BILLY JOEL SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT

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Reaction to Scenes from an Italian restaurant by Billy Joel.Has to go down as one of the greatest songs ever,and this could be termed as Billy's Bohemian Rhapsody.
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[@dipsydoodle7988]

He is not human. He's got a whole bunch of songs that are pieces of art. I don't know who Brenda and Eddie are, but he got me invested in their lives when I was like 12. 😆

[@joelliebler5690]

😃👍🏻

[@nflr92]

"Brender and Eddie" in Long Islandish ;-)

[@kenperk9854]

You get a movie with great music attached!

[@theConquerersMama]

Same!

[@theConquerersMama]

My roommate and I had collage we made about them on our dorm wall.

[@rolanddeschain965]

Billy went through music industry hell, the fact he made it at all is a miracle. The fact that he stayed true to himself is testimony to him as a person, a genuinely good and decent man.

[@junkyardheaven]

Great handle! :)

[@rolanddeschain965]

@@junkyardheaven ka is a wheel lol

[@easternadventures9978]

@@rolanddeschain965 thankee sai, long days and pleasant nights

[@grilledspaghetti]

He has former band mates that would contest that he forgot the face of his father there Roland.

[@seanscanlon9067]

@@grilledspaghetti I am guessing that you have only heard one side of the story and do not know the history of it all.

[@dagmar.6954]

This song is from "The Stranger" album from 1977. I remember buying this record. Every song on it is great. Billy is such a good singer songwriter & story teller as you can see with these descriptive lyrics. It is like a 3 part story fused into one (piano ballad intro - jazz middle - rock ending).

[@ericwillison1389]

You are entirely in the right of it. What a great musician.

[@surlechapeau]

'The Stranger' is in my top 5 of all-time greatest albums

[@Daniel58S]

my fav Billy record

[@kenperk9854]

Same here.

[@BenSwagnerd]

Vienna is my special favorite but the entire album is a BANGER

[@tanisdevelopment]

Billy's "Goodnight Saigon" is another powerful epic. Do yourself a favour.

[@leeannmcdermott8313]

I can listen to Billy Joel all day, every album, every song!❤️

[@theConquerersMama]

Same

[@donw804]

A big thank you to Jami for putting this treasure in Harri's ear. Personally, I consider this song to be Billy Joel's truest masterpiece... which is saying a lot because he has so many other absolute gems. Piano Man may be his signature song, But Scenes is his crowning achievement.

[@seanscanlon9067]

Scandinavian Skies, Goodnight Saigon and Until the Night are all pretty epic too.

[@lisasmillman]

Billy Joel might be the best musical storyteller ever

[@ym61]

Yes he pieced parts of songs together , the middle being the Ballad of Brenda and Eddie. Billy has said he learned this from the Beatles Abbey Road side two. He consistently names this song as one of his very best and it has held up quite well. Some of his best work weren’t top 40 singles. Try “Until the Night” from 52nd Street album. Very Righteous Brothers vibe

[@taradevine6026]

Oh yeah, that's an amazing song. My favorite may be Vienna.

[@keymack2477]

Exactly ym! He had snippets of songs and was inspired by the Abbey Road medley and decided he could do that too!! I also second your recommendation of "Until The Night" and would add "An Innocent Man", a tribute to The Drifters as well!!

[@thetruth72667]

What's crazy about Billy & what separates him from everyone else is that he was able to make the different parts make sense with each other lyrically. The Abbey road medley is one of my favorite songs ever written but none of the parts make sense lyrically or follow a theme aside from "His sister Pam works in the shop" to tie into "Polythene Pam" a little bit. The way Billy transitions to the different parts musically is seamless & masterful! Again I love the Abbey Road medley & it's one of my favorite songs ever written but the songs are connected with minimal musical transitions. Almost cut & paste. Billy really the best modern songwriter to ever step foot on this Earth. I've said this in so many videos but I can't help it cause he really is. Love seeing people recognize the unearthly talent this man has.....

[@elizabethsantersero9597]

YES! "Until the Night" is one of his very best songs - for me, the whole 52nd Street album was the first record I could just put on and let the whole thing play without a single song I'd rather skip

[@SurvivorBri]

That's a good one. I'm actually also quite partial to "The Night is Still Young" and "I've Loved These Days." And "Summer Highland Falls" was always a favorite of mine too.

[@dsusan17]

My favorite Billy Joel song is It's My Life. It helped me leave a abusive husband many years ago. Great pick and analysis.

[@headofbaphomet]

It's All Rock And Roll To Me, A Matter Of Trust, Allentown, Downeaster Alexa, Honesty, An Innocent Man, he has so many great songs. His greatest hits collection is 3 CDs.

[@gnomeofwar]

Every song on this album "The Stranger" is amazing. One could argue it's one of if not his best album. Give other songs from here a listen too. You wont be disappointed.

[@donaldansman4272]

I really enjoyed the song The Stranger when I was a kid. The whole album is just so good.

[@oakhillfound847]

Arguably one of Billy's best songs and what you need to realize the song says Scenes and delivers its promise. I can imagine this restaurant with a story taking place at each table.

[@peterbrown6022]

'Goodnight Saigon' 'The Stranger' 'Ballad of Billy the Kid' 'New York State of Mind' 'Honesty' Love your reactions brother. I can sense what a joy music brings to you and I am the same way.

[@wpollock1]

“Baby Grand” -Billy Joel and Ray Charles….there is a great video. Can’t recommend this enough!

[@chetstevens4583]

Probably the only song that comes close as far as story telling goes is Goodnight Saigon. Haunting song that will leave an impression.

[@christopheryochum3602]

One of the smartest comments I've heard from a reactor...a song and a half...four songs in one. Exactly. I can't call this a "song." It's a composition, a "piece," or an opus of some sort. All tied together, like a classical piece of music, with the end of the song recapitulation the exposition at the beginning. so not only does Joel create this mashup of multiple sections, but the whole thing tells the life story of a couple.

[@thomastimlin1724]

An "Operetta."

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

Scenes shows that Joel's roots in classical music are not fabricated or exaggerated. It feels like a classical compositions with three movements: bottle of red, then Brenda and Eddie, then bookend it with reprise of bottle of red.

[@WendyJoJohnston]

Billy Joel has been one of my top favorites since I was a kid. Loved him then, love him now. He's a legend.

[@jayden2ful]

Billy Joel’s favourite song. Out of all his hits he stated this is his favourite especially playing it live, just awesome

[@taradevine6026]

For us big fans, it's his defining song. Like Elton John's Funeral for a Friend.

[@howtodoitdude1662]

He actually changes his favorite song. From Summer Highland falls to Vienna to Scenes….

[@markhoover3743]

Paul did once say he wishes he’d written Piano Man. To which Billy retorted, ppffft…there’s alot of McCartney songs I wish I had written!

[@howtodoitdude1662]

I think it was ‘just the way you are’.

[@fredmarinovich5477]

River of dreams

[@marinfamily2010]

That piano solo right at the end before he sings “a bottle of red” @ 8:47 is one of the most beautiful piano riffs I have heard. The notes flow so smoothly and wonderfully, separating him from other pianists. I recommend reacting on his masterpiece “Summer Highland Falls”.

[@garymaidman625]

Probably because he is a trained classical pianist.

[@lawrenceschabell5740]

This album is absolutely a masterpiece!

[@debbiechang5781]

Billy’s genius shines through in this song. He’s absolutely one of the great songwriter/storyteller wizards of our time. And then there are those magic fingers dancing across the keyboards. He is truly a great American treasure. I knew you would would love this before I even watched your reaction. His catalogue is vast. Enjoy the journey through the Billy Joel rabbit hole. 🌺✌️

[@richardlaswell463]

I love that it tells the story of two old friends getting together and remembering older times. That they have a possible romantic history is given away with the line "I'll meet you any time you want at OUR Italian restaurant." The next section is about what they're up to now with lines like, "got a new life, got a new wife," and you lost weight, I did not know..." As we progress deeper into 'Brenda & Eddie' we begin to realize that they might be talking about their own relationship and not just some Highschool friends. And we're finally back at the cafe just enjoying each other's company over a nostalgic meal.

[@Ira88881]

Can I make you jealous? I was 16 in 1973 when his first album, Piano Man, was released. So for 50 years since then, I’ve waited in anticipation of every new album…listening to them hundreds of times…and SEEING dozens of his concerts. After Piano Man, and then Streetlife Serenade, he was popular…but not THAT popular. I went to several of his concerts in very small venues. To me, the greatest all-in-one artist of my generation.

[@lorettascurato2692]

Billy Joel and Paul Simon are my favorite songwriters. They can do many styles and their lyrics are poetry. Genius 🤩

[@roberthendershott8972]

You have to hear, AND SO IT GOES. It's a beautiful song🔥💯

[@MediaAceStar]

Yes, it’s hard to top this song. For me, it’s personal. I married young, lived in a small apartment in New Jersey. Happily, we were Brenda and Eddie that stayed together and made a great life for ourselves, kids and now grandkids. And we still love going to an Italian restaurant.

[@paulhammond2784]

You once ask about a song where they whistle, check out the title of the album The Stranger. It’s a fantastic song.

[@bkm2797]

Absolutely love this tune by Billy, takes you on an oddesy of days gone by, he truly is the master when it comes to taking you along for the journey. Thanks Harry

[@bernadettebento1419]

That song is a masterpiece. I can never hear it enough.

[@danhuyck527]

dont ya just love musicians who are great storytellers too.

[@grumpy4ever122]

Yes Harri!!. A masterpiece displaying BJ's great playing both melody & rock. Just beautiful.

[@lynne8346]

I saw Billy Joel say once on a tv show that this is his favorite Billy Joel song.

[@jacqueline4514]

Billy Joel is so prolific and talented; please listen to “Miami 2017”, “Goodnight Saigon”, “Big Shot”, and of course, “New York State Of Mind”…🗽

[@andythrush3341]

Great song! Billy's lyrics are so easy to relate to. The thing about Billy and Paul McCartney is that they wrote what they knew about. Paul's very British and Billy is very American and they are writing about very relatable subjects to all of us. Both are great story tellers too. Harri thanks for this post. Haven't heard this song in a long time. It was nice to reminisce.

[@garymaidman625]

Not only is Billy Joel very American, he is very New York. His songs are straight up about New York life. I can't imagine the setting of this song being in California or Florida or Illinois, it's just straight up New York.

[@brucer2152]

I remember seeing him in concert in Houston and he did this song and the crowd just went crazy.

[@patrickwilder6492]

The only concert I ever had front row center for... unforgettable !!!

[@brucer2152]

@@patrickwilder6492 Front row would have been amazeballs!

[@patrickwilder6492]

That was a Houston concert also... in the late 70’s.

[@brucer2152]

@@patrickwilder6492 Was it at the Summit?

[@patrickwilder6492]

@@brucer2152 Yes !!

[@thedocofrock1890]

one thing that is spectacular about billy is that he is one of the few artists that you can understand all of the lyrics clearly. amazing singer as well as a storyteller. a lost art

[@dermaglowpro1720]

Until The Night !!!! OMG my FAVORITE !!!

[@joelliebler5690]

One of my all time favorite songs, lyrically and musically. Billy would think you relating to McCartney is a huge compliment since he loved the Beatles!

[@brian2478]

I’m 45. I grew up on the Innocent Man album. When I was around 12/13 I took a deeper dive into my parents Billy Joel albums. My mind was also blown that he had so many amazing songs that were so much different than his 80s pop vibe. I love watching these reactions videos because it’s bringing back my own memories of discovering how amazing Billy Joel has been right from the beginning.

[@HiddenCharmhome]

I love this song so much ❤️

[@oldcougar65]

Love your comments. They are spot on. I first heard Billy Joel doing an interview for a local PBS station in Philly in the 70's. I went out and bought the album: The Stranger. Yes, "Scenes..." is one of Billy's greatest. But that album also had "Anthony's Song", "Only the Good DIe Young", "Vienna", and "The Stanger" All of them are extremely worthy of your review.

[@debbiesmith4186]

I had a long drive to high school and I played his music so much I knew every word.

[@tonymusolino2369]

You should follow this up with the title track from the same album called “the stranger”. Another great. The entire album is great. Billy joel is great.👍🏼

[@igor1069]

So MAny!, Always a woman, Vienna. Only the good die young. My Life, Anthony's Song. and on and on!

[@John-dj7hl]

He has so many great hits, he is so talented. I believe this would be my favorite Billy Joel song. It's really hard to say because he's got so many greats , but yeah , I'd say this is my favorite along with piano man.

[@kenperk9854]

70s music was so Diverse and meaningful. INCREDIBLE!!

[@jamishops]

Thanks Harri. My favorite Billy Joel song. A true masterpiece. Loved the reaction.

[@RAY_L_A]

Awesome Harri! I love it!

[@lindadenton7407]

I love your reaction to this. I felt the same way a zillion years ago when it came out and I still feel that way. The man is a genius. ❤️

[@gevlar]

His best song, & he’s had a ton of great ones! The whole “The Stranger” album is flawless, & I like “52nd Street” even more. Check out “Until the Night” from that album, where he channels the Righteous Brothers. Goodnight Saigon is very powerful also.

[@joelliebler5690]

This is on the same album as Just The Way You Are as well as She’s Always a Woman.One of the all, time greatest album that all music lovers should own.

[@artomatt]

If you want epic from Billy Joel, try Goodnight Saigon

[@ethelynchristopher6995]

Love Billy Joel. He's amazing in concert. You might really enjoy "She's Always a Woman to Me" also from the album The Stranger. Great song, great lyrics, etc.

[@Prozak63]

Mark Rivera was always as mesmerizing on that sax as Billy was on the keys.

[@seanscanlon9067]

He is, although Mark did not join Billy's band until the early 80s around five years after this song was recorded, when Richie Cannata played sax on it.

[@mariaroncalli863]

Billy Joel said on a recent interview that this is his favorite among his songs. And it's mine, too.

[@Johnny67557]

I love this song / story. I get the McCartney vibe! Maybe it's the similar vocals & multiple changes. Awesome stuff all around! Always reminds me of past girlfriends that I still am in touch with.

[@Prof_Jeff]

I agree with you on the McCartney point. "Band on the Run" is three different pieces woven into one song, much like "Scenes".

[@Historian212]

The title track to this album, "The Stranger," is one of my favorites. This entire album is great. Since I grew up on Long Island, where Billy also grew up, although a few years after he did, this song always brings me right back to high school there. I can just envision Brenda (if you listen closely you can hear him pronounce it more like "Brender," before a vowel, which is very Long Island) and Eddie, and all the kids who got married soon after high school. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released two years before this song, so it -- and Lennon-McCartney's "Day in the Life," back in '67 -- were probably both influential. Billy has been called the American McCartney, and that works for me.

[@stardust164]

I have seen Billy many times,,,I love Billy Joel peace and love from Canada

[@rebeccajohnson8769]

You're My Home is another lovely song by Billy Joel, along with Summer, Highland Falls.

[@michaelc8111]

"All About Soul" is a great Billy Joel hit to react to. Thanks Harry!!!

[@hellhound3652]

Harri i just want to say, I love you! Your reactions are so spot on. You catch all the subtle nuances in every song. You catch things in songs that i have listened for many years that i have missed. You are AMASING, keep up the good work!!!!!

[@stevethomas5495]

Love that you are expanding your musical horizons...growing up an Italian in New York in the the late 60s and 70s helps your totally relate to the 'scenery' in this song....this song was Long Island.....

[@bridgettstephens5582]

Are you going to walk the Miracle Mile?😁👍

[@paxonearth]

I was a Billy Joel freak in high school (early 80's). My girlfriend and I listened to this album endlessly. You're right, it is certainly a masterpiece. Check out Vienna from the same album.

[@jerickson725]

Billy Joel is definitely one of greats. You need to see a live performance when he's pounding the piano and playing the harmonica and singing, like he does for the song The Piano Man. Also, I don't think he sounds like Paul McCartney at all, but that might be because I've been listening to him since the 70's!

[@cjr1324]

This is fast becoming my favorite reaction channel. Reactions are so terrifically genuine, with a true love of and appreciation for music. I was 18 in 1985 so much of what you play is in the fabric of my life somewhere. Great job man.

[@charlesyateschalfant]

A masterpiece indeed. I saw him live once in Sydney, early 90s, it was superb.

[@dermaglowpro1720]

The Stranger !!!!!!!!!

[@famat161]

My vote is either "River of Dreams" or "Angry Young Man".

[@Pixelologist]

Angry Young Man, for sure!

[@jervettaburns9374]

River of dreams ♥️

[@Beehashe]

My cousin lived in Long Island back then Billy Joel was a local hero. She had a huge poster of him in her room.

[@xJRx77]

1st album to his last..... countless countless amazing-ness! (and that's not even a word)

[@MrBarryb505050]

I think this is one of his best songs if not his best songs ever.

[@beadybaby]

One of my favorite Billy Joel songs. My favorite album of his though is Glass Houses. 52nd St. and the stranger are not far behind at all. Nylon curtain also amazing

[@tomdimartino7361]

I've seen Billy over ten times live, many of them in the first row, waiting over night for tickets

[@keeperofwickets1781]

In my top five songs of all time......and the other four change every other day.

[@stardust164]

Billy is an excellent lyricist. soooo good!!

[@robert1325]

He’s the greatest singer/songwriter of our time!

[@MRCATL3]

Telling stories like this....a gift

[@cojaysea]

According to song facts This song is about people who peaked too early: the popular jocks in class who went nowhere in life. Like most of Joel's songs, he composed the music first, which in this case was inspired by The Beatles, specifically the suite of songs on their Abbey Road album where a few unfinished tunes were put together to create one coherent piece. On an A&E special, Joel said he came up with the "Bottle of white bottle of red" line while he was dining at a restaurant and a waiter actually came up to him and said, "Bottle of white... bottle of red... perhaps a bottle of rosé instead?" The "Things are okay with me these days..." part was an old piece of music he had written a long time before The Stranger album - he just changed the words around to update them. The third part of the song is an old song he had written called "The Ballad of Brenda and Eddie." Many towns on Joel's stomping grounds of Long Island have a spot or field surrounded by trees called "The village green," similar to the one he sings about here. Joel was in a gang (not a very rough one) in Levittown, Long Island called "The Parkway Green Gang." The restaurant which inspired this song, since closed, was the Fontana di Trevi at 151 West 57th Street in New York City, right across from Carnegie Hall. Joel recalled in USA Today July 9, 2008: "It was for the opera crowd, but the Italian food was really good. They didn't really know who I was, which was fine with me, but sometimes you would have a hard time getting a table. Well, I went there when the tickets had gone on sale for (my dates at) Carnegie Hall, and the owner looks at me and he goes (in an Italian accent), 'Heyyy, youra that guy!' And from then on, I was always able to get a good spot." Joel outlined to USA Today how the Beatles inspired this song: "I had always admired the B-side of Abbey Road, which was essentially a bunch of songs strung together by (producer) George Martin. What happened was The Beatles didn't have completely finished songs or wholly fleshed-out ideas, and George said, 'What have you got?' John said, 'Well I got this,' and Paul said, 'I got that.' They all sat around and went, 'Hmm, we can put this together and that'll fit in there.' And that's pretty much what I did."

[@carlaharrington5120]

This is one of my fave tunes of his due to the shear complexity of the arc of the story line!!

[@llanitedave]

An idea suddenly hit me listening to this after all these years: Maybe Brenda and Eddie are the two people reminiscing at the restaurant, thinking back and laughing about their short-lived marriage during their foolish teenaged youth. After all, "they parted the closest of friends"...

[@TonyTheBassPlayer1]

Well here is how I always understood it. But songs are subjective at best. So just my two cents. Billy is bumping into an old high school sweetheart they've exchanged numbers and the song starts out on the phone making a plan to meet for a date (Get a table near the street in our old familiar place, you and I face to face.) and they spend the evening reminiscing about when they grew up and Brenda and Ediie were the "IT" couple and how they all wanted to be just like them and then about how life comes along and changes all of that and they see them as just an average couple. The whole song is them catching up and talking about old times. Somewhere in the storyline Billy and this old flame rekindle the old magic and he tells her anytime you want to do this again "I'll meet you anytime you want in our (favorite old) Italian Restaurant."

[@llanitedave]

@@TonyTheBassPlayer1 Your take is as good as mine!

[@arqoo1907]

This is one of the best songs ever to put on the car stereo. The "steering wheel bongos" take a real pounding during the Brenda and Eddie portion! 😊

[@brianorzel1873]

Scenes is probably my favorite Billy Joel song, but there are so many more great ones: "New York State of Mind" (Totally different from Alicia Keys' song), "Miami 2017", "Angry Young Man", and "The Ballad of Billy the Kid". Deep cuts "Stiletto" and "All For Leyna" are amazing, too!

[@trespatines8698]

All great songs. All for Leyna is a favorite mostly unknown gem.

[@eddiemoney1093]

I'm glad you mentioned stiletto. Stiletto is a freaking great tune. I really love some of his cheesy 80s stuff off of glass houses too like "sleeping with the television on" and "I don't wanna be alone anymore"

[@gregorycook6346]

OMG that Sax!!!!!!

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

"Scenes", "Miami 2017", "goodnight Saigon", "Downeaster Alexa", "and so it goes", "lullabye". In no particular order because you really can't pick the best song with Joel. You really cannot.

[@jackndew2]

This was such a huge production song for the times with lots of instruments contributing. Aside from the obvious piano, guitar, bass and drums, listen for an accordion (or concertina) a tuba, sax and dueling clarinets! As a guitar player, Billy Joel was one of my favorite musicians to listen to for lyric writing and song arrangement, an absolute genius.

[@sealdrup]

My favorite song from one of my favorite artists.

[@dragonreader3817]

Billy Joel was my first concert and he was fabulous. Leningrad and Goodnight Saigon are my favorites.

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

A song about two old friends reuniting over pasta and wine to tell stories about their youth. Great choice.

[@boggy269]

One of my all time favourite songs !!

[@llschnitz]

Favorite Billy Joel song along with "New York State of Mind" and "Summer Highland Falls".

[@jasonlighton9636]

My favorite Billy Joel song!

[@mattsauter8093]

My favorite Billy song! Love it! I highly recommend Summer Highland Falls. A lesser known track, but not lesser in quality... a true gem.

[@ElDiegoMCO]

The lyrics to The Entertainer is awesome. It explains his experience in the music industry and if you know how he got screwed of millions in his hey day it makes it better.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

Ooooh! My favorite Billy Joel song! Thank you for reacting! I think Bohemian Rhapsody is a good comparison, inasmuch as they both have different segments at different tempos, each with its own feel or "groove".

[@RainbowMaille]

One of my Favorite songs Ever 🥰

[@ChuckHackney]

To me, this is his masterpiece, along with NY State of Mind...Piano Man is great, just love these two more,,,,,

[@tvgator1]

SO GLAD you did this one!!!! So many people forget Joel’s massive vault of songs before the 80s; this song is absolutely fantastic. I memorized this one when I was a kid.❤️

[@robertknuist9754]

A Masterpiece

[@micheleclark59]

His older stuff is my favorite! My mother was a fan and Billy Joel was my first concert of hundreds! I Always loved Billy Joel, ps catch him playing dual pianos with Elton John 😳

[@josephschlickbernd7892]

Loved by his fans, hated by the critics. This is a great album.