😉 We hired him for a few Bar/Bat Mitzvahs since he was hiding on the Island for awhile! 🤔 Probably met Virginia during that time and found out "those Catholic Girls start much too late".... 😂🤣😂🥰🐰
@@phillychick4196😄 My best friends dad played hockey for the 🏒 NY Islanders back when they 😱 didn't wear Helmets. They'd rent houses in the Summer out on Long Island, The Hamptons, Fire Island. Billy played a few parties for Birthdays, Bat/Bar Mitzvah, but mostly played Bars/Lounges before the first Album had 😳 the Piano player from the Island on SNL singing 'She's Always a Woman to Me'! Same with Bruce Springsteen who was a regular at the Stone Pony. A few players had houses on the Jersey Shore! 😂 The real one, not the fake Jersey on MTV! 😂🤣😂🤣😁🐰
This came out in 1973. I was in college in the late 80s. It was played on the juke box every night in the bars. Everyone would stop what they were doing, link arms, and sing along. Good times. The song stands the test of time.
@@briansmith48 Me either; I always thought it came out in the 80s. I think because the video revived it again. I was shocked to learn it was released in 1973!
I've never heard Billy Joel singing anyone but his own songs. There's a real story behind this song. These are real people he met when he played the piano in a bar.
Released in 1973. Billy writes all his music and lyrics himself. He’s an all around musician, great playing, singing, music and lyrics. The man can do it all. His catalog is a very deep rabbit hole, but well worth diving in. He is very eclectic in his writing so no one particular style. He still gives a great concert at 74.
Nice, Billy Joel is America's Elton John and they toured together for years. Over 30 hits, one of the best selling artist of all time. If you like this song you will love so many others.
Ok son, you hooked me. I say son only because judging by your face you could be one of my grandsons. It wasn't the song that hooked me it was your fair acknowledgement that you do like older songs. Most young people absolutely refuse to listen to older music just because of arrogance, but you're refreshingly different. Your parents should be proud, they did a good job. Personally, I have a whole lineup of songs I'd like to get your reactions to and they've made reactors' legends by pulling in the largest subscribers and unique viewers. Trust me. The first one I'd wish for is by a giant singer, song writer and actor. He's won multiple awards from different genres and Hollywood acclaim. Sadly, being also a pilot he crashed his experimental aircraft in the ocean and died. His name if you haven't already guessed is John Denver and most reactors start with Rocky Mountain High, but if you research John Denver titles you can close your eyes and pick with a dart and be sure to strike gold. Anyway I'm all subscribed and buckled in. Take me home.😊 PS. Love the MLB hat.
I'm a hard core rock and roller who literally cries at the last verse of Piano Man every single f'n time...... not ashamed lol. ( 67 yr old usa rocker)
REAL music from the 70's once again.......now you know what good music sounds like. This is HIGHLY ACCLAIMED BILLY JOEL in his youth. He's written more songs than you can count.
I watched part of a reaction video from a person more interested in hearing themselves talk than hearing the music. I did not Subscribe to them. So glad to see a young man who will keep Rock Rolling...
One of the best song writers of the past century. Try conjuring up the story of a roomful of people in less than 3.5 minutes. Anybodys story. Everybodys story. The local pub or piano bar.
Billy Joel is an immensely talented American treasure. Composer/poet/singer/pianist/storyteller/lyricist; he does it all and he does it exquisitely. His catalogue is deep and diverse and well worth your time to explore it. Nice reaction. Good luck with your channel 🌺✌️
@MollyBoyTV Molly lad bro, I'm glad that you like to listen to old school music by Billy Joel Piano, man. Bro, check out this other song by Billy Joel it's called We didn't start the fire (please react to the official music video). The song has a upbeat somewhat rock music feel mixed with a rhyme rap feel I think but either way it's very catchy and the lyrics are interesting
@@MollyBoyTV Molly lad bro, it's ok to pause the video on and off, that's your way of waiting and wanting to say what you think feel and like about a music video. People will complain but guess bro, pause when you feel like it, if it helps you to understand and analyze a music video, then I say hey, go for it bro, Mad respect for you young lad. Be yourself and don't change bro.
The song is from 1973, but they recorded this video about ten years later. I just recently saw the original video for this song from 1973. It definitely looks like '73 and makes you realize this one is from the 80's. Thanks for listening and sharing, mate! Peace from SF
Yes they're sharing a drink they call "lonelines"... ...but it's better than drinking alone So powerful, chokes me up every time. Billy Joel's lyrics are unreal: He said "Son, can you play me a memory? I'm not really sure how it goes But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete When I wore a younger man's clothes"
This song is about a talented artist who plays in a bar. People are like why are you here? At the end of the day everyone there is still there. Not realizing there own talent, which may not equal his talent but...HE has learned something from it❤❤❤❤
Saw Billy in concert at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles a few years ago. He was amazing! This song was part of his encore and of course all 50,000+ in stadium sang the chorus back to him. Truly incredible.
I fell in love with this song when I was in high school. It’s in my top 5 and has been for decades. It holds its own with my Zeppelin favorites and all of the other really hard stuff that I love.
An Innocent Man. (Lyrics are deep but great meaning) Only The Good Die Young. It's Still Rock And Roll To Me. Billy has soooo many great songs. Incredible song writer.
If you've never heard Billy Joel before this; wow; you are in for a rabbit hole full of musical genius and really entertaining videos, too. I don't know where to start with suggestions. Try some of these: Innocent Man, A Room Of Our Own, Pressure, Tell Her About It, Goodnight Saigon, We Didn't Start The Fire, River of Dreams; You May Be Right, Matter of Trust (really fun video) and New York State of Mind (Old Grey Whistle performance). If you're into mad piano, also from Old Grey Whistle Test, check out Root Beer Rag. Glad you loved this. He's a total badass; lyrics, music, musicianship, piano (including classical) and a performer, too. And what a band as well; masters, all.
So, let's talk about those lyrics a bit. We start out with the old man who can't remember the song, but he knows that it made him feel good when he was younger. And he's still there. And then we're introduced to a series of regulars whose lives are going nowhere they really want to be going. They'll probably still be there thirty or forty years from now when they're the old man's age. And even our piano man is frustrated by his situation and cynical about the praise he's receiving. It's a sad song, but it was insanely popular when it came out, partly because the lyrics are so moving, partly because each character is made recognizable and sympathetic in just a few lines, and partly because the chorus is so rousing that you could "forget about life for a while."
Every song of his you listen to, the lyrics will be awesome. Billy is the man and has a prolific career. So much amazing stuff to choose from. I would recommend the official video for Pressure and the live on Long Island performance of Scenes from an Italian Restaurant. Huge rabbit hole, so get ready.
New York State of MInd is my favorite. He is a nyc guy and played every month at Madison Square Garden. for years so we could all get a chance to see him. Huge catalog. He actually started out at piano bars.
Billy Joel is one of the best singer/songwriters there is. His songs all have deep meanings, and are stories. He plays the piano, and the harmonica when he preforms this live. He is known as the piano man. My favorite song of his is We Didn't Start the Fire. It is a history lesson of things that happened from his birth to forty years later. My favorite album of his is Glass Houses.
I was visiting friends in Miami several years ago and saw him in concert on a Saturday night, at around 9pm he sang “it’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday”, for a second people didn’t notice it, then I screamed *YEAH!* and the whole place went 🦇 💩 crazy. It felt GREAT! It was a great concert.
This is one of the three songs that I can't listen to anymore because the hit too close to home for comfort. Every time I get to the part where he speaks of the barman I break down in tears. Masterpiece
This song was released in 1974 . One of his first huge hits . Great storytelling ballad. If you want to hear a great Billy Joel song watch the official video for " Matter of Trust". you will love it .
Billy wrote this song himself, and it was release in 1973. Billy Joel had a contract dispute and took some time off from touring, but he loved playing and performing so he played in a piano bar under a fake name. This experience inspired him to write this song and it was a massive hit on his next album after his contract dispute was resolved. Note especially the lyric, "Man -- What are you doing here?" Some of his fans ran into him while he was doing the piano bar work and were shocked to see such a big star play in such a tiny bar.
Sorry, not trying to be a dick here as you have most of the details right but the "man what are you doing here" line was more about customers recognising that Billy had too much talent to just be playing piano in a bar rather than they were fans recognising him, which he had to do to make ends meet and his wife at the time was waitressing there too......"And the waitress is practising politics". He only did the job for six months after his debut album flopped due to the master tapes being recorded at the wrong speed and so it made his voice sound too high-pitched. The album did not sell well and he was not really famous at the time of playing piano in the bar, in order for anyone to recognise him.
There are so many songs by Billy Joel that you could listen to. My Life, You May Be Right, Big Shot,River of Dreams ,Moving Up ......,..the list is long and worth a listen
It's good to see a young fella appreciating great music from days gone by. As far as I'm concerned you don't need a great deal of talking to do a great reaction, it's all in your face. So just trust yourself and let the music guide your reaction.
I was 14 when this was released. The music is so layered it took me years to sort out all the instruments he's playing. Aside from the piano and harmonica, you can hear a concertina, a hand held squeeze box, similar in sound but softer than the harmonica. And a zither, a very high pitched stringed instrument. Those two are so seamlessly blended in it takes multiple listens to catch them as individual sounds. I'm still probably missing other subtitles.🧓😎💖
Sorry not trying to nitpick here but it is an accordion rather than a concertina, but I appreciate they do sound very much alike when you can only hear them rather than see someone playing them.
@@seanscanlon9067 I don't consider it a nitpick, but I've never heard an accordion played so piano. It's not something associated much with the South, so I've only heard it played forte on TV and in movies. And yes, I was listening to the Dr Demento Show when Weird Al introduced Another One Rides the Bus. But a piano forte accordion in the background of Piano Man is delicious. I'm just guessing about the zither, too. It's just too hard and crisp for the mandolin. The only zither music I really know well is from the theme song and score from The Third Man, a film by Orsen Wells and Joseph Cotton. I grew up on country music so I'm better suited to talk about something like a dobro and it's electric love child the steel guitar.
@@dionysiacosmos Piano Man could be considered Billy's country album, even if not by the title track. The personnel on the album lists Michael Omartian on accordion and he has also been the producer on albums by Clint Black, Debby Boone, Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton, and Trisha Yearwood. Eric Weissberg plays banjo, pedal steel guitar and he released the single Dueling Banjos and has worked with Doc Watson, Bob Dylan, Jim Croce, and John Denver, although they might be considered more folk than country. One of the tracks on the Piano Man album has a bluegrass sound to it and was covered by Dolly Parton and is called Travelin' Prayer. Another song on the album is called You're My Home and sounds like something John Denver might have recorded, with a country folk sound and there's another song on there called Stop in Nevada that John Anderson covered and another song called The Ballad of Billy the Kid that sounds like a western movie soundtrack. I am actually from London, England myself and so not exactly a hotbed of country music but I have always just liked the genre anyway.
React to Billy Joel’s songs.. Goodnight Saigon, New York State of mind, Just the way you are, only the good die young, Honesty. Billy has an endless list due to his 50 year career but the ones on this list are classics
Joel was in a contract dispute with his record company .......so he went back to playing piano and singing in an LA piano bar .hence this song ....most of Joels songs are autobiographical ......his UPTOWN girl was written about his soon to be wife , supermodel Christie Brinkley .......
You should listen to "We Didn't Start the Fire". Totally different song, almost rap. And he actually has a new song out, first one in decades devoted to his fans, or maybe a woman, it can be taken either way. It's called "Did I Wait Too Long."
54 year old leo/virgo cusper. I fell in love with Billy when I got the Still RnR to Me 45 single. His music is timeless. I hope I get to see him live soon
I know you said you weren’t saying that much but I think a person can get more out of a song if they listen to it and don’t stop it a lot. I likes your reaction because you listened to it. I don’t ever look at the long reactions because they stop the music way too much! I liked yours! 🙂
Billy Joel is one of my favourite memories - every song is a gem, with an amazing voice. It's SO good to see a young man enjoying my generations music and enjoying and appreciating it too!
The fact you said you like older music, means you have got such a library of work to go through for this channel. Well done again. Billy is a cool dude, and married a top model too, so you may want to research that :) But loads of his music to go through
I recommend Billy Joel singing "In a New York State of Mind". You will be impressed I think. Oh, I forgot to mention he writes all his own songs. He's kinda the Elton John of the USA? My personal feeling.
#TrueStory 🤣 I was at 1 of those Bat Mitzvah he talks about in 'Only The Good Die Young'! 😏 He's right "those Catholic Girls start 😉 much too late. 🤷🏿♀️ But sooner or later, 🤔 it comes down to fate. 🤗 I might as well be the one!" 🤭 Dang this brings back memories, yo....! 😄🥰🐰 6:01
Stardom! No Metal release today, not a problem. Perfect opportunity to dig into the archives. I wish the classic rock reactions had better views for you Molly. Would love to see you checkout Rush, UFO, Supertramp, Budgie, Cream and a handful of others. IMO they are worth listening to even if you can’t make a reaction video for them. Keep up the nice work Molly, it’s paying off🤘
7th best selling artist all time in the US via album sells, 3M units behind Michael Jackson and 7M ahead of Elton John. 4th best selling solo artist if that matters. Amazing song writer. Less popular outside of the US. Sold over $1B worth of tickets in his career.
