He knocked me out! BILLY JOEL Zanzibar REACTION - First time hearing
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- BILLY JOEL Zanzibar REACTION - First time hearing
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The first song I'd ever heard by Billy Joel was "My Life". A few weeks later I bought the 52nd Street Album. Can you imagine. A 14 year old german boy, listen to a very american songwriter. It blew me away. All the songs on this album are so - american, in a good way.
Like the Beatles, Billy Joel is a lifetime companion for me. In good and bad days - since 1978.
52nd was my first BJ album I’ve heard and I was 12 years old. I was blown away! I had to learn the piano and start writing songs after being inspired by 52nd street album!
I'm going to see him next Friday night at Minute Maid park in Houston! I can't wait. My all-time favorite writer and performer. It's my third time to see him.
Enjoy, I’m envious. I’m going into withdrawal. Saw him a lot after covid, but its been a few months and he’s no where close. Last one I saw was at Notre Dame. No more trips to MSG for me this year. Hoping he’ll pick up another Fl date after the first of the year. He’s down there anyway may as well play. 🤞🏻
@@jamishops Spare a thought for us fans in the UK who only get a chance to see him years apart, although I have been going since the 80s whenever he comes to London. 😄
@@seanscanlon9067 I know. I do recognize how fortunate I am to be able to see him so often. Really wish I was closer to NYC though. How great that he’s going to Australia and NZ though maybe London will be next.
I saw him last March in Florida and he absolutely still has it. Sounds great, and tons of energy.
Billy Joel with his jazz, blues and rock influences - not to mention his originality ... He almost defies genre.
For me he's a music chameleon with a style all his own.
That "52nd Street" album is complete. I think you have done the entire 1st side; "Big Shot", "Honesty", "My Life" and now "Zanzibar". The 2nd side is equally fantastic!
Flawless album, as is Stranger.
One of my all time favorite albums.
Love you and your channel so let me help you as a native New Yorker: Shea Stadium is home to the New York Mets, rivals to the Yankees, whose fans despise one another -- though not in the sort violent way we sometimes see with English football clubs. Joel wrote this at a time the Yankees were both successful but filled with controversy, led be a megalomaniac as owner, a violent drunk as manager, and with at least one player with the ego the size of the Empire State Building.
52nd Street was Joel's jazziest album, my personal; favorite of all his great albums, and Zanzibar was not a single only because the album was packed with hits: My Life (charted #3), Big Shot (charted 14) and Honest (charted 24 and nominated for a grammy) and they were the first three tracks with Zanzibar the fourth on the first side. The second side is just as brilliant: Stiletto (tight banger(, Rosalinda's Eyes (beautiful tribute to his mother), Half a Mile Away (jazzy banger with some great brass), Until the Night (beautiful, solemn anthem) and 52nd Street (perhaps the weakest track, not because it wasn't great but because it seemed incomplete).
The chorus to Zanzibar went viral a couple of years ago on Tik-tok. The original, studio track featured an all-time great jazz trumpet player, Freddie Hubbard. Freddie blows away the guy who plays in the live concert at Shea and the band as a whole is much tighter and punchier. There's even a studio version not on the album but later released that plays the entirety of Freddie's solos rather than fading out about 10% of the way in. Definitely worth a listen: ruclips.net/video/0OdcmnlYimA/видео.html
yup - old red sox fan here - don't remind me of '78. the biggest collapse in sox history. 14 1/2 game lead over the yanks in august only to lose again and again till they were only 4 games ahead before a 4 game yankees series. the boston massacre ensued and then - wait for it - bucky dent in the one game playoff ! took us till 04 to get our revenge as the tables were turned with the best comeback ever. i don't hate the yanks like i did with billy martin , thurman munson mickey rivers and of course reggie. i am actually behind them this year to go all the way. big fan of aaron. how things change !
I live in Flushing but I’m a Yankees fan.
@@sopdox But unlike a Mets fan living in the Bronx, your life isn't in danger.
the great thing about Billy Joel - even his lesser known songs are superb in their own way
I saw BJ for the first time in San Antonio, TX in '79 on the "52nd Street Tour". They could have released every song on that album as singles. Excellent selection and a BJ favorite of mine, Jami A!
I saw that concert in Oklahoma City. My daughter found my 52nd Street t-shirt a couple of years ago and thought it was cool enough to wear to school. which of course it still is.
@@bennychristensen4314 That's so cool. I live in Austin. My sister and brother-in-law saw BJ in Austin in the fall of '78. They raved about the show. So, when I saw he was back in San Antonio the following spring, my pal and I made the 90-mile drive down there. As good a concert as I have ever seen.
You are right. Rock music is all about the album. You heard a song or 2 on the radio that you liked. Then saved up, bought the album and listened end to end while studying the cover art...yes, I'm old.
I’m old, too! 🙌
Great reaction video to what I consider to be among the top three "jazzy" Billy Joel compositions and performances. Just adore that trumpet solo; can't get enough!
52nd Street (like The Stranger) are fantastic! I turned my daughter and nieces (23 yr olds) on to those albums and they absolutely went crazy for them. So good.
This is an *amazing* song. I love the way he mixes sports metaphors with his love story. He goes with boxing: "Ali dances and the audience applauds... Ali, don't you go downtown. You gave away another round for free." Then he goes baseball: "[Pete] Rose he knows he'll never make the Hall of Fame [famously, he was banned for betting on his own games]." Then he contrasts with his bad luck picking up dates in a bar. "Me, I'm trying just to get to second base [in dating]. And I'd steal it if she only gave the sign [mixing metaphors for stealing bases in baseball]." And the jazz riffs are incredible. It's such a mood.
For your next Billy Joel, may I recommend "Stiletto" and "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway)."
She’s gonna pull her panties down for me.😂
On the album the line was Rose he knows he such a credit to the game.
Always been my favorite song off of 52nd Street.
Unlike other singers Billy's age, he still has a fine voice not to mention his piano playing. Thanks Harri
He does, but quite understandably he has dropped the key down for some of his songs and is now why he has being doing the high notes on An Innocent Man himself, after years of various backing singers having to do so for him.
I’m lucky enough to live in NYC so I can see his residencies at Madison Square Garden - 3x already and each show is different yet still amazing! Different set lists and sometimes a surprise guest!
The only thing better than Billy Joel stripped down to a bare piano, is Billy Joel with a full orchestra. The trumpet is beautiful and the bass line addictive.
Another classic. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Jami. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Not an orchestra though. It's his band.
I’m sure that is what Billy was seeing. In every concert you see him look around like that with joy and amazement on his face that all these people are here to see him. 52nd Street in NYC was once a jazz club mecca and when Billy wrote this jazz influenced album he aptly named it 52nd Street. The incomparable Freddie Hubbard played the trumpet on the album, but Carl does a mean version as well. Billy plays this at every concert currently and Carl is still there with him. This song also got well known to the younger crowd when it became a Tiktok sensation with a dance put to it. Thanks Harri. Excellent as always.
Excellent choice Jami. This man has no bad songs at all.✌️
Absolutely. I have trouble deciding what to request because there are soooo many great ones. Lol
Not only do I know this song well, I know the whole album very well. I fell the best song on the album is an album track 'Until the Night'. You will love the studio version.
I’m going to request this for Oct. I’ve been debating whether to request the audio from the album or the Live from Long Island video. Any thoughts?
@@jamishops the live version from Long Island 1982 is better imo
Saw him in concert back in the day, wasn't a huge stadium but more like a city civic center place...maybe basketball arena...great show and atmosphere back in the day and that album is a treasure too, so many great songs on it.
Some of Billy's best stuff is on Side B of his albums. "Stiletto", "All For Leyna" and "Sleeping With the Television On" are some of my favorite deep cuts!
I just went to his concert 2 days ago in Columbus, Ohio. There were 62000 people there. He played this song, as a trumpet player this guy blows me away. But Billy Joel is amazing live, and his non single songs are his best songs, in my opinion
Got to see him live back in the late 70s, and it was the BEST concert ever. He just kept playing and singing... for 3 hours straight!! He would sing, talk a bit, and do another song. No real order, just like sitting around the living room with an old friend as he played his favorites. He is still amazing!!
One of Billy’s best and from one of my favorite album, 52nd street.Yes every song is great and that is exactly as it was with many outstanding artists back in the 1970’s.Billy Joel I’d ms NY and New York is Billy Joel.
52nd Street and The Stranger were amazing albums! For several years, he was probably the world's greatest songwriter.
Truth!
2 of my 3 favorite albums. Add Storm Front and then you have some of Billy Joel’s best works.
So much talent on that stage. Saw Dizzy in a small club in London in the late 70s.
52nd Street is one of my all time favorite albums. Every song is great. A good friend gave me the 8-track for my 16th birthday in 1978, and I played it all the way through more times than I can count. As soon as it was made available on CD, I bought it, and it was one of the first albums that I loaded on my first smart phone. After 45 years, I'm still listening to it!
Saw Billy 4 times and he was far far better live. He was the entertainer
Another reason Billy's got that joyful look in hisbface as he looked around the stadium was cos The Beatles famously PLAYED at Shea...
One of his greatest songs! No doubt!
We always listened to albums in their entirety back then. Billy Joel was one of a handful of artists who you could count on to not a single bit of filler on any of his albums. Not one.
Incredible song..Thank you Harri
52nd St was the 2nd album I ever owned (after Kiss) and I played it on my little record player in my bedroom until I almost wore the grooves out. I have been a Billy Joel fan ever since. A true American legend!
Freddie Hubbard played trumpet on the studio album track. That said, this trumpeter does a badass job live! Ali is Muhamed Ali.
He still sells out the garden. Sold out when I went last month. New Yorkers love him and every song he ever made.
He's our homie💞
One of the best songs and a true hidden gem of my favourite artist. Thank you ! I think you will discover another song you'll love if you react to "Summer Highland Falls" - live from the same concert !
Harri has previously reacted to the live version from Songs in the Attic of Summer Highland Falls.
One of his best! ❤
Hello how are you doing, it's nice meeting you on here.
he said it wasnt a hit single but was on the 52nd Street album from 1978. Back then hit songs were also made on 45 single records and then an alternative track that wasnt on the album were on the B side of the 45. Early day version of buying single Itune songs
One of my Favorite Billy Joel songs. And yes, this was just an album track.
Absolutely fantastic
I got this 52 st tape in 78... I was in boot camp...great stuff. ... still good today. ....
This song has couple of interesting bits of recent trivia. It became a TikTok sensation during the lockdowns, and surprised Joel when they went back to doing live shows with huge crowd reactions. He's changed the one verse that mentions Pete Rose "Rose, he knows he'll never make the Hall of Fame", used to be: "Rose, he knows he's such a credit to the game". Obviously the song was written while Pete rose was perhaps the best player in baseball, well before the gambling scandals that ruined his name. Joel created this song title first. He wrote the Jazz music and called it Zanzibar, before he had any lyrics or a story. According to an interview in 2016, Joel credits long time producer Phil Ramone for coming up with the idea of a bar named Zanzibar.
Love this song!
So marvelous!
My favourite Billy Joel track. I didn't believe it possible for it to sound as good in a Live performance. How wrong I was. Absolutely unreal musicianship. Massive sound and not surprised it takes a band of that size to recreate such genius.
Io lo so da oltre 40 anni ... Ogni canzone un gioiello diverso e dal vivo ancora meglio 🎹👏
I had not seen this one. Thanks.
The whole 52nd Street album is a vibe!!!!
There were, back then, a lot of songs on most artists records that weren’t “radio releases”, so at the time many songs were just present, or what seemed like filler material. It’s been the decades between then and today that those filler songs seemed to grow legs of their own, and today they run along beside the songs that were once the only songs good enough for radio release.
This composition is dope.
more Billy... how about Stiletto or pressure please
He has done Pressure and Stiletto is on my list to request soon. Love the beat in it.
Great song. Fun watching you experience it. Dan Fogelberg, NETHERLANDS!
I love Dan. I’ll put it in as an Oct request. Run for The Roses should be coming up this month.
I used to own the Album this song was on...Great take Harri
He was makin that horn speak brother...Wow!...Thanks Harri great source material🤣
On the album it was the great Freddie Hubbard on the flugelhorn and trumpet.
One of the many masterpieces from his best album, IMHO...the 52nd Street album is still fresh, still interesting, 44 years later
I love Until the Night and Rosalinda's Eyes off the same album
Hello how are you doing, it's nice meeting you on here.
@@billyjoel6452 In complete shock at the moment
My memory often fails me, but I think I had this album back in the day. If so, I don't remember this cut, but that doesn't mean I never heard it, just that it's gone from my memory. Be that as it may, hearing it with effectively new ears, there seems to be a Steely Dan type feel in select places of the song.
Lots of gems, few fillers...
Billy Joel's albums are like lasagna. The great stuff is on the outside, the better stuff is on the inside. This album, 52nd Street, has an interesting story. Here's the Wikipedia paragraph about it: Additionally, the album is notable for being among the first albums commercially released on the compact disc format, reaching store shelves on October 1, 1982 in Japan (it was one of fifty CDs released that day, including The Stranger, but bore the first catalogue number in the sequence, 35DP-1, and so is frequently cited as the first to be released). In keeping with this history, it was also the first release when Sony returned to manufacturing vinyl records in 2018.
Only the good die young is one of his awesome songs 🎵
Its on my request list for next month.
No, he said it wasn't a hit single on the radio. But it was on "52nd Street."
Gotta do Billy Joel the Allentown music video he plays acoustic guitar…also Green Day wake me up when September ends
52nd Street is my favorite album. Not a bad song on it.
You're right. There's not such thing as a bad Billy Joel track
My fave by him is "Honesty", one of his lesser known songs, but I'm a b-side kinda girl.
Lesser known? 🤔 "Honesty" was a single and nominated for a Grammy. Made the Top 40.
@@Prof_Jeff But how often is it played on the radio now?
Harry listen to the album track because the trumpet play was 1,000 times better it's absolutely amazing!!!!
Blessings
You want another great one? Try “Until The Night” , from the same album
Tutti gioielli quelli di Piano Man ... Cmq io adoro Leave tender moment alone live con Tootsie Thielemans... Fenomenale 👏👏👏👏👏👏
8:26 was Billy doing his Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation for Carl Fisher, The Trumpinator.
The 52nd Street album is tremendous...I was 12 and wore it out!!
Awesome choice, but nothing beats the studio version of any of Billy's songs....need to listen to him in his prime....Did you know he writes the music first and then the lyrics?...opposite of what most musicians do.....another unknown gem from 52nd St. is 'Stiletto'...give it a listen....
You should do yourself a favor and listen to the entire 52nd street album. A masterpiece. As good as the trumpeter is here Freddie Hubbard who played the original is even better.
Hello from Germany! I love your channel. Could you please play : "Feel the benefit" from 10 cc? They were a great band in the 70s !! Thanks a lot! Michael
Oh Harri, Shea stadium is home of the NY Mets, Yankee stadium is home to...da Yankees.
Can you do a reaction to Joey and Rory doing When I am gone. Joey got cancer shortly after this song and died.
Shea Stadium home of the Mets, not the Yankees, who of course play in Yankee Stadium.
The album 52nd Street didn't have a bad song on it.