Woods wasĬriticized by some purists in the jazz community for playing on a rock The saxophone solo was played by Phil Woods,Ī well-known jazz performer and Grammy award winner. The single version (fading 8 seconds later) was included in the first release of Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, but the full album version was restored for the remastered release of that compilation. That day on Saturday Night Live (along with " Only the Good Die Young").
On February 18, 1978, the song peaked at #3,Īnd Joel performed a shorter version of the song as the musical guest A live performance of the song wasĪlso used as a music video. When "Just the Way You Are" was released as a single, it was His first divorce, his drummer Liberty DeVitto would jokingly parody the lyrics in the chorus as "She got the house. He noted that during performances of the song around the time of Live after 1986 until the 2000s, and Joel has publicly stated that heĭisliked playing the song live in the wake of his divorce from his first Īfter Joel and Weber split in 1982, Joel rarely performed the song Later contradicted Joel's claim, stating in an interview that theyĬould not afford to exclude the song because Joel did not have that much However, the album's producer, Phil Ramone, But Joel has stated that, at the request ofīoth Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow (both were recording in other studios in the same building at the time), Joel agreed to put the song on the final mix. Joel or his band, and Joel had originally decided against making the The song, which Joel had written for his first wife (and also hisīusiness manager at the time) Elizabeth Weber, was not liked by either The name of the song and how it sounds in the chorus was directly takenįrom the last line in the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song " Rag Doll" which incidentally was also a larger inspiration for Joel's later song, " Uptown Girl". On November 16, 2010, Joel revealed that the inspiration for writing In an interview on the Howard Stern Radio Show Joel shared that the melody and chord progression for this song came to him while he was dreaming. Just The Way You Are (Cover Version of Billy Joey)įrom: Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia.
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