Billy Joel - Tell Her About It (Audio)

In 1983, Billy Joel released his album An Innocent Man, an album that traces Joel's musical history through his teenage years in the late '50s and early '60s. Listen to the studio version of 'Tell Her About It', which became the #1 song on Billboard Hot 100 chart and was written as an homage to Motown.
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Lyrics:
You're a big boy now
You'll never let her go
But that's just the kind of thing
She ought to know
Tell her about it
Tell her everything you feel
Give her every reason to accept
That you're for real
Tell her about it
Tell her all your crazy dreams
Let her know you need her
Let her know how much she means
Billy Joel's official KZbin channel features music videos, live performances, interviews, TV appearances and more. Best known for his first hit song, 'Piano Man', in 1973, Billy has written and recorded thirty-three Top 40 hits in the United States. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 150 million records worldwide. Billy Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States.

[@keeganfirecloak4695]

I will, next Friday... at the Spring Formal. Wish me luck lads, I’m gonna need it!

[@Lukeabothadeez]

what happened?

[@keeganfirecloak4695]

ComedyMe critical success! We’re got together and it’s going well!

[@keeganfirecloak4695]

In Dungeons & Dragons terms you could say I had to roll at disadvantage and still got a Nat 20

[@Lukeabothadeez]

@@keeganfirecloak4695 i don't understand that reference but good job :D

[@owen6979]

YES my man

[@breadsticat6264]

This song embodies how romance SHOULD take place. It shouldn't be about "love at first sight" and all of that nonsense, but truly getting to know someone until you realize that you really do like the person.

[@NoGunAllFun]

Exactly

[@chermainebigby5238]

Right on my friend 👍

[@ToyotaTechnical]

I've only found this kind of powerful romance dating other men. It doesn't seem like modern women want this kind of thing.

[@AjedrettoTV]

Magic its a mix of both things you mention "first sight" and then "get to know"

[@anthonyvasquezactor]

​@@ToyotaTechnical Nope. As much as I like this song, it's one of millions out there that sends a bad message to men that if you just tell a woman how you feel, she'll love you back. I learned all throughout college that has the exact opposite effect. And in the age of #GirlBoss, it's more difficult than it's ever been to convince a woman to love you back. So I just don't bother anymore, and ironically, since I stopped caring about finding love, my success with women has increased ten fold.

[@elithornton5641]

Billy Joel, you have just possibly saved my future. I told her about it. The song rang in my head and that was all I needed. I will remember this song for the rest of my life for saving my life

[@AndyHinkson]

Same for me yesterday.

[@sean-jsjincorporated8881]

@@AndyHinkson Nice bro, I'm hoping it'll work the same for me

[@AndyHinkson]

@@sean-jsjincorporated8881 lol it didn’t work out. But I’m glad I tried though!

[@michaelglickman1300]

For those wondering, the musicians are lead vocalist-electric pianist-pianist-organist Billy Joel; backing vocalists Eric Troyer, Frank Lloyd, Lani Groves, Mike Alexander, Ron Taylor, Rory Dodd, Terry Textor, Tom Bahler, and Ullanda McCullough; lead guitarist-lead acoustic guitarist David Brown; rhythm guitarist-rhythm acoustic guitarist Russell Javors; bassist Doug Stegmeyer; drummer Liberty DeVitto; acoustic pianist Richard Tee; alto saxophonist-tenor saxophonist-percussionist-backing vocalist Mark Rivera; baritone saxophonist Ronnie Cuber; tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker; trumpeters Joe Shepley and John Gatchell; and string players String Fever.

[@kathrynblakeley9823]

Thank you

[@kdunstfan1]

Billy Joel is great

[@Himalyantiger]

Looks like we got same profile pic ;D

[@edwardcannon9199]

No one gonna disagree with you he is the greatest

[@ronniethompsonRodimusPrime8464]

When God finally puts you with the right person always make sure that you let them and make them feel appreciated because they may have been with somebody else before someone gets with their true soulmate and when you are with your true soulmate let them know you love them we are all with the person God puts us with and we may think they're the right person but if they're not showing us that they love us nor we're showing them that we love them then we don't really care about them and that's not our true soulmate and when you are finally with your one true soulmate some people find their soulmate at the very beginning of the time and sometimes it may take years and people have had to go through things but when you finally get with them you will know and you will feel loved and will never have to question that

[@edviges1]

Gonna do it .. next time I see her. I'm in love with those eyes that shine when she smiles.

[@sophriniasmith5981]

I agree. Tell her.

[@jennifursun3303]

me too

[@danielburns987]

this song went to #1 on the pop charts in 1983!!!

[@chris080270]

Billy hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 9/24/83. Thanks for posting it! :)

[@benheinz8817]

Relationship advice is only helpful if you can get into a relationship in the first place.

[@normalreality3934]

at least we have more knowledge, useless knowledge...

[@albertjackinson]

This is exactly how I felt about one of my friends I had feelings for. I went for it and told her, and she said she wasn't looking for a boyfriend at the time. Yet we're still really good friends. I'm glad we still are. I hear that's rare--to remain friends with someone you had (and still have, in my case...look, I can't control biology) feelings for.

[@shahabhussain5120]

You are exceptional and a true gent…

[@albertjackinson]

@@shahabhussain5120 Thank you for the kind words.

[@sheepdev]

We are in the same situation my man

[@AhmadAneeq]

yo same here man u made me fell better by this THNX

[@albertjackinson]

@@AhmadAneeq I'm glad I could help!

[@bryansarracino8623]

Anyone who decides to get married should know every word of this jam.

[@msjesuswoman]

I Love this song. It's true if you love someone, "TELL THEM ABOUT IT".

[@Mister-Salieri]

So underrated song. Love it.

[@b4uhaj]

This album and Thriller are my two favorite albums of all time....

[@justmeonthebeach]

Listen boy Don't want to see you let a good thing Slip away You know I don't like watching Anybody make the same mistakes I made She's a real nice girl And she's always there for you But a nice girl wouldn't tell you what you should do Listen boy I'm sure that you think you got it all Under control You don't want somebody telling you The way to stay in someone's soul You're a big boy now You'll never let her go But that's just the kind of thing She ought to know Tell her about it Tell her everything you feel Give her every reason to accept That you're for real Tell her about it Tell her all your crazy dreams Let her know you need her Let her know how much she means Listen boy It's not automatically a certain guarantee To insure yourself You've got to provide communication constantly When you love someone You're always insecure And there's only one good way To reassure Tell her about it Let her know how much you care When she can't be with you Tell her you wish you were there Tell her about it Every day before you leave Pay her some attention Give her something to believe Cause now and then She'll get to worrying Just because you haven't spoken For so long Though you may not have done anything Will that be a consolation when she's gone Listen boy It's good information from a man Who's made mistakes Just a word or two that she gets from you Could be the difference that it makes She's a trusting soul She's put her trust in you But a girl like that won't tell you What you should do Tell her about it Tell her everything you feel Give her every reason To accept that you're for real Tell her about it Tell her all your crazy dreams Let her know you need her Let her know how much she means Tell her about it Tell her how you feel right now Tell her about it The girl don't want to wait too long You got to tell her about it Tell her now and you won't go wrong You got to tell her about it Before it gets too late You got to tell her about it You know the girl don't want To wait - you got to Tell her about it

[@stellacarrier8341]

I remember hearing Tell Her about it by Billy Joel by the time I was a teenager through radio, I still enjoy listening to this song multiple years later because of the candid lyrics vocals and classic pop music melody although there a multiple number of billy joel songs that are also fantastic to listen to.

[@meganjoelyn2207]

This is just one of those songs you are still humming three days later.😊

[@kennethhuang371]

AN INNOCENT MAN WAS ONE OF FIVE GRAMMY NOMINATED ALBUMS IN 1983, THE THRILLER JUGGERNAUT TOOK BILLY’S CHANCES OF WINNING DOWN THE DRAIN. Still… that is a wonderful album you’ve made, Sir. Kenneth Huang. 2/2/24.

[@ghettoblacktheater]

For all the young cats getting that first crush, tell her about it. For all the OG's holding on to that special someone, please tell her about it. For dudes like myself...we didn't tell her. Peace.

[@pistachiosandpopcorn7146]

Your advice to the young people couldn't be more correct. If you think no way you have a shot...just do it. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it takes women a little while to think "Well maybe..never thought of him that way but maybe". It happens all the time. It happened to me that way! Oh and for anyone reading this...it could take a couple of weeks but it happens more than you think this way.

[@ghettoblacktheater]

@@MattSumGuy You got this. Just do as the song says "Tell her about it!" That's all she's waiting for you to do. ✌️

[@PurplePinkRed]

Word! 👏

[@DMWolFGurL]

@@MattSumGuy Tell her about it and if she doesn't go for it at first, don't get discouraged. A girl wants to be pursued, so keep pursuing her, but don't be creepy. Just let her know that you haven't forgotten her and keep going for her if you want her. Contrary to pop culture now, girls want to ultimately be pursued and respect men that give them flowers and do the romance thing to get them, because the girls realize this guy went out of his way to do something nice when he didn't have to, to impress me.

[@DMWolFGurL]

But also never do these things just for your own gain, think about her and her feelings and think do I want to spend the rest of my life with this girl? Could I see her having my children and us going through the ups and downs of marriage. Men usually don't think about those kinds of things at all, while women have a long term goal. So make sure you don't pursue her if all you want is a piece of a** at the end of the day. Look a man knows when he has found the one he wants to spend the rest of his life with before the woman knows. Kind of like that moment in those Twilight movies where the wolf man latches onto a female. It's not perverted at all, he just knows when he sees her that, that is the woman I am meant to be with. Women seem to always have the power in pop culture, but the one thing a woman doesn't have is that ability or sense, to find that man she is meant to be with. The man is the one with that sense or ability to hone in and find the one woman that God created for him. But most people in general NEVER find their true soul mate, because most people, (even women nowadays), are just temporarily satisfied with casual sex. Pleasure of the body, instead of pleasure of the spirit and soul.

[@markmsmeltzer]

damn... LISTEN to that BASS! Simple and awesome! hell of a song. life changing. ;)

[@BlackWingedSeraphX]

This song makes me happy! It is my favorite song by Billy Joel!

[@jarredkennedy6131]

OPENING SOON: the Billy Joel Therapy Centre. Where you can tell him about it. Tell him everything you feel...

[@meetbilly1573]

Lol, good one.

[@therenegades7329]

She loves me too omg I'm so happy 😭😭😭😭

[@benraunio4692]

I had a friend that said they wish they could take someone to the Home Coming Dance at our high school so I just went and sung this to him and they said, "it that your musical of the day now?" they did eventually ask them and... task successful

[@TheFishyBeats]

Listened to this hundreds of times. Shit actually just hit me hard on this listen lol music is life!

[@animalhousesanctuary6566]

Listen to Billy. Tell her about it, tell her how you really feel ❤❤❤❤

[@Hieroglyphs4Real]

I look forward to seeing him again. He is in my prayers until then. God Bless He and His Beloveds

[@chrishestand1]

I’ve got a cd taken from a cassette tape. A yellow tape that said Fischer Price on it. Mom and dad gave me a tape recorder when I turned 3, and the first 20 minutes of the tape was me trying like crazy to sing this song a cappella. Which I think would qualify this as my most favorite song of all time. Billy wrote the first tune I can remember ever latching onto.

[@laurenceschuler9571]

Good news, combined this advice and some advice from a good friend and now said good friend and I are coming up on six months. Small milestone but makes me smile.

[@bpage4132]

This is my all-time favourite song from Billy Joel, and it`s so fantastic throughout.

[@LemonOnARock_]

I asked her today, we’re still figuring things out but I’m glad I did. Unfortunately I only found this gem after the fact 😅, thanks anyway

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

I thought years ago that I'd paid for online (or uploaded from CDs) all the individual Billy Joel songs I wanted to have in my iTunes library (mostly from his 70s albums, particularly The Stranger), but I overlooked this familiar song which--listening to it now, decades after it came out--I now think is worthy of inclusion...it's just a nice, upbeat song. 😊

[@WallasGirl]

AMAZING SINGER THE MASTER BILLY JOEL, BEAUTIFUL SONG I LOVED AND GREAT TIME 1983 I REMEMBER FOREVER

[@michaelvaladez3012]

Back when Billy was in his prime.This is the Billy Joel I remember back in the 80s during my childhood 🙂 was such a happy time.

[@taureangetzen6028]

This song would be perfect for a movie at the credits

[@meetbilly1573]

You’re an intellectual for saying that.

[@taureangetzen6028]

@@meetbilly1573 thanks!

[@meetbilly1573]

@@taureangetzen6028 No problem :)

[@kieranatkinson2285]

What film credits is this from i can’t figure it out 🤣

[@kevindodimead9066]

Yea I agree. But it would have to be an 80's movie... Maybe staring Tom Selek

[@darksky1557]

This is the first time I hear this song right now, I teared up in all the good ways, guess I gotta tell her about it next time I see her.

[@tristan2102]

what did she say?

[@darksky1557]

@@tristan2102 lmao, the morning i was gonna tell her, she told me she broke a dick the night prior. in the moment, probably one of the sharpests stabs to the hearts, but live and let live, right.

[@tristan2102]

Dark Sky I’m sorry to hear that, I hope it goes better for you next time king

[@darksky1557]

@@tristan2102 😂 definitely got some meme value though

[@Tenkuras]

It got too late but it’s okay every door that closes is a new one that opens.

[@raymondmalcuit8361]

THIS SONG WENT TO NUMBER 1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT-100 CHART IN 1983.

[@marvinjohnson4118]

sing it BILLY JOE, i miss the 80's and 90's

[@nunka34ify]

One of the all time greats

[@aaronknight2207]

Had a complicated time with my girlfriend, then I did what Billy told me to, now we're just fine again ;)

[@jennifursun3303]

love the drummer on this tune

[@sweetpeaches3137]

Aww one of my favorite Billy Joel song 🤍

[@Hydra_6544]

I will today in a few hours from now I chickened out yesterday but I’m doing this and that’s why I’m listening to this song

[@deloisjackson125]

Tell her about it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯💯

[@scottthomas4153]

Great song. Billy Joel’s birthday is the day before mine.

[@normalreality3934]

I heard this in a convenience store, and these lyrics hit me HARD

[@pistachiosandpopcorn7146]

This is my fav by him..hands down! It has the best beat!

[@dwightdavis6652]

I love New York 🎉

[@myusernameissoobnoxiouslyl1466]

All of a sudden, many 80s stations started adding this song onto their playlists

[@teejemoore9211]

Yo I honestly forgot how much Billy was in his bag!!! He definitely speaking❤. Al you have to do is listen 👂🏾!!

[@ccalccol]

entered Billboard July 30, 1983 ..reached #1

[@antsaler7429]

SUPER!!!

[@marialuisanogueiravieira2538]

Love this song ❤️

[@hs8256]

I concur billy!!

[@patrickvecchio8138]

This song and “l’m Still Standing” by Elton John are very similar to me.

[@LaundryFaerie]

Also similar in that both singers can't sing them any more.

[@AEMoreira81]

Released within months of each other too!

[@tacticalpotato3731]

wait until you listen to Africa and River of Dreams back to back, that's a religious experience

[@mattiadellamico888]

Maybe “the boy” told her about it and she said no, but he’s still standing😂

[@chrismarrow5812]

Bernie taupin writes for Elton john , billy writes all his own

[@garyjones2561]

Tried it after years of waiting... Shot down.

[@Rbcinema68]

An innocent man 💞💞

[@somena]

tell w -- my head may always roam... but i know how my body and soul feel when i hear most of his music xoxox

[@samjackson5537]

Classic.

[@randymack2972]

. . . . .fuck can this guy ever sing ! every damn song of his , . . .I listen for the best part of them . . . . .and it always ends up being his voice ! . . . .everything else is suplimentary.

[@tedswanson4631]

I didn't. I did nothing wrong but she's gone. I'm a stranger now drifting through life alone. She told me why. I didn't tell her about it, I didn't let her know always what she meant to me. If I ever get another chance with a girl I truly love I'm going to always tell her about it.

[@flarrfan]

Tribute to the Motown sound...

[@jesusknows9362]

Words to live by

[@lucypurplegalaxyspiers2455]

My favourite song is amazing 🤩 🎉🎉🎉

[@Callumsdv]

It is a good song

[@cherriphelps0108]

Love this!

[@alanstaude7976]

OLIVER & Company 2 [Soundtrack]

[@mattyiannielli2067]

Alan Staude LOL! That would definitely fit an Oliver and Company sequel! Too bad Oliver and Company was a box office bomb and underrated movie. But they might make an Oliver and Company 2. You never know. 🤔

[@glennpeters7133]

A UK hit in December 1983

[@relaetsecyr]

What am I anymore? I am a dead shadow of a once tender loving soul crossed one too many times.

[@chasecook5031]

I wonder how elton john created im still standing lol someone loved this song

[@mrmogish1784]

I'd love to hear him sing this live but he always avoids it as it's too high key for him now.

[@franciscomanuelsanchezcant7803]

ALMERIA ANDALUCIA ESPAÑA MARZO 2024.

[@essieklund316]

wow

[@Zpendiuz]

I've listened that saxophone in "Connected" by Stereo Mc

[@FastCarsNoRules220]

I would tell her about it, but I'm far too shy :P

[@owenhalfpenny5058]

Me too XD

[@LaundryFaerie]

Fortune favors the bold.

[@owenhalfpenny5058]

Laundry Faerie GOD DAMMIT

[@LaundryFaerie]

@@owenhalfpenny5058 I know, the truth hurts.

[@YeahitsMeSylvia]

But I’m too shy to tell him about it

[@felicciasc]

Billy Joel is a visiting composer at Syracuse! Go Orange!

[@1gnore_me.]

this is wholesome as fuck

[@rickardbergh5431]

The f-word has no business being used about songs like this.😤

[@lennypayne4241]

300th Comment!!!

[@MK06563]

🙏🙏😎😎

[@chasjohn57]

I did this three weeks ago. The woman has been beside her self, but she needed to hear some things. She likes another guy but he is a playboy. A young mostly. Inexperienced girl needs to sort things out.

[@EverythingElse23]

3:12 He goes from playfully and casually suggesting for you to tell her about it to forcefully and borderline violently making you tell her about it

[@lilbrowngirlwithlocs4038]

My dad asked me to listen to this song....so I'm here.

[@paulvotaw3886]

Did you enjoy it?

[@lilbrowngirlwithlocs4038]

@@paulvotaw3886 You know what...I actually did! It's outside of my genre but that's not a bad thing. Too bad they don't make music like this anymore....

[@kevindodimead9066]

"but a nice girl shouldn't tell you what you should do"

[@bishopkelley8360]

Let me just come on here before this song is on some "Ole" video game

[@blockheadztv2102]

I'm in middle school right now. I have a huge crush that's eating me up inside, and NO I will probably never "get the girl". But this song sort of gives me hope.

[@tamarasmiljkovic444]

Tell her about it!!!

[@nullvoid4193]

ik its been a year but good luck man

[@matsubara_shou]

日本ではフジテレビ系列で放送されていた「とくダネ!」のオープニングテーマとしても使われていました。 半年間だけですが。

[@bonn777]

Influenced by Boz Scaggs "You Make It So Hard To Say No". JMO.

[@epicsamurai5]

Take it from the guy who didn’t. Tell her about it. Before you lose your chance.

[@georgesjeandenis]

: - ) 2020

[@RSidd]

I told her about it,..but now I am in the friendzone.

[@owenhalfpenny5058]

Rishav Siddhanta, your not the first

[@keeganfirecloak4695]

RIP You must endure! It’s a very difficult land to survive in

[@doctorprofessor6990]

It could be worse. At least you know

[@47jakobi]

you told her too much about it 💀

[@owen6979]

seriously?

[@jacksonbarksdale4031]

I'm so damn nervous idk if I can man

[@FastCarsNoRules220]

At first I thought this song was from the '70s.

[@easy_lucky_free]

+FastCarsNoRules220 Same my friend I thought this was from the '70s. also weird huh.

[@MrHarryBaggins]

+darkedge thebloodedge Does no one read the description? "In 1983, Billy Joel released his album An Innocent Man, an album that traces Joel's musical history through his teenage years in the late '50s and early '60s."

[@FastCarsNoRules220]

Goose I did read the description and looked up more about him online, it's just that when I first heard this song on the radio I thought it was from the '70s.

[@MrHarryBaggins]

FastCarsNoRules220 Ahh I gotcha. I felt the same way when I first hear Of Moons, Birds & Monsters by MGMT. Song is only like 10 years old and it sounds like a classic rock song lol

[@Pokeety11]

Gentlemen, I have done it, I told her about it. Glad I did it but it was a waste of time

[@brawl6406]

tfw i can't tell her about it

[@tylerjones7806]

tfw she's not listening because you shot her

[@mlmr11]

This is very similar to Freeze Frame

[@owen6979]

i have to do valentines day cards its basicly "telling her about it" oh gosh..

[@Callumsdv]

I told her about it

[@tristan2102]

Callum Valentine 👑