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Part Jerry Lee Lewis, part George Gershwin, piano man Billy Joel combines Tin Pan Alley craftsmanship, rock-&-roll fervor, and a keen sense of...
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Uptown ManLOCATION: Home, Racine, WIYEAR: 1984TAGS: first record, familyPUBLISHED: February 1, 2008My first record of my own was Billy Joel’s “An Innocent Man,” which I received about Christmas of 1984.
Billy Joel was someone I had never heard of except for the fact that I knew his song, “My Life” was the Bosom Buddies theme song(a series starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari). "My Life" wasn’t on the album, but a new hit, "Uptown Girl" was on there. I watched Friday night Videos a lot and would see the “Uptown Girl” video all the time. Beautiful Christie Brinkley was the “Uptown Girl,” and Billy Joel was the “downtown man” mechanic, trying to woo the “white bread girl” from her privileged world. And it worked, in the video and in real life(for a few years at least). I was intrigued with his music and how he could go from a melody, to a bridge and then a middle part and back to the start, all within a few seamless key changes and his rock and rolling and sometimes, very melodic and beautiful voice.
My dad and my brother and I would all sing the albums lyrics in the basement, sitting at the bar. We had a record player at this point and the speakers were hung within the ceiling(dad’s idea). The record came with the words on a sheet and we would look at them while rocking away to “Uptown Girl,” or “For the Longest Time” or “Christie Lee.” We would do this many times until we had heard the album all the way through once or twice. It was always a fond memory for me, playing and singing along with records with my dad and family.
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