Billy Joel – The Complete Albums Collection And Piano Man Legacy Edition

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Two new Billy Joel releases are out, aimed squarely at fans and collectors. First is Piano Man Legacy Edition includes the 10-song original album in its entirety, remastered for this release in addition to a second disc premiering the first-ever release of Billy’s performance at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound Studio on April 15, 1972 (a year prior to his signing with Columbia). Philadelphia Daily News music writer Jon Takiff, an eye-witness to the event, has penned a new essay on the Sigma Sound show for the Legacy Edition of Piano Man.

Also available is the massive The Complete Albums Collection. In addition to offering brand-new remasters of every Billy Joel studio album, Billy Joel – The Complete Albums Collection includes two lavish 60-page booklets, printed lyrics to every Billy Joel composition, a new Q&A with Billy conducted by noted music journalist Steve Morse, and a bonus disc of 17 rare and non-album recordings including “Elvis Presley Boulevard” (B-side of the “Allentown” single, 1982); the live cover version of the Beatles’ “I’ll Cry Instead” (B-side of “An Innocent Man,” 1983); “House Of Blue Light” (B-side of “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” 1989); and “You Picked A Real Bad Time” (B-side of “All About Soul,” 1993). “You’re Only Human (Second Wind)” and “The Night Is Still Young” are outtakes that did not see light of day until 1985. Several tracks on the bonus disc originated as Billy Joel’s contributions to various multi-artist movie soundtracks, notably his covers of the Elvis Presley hits “Heartbreak Hotel” and “All Shook Up,” both from 1992’s Honeymoon In Vegas. Billy covered Lloyd Price’s 1959 hit, “Where Were You On Our Wedding Day,” for the 1999 movie, Runaway Bride, and Duke Ellington’s “In A Sentimental Mood” for A League Of Their Own in 1992. In 1982, Billy Joel contributed his original “Nobody Knows But Me” to In Harmony II, a Columbia LP to benefit Sesame Street/Children’s Television Workshop. Other cover tunes on the bonus disc range from Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My Love” and Leonard Cohen’s “Light as the Breeze” to the Gerry Goffin-Carole King standard “Hey Girl” (Freddie Scott, 1963). In 1991, Billy Joel contributed “When You Wish Upon A Star” to Columbia’s Disney tribute album, Simply Mad About The Mouse. And in 2001, Billy Joel sang the Beach Boys’ “Don’t Worry Baby” at the Radio City Music Hall All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson concert. The exclusive bonus disc included on Billy Joel – The Complete Albums Collection closes with “All My Life,” a 2007 single (which marked Billy’s first newly-written song since 1993’s River of Dreams) now making its first appearance on an album.

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Billy Joel – Piano Man (Legacy Edition)

DISC ONE:

The Original Album

1. Travelin’ Prayer

2. Piano Man

3. Ain’t No Crime

4. You’re My Home

5. The Ballad Of Billy The Kid

6. Worse Comes To Worse

7. Stop In Nevada

8. If I Only Had The Words (To Tell You)

9. Somewhere Along The Line

10. Captain Jack

DISC TWO:

The Sigma Sound Studios Performance

Introduction

Falling

Travelin’ Prayer

The Ballad of Billy the Kid

She’s Got A Way

Everybody Loves You Now

Nocturne

Turnaround

Long, Long Time

Captain Jack

Josephine

Rosalind

Tomorrow is Today

Recorded live in April 1972 at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, PA

Previously unreleased

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The Complete Albums Collection

1. Cold Spring Harbor (1971)

2. Piano Man (1973)

3. Streetlife Serenade (1974)

4. Turnstiles (1976)

5. The Stranger (1977)

6. 52nd Street (1978)

7. Glass Houses (1980)

8. Songs In The Attic (1981)

9. The Nylon Curtain (1982)

10. An Innocent Man (1983)

11. The Bridge (1986)

12. Storm Front (1989)

13. River Of Dreams (1993)

14, Fantasies & Delusions (2001)

15. Collected Additional Masters (1985—2007)

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Contest is over. Winners will be announced soon!

Contest info – read this! You can win this CD. Enter now and be sure to tell us your favorite Billy Joel song. This next part is important: Put your answer in the “Message” field of the online entry form! If you don’t do that, you won’t win. Click on this sentence to enter the contest! Contest ends on November 26, 2011.

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30 Comments

1. Trish

   Posted October 19, 2011 at 12:23 PM

   i LOVE BILLY JOEL!

2. Ken Dugan

   Posted November 2, 2011 at 10:14 PM

   This would make a great gift for my wife! She’s a huge Billy fan.

3. owmonline

   Posted November 2, 2011 at 10:25 PM

   Just a reminder, to enter the contest you’ve gotta click on “Click on this sentence to enter the contest! ” up above…

4. Joanne Willey

   Posted November 3, 2011 at 2:48 AM

   Love Billy Joel! Would love to win this!

5. Marcia Hacker

   Posted November 3, 2011 at 5:41 AM

   An Innocent Man is my favorite, today

6. Shannon W

   Posted November 3, 2011 at 5:47 AM

   love Billy Joel. My first concert ever!

7. Belinda Shaw

   Posted November 3, 2011 at 10:35 AM

   The River of Dreams is my favorite Bily Joel song.

8. ii cange

   Posted November 3, 2011 at 3:29 PM

   I love the song Piano Man. I remember seeing him at a club in Oceanside, Long Island, New York.
   I also remember the brandy snifter with all the tips in it. I said to my friend “This guy is going to be big some day. This was in 1966.

9. robert reilly

   Posted November 3, 2011 at 5:51 PM

   I always loved “downeaster alexa”

10. elliott capon

    Posted November 4, 2011 at 7:48 AM

    “Piano Man” has some poignancy; tho its always funny to him & other millionaires like Springsteen singing about refusing to “move up”

11. Kathy Lakatosh

    Posted November 4, 2011 at 6:09 PM

    very nice prize

12. David Kleinoeder

    Posted November 4, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    Thanks for the giveaway!

13. michelle

    Posted November 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    THIS WOULD BE THE COOLEST THING.

14. Myra Yavitch

    Posted November 6, 2011 at 8:10 AM

    Tomorrw is today- favorite song

15. lyndsey

    Posted November 6, 2011 at 11:24 AM

    this would be great to have in the car! 🙂

16. Chuck

    Posted November 6, 2011 at 3:22 PM

    piano man is my fave.

17. Leah Perkins

    Posted November 6, 2011 at 4:14 PM

    I love all of Billy Joel’s music.

18. Dawn Smith

    Posted November 6, 2011 at 4:31 PM

    Billy Joel is so good!

19. Dawn Smith

    Posted November 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM

    An Innocent Man is my fave!

20. MIKE

    Posted November 8, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    The Entertainer

21. Jenny Draime

    Posted November 9, 2011 at 6:04 PM

    Nice give away, thank you for the opportunity to win this!

22. Jenny Draime

    Posted November 9, 2011 at 6:05 PM

    Piano man is a song that always reminds me of my late father who was a musician 🙂

23. Tammy Gilpin

    Posted November 16, 2011 at 4:27 PM

    You may be right

24. Anita

    Posted November 17, 2011 at 11:19 PM

    Billy Joel is great. I saw him in concert when I was 16 and have loved him since.

25. Troy

    Posted November 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    I hope i win

26. Roz S

    Posted November 20, 2011 at 6:17 PM

    We Didn’t Start The Fire

27. Lacy Tanner

    Posted November 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM

    Long, Long Time is my fave.

28. Joe Buz

    Posted November 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM

    “The Ballad of Billy the Kid”

29. Sheila B

    Posted November 24, 2011 at 7:58 PM

    Keeping The Faith is my favorite Billy Joel song.

30. Amy Woods-Smith

    Posted November 25, 2011 at 12:39 AM

    My favorite Billy Joel song is New York State of Mind. Thank you for entering me in this contest!

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