Billy Joel A to Z

By David Juskow, Elon Altman

A funny and informative podcast discussing every Billy Joel song from A to Z.

I'm Elon Altman -- and I'm Dave Juskow -- and this is the Billy Joel A to Z Podcast. We're t

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February 14, 2023 River of Dreams Album Wrap-Up - Part 1
It's Billy Joel's final studio album today on Billy Joel A to Z entitled, River of Dreams, released August 10, 1993. The one where he decided to call it quits and retire at the ripe old age of 44.

The album debuted at #1 on the charts, went 5x Platinum and was nominated for Album of the Year. Join Elon, Dave and musician supreme Paul Loren as we have an absolute blast going through the rankings, parodies and live performances of all of the songs on this final album.

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55min
February 07, 2023 Two Thousand Years
Today's episode finds us at the 24th and final "T" song in Billy Joel's catalogue entitled, Two Thousand Years. Two Thousand Years is not only the pen-ultimate song off of Billy's 12th and final studio album, River of Dreams BUT his pen-ultimate song EVER. It was played live on New Year's Eve 1999 just before the year 2000. It's like We Didn't Start the Fire but covers alot more time. A fitting end and a pretty good song no one remembers. 😉
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38min
January 31, 2023 Turn Around
Turn Around kicks off the second side of Billy's first album, Cold Spring Harbor, and when I say, "kicks off" that may be the wrong way to use the term. It is the only song on the album to feature Sneaky Pete Kleinow -- who? Exactly. Although he created the theme song for an epic show just before he recorded this. So -- good trivia today.
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30min
January 24, 2023 Travelin' Prayer
In this episode we are discussing the song that kicks off the Piano Man album entitled Travelin' Prayer. It's a country blue grass song that doesn't really fit in the Billy Joel catalogue BUT when Dolly Parton covered it in 2000, she was nominated for a Grammy so. . . it definitely showcases his masterful songwriting. Anyway, we have alot of fun with this one since the instrument showcased is called a jaw's harp, or a juice harp, or a mouth harp OR the way we refer to it -- a Jew's harp. It's actually called that so we don't feel bad. You can look it up. Epic.
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38min
January 17, 2023 Tomorrow is Today
Well this is a heck of a song with so many different reasons of what could make it great or what could make it bad if you listen to Glen Gamboa from New York Newsday. Tomorrow is Today is the 8th song off of the legendarily poorly recorded first album. If you listen to the 1971 recording it has an entire orchestra. If you listen to the 1983 re-recording it's only piano. Which one do you like best? And who is Bobby Rydell? Find out in this episode. 😅
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44min
January 10, 2023 Time and Time Again
Today's odd episode we discuss one of Billy Joel’s first song’s ever written and unreleased entitled, Time and Time Again, which is credited to his membership from 1964 to 1967 in The Lost Souls. Certainly not a Billy Joel classic in anyway, but we thought it was a good idea to cover in our podcast Joel Journey as it reminds us that Billy Joel was around quite a long time before The Stranger. 😀
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32min
January 03, 2023 Through the Long Night
Happy New Year everyone. Today on this episode of Billy Joel A to Z we are discussing the song Through the Long Night, which is the tenth and final song on the great 1980 album, Glass Houses. This Beatlesque song could be a pre-cursor to the entire next album, which is The Nylon Curtain. The song is based on a Picasso painting which means it's a big old mess. 😄 Not really though -- it's a terrific song that no one every thinks about and why we do the podcast.
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35min
December 20, 2022 This Night
The perfect time of the year to discuss the fourth song on the first side of The Innocent Man album entitled, This Night. We think it sounds a little holidayish BUT, it's definitely a 50's themed song. In fact, we go as far as saying - this is the song Billy Joel based the entire Innocent Man album on. AND, this one we finally have confirmation that it is absolutely about Elle MacPherson and NOT Christie Brinkley. Uh oh. Cat fight!

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36min
December 13, 2022 The Bridge Album Wrap-Up - Part 2
Today we wrap up Billy Joel's 10th studio album, The Bridge, and we bring in the amazing musician Paul Loren again to do it. We never thought there'd be this much to discuss on this particular album, but there was. Plus, we have the rankings, Paul sings Elon's parodies and Paul sings a few songs from the album. It's a super fun time when three fans get together to discuss their hero's worst album. Billy says so too, so. . . we don't feel that bad.
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34min
December 06, 2022 The Bridge Album Wrap-Up - Part 1
Today we wrap up Billy Joel's 10th studio album, The Bridge, and we bring in the amazing musician Paul Loren again to do it. We never thought there'd be this much to discuss on this particular album, but there was. Plus, we have the rankings, Paul sings Elon's parodies and Paul sings a few songs from the album. It's a super fun time when three fans get together to discuss their hero's worst album. Billy says so too, so. . . we don't feel that bad.
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39min

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