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Carla B 05-11-2024 10:08 AM

"I Love You Just the Way You Are."

LeRoySmith 05-11-2024 10:17 AM

Moving out and only the Good die Young remind me of vacation for some reason.

JMintzer 05-11-2024 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dusty_Star (Post 2329828)
Captain Jack

The ONLY correct answer!

MorTech 05-30-2024 04:04 AM

You're My Home and Captain Jack are the only songs that don't make me think "Ugh, not another Billy Droll song"

LeRoySmith 05-30-2024 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2330492)
The ONLY correct answer!

For me its just the opposite. I had an uncle that just returned from Vietnam Nam as a junkie, I think he was booted due to drug use. He loved Captain Jack and a few Cat Stevens songs, maybe he thought they ok'd the drug use? In any case, he emptied his head with a 12 gangue in my grandmas house where we were living at the time. So there are a couple of songs from that time period he played nonstop that I don't care for. My grand parents always thought someone helped him do it because of poor drug deals/debts but I think he was just a loon.

Stu from NYC 05-30-2024 09:29 AM

Piano Man for sure

JMintzer 05-30-2024 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by LeRoySmith (Post 2335916)
For me its just the opposite. I had an uncle that just returned from Vietnam Nam as a junkie, I think he was booted due to drug use. He loved Captain Jack and a few Cat Stevens songs, maybe he thought they ok'd the drug use? In any case, he emptied his head with a 12 gangue in my grandmas house where we were living at the time. So there are a couple of songs from that time period he played nonstop that I don't care for. My grand parents always thought someone helped him do it because of poor drug deals/debts but I think he was just a loon.

Maybe?

Sorry about your uncle, but what a way to bring down a fun thread...

LeRoySmith 05-30-2024 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2336005)
Maybe?

Sorry about your uncle, but what a way to bring down a fun thread...

I'm sorry🥺

LeRoySmith 08-18-2024 07:37 AM

Good story about Billy Joel this morning on NBC Sunday sit-down

ThirdOfFive 08-19-2024 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by bgnn54 (Post 2330284)
We didn't start the fire.

Yep. Great song.

My granddaughter tells of a time in high school, when a teacher used the lyrics of this song to teach recent history. She got a good number right but had no clue about "children of thalidomide". When I told her about thalidomide babies of the 50s and 60s she was sort of shocked. Unknown history to her. Part of the lives of most Villagers.

LeRoySmith 08-19-2024 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2361721)
Yep. Great song.

My granddaughter tells of a time in high school, when a teacher used the lyrics of this song to teach recent history. She got a good number right but had no clue about "children of thalidomide". When I told her about thalidomide babies of the 50s and 60s she was sort of shocked. Unknown history to her. Part of the lives of most Villagers.

There's also an old b side song that's very popular with teens/early teens - Vienna. I heard one of them playing it a few weeks ago and I was shocked that they knew it, let alone that its made a big comeback.

Flyers999 12-16-2024 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2330492)
The ONLY correct answer!

I agree. Captain Jack is da man!

One thing about going to a Billy Joel concert, you are going to hear the music you want to hear. Although earlier this year he released his first new song in nearly 20 years.


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