This was Joel's breakthrough hit, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Top 40 in 1978. I consider session players some of the best musicians anywhere. I plan on making a special page and do articles on session players. If the money part is true, many session players may not be paid fair while playing on dozens of hit records. I also read the figure he received for laying down that solo, with no royalties. Sadly, Phil Woods, one of the greatest jazz alto saxophonists of the past 60 years, died in September, 2015. Phil Woods, a prominent Jazz player, played the alto saxophone for this song on the original recording and turns in some incredibly smooth sax work on the song. This song features the Fender Rhodes electric keyboard, which originally was a funky jazz instrument, but by the mid seventies it became the hallmark of a lot of excessively sentimental ballads. It took me maybe two or three hours to write the lyrics."Ī few Tid-bits you may not know about this song. And I said, I have to go!' I got home and I ended up writing it all in one sitting, pretty much. A couple of weeks later, I'm in a business meeting, and the dream reoccurs to me right at that moment because my mind had drifted off from hearing numbers and legal jargon. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and going, This is a great idea for a song. Joel was interviewed by USA Today and told them. Just The Way You Are - "I dreamt the melody." That's all Billy needed to convince him the song was good enough. Recording studio to hear the song, and of course they loved it, and Ramone brought Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow into the We were sitting around listening to it going.naaah, that's a chick song." JoelĬredits his producer, Phil Ramone, with convincing him that it was a
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Joel confirmed on an Australian TV show in 2006: "We almost didn't put it on an album. After the song was recorded, Billy didn't think much of it and thought it would only get played at weddings.
The song was recorded in 1977 and won Grammys for the "Song of the Year" and "Record of The Year" in 1978. This song is my favorite of all his songs. Billy Joel is an amazing composer and performer and Joel's gift to his wife was similar to what Buddy Hollyĭid for his wife when he recorded "True Love Ways" in her presence as a The Billy Joel oldies music lyrics to the song "Just The Way YouĪre," was written by Joel for his first wife, and gave it to her as a
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