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Billy Joel - 52nd Street


Billy Joel
52nd Street

    Perhaps Joel's best album, this 1978 release includes the hits "Big Shot" and "My Life" (AKA the Bosom Buddies TV theme). Named after the New York jazz center and produced by the sleek crossover cat Phil Ramone, 52nd Street features a number of fine musicians, including jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.

On 52nd Street and The Stranger, Billy Joel is the quintessential postrock entertainer:a vaudevillian piano man and mimic who, having come of age in the late Sixties, has the grasp of rock and the technical know-how to be able to caricature both Bob Dylan and the Beatles as well as "do" an updated Anthony Newley, all in the same Las Vegas format. Joel seems
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to have been born knowing what many Seventies pop stars have had to find out the hard way: that rock & roll was always part of show business. Being a pianist (and a bravura one), he's also been more aware than many of his guitar-based peers that rock has always been a species of popular music and not a totally separate art form.

A bantam, hyperkinetic Rocky Balboa onstage, Joel works audiences into a lather of adulation with the snappy calculation of a borsch-belt ham. As cockily aggressive as Sammy Davis Jr., he lards his performances with schtick that usually includes impersonations of such genre greats as Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, et al. In the past, I've been hostile to this artist's feisty bravado, to the competitive edge of these impersonations, to Joel's strutting himself off as a rock & roll winner, because his blithe lampoons of rock icons have looked suspiciously like the blandishments of a spiritual impostor.

But in all fairness, Billy Joel has never pretended to be more than the consummate showman that he is, and his charades contain a great deal of humor. Besides, times have changed. The late Seventies are not very conducive to rock shamanism. And Joel is very much a phenomenon of the times: an urban realist in the age of gossip mongering and the sinking dollar, a cynical ultraprofessional in a booming culture racket, the artistic standards of which are now almost completely determined by mass-market technologies.

Neither a great singer nor a great writer, Billy Joel is a great show-business personality in the tradition of Al Jolson. The same qualities that distinguish his schtick also distinguish his singing–bluntness, brashness, a middle- to lower-middle-class fringe urbanity and plenty of heart. Joel's is a sidewalk voice from the chorus of West Side Story, vending chutzpah. His complete lack of vocal subtlety, though an artistic limitation, is still one of his charms. He's every scuffling city boy who ever made it big, crowing with ego but also giving back his all.

Joel's songwriting forte is pop pastiche. As with so many rock stars, one of his most important early influences was Bob Dylan–in fact, "Piano Man" and "Captain Jack," two of his more ambitious early tunes, as well as the more recent and better "She's Always a Woman," are practically keyboard parodies of Dylan critiques. Both lyrically and musically, Joel's compositions tend to be very direct (there's not much beneath the surface), a little awkward, somewhat overstated and extremely melodic. Billy Joel's best pop songs–sentimental standards

Billy Joel Records and CDs:
52nd Street
All About Soul
All For Leyna
An Innocent Man
Cold Spring Harbor
Glass Houses
I Go To Extremes
It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
  Just The Way You Are
Kohuept
Leave A Tender Moment Alone
Modern Woman
My Life
No Man's Land
Piano Man
  River Of Dreams
Songs In The Attic
Storm Front
Streetlife Serenade
Tell Her About It
The Bridge
The Nylon Curtain
  The Stranger
This Is The Time
Turnstiles
Uptown Girl
We Didn't Start The Fire

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  Artist   Title Condition   Format   Price USD
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    Billy Joel   52nd St -- Pro Cut Corner
Promo
LP   $8.64   Music and
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd St -- Pro Cut Corner
Lp And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Case Etc Special Order
New LP+CDR   $53.59   Vinyl Revolu
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Billy Joel - 52nd Street (rmst) (enh) Upc: 074646938522 Big Shot< Sony, 10/20/1998
Brand New CD   $6.56   BetamOnline
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Remastered Big Shothonestymy Life< Col, 10/20/1998
Brand New CD   $7.17   MusicImport
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Digital Remaster Plus Cdr Photos And Lyrics - New Sony, 249118510
CD   $8.35   Alan Fearnle
UK     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Brand New Cbs, Cdcbs83181
Mint CD   $8.33   Mike Best
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
CD   $9.47   Action
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Status: Available Label: Sbme / Columbia Catalog: 69385 Genre: Rock / Pop Subgenre: Rock / Pop Fo...
New CD   $10.17   VibrantSound
USA   
Billy Joel - 52nd Street   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Austria, Columbia, 005099708318123, 1978
Used CD   $10.61   nCDMusic
Portuga     
52nd Street - Billy Joel   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Label: Cbs, Published: 1987 4 Days. (100%).language:en Cbs, 4911852, 19.11.1987 Special Order
NEW CD   $16.55   recordsale
Germany   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Uk
EX/EX CD   $16.80   Ear of the
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
509974911852 record ed: 1978 Cdx1 Edition: 1978 52nd Street Barcode: 509974911852 Special Order
CD   $29.69   CDExpress
Netherl   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
EX/EX CD   $51.10   F-seventies
France     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Billy Joel 52nd Street Lp Record Number 35609 And In Vg+ Condition Columbia, 35609
vg+ LP   $1.49   rarencheap
USA     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Cover Shows Some Wear Cbs, Cbs 83181, 1978
vg+ LP   $2.22   randomacoust
Switzer     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Inner Sleeve Uk, Cbs, 83181, 1978
Vg LP   $2.51   Alan Hare
UK     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Columbia, Shrink Wrap, Inner Sleeve, 1978, 35609, "my Life", Almost M-
M- VG+ LP   $2.30   Brothers
USA   
Billy Joel - 52nd Street Album   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Orig. Photo Innerbag, M--, Stos Nl, Cbs, 83181, 1978
LP   $2.97   Poplife
Germany     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Cbs, Cbs, 1978
G LP   $4.67   Arkitekt
Austral   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
With Original Inner. Cbs, 83181, 1978
EX / EX LP   $3.34   Giant 45
UK     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Light Wear To Cover. Columbia, Ec 35609, 1978
NM-/VG+ LP   $3.95   Daniel J
USA     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
With Ps
M- M- LP   $4.00   LPJUNKIE
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Cbs 83181
VG LP   $4.09   Rixrecords
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Columbia35609 Columbia
VG+ LP   $4.50   Weird Harold
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Comes With Bonus Cd Recording Of This Vinyl! Usa, Columbia, Fc 35609`, 1978
M-/M- LP   $4.99   Rock & Roll
USA     

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    Billy Joel   52nd Street
S Cbs, 25ap1152
nm/nm LP   $5.00   Bananas
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
33 stereo Cbs, Cb 271, 1978
VG / VG LP   $4.93   Kinace
UK     
Billy Joel - 52nd Street Record   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Once The Stranger Became A Hit, Joel Quickly Re-entered The Studio With Producer Phil Ramone To R...
EXCELLENT LP   $5.49   coolforever
Canada     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Vinyl Comes With Original Brings Original Picture Cover Columbia Rec..
m- LP   $5.50   jpdiscosound
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Original Inner Sleeve Canada, Columbia, Bl35609, 1/1/1978
VG+ VG+ LP   $5.51   Never Ending
Canada     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Jacket Is In Excellent Condition, Sleeve Has Pictures Of Band Members And Billy Joel U.s.a, Colum...
nm LP   $6.00   Lamica's
USA     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
9 Tracks, Cbs Recs., 1978, 32693, Vg/ex
LP   $8.35   VinylUK
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Artist: Billy Joelalbum: 52nd Streetcatalog Number: Fc 35609vinyl Condi Usa
VG++ LP   $7.00   Shuga
USA   
Billy Joel - 52nd Street LP   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Orig Us, Picture Cover, Album, Includes Big Shot, Honesty, My Life, And Many More[itrocks] Us
C:EX,M:NM LP   $7.37   recordsale
Germany   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
83181
Ex/Ex LP   $7.52   Al's Tracks
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Usa, Columbia, 35609, 1978
Ex/ex LP   $8.95   WorldClass R
Netherl     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Recs Cbs, Cbs 83181, 1978
LP   $8.35   salter
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Perhaps Because He Really Did Hail From Hicksville (long Island) But Billy Joel Rarely Gets More ...
EX/EX LP   $9.02   Vox Pop
UK     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Cover Shows A Little Wear Us, Columbia, Al35609, 1978
Good LP   $8.99   Electronicch
USA     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Brazil, Cbs, 138099, 78
vg- LP   $9.00   Faunus
Brasil   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Cbs, Cx 83181
Nm Nm LP   $9.60   Memories
UK     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
1978 Scarce 10 Track Lp+ Insert U.k., Cbs
M/EX LP   $10.92   Disc Covery
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Features "big Shot", "honesty", Album Sleeve Has Twin Inch Bottom Split Seam,...
M- M- LP   $9.75   Progadelic
USA     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
-'79,pic, Cbs(nl)83181
near mint LP   $10.29   Black Rhythm
Netherl   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Columbia Records, 35609, 1978
M LP   $10.00   Ron Sulaski
USA   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Usa, Cbs, Pc35609, 1978
Mint/new LP   $10.00   Wild Bill's
USA     
Billy Joel - 52nd Street CD   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Big Shot/honesty/my Life/zanzibar/stille to/rosalinda's Eyes/half A Mile Away/until The Night/52nd...
VG Ex LP   $10.71   Vinyl Soluti
Austral   
Billy Joel - 52nd Street Single   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Usa, Columbia Pc 35609, 1978
Excellent LP   $11.02   Don Hartman
USA     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Australian Pressing On The Cbs Records Label In Near Mint Condition. Cover And Pictured Inner Sle...
Near Mint LP   $11.20   Crypt Record
Austral     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Brazil, Cbs, 138099, 78
vg vg LP   $11.50   sebo do disc
Brasil   

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    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Columbia-bl 3 52nd Street Vg+/vg+ Style: Rock Special Order
LP   $13.28   CDExpress
Netherl   
Billy Joel - 52nd Street EP   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Picture Sleeve 9 inner Picture Sleeve With Lyrics And Photographs inner Picture Sleeve The Net...
Used Near LP   $14.32   bitsandgroov
Belgium     
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
LP   $17.52   sugarball
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Cbs 32693
LP   $18.37   DAVID SHOBEN
UK     
Billy Joel - 52nd Street Vinyl   Billy Joel   52nd Street
Us, Cbs, 1978
Very Good LP   $17.83   hhv.de
Germany   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Uk Stereo Sleeve Ex- Cbs, Scbs83181
EX LP   $20.04   Sweet Memori
UK   
    Billy Joel   52nd Street
Rare Uruguay, Cbs 19952
VG+ EX LP   $32.40   Latin Collec
Argenti     
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