / She can wound with her eyes / And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies / And she only reveals what she wants you to see / She hides like a child
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Billy Joel – The Entertainer (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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I am the entertainer, and I know just where I stand: / Another serenader, and another long-haired band / Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts / But I know the game
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Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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We met as soul mates on Parris Island / We left as inmates from an asylum / And we were sharp, as sharp as knives / And we were so gung ho to lay down our lives / We came in
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Billy Joel – You May Be Right (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Friday night I crashed your party / Saturday I said I'm sorry / Sunday came and trashed me out again / I was only having fun / Wasn't hurting any one / And we all enjoyed the
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