Billy Joel - Piano Man - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Hybrid SACD, Blu-spec CD2, DVD NTSC, Japanese Edition)
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Billy Joel – vocals, acoustic and electric pianos, organ, harmonica [click here to see more vinyl featuring Billy Joel]
Michael Omartian – accordion
Richard Bennett – guitars
Larry Carlton – guitars
Dean Parks – guitars
Eric Weissberg – banjo, pedal steel guitar
Fred Heilbrun – banjo
Wilton Felder – bass guitar
Emory Gordy Jr. – bass guitar
Ron Tutt – drums (Hybrid SACD : 1 to 9)
Rhys Clark – drums (Hybrid SACD : 10)
Billy Armstrong – violin
Laura Creamer – backing vocals
Mark Creamer – backing vocals
Susan Steward – backing vocals
Arranged by Michael Omartian (Hybrid SACD : 1-4, 6-10), Jimmie Haskell (Hybrid SACD : 5)
All songs written by Billy Joel
1 Hybrid SACD & Blue Spec CD2 & DVD NTSC
Limited edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Size : 7'’
Stereo
Studio
Label : Sony Japan
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded September 1973 at Devonshire Sound Studios, Los Angeles, California
Engineered by Ron Malo
Produced by Michael Stewart
Mastered by Rob LoVerde
Originally released in November 1973
Reissued in 2024
Tracks:
Hybrid SACD
- Travelin' Prayer
- Piano Man
- Ain't No Crime
- You're My Home
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- Worse Comes to Worst
- Stop in Nevada
- If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You)
- Somewhere Along the Line
- Captain Jack
Blue-spec CD2
- Piano Man (Single Edit)
- Travelin' Prayer (Live At Sigma Sound Studios, April 15, 1972, WMMR Radio, Philadelphia, PA)
- The Ballad Of Billy The Kid (Live At Sigma Sound Studios, April 15, 1972, WMMR Radio, Philadelphia, PA)
- Captain Jack (Live At Sigma Sound Studios, April 15, 1972, WMMR Radio, Philadelphia, PA)
- Josephine (Demo 1972)
- Oyster Bay (Demo 1973)
- Piano Man (Demo 1973)
- The Siegfried Line (Demo 1973)
- New Mexico (Demo 1973)
- Cross To Bear (Demo 1974)
- So Long. Reverend Ike
- Somewhere Along The Line (Live At The Great American Music Hall - 1975)
- You're My Home (Live At The Great American Music Hall - 1975)
- Travelin' Prayer (Live At The Great American Music Hall - 1975)
- The Ballad Of Billy The Kid (Live At The Great American Music Hall - 1975)
- Ain't No Crime (Live At The Great American Music Hall - 1975)
DVD
- Piano Man (1974 Original Music Video)
- Piano Man (Official Music Video)
- Piano Man (Live From Billy Joel Tonight - Connecticut 1976)
- You're My Home (Live From Billy Joel Tonight - Connecticut 1976)
- The Ballad Of Billy The Kid (Live From Billy Joel Tonight - Connecticut 1976)
- Captain Jack (Live From Billy Joel Tonight - Connecticut 1976)
- Ain't No Crime (Live From Old Gray Whistle Test 1978)
- You're My Home (Live At Sparks 1981)
- Piano Man (Live From Long Island Nassau Coliseum 1982)
- The Ballad Of Billy The Kid (Live From "The River Of Dreams" Tour 1994)
- Everybody Loves You Now (Official Video 1971)
Awards:
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - Ranked 429/500
Reviews :
“Embittered by legal disputes with his label and an endless tour to support a debut that was dead in the water, Billy Joel hunkered down in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, spending six months as a lounge singer at a club. He didn't abandon his dreams -- he continued to write songs, including "Piano Man," a fictionalized account of his weeks as a lounge singer. Through a combination of touring and constant hustling, he landed a contract with Columbia and recorded his second album in 1973. Clearly inspired by Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection, not only musically but lyrically, as well as James Taylor, Joel expands the vision and sound of Cold Spring Harbor, abandoning introspective numbers (apart from "You're My Home," a love letter to his wife) for character sketches and epics. Even the title track, a breakthrough hit based on his weeks as a saloon singer, focuses on the colorful patrons, not the singer. If his narratives are occasionally awkward or incomplete, he compensates with music that gives the songs a sweeping sense of purpose -- they feel complete, thanks to his indelible melodies and savvy stylistic repurposing. He may have borrowed his basic blueprint from Tumbleweed Connection, particularly with its Western imagery and bluesy gospel flourishes, but he makes it his own, largely due to his melodic flair, which is in greater evidence than on Cold Spring Harbor. Piano Man is where he suggests his potential as a musical craftsman. He may have weaknesses as a lyricist -- such mishaps as the "instant pleasuredome" line in "You're My Home" illustrate that he doesn't have an ear for words -- but Piano Man makes it clear that his skills as a melodicist can dazzle.” AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Additional information:
To commemorate the 50th anniversary, Billy Joel's "Piano Man" becomes available as SA-CD Multi Hybrid edition for the first time in the world.
The 4-channel SACD layer is a high-quality surround mix of the quadraphonic LP analog 4-channel mix master source, mastered in DSD for the first time at Sony Music Studio in Japan. The 2-channel SACD layer is a high-quality stereo mix newly DSD-mastered from the analog 2-channel mix master source, and the CD layer is a newly mastered source converted from the SACD DSD master to PCM.
In addition, DISC2 (high quality Blu-spec CD2) contains many unreleased demos and rare live recordings from the "Piano Man" period, including 7 songs that have never been released on CD before. DISC3 (DVD) contains rare live/music video footage, including eight songs that have never been released on DVD before.
Plus, this set comes with a US press kit from 1973, a "Piano Man" Japanese 7inch single jacket, 4 types of reissued replicas of Japanese LP obis, and other rare memorabilia. 7inch cardboard sleeve packaging with lyrics and a description.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.92 / 5