Music Monday: Review and Giveaway: Legacy Edition of Piano Man 2 cd set Billy Joel

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Continuing our jog down memory lane today, we're going down music row!


Can you believe that Billy Joel has been in the music business for 40 years?


Sony Music / Legacy Recordings is commemorating those years with two very special releases, Piano Man (Legacy Edition) and Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection, both to be released tomorrow, on November 8! 
The Complete Albums Collection
The Complete Albums Collection is in a gorgeous box, and contains Joel's complete catalog of 14 essential albums, from 1971's Cold Spring Harbor through 1979's Grammy-winning Album of The Year 52nd Street and 1981's live Songs In The Attic to 2001's Fantasies & Delusions, the first album of Billy's classical compositions. Each album has been recently remastered in 24 bit audio for the ULTIMATE listening experience and each cd comes in it's own cardboard jacket, that has the original album art on it! 


The complete package Includes:
1. Cold Spring Harbor (1971) 
2. Piano Man (1973) 
3. Streetlife Serenade (1974) 
4. Turnstiles (1976) 
5. The Stranger (1977) 
6. 52nd Street (1978) 
7. Glass Houses (1980) (my all time favorite!) 
8. Songs In The Attic (1981) 
9. The Nylon Curtain (1982) 
10. An Innocent Man (1983) 
11. The Bridge (1986) 
12. Storm Front (1989) 
13. River Of Dreams (1993) 
14, Fantasies & Delusions (2001) 
15. Collected Additional Masters (1985—2007) 


The box also contains two lavish 60-page booklets, printed lyrics to every Bill Joel song, a new Q&A with Billy, conducted by noted music journalist Steve Morse, and a bonus disc of 17 rare and non-album recordings!


If you are looking for a super duper Christmas gift for the music lover, THIS is the box set to buy! And Joel will randomly autograph copies of the set, which will be sold through the Official Billy Joel store. Even better for the Billy Joel fan!
Legacy Edition of Piano Man set
As part of the promotion for both sets, I was sent the double disc, Legacy Edition of Piano Man (Billy Joel's 1973 debut album on Columbia Records), which includes the 10-song original album in its entirety, totally remastered as well! The second disc is the first-ever release of Billy's mythic performance at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studio on April 15, 1972, and it is not even available in the Complete Collection Box Set! 


Disc One/Piano Man includes:
1. Travelin' Prayer
2. Piano Man
3. Ain't No Crime
4. You're My Home
5. The Ballad Of Billy The Kid
6. Worse Comes To Worse
7. Stop In Nevada
8. If I Only Had The Words (To Tell You)
9. Somewhere Along The Line
10. Captain Jack


Disc Two Includes:
Introduction
Falling
Travelin' Prayer
The Ballad of Billy the Kid
She's Got A Way
Everybody Loves You Now
Nocturne
Turnaround
Long, Long Time
Captain Jack
Josephine
Rosalind
Tomorrow is Today


"Long, Long Time," "Josephine," and "Rosalinda" do not appear on any Billy Joel album! 


To be the Piano Man album has always rivaled Jim Croce's You Don't Mess Around with Jim, as being an iconic album of the musician's talent. They may have had bigger hits, but to me, these are the albums that showcase them. I have always loved You're My Home, Travelin Prayer, and The Ballad of Billy the Kid and it was great to hear them remasted and sounding like they were just released. Even Kiddo start singing along in the car! If you want to make sure your cd collection is complete, you need this cd!


One lucky BTHM reader will win a copy of Legacy Edition of Piano Man just in time for Christmas!

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Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this cd set, free of charge, from Sony Music, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about either set.

Comments

  1. Linda KishNovember 7, 2011 at 2:39 PM

    I like New York State of Mind

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  2. AnonymousNovember 7, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    What a great giveaway. His songs, the era are all wonderful. Many thanks. Ellie. elliotbencan(at)hotmail(dot)com`

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  3. holdenjNovember 8, 2011 at 6:48 AM

    I like Piano Man.
    Thanks, what a great set!
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  4. Cackleberry HomesteadNovember 8, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    I love Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.
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  5. Denise GNovember 8, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    Piano Man

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  6. coreyNovember 8, 2011 at 3:29 PM

    Piano Man - too.

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  7. annNovember 8, 2011 at 6:28 PM

    Piano Man is my favorite

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  8. UnknownNovember 9, 2011 at 2:52 AM

    I love Captain Jack!!!!!

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  9. Frugal Tumbleweed AcresNovember 10, 2011 at 9:10 AM

    My favorite song is Piano Man.
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  10. janetfayeNovember 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM

    I like She's Got A Way.


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  11. AnonymousNovember 11, 2011 at 5:53 AM

    I like his song "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
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  12. moushkaNovember 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM

    My fave is We Didn't Start the Fire.

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  13. DeeNovember 13, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    Mine is Uptown girl :)

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  14. NetherlandNovember 16, 2011 at 2:43 AM

    My daughter and I were introduced to Choo Choo Soul through the Disney Channel. She would ask the see the music videos again and again. It really got her dancing.

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  15. EestiNovember 16, 2011 at 7:19 PM

    My daughter and I were introduced to Choo Choo Soul through the Disney Channel. She would ask the see the music videos again and again. It really got her dancing.

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  16. Cathy WNovember 19, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    Piano Man

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