Silver Bells by Paul Simon & Steve Martin 

I love these two men so much. They both bring so much joy.

Steve Martin is awesome. I play this every christmas.

I wish there was a good recording of this song. Every year I look and this is one of the three same ones. No one.wwits til Steve Martin starts lol

Billy Joel is playing the piano! And singing the harmony! It was produced by the legendary Phil Ramone, who was at the time producing Billy Joel's upcoming album (and who had produced Paul Simon in the past). They met at a restaurant, and were all four schnockered when they recorded this, at the same studio where Billy Joel and Phil were working.

*sigh* I miss Mark and Brian.

These two were on the Jimmy Fallon show last week. They did an impromptu duet on banjo and guitar. It was pretty incredible.

Damn uncle Walt.. You were supposed to bring me back some more eggnog

It reminds me of me Uncle Del Ray when he was home for that week on probation:))) Ahh the good Day.

My father-in-law wrote "Silver Bells" and I have never heard it before. Very funny! Livingston and Evans would have enjoyed the humor.

I love this skit, thanks for posting it!

An excerpt from a tribute to Phil Ramone by Billy Joel, published in Rolling Stone April 3, 2013 "Another time it was Christmas and we went out to dinner at this place called Wally’s on the West Side. It was a famous hang at the time. We’re having a dinner, and we’re having some wine, and nobody’s feeling any pain, and we’re sitting with Paul Simon and Steve Martin. Now my recording sessions were at A&R studios, and the studio time was still booked we were just out eating. I think I said, “You know I’ve got a studio that’s available if you guys wanna go do something.” So Steve and Paul said, “OK, let’s go make a Christmas record.” So we go in the studio and it’s about midnight. Steve Martin is scribbling some notes . Paul’s got a guitar and I think I’m playing the piano. We start singing “Silver Bells.” Steve Martin is doing this monologue, “What Christmas means to me!” It’s become this underground recording. Somehow it got out. I don’t know if I have a copy of it, but I guess I’d have to look it up. Somewhere in the archives I have a copy of this thing, but a lot of the FM stations would play it on Christmas-time. It was kind of like a Derek and Clive moment. But stuff like that happened with Phil."

he really does. i was just hearing about how there's autotune and such routinely used then heard a song by simon and just thought, he is always dead on, such a talent.

the "odds" were with me

There is a 3rd voice in the background at 1:30 , that one is Billy Joel.

Billy Joel just mentioned this recording in a eulogy he wrote for Phil Ramone in Rolling Stone. Phil produced this recording and that's Billy playing piano and singing harmony with Paul Simon!

it couldn't possibly NOT be odds..lool

someone told me that was Billy Joel on Piano and singing harmony

That escalated quickly, I mean that got out of hand real fast!

Egg Nog and Tequila...yummy!

@jatwell55 Confirmed in the Nov 15 2001 issue of American Way magazine, the in-flight mag for American Airlines. (You can look it up online.) Billy Joel tells the story as the wrapup of his interview about where to go in NY. For the record, it apparently is unrelated to SNL, even though it's the kind of thing they'd've loved.

damn uncle walt.. damn.

Because you can never have enough eggnog!

is that Richard Tee on piano? I only say that because it sounds similar to him in S&G's "Concert in Central Park"

this really feels like Michael O'Donoghue's writing ...

@jatwell55 Where did you hear that?

sounds like him

haha, a time for egg nog and rum...

I knew Steve Martin had a taste for incest! XD Paul Simon is amazing too.

eggnog martini? hum

Go to website americanwaymag / christmas-paul-simon-steve-martin-st-regis-new-york

"rum". . .

This is crap.