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UPTOWN GIRL BILLY JOEL CHRISTIE BRINKLEY FULL
The piano is very difficult to hear on the track, as it is drowned out by the full band, but it consists of simple triads played on each beat by the right hand, with left hand bass notes played in slightly syncopated rhythm. So simple in fact, it took very little effort for me, a rather poor pianist, to learn pretty much the entire song. Despite Billy Joel's phenomenal piano playing skills (when he was young, he would amaze family friends by playing great tunes on a damaged piano with half the keys broken - he would simply "play around them"!), the main piano part to "Uptown Girl" is fairly simple. The song is in the key of E-major, and shifts to the C-major key in the chorus. The lyrics are also pretty clear and easy to remember. The song is catchy, and easy and fun to sing or whistle along to. The song has backing vocal harmonies throughout, which Billy Joel drew inspiration for from Frankie Hall and the Four Seasons, a group Joel loved when he was young. "Uptown Girl" is one of those easily recognisable songs, particularly with respect to the opening harmonies, which are repeated at various points throughout the song. This cover was ok, but fails to live up to the original, as with so many covers of great songs.
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The attention "Uptown Girl" recieves has recently been bolstered by the Westlife cover of it in the UK in 2001. His career had been quite successful over the previous ten years to this point, but "Uptown Girl" really caught the attention of the mass record buying public. " Uptown Girl" is probably Billy Joel's best-known song, taken from his highly successful 1983 album " An Innocent Man".
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After the cops set their batons to "stun", Homer tells Munchie and Seth to sing their rebel song, and breaks into a slow, heartfelt rendition of Uptown Girl. Later on in the episode, after Homer uses Munchie and Seth's marijuana crop to complete their organic juice order, the cops come to bust them. Munchie and Seth are listening to the staple 60's acid music when Homer asks if he can put on something that will really blow their minds. When they reluctantly agree, they pile into Munchie's Saturn and hit the road. He convinces Munchie and Seth to go on an old-fashion freak-out with him. They proceed to tell him about how his mother took him to Woodstock.Īfter that, Homer decides to get back to his hippy roots. When he arrives there, he's met by Munchie ( George Carlin) and Seth ( Martin Mull). In "D'oh-in' in the Wind", when Homer is filling out a form and realizes he doesn't know his middle name, Abe (grandpa) takes him to the hippy commune that Homer's mother ran away to. I am just going to chalk it all up to the fact that this video was released in 1983.Uptown Girl is also Homer Simpson's rebel song.
UPTOWN GIRL BILLY JOEL CHRISTIE BRINKLEY DRIVER
PS: I don’t know what to make of the fact that the only black people in this video are the driver (who’s mean-mugging the whole time) and the two teenage boys randomly break-dancing in the workshop. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and not that I would know, but I imagine it is one of Billy Joel’s signature hits. (Sidebar: That link includes an interesting anecdote about Elle Macpherson - who dated Billy Joel before Brinkley - and a then-unknown Whitney Houston, who was new to the modeling game and just a few years away from pop superstardom.) However, according to Joel, the song was inspired by a number of different women and was initially titled “Uptown Girls.” Christie Brinkley, who would marry Billy Joel a few years later, plays the title character in the music video and is widely thought to be the inspiration of the song. “Uptown Girl” is a doo-wop song - hence why I love it so much - about a beautiful, classy, “uptown” girl who happens to be the object of a “backstreet” guy’s affection. For whatever it’s worth, I’ve always thought his live cover of the Beach Boys’ “Don’t Worry Baby” (a song I love) was amazing and possibly better than the original.Īnyway, back to the matter at hand. For someone with such an impressive discovery, I think it’s interesting that more of his music never made it onto my radar.
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Today is Billy Joel’s 70th birthday, and it also happens to be a Thursday, so there is no better opportunity to post the one and only Billy Joel song I know - thanks in large part to Irish boy band, Westlife.