Billy Joel - Billy Joel on COLD SPRING HARBOR - from THE COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTION
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- The Complete Albums Collection is a limited edition box set that features every studio album ever recorded by Billy Joel. In this interview, Billy Joel speaks about his 1971 album Cold Spring Harbor and starting his career as a songwriter.
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Billy Joel's official UA-cam 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.
I don't understand why Billy isn't proud of this album. I think it's absolutely fantastic. It's actually one of my favorite albums. She's Got a Way, Everybody Loves You Now, Falling of the Rain, Turn Around, Tomorrow Is Today... all excellent tracks. I also really really love his voice on this album.
Me too,for 20 years!
It's likely his vocal tracks were recorded while the machines were running at half speed, and then after that was done, when they were played back at the normal speed, was how his vocal sounded higher than usual.
Well it is his first album.
Yeah, about his voice, um... should we tell him guys?
@@ClassicTVMan1981X not half speed....only 2.5 semitones too fast....duh
This is my favorite album of all time and it's sad he doesn't look at it fondly. I like his voice in this album a lot, actually, including the piano playing and lyrics. Billy Joel is the reason why I started to learn piano in the first place and it can be attributed to this album. The first song I really started learning was Nocturne, but my favorite song is Tomorrow is Today. Thank you Billy for making this album, it has and will forever stick with me.
If you were as depressed as he was at the time, you wouldn't want to listen to this music either. It brings back bad memories to him...
Tomorrow is today made me cry, so much emotion behind it.
That was his suicide note from when he tried to commit suicide
This was a favorite song on the album for a while
I know Billy Joel does not like the cold spring harbor album very much but this album means everything to me it got me through a very difficult time in my life and I am very grateful for it. Thanks Billy!❤
It’s still one of my all time favorite albums. Absolutely beautiful in every way.
Cold Spring Harbor is the most underrarted album...... By Billy Joel
Screw it. Cold Spring Harbor is a great album. If he doesn't like it, Billy should make a 'Cold Spring Harbor, Redux', remaking all these songs (little gems, in my opinion) in his vision of today, 2017.
Everybody has a dream...
If you were as depressed as he was at the time, you wouldn't want to listen to this music either. It brings back bad memories to him...
He doesn't seem too impressed with his first album. But I really like it, there's a lot of good songs. "Tomorrow is Today" is beautiful.
It is - but I bet he's got some horrible memories tied up with that song. Hasn't played it live outside of promoting that album. I think.
He's also brutal on his pre-solo work as well and probably partially responsible for the overall negative outlook on the Attila album. While Attila was a flawed concept, it is a lot better than people give it credit. For one thing Joel handles the roll of organist, bassist and lead "guitarist" all from his Hammond B3. The contrast between the melody lines played with his hands and the bass lines with his feet show some pretty serious chops for someone at such a young age.
The "Hour of the Wolf" albun by the Hassles was completely written and sang by Joel with his keyboards being the dominant instrument. While the album is pretty dated psychedelia, it also has lotsa great moments.
If you were as depressed as he was at the time, you wouldn't want to listen to this music either. It brings back bad memories to him...
@@kevinpatrickmacnutt Atilla is AMAZING.
Elton's first was EMPTY SKY and Billy's was COLD SPRING HARBOR - i was thinking about that amazing run Billy had with The Stranger, 52nd Street, Glass Houses, The Nylon Curtain, An Innocent Man -- from 1977 to 1983 -- 5 studio albums in 6 years and a heavy touring schedule all around the world -- that was some prolific magical period for Billy Joel.
Some of my favorite songs ever are on this album. Billy's voice may sound a little high but the songs are still wonderful.
A fan made remaster came out last year, its the original 1971 mix with corrected speed made off of an NOS copy of the original press. The sounds is phenominal. The 1983 version isnt even the real Cold Spring Harbor. The speed was corrected track by track. Theres no remixes, You Can Make Me Free is in its original form with all the kick ass drum and guitar work intact and the orchestra is still in Tomorrow Is Today
It’s really cool getting to see Billy Joel doing his own retrospective video series on many of his albums that he’d produced throughout the 70’s and 80’s.
its a fucking great album. you may be young Billy, but She's Got A Way, You Can Make Me Free, Nocturne,Tomorrow Is Today & Got To Begin Again are BRILLIANT tunes. as good as anything that followed.
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I can understand why he would hate this album; the producer made him run through each song (and most of these are simple, straightforward melodic pop) upwards of 20 times, they were recorded and mixed poorly and he gained confidence as a songwriter and entertainer rapidly in the next few years; it was also written in a pretty lousy time in his life and career, and I'm sure he hates being reminded of it. That being said... I love this album, I play it in its entirety on my way to work at least once a week. It's the sound of a young, passionate man battling his insecurities and finding his voice. To me, it's rippling with an energy that's infectious.
The original pressing on a lot of his earlier were issued on the incorrect speed which were later corrected that still made him sound like a chipmunk.
I love his model boats behind him. I am a native Long Islander. It's a very beautiful and historic part of New York. 👍 Long Island ⛵️ 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳
Once I learned the meaning behind "Tomorrow Is Today", I was shocked. Amazing album.
Wow I didn't realize how much he really didn't care about this album. He really should since this is where it all started!
You Can Make Me Free and the live version of Tomorrow is Today are some of my favorites of his, wish he liked them as much as I do
Best Song on the Album: Everybody Loves You Now
Runner-Up: She’s Got a Way
"I can soar like a bird "
Thank you for sharing
John
I wish I could still go to Cold Spring Harbor but I live in Florida.
There needs to be a speed and pitch corrected version of this with the full version of You Can Make Me Free on vinyl.
My personal favorite!
A very fair and even-handed assessment of this album "Embryonic Billy Joel." I've never heard him be more modest than he is in this little snippet and it's appealing.
This is a response to the comment about with today's technology, why wasn't the original Cold Spring Harbor album mastering speed corrected? Good question. Low priority for the Family Production label?
Why did it take Columbia/Sony take 34 or so years to speed correct on Side 1 of Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue.? Jazz musicians knew for years that Side 1 was mastered from a tape machine that was playing a bit too slow. When I was working in music retail , c. 1993 I had a chance to speak to Ron Camilleri of Sales and Marketing with Sony Canada. He told me while they were working on the Kind Of Blue gold CD Mastersound edition, that they found a 2nd master tape that was created back in 1959 that was playing at the correct speed for Side 1. Ever since, all the CDs, SACDs and LP releases of Kind Of Blue have been mastered at the correct speed.
And BTW, Cold Spring Harbor is also my favourite Billy Joel album. I have an original 1972 U.S. LP, along with the speed corrected, remixed, remastered album on CD.
The songwriting on this album is incredible. It's possibly the record (along with Songs in the Attic which contains a few of the songs in versions Billy probably prefers) that I've listened to the most of his discography. I do have to agree that there's something not quite right about the voice compared to other albums. The tape can't have been at half speed though, or it'd have been totally obvious. I always heard it just ran at the "wrong" speed. He did She's Got a Way in concert a lot so that's available all over the place.
I love this album!!! That is all!!
download the album from you tube, open in VLC player, enable pitch adjust, lower 2.5 semitones
Please please reissue the original mixes, with the speeds corrected. I’ve heard it from fan restorations, and they are much better mixes!!
Fuck yea they are, no comparison.
I agree with the last guy, it's a great album, I love Cold Spring Harbour. Great songs! Falling Of The Rain is awesome! My opinion it's the best song on the album. Take care and Best wishes to everyone.
I agree with the last two guys.
I actually really love this album, the tracks Falling of the Rain and Why Judy Why are really good songs. It also has Everybody Loves you Now and She's Got a Way, while the live version is better, the original is still really good. And of course, the rest of the tracks sound great and I don't think he sounds bad honestly.
I will always have a high respect for Billy. It's incredible that he went from this album all the way to Fantasies and Delusions. Contrary to most Hollywood musicians, he really is incredibly talented.
The general story is that the album was originally mastered at the wrong speed - but that doesn't make sense, since after the 1983 remaster, Billy still sounds like a chipmunk. It's still not right. I would argue that when they recorded his vocals, the multitrack playback was at the wrong speed (ie: too slow) , and therefore when it came to proper mixing at the proper speed, it was too late.
A song on here, “Why Judy Why,” haunts me. I’m so curious as to the origins of the song but information about the song is incredibly scarce. If I ever got to ask him a question, I would ask him about that song.
He wrote it about his sister and how he looked up to her I think.
I don't understand why Billy Joel doesn't appreciate this album, personally I like it more than Piano Man or even The Stranger, You can make me free and Turn around are my favorite songs...
They did in 1983
But they also stripped the same tunes of certain orchestrations and shortened their running times.
Billy Joel missed out on big $ at the time marketing special turntables with 29 rpm setting to hear at the proper speed 😊
Unpopular opinion: Cold Spring Harbour is the best Billy Joel album
The Stranger
His Cold Springs Harbor album ain't bad either! 😊
Thats his best album
with today's technology, why couldn't he just have it reissued at the correct speed?!
This album has three great songs: She's Got a Way, Everybody Loves You Now and Falling of the 🌧. I would include Tomorrow is Today but the only thing that stops it from being great is that out of place voice drop midway through the song. Why did he do that?
Nocturne is a decent instrumental.
Compare songs from the remastered CSH to live versions he did for the 1972 WMMR radio broadcast from Sigma Sound in Philadelphia. Same key, same voice. Billy's voice did change not long after. Maybe it was from singing through all the tobacco smoke during his legendary six month stint at an LA piano bar.
Artie Ripp-off 😂 correct that speed
Remix the original fucker in the right speed and release it on 180 g vinyl!!!
Its been done with amazing results in december of 2021. Fans made it with a sealed copy of the 1971 press. Unfortunately itll probably never see an official release. I burnt the lossless files to CD and play it a lot. The 1983 version is garbage in comparison
I wrote a mini biography on you.
Wait, if Cold Spring Harbor is embryonic Billy Joel, what does that make the albums with Attila & The Hassles?
Probably as a soloist
I think it's only the engineering of the album that he said he did not like (sounds like chipmunk). 0:44
He also doesnt like remembering how everyone in the industry took advantage of him at the time.
Tell my Why!! Judy Why!!!
He didn’t make any money from it -Artie stole it-some great tracks on so his comments are a little unfair