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| Piano Man
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| Album by Billy Joel
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| Released
| November, 1973
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| Recorded
| ???
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| Genre
| Rock
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| Length
| 42 min 51 sec
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| Record label
| Columbia
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| Producer
| Michael Stewart
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| Professional reviews
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| AMG
| 4/5
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| Billy Joel Chronology
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Cold Spring Harbor
( 1971)
| Piano Man
( 1973)
| Streetlife SerenadeStreetlife Serenade was Billy Joel's third album, and his second with Columbia Records. Streetlife Serenade was released in 1974 (see 1974 in music), after the hit songs "Piano Man" and "Captain Jack" from the album Piano Man''. While the album did not en
( 19741974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). Events January-February January 5 Dungeons & Dragons officially released. February 4 Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped)
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Piano Man is a popDepending on context, pop music is either an abbreviation of popular music or, more recently, a term for a sub- genre of it. The subgenre of pop is perhaps the most widely crowd-pleasing form of all popular music. The defining musical characteristics of t album by Billy Joel, released in 1973 (see 1973 in musicSee also 1972 in music, other events of 1973, 1974 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' Events January-February January 9 Mick Jagger's request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug bust, putting an abrupt end to T). The title track is one of Joel's signature songs, and remains a concert standard. Piano Man, Joel's second album and his first with Columbia Records, emerged out of legal difficulties with his former label and became his breakthrough album.
The single "Piano Man", a fictionalized retelling of Joel's days as a lounge singer in Los AngelesThis article is about the city in California. For other uses of 'Los Angeles' see Los Angeles (disambiguation The City of Los Angeles widely known by its abbreviation L. is a large coastal metropolis in Southern California in the western United States., peaked at #25 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, and at #4 on the Adult Contemporary singles chart. "Travelin' Prayer" and "Worse Comes to Worst" peaked at #77 and #80, respectively, on the Pop Singles chart, while the album hit #27 on the Pop Albums chart.
1 Track listing
all songs by Billy Joel
- "Travelin' Prayer" - 4:10
- "Piano Man" - 5:37
- "Ain't No Crime" - 3:20
- "You're My Home" - 3:14
- "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" - 5:35
- "Worse Comes to Worst" - 3:28
- "Stop in Nevada" - 3:40
- "If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You)" - 3:35
- "Somewhere Along the Line" - 3:17
- "Captain Jack" - 6:55
2 Personnel
- Billy Joel - harmonica, keyboards, vocals
- Larry Carlton - guitar
- Eric Weissberg - banjo
- Billy Armstrong - violin
- Richard Bennett - guitar
- Rhys Clark - drums
- Laura Creamer - vocals
- Mark Creamer - vocals
- Wilton Felder - bass, keyboards
- Emory Gordy - bass
- Fred Heilbrun - banjo
- Michael Omartian - accordion
- Dean Parks - guitar
- Susan Steward - vocals
- Ron Tutt - drums
