Billy Joel - Zanzibar (Audio)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Official audio for "Zanzibar" by Billy Joel
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#BillyJoel #Zanzibar #52ndStreet
Chorus:
I've got the old man's car
I've got a jazz guitar
I've got a tab at Zanzibar
Tonight, that's where I'll be, I'll be
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.
When I do eventually get the old mans car, this’ll be the first song to be played
You are a legend, truly.
When I got my grandfather's 1943 mgtd this was the song I played
i am too high to understand that
@@hellfire8371 nice. For me it’s gonna be my grandpa’s 1972 nova
@@zinatra1887 bruh my grandad has a mazda, ive never even heard of that car.. i'm nit a car person
regardless of how people find this song, the important thing is that billy joel’s music is reaching younger generations
TY lmao there’s a whole bunch of gatekeepers 😐
Yep, but I didn’t learn billy Joel from TikTok. My dad taught me when I was 6.
yupp, my dad was in a blues band and he loved this song
I agree
This girl I really like said it matched her energy abt. To listen
My two favorite artists are Billy Joel and Freddie Mercury. Billy Joel wrote a song called Zanzibar, and Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar. Probably a pointless connection, but it makes me smile.
I always thought they connected because billy kinda sounds like him in this song to me
freddie is one of my favorites and elton
and the beat kinda sounds like something freddie would sing
I love Freddie Mercury as well 🥺👉👈💙
This is my exact thought, I was looking for this comment too 😂😂🙄😹😢🥳😹🥳🤠🤠😹😢🌝😢
I owe TikTok so much for introducing me to Billy Joel's music. My favourite song is For The Longest Time!
any billy joel song is great. one of the greatest artists ever. 7th highest seller of all time too
@@-gsg2519 woah I gotta explore more of his stuff
Omg that's the most likes I ever had, thank you all!
U should also listen to piano man and uptown girl then!!!
@@tashiel7797 Oh I love uptown girl!! Wait is it by this same guy??
I was brought here from that dance ok tiktok and I’m not disappointed love Billy Joel
IKR
This song is very good
I already had this on record
literally makes me so happy every time it comes on my fyp
Same😂
I got the old mans caaaaar ,
I got a jazz guitarrrrrr,
I got a tab at Zan zi baaaaar
TONIGHT!!!!!
Literally read this as the lines were sung
@@samanthawilliams2046 same
Where is thats part
I heard for a long time "i got the old man cum" no car lol
@@samanthawilliams2046 I love when that happens 😂
Definitely the most underrated Billy Joel song
100%
Yes
My favorite with Big Man on Mulberry and Modern Woman.
Nah, Why Judy Why definitely is more underrated. This song is fantastic though.
For sure
Serotonin levels approaching unforeseen highs
same lool
dopamine* that’s not what serotonin is
@@calebflowers9308 why
@@calebflowers9308 serotonin literally affects mood bro
@@samglover4923 serotonin literally just controls the LEVELS of DOPAMINE and other mood chemicals “bro”
WARNING: Do not listen to this while doing dishes, you will start to dance, and you will fall. That plate in your hand?? It will become millions of pieces and will scatter across your home.
(Edit: For those of you asking if I’m ok, I actually am not ok. I broke one of my favorite plate ; - ;)
Haha. Lol...
You sound like your talking from experience. Lololol!!!!!
ok
@@yellowlabrador4918 he’s got pictures too😂
thanks for the warning mate
I just know you wrote this after your mom or dad yelled at you
Jazz legend Freddie Hubbard blowing away on that trumpet.
billy joel is a very clever songwriter. He's very good at taking styles and making them work. even his lyrics are very calculated and well thought out. I can almost hear the cogs ticking in his head when I listen to his stuff. you have to respect the work he puts into it
+Captain Rhodes agree with u on that, even the singing itself has to be right
Yes. I've never really understood myself why Billy gets so much hate from music critics when (IMHO) he's one of the best singer-songwriters of all time. He shows that he can write a catchy pop tune, and he can also write sophisticated music in the vein of old jazz, hard rock, and classical music. He's one of the most prominent musical geniuses, and he deserves to be one of the best-selling artists of all time.
+Ridge Patterson I agree with everything you said! Thank God the public doasn't agree with the so called music critics! Billy is a genius, musically, in every way!
Ridge Patterson t
"I've never really understood myself why Billy gets so much hate from music critics when (IMHO) he's one of the best singer-songwriters of all time."Inversely they prefer Elton John over Billy Joel although they are two different writers and players. FWIW I liked both maybe Joel ahead because of songs like this.
This could easily be a Steely Dan song. A gem of a song. B. Joel is a genius.
No, I don’t think so. The Dan are far more obscure in how their songs are formulated - and voiced, I think.
I do absolutely adore this song, btw. And appreciate Mr Joel’s genius as well as adoring Steely Dan to the point of pain !
So cool - I had this exact thought yesterday, and I have been listening to this song since it was released - it was always one of my favorites - Billy is doing the Steely Dan sound, but taking them to school on how it should be done!
The people who disliked this video don't have tabs at Zanzibar :(
We can't all have a tab at Zanzibar
I don't get it
He turned an exotic island into a play on words to make this a song about a bar.
Right on sister!
she didn't serve the secret smile
Just saw Billy Joel perform last night in Seattle. First heard him live in Philadelphia in 1973. He’s as great a performer today as ever! This song was in the 2.5 hour set. He has a great band. His voice has changed a bit over time but he still hit all the high notes.
An American music classic and a class act!
My 22 year old daughter just discovered Billy Joel and you'd think she just discovered electricity. It's fun to hear her sing along with me.
I discovered Billy Joel (beyond Piano Man and Uptown Girl) a few months ago and have been learning so many of his songs because his discography is littered with masterwork. This song is among the most fun for me as a guitarist.
It's 1am, house is quiet, and this comment made me bust out laughing! I share your joy...Class of 1983 here, and I played this album constantly...52nd Street is my favorite of all his albums because it's jazz influence...I bought it thinking it would be moody like The Stranger, which appealed to my junior high girls heart. Nope. It took me somewhere else...and made me a jazz fan as well.
The millennials and zoomers are hungry for something - anything - real and authentic. Don't write them off.
@@ZekeMan62 that's good advice, man... I'd be honored if some Billy Joel fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of his classics HONESTY and VIENNA on my YT in tribute to the master of lyricism & composition. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace & stay safe.
lucky you my daughter just discovered billy squier hopefully shes working her way up from there 🤣
I listened to this album on cassette in a little village in Mexico called El Rosario back in the late 70s. I was just a moody teen back then and I'd made it a point to be extra bratty for being taken on vacation against my will. Forced to visit my maternal grandparents and having to endure hugs, kisses and authentic Mexican food.. I remember one night in particular outside their little house with no running water. A single light bulb in their makeshift kitchen that was wired from my grandpa's pickup truck! I sat on a fold out chair after dinner looking up at a beautiful, black star-filled sky as smoke wafted from the fire pit. I lay there determined to be morose but in fact I was enjoying every song on my Panasonic cassette player (extra batteries included). I was a recent Billy Joel convert as there was just something about his musical style that just grabbed me. Now, these decades later every time I hear a song from this album my thoughts immediately go back to that little house in the Mexican desert and that bratty teen jamming to cassettes under the stars.
this is so beautiful. thanks for sharing. hope youre doing well.
Yea but do you
HAVE THE OLD MANSS CARRR
Awesome song,great brass
저도 10대때 들었던 그 때의 기억으로 돌아갑니다. 이 곡이 너무 좋습니다!!
"ill steal it if she only gives the sign" we love consent 😩😩
I agree 100%. In this case it was 100% baseball innuendo. I see it as a clever play on words regarding the game of baseball. For example the coach (her) would give the sign to go "steal" the base to the player on base (him). And he then mentions "she's gonna give the go ahead (coach telling player to steal base)... and the inning isn't over me (another ballball reference" for additional innuendos and to me that appears to be 100% consensual.
It’s about baseball
@@aidanmcglone7090 its a play on words
@@user-js2fq a very clever one
@@declanmiller3304 Active listening 😉. Troll much??
I’m young, but there’s something so dramatic and cool about these jazz style musical songs that hit different
When it slaps it slaps man
@@samanthawilliams2046 frfr
Classic rock just built different fr
Get into some steely Dan for sure start with Aja if you haven’t heard that tune. The fucking drum outro is KILLER
I'm a teen who's been listening to him for about a year.
This is epic
I’m 59 years young and I was ridiculed at primary school back in the day listening to this.I listen now and it’s on a different planet .Outstanding!
That trumpet solo is just divine
Wonder who is playing it.
@@sha11235 Freddie Hubbard
@@sha11235 Go listen to Freddie Hubbard's record 'Breaking Point'
After forty-six years this song still sounds smooth.
Heard this song one day in chilis, and it was crazy. It was so loud in the restaurant and I could hardly hear every other song, but this one, I heard loud and clear. Safe to say the is my new favorite song ❤
This is quite possibly one of the best songs I've ever heard
As some one who's listened to like all his music it's for sure one of the best and I only heard it like a few months ago. That Am9 chord vamp at the beginning is just ridiculously sick
@@migrations Same! I only listened to this song a few months ago and I'm wondering how I have never heard it before then. But I'm so glad I did 💓
One of my absolute favorite tunes
Lau you can’t say that when there’s still a lot more of Billeys Songs
@@drakebrown9622 trust me I've heard almost all of Billy's songs. Big big big fan here lol. Actually 52nd street has become my favorite billy album because of this song.
This is his best album,there is no doubt about that!! Every song is damn good!!
American Jazz trumpet player Freddie Hubbard soaring on his solo. 🔥 Billy and the band really lay it down on this whole album !
Mr. Hubbard is definitely in top form on this track.
I've visited NYC for just one day the winter of 1978 or '79. I recalled they played this song as I stood and watched the cityscape under my hotel room window.
40数年たっても名曲は色褪せない
i’m so excited to see more people getting into billy joel from tiktok omg. especially this song, it’s so underrated
Yes! I didn’t know him and now I think he is awesome! I don’t really know why ppl are so rude to ppl who came here from tik tok, it’s really weird how they try to gatekeep ANYTHING!
See the problem people have is that it isn’t special anymore when everybody over uses it and then associates it with tiktok. People don’t like the fact that people identify it as “that one tiktok song” instead of “that one billy Joel song.” Ya see where I’m coming from?
@@faroutskits5203 i def see where you’re coming from! i think when a song is very close to your heart it’s normal to be a bit protective of it. and it can be annoying when some people only associate a song with tik tok and don’t properly recognize the actual artist. but i think that most people know it’s billy joel bc he’s a very famous artist and if they don’t know that’s an opportunity to tell them and put those people onto his other music. for every 1 person who sees this song as just a 15 sec audio on tik tok, there’s another 5 people who go look the song up and develop their own attachment to it
@@faroutskits5203 hell I thought I was the only one. Finding new music on any platform of social media is dope, but ffs I’d like to listen to a song without the lame ass tik tok association with it. It absolutely ruins it for me.
@@mytheoryofmind exactly. i’m glad i’ve found people with the same issue as me.
The late Freddie Hubbard, master jazz musician, on trumpet.
when this came out , 3 generations bought this album ..............
Billy Joel has such mature lyrics especially at the age he was writhing the songs the (late 20s)
he's an amazing artist. friggin love Billy
@@billyjoel6168 Who do you think you’re fooling?
@@billyjoel6168 🏃🏼♀️
@@dandychiggins7370 He does it under numerous musicians names on the videos.
I think he is collecting e-mail addresses to spam or sell off to others.
Thing is, that "maturity" was the norm at the time. That's exactly why we hear so much commentary from the young adults of that time lamenting the lack of maturity for the same age of young adults in our more recent times.
ビリー・ジョエルの曲の中でも特にジャズ色の強い1曲。
フレディ・ハバードのフリューゲルホーン(トランペット)がカッコいいのは勿論だけど、マイク・マイニエリのビブラフォンも何気にカッコいいんだよね。
今も大好きな1曲です。
その通り
Billy gettin his Steely Dan on
Ha!
Yes. LOL. It reminds me of a particular SD song too. Or maybe a combo of them in one
Steely all the way! I hear it too. All over this record in particular of Billy's catalog
Those 9th chords really sound like Dan. And the bass line like from 'Cisco Kid' gives a cool jungly groove.
Oh my. I thought exactly the same, and that's the main reason why I immediately loved this song!
Am I the only one who here's Steely Dan in these grooves? I think this is Billy saying - "Yeah, I can do that too."
Probably his best song. Steely Dan meets pop. And he's not over singing
I've never heard so much awesomeness from a single artist before.
I forgot about this song. This is when Billy was having a Steely Dan moment... 😎
This is real music 🎶
I think everyone should listen to Billy Joel's entire library at least once in their lives
It doesn’t matter how u got here, if u were intrested in searching this u are a legend
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@@billyjoel6168 wtf, u scared me
@@billyjoel6168 o my god I've never seen such a BS comment. Billy Joel would never say something like that XD.
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Freddie Hubbard burns on two trumpet solos on this piece,to me that is the highlight.
Ali dances and the audience applauds
Though he's bathed in sweat he hasn't lost his style
Ali don't you go downtown
You gave away another round for free
Me, I'm just another face at Zanzibar
But the waitress always serves a secret smile
She's waiting out in Shantytown
She's gonna pull the curtains down for me, for me
I've got the old man's car
I've got a jazz guitar
I've got a tab at Zanzibar
Tonight that's where I'll be, I'll be
Rose, he knows he's such a credit to the game
But the Yankees grab the headline every time
Melodrama's so much fun
In black and white for everyone to see
Me, I'm trying just to get to second base
And I'd steal it if she only gave the sign
She's gonna give the go head
The inning isn't over yet for me, for me
I've got the old man's car
I've got a jazz guitar
I've got a tab at Zanzibar
Tonight that's where I'll be
Tell the waitress I'll come back to Zanzibar
I'll be hiding in the darkness with my beer
She's waiting out in Shantytown
She's gonna pull the curtains down for me, for me
I've got the old man's car
I've got a jazz guitar
I've got a tab at Zanzibar
Tonight that's where I'll be
Why do I now have the feeling the stuff about second base is about fucking?
sha11235 The line,”she’s gonna pull the curtains down for me,”is referring to a girl pulling down her panties, but I’m not sure about the second base thing.
@@sha11235 Naw, just booby touching. Jus da booby.
But in later revised versions the line was rose he knows he will never make the hall of fame and it was revised before he retired or he was banded my thoughts is billy had his love hate moments about pete rose
The jazz chicken played on this track
Whole album is my favorite, but this song is my favorite! The breakdown is very Steely and jazzy!
I agree !!!!!!
Yeah, the entire A side is perfection
+Tedd Idle, i believe billy joel's biographer stated that this song was an homage to donald fagen
Owen Daniels wow really? great tidbit
Owen Daniels thanks, I can really see that once it's pointed out
I can’t be the only one that thinks this sounds like a supertramp song
100%
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT AND HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR THE SONG UNDER THEIR NAME
You mean Supertramp sounds like Billy Joel.
@@ELLIOT1311 hell nah, supertramp is way better than billy
@@alexvyriotes4219 NO. billy is like the 7th highest selling artist of all time and one of the greats. please no
This track is sooooo Steely Dan. Good stuff
I forgot Billy Joel existed for a little while, still remember listening to his songs in the car when I was in 1st grade lol. Wish I found this particular song earlier 🥲
SAME QUEEN
Probably because he stopped making albums years ago.
My parents always played his songs when I was a baby, honestly glad they did lol
I can almost picture the people he's singing about, I can see that that bar. Excellent songwriter
Everyone says Martin Luther King Jr. or Winston Churchill were the greatest orators or the 20th century, I think Billy could be squeezed in there
This song is impressive as f❤ Billy Joel kills it
何万回も聞いてきたけど、どこからどこまでもカッコよすぎだわ。
WHY IS THIS SO UNDERRATED
hello it has 1 Million views??
its not underrated lmao. hes like tge 8th highest selling artist of all time and one of the Greats
It’s because it’s very old but he has plenty of other great songs and it wasn’t underrated during its time
@@tashiel7797 hes not underrated now lol
@@mogcothra3961 that's not much compared to other singles that are on here
Absolutely love the trumpet in this song
Oh yes :)
Freddie Hubbard is always a delight
The first solo is on a flugelhorn, the second is a trumpet
@@septictopix4797 is it possible that Brecker plays fluglehorn and that Hubbard does trumpet solo ? Iask because I see the Brecker Brothers are credited on the album , but are not attached to one particular song
.. Then again on vinyl, not alot of notes 😂
It's a shame this isn't one of his more popular songs, I think it's one of his best.
This song reminds me a lot of Steely Dan, which is awesome
This is where the fun begins
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"Me i''m tryin just to get to second base ~ and i'd steal it if she only gave the sign ~ She's gonna give the go ahead ~ the inning isn't over yet for me " Genius
Agreed!!!
Freddie Hubbard's trumpet solo rains down from the heavens. Man, that guy could play all the right notes.
Who doesn’t love billy joel
Christie Brinkley?
My biggest flex is that I’ve been growing up with billy Joel’s music since I was 3 years old
I was born in 2007 but I’ve been listening to Billy Joel, Queen and pretty much any classic rock my whole life. My music taste is wack tho and I listen to every genre imaginable.
@@williampark4753 yes same
@@williampark4753 same I was born in 2005
Same
@Ricardo Roche yeah I see what you’re saying
Billy Joel’s best song. Quintessential NYC
People who are just now finding Billy Joel’s other songs: don’t stop here! He has loads of other great songs from every album. 52nd Street has some of his best and so does Turnstiles.
Don't forget about The Stranger, Glass Houses, and An Innocent Man
I always feel like Turnstiles gets overlooked a lot of the time. It has some of my favorite Billy tracks, "I've loved these days, summer highland falls, angry young man, James"
@@issorgmot8539 the Nylon Curtain was different but still great in its own way, and personally I loved Songs from the Attic as well.
As some one who grew up listening to Billy Joel, I’m so happy that younger generations find this music entertaining and great. Good music never dies!
This song has a very special sound
Nice to see that Billy Joel has reached my generation; as stupid as Tik Tok can get one advantage is that the younger generations are being exposed to a wider range of music rather than just what is currently on the radio.
Yeah totally! I love how tiktok is making me discover amazing music like this song :)
Absolutely! Even though tiktok is stupid most of the time, it's where I found a lot of music I listen to now. And I'm happy that everyone else can experience these songs with me :)
Hell yeah, ignoring all the stupid stuff on TikTok, I agree that they can put a spotlight on great music that needs attention.
Fun fact: China, who controls tiktok, has banned the things we know tiktok for in our country, in their country. China does not allow homosexuality, trans, feminism, grooming or effeminate men on their site.
Hmmm, i wonder why... Probably has nothing to do with the self destruction, moral corruption or beliefs that align with "pregnant 'men'".
I'm always amazed how for years, this was considered a "forgotten classic".... but if you look at Billy Joel's setlists, he's pretty much made this a standard in his shows for the last decade now. I just find that so cool.
This is a Baptist Hymn compared to what kids listen to these days! Billy is an ICON in our lives and history, and we owe him many thinks to all the joys he has given us through his musical talents.
Much to my family's dismay, I played this album endlessly. Glad to revisit it, decades later.
My first CD was Storm Front and played it endlessly for my family's dismay as well!!
I wore the grooves off this record in 1980! This whole album is genius
First time I heard Freddie Hubbard and Steve Khan, thanks Billy.
Freddie Hubbard is probably my favourite trumpet player. Check out his stuff with Wayne shorter.
Also, the first solo is a flugelhorn and the second is trumpet. It’s cool to hear the difference.
I just cried and laughed through the whole thing. What an unbelievable creation. I forgot how deeply this song moved me when I got this album.
Holy crap, what a song.
And isn’t that what is best about the music we love? To be moved..
Freddy Hubbard solo trumpet.....Sounded great when it was released and sounds just as fresh now.
Steely Dan vibes all over this one.
Phenomenal music. Absolutely love Billy Joel. I can’t understand why anyone would hate his music.
I haven't listened to this in years! Remembering how obsessed I was with Billy Joel. Love!
I understand the obsession with Billy Joel! Gina in Lights
Americas Piano Man !!! I saw this live, Zanzibar in AZ.. and I will never forget it.. as I hide in the darkness with my beer !~
Its honestly dope as fuck that one of Billy Joel’s songs turned into a TikTok trend. And they picked a banger too!
Yeah I had no idea this song made a bit of a resurgence and it's super surprising it was fuckin Zanzibar and not My Life or Piano Man or Movin Out. This is a great song
This is probably my favorite Billy Joel song. Wha a catchy melody. I listen to this once and it’s stuck in my head for days
You mean decades.
Correct
My parents took me to a Billy Joel concert a couple years ago so I could see a him before he stops touring and even tho I didn’t know his songs they still made me get up and dance (especially uptown girl). It brought me and my mom closer so thank you Billy Joel.
That moment when you realize that you are now the old man and your kid is in need of your car. Ah, the generations of Billy Joel.
My husband and I saw Billy Joel in NYC in the 80s. The best concert ever!!❤
We saw Billy in Orlando a few months ago our 5th time seeing him & there were a lot of people under 20 there having a Great time. Girl behind me was probably 16 & sang every song like me was Great to see so many generations that Love Him!!
Just saw Billy in Pittsburgh this past Thursday, great show. Wearing a full suit and tie and I swear the guy didn't sweat or breakdown. Unbelievable enthusiasm and showmanship during the whole show.
Just love the insane chord and rhythm changes!
Jazz legend Freddie Hubbard plays the incredible trumpet solos. And contrary to myth, that's not Freddie's horn Billy's holding on the cover. It was just an old beater laying around for prop.
This MASTER PIECE FROM POP TO CLASSICAL SOLO BACK TO JAZZ . INGENIOUS MR JOEL ON HIS OWN WAY OUT OF HIS TIME.. MASSIVE THIS SONG.. A YOUNG MAN TO GET LAID GOING TO ZANZIBAR CRAZY
Steely Joel!
Billy Dan
the trumpet solo is so humbling
This actually hits pretty hard ngl
This is my favorite Billy Joel album. I could listen to it endlessly.
Bought this album as a child loved it then and now!
Billy Joel is legit
Freddie Hubbard blows so hip on this track
Classic tune and the whole album is incredible. Jazz influences abound on this album. There is a tremendous amount of substance to this album. Musical prowess. Thanks Billy and the great musicians who play with you. We are all thoroughly impressed.
This is my favorite Steely Dan song.
Lol, my dad loved steely dan and then I discovered this song via a bf.
I’m so glad I was brought up on Billy Joel
This melody really gives me Queens vibe.
Billy Joel always brings the best, he is the ONLY musician I have seen three times, last one with Elton John, DAMN!!!!! What a freaking fantastic show!!!!
The great Freedie Hubbard on trumpet!
Carl Fischer...
Met an Indian couple from Zanzibar yesterday. Told them of this song. Hope they listen. It's terrific, especially the Rose line.
Billy Joel is the MAN.
Englishman here, great song, great album. Like anywhere there are people who like certain genres of music and won't deviate but when you are into quality music it's immaterial what anyone else decides to listen to. Some of the rock music hasn't aged that well, some has but this type of quality is timeless.
There is some truth to that, yes.
Billy's music is music for all time.