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Billy Joel Fans Not Feeling Alright After Network Cuts 100th Madison Square Garden Show Broadcast During ‘Piano Man’
Billboard ^ | 4-15-24

Posted on 04/15/2024 6:22:42 AM PDT by FLNittany

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To: KC Burke

The Billy Joel concert I went to in 2005 was possibly the best concert I’ve been to.


41 posted on 04/15/2024 7:40:44 AM PDT by NorthernDancer (“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”)
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To: redangus

On the east coast, all the network had to do was put one of three 60 minutes segments in the can for a week, and they would have been back on schedule.

I haven’t watched 60 minutes in decades, but I can only assume that at least 1 of the 3 segments was a PDJT smear.

Blaming this on local stations isn’t exactly correct.


42 posted on 04/15/2024 7:49:03 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: FLNittany

To be fair, I give 60 Minutes credit for exposing George Soros as the slimy Nazi apologist that he is:

https://youtu.be/YeThpbBGNQ8?t=417


43 posted on 04/15/2024 8:02:16 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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To: Red Badger

Ha! yeah. Golf Channel is NBC. Soooo...CBS ain’t saying a word about that.


44 posted on 04/15/2024 8:40:36 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: FLNittany

Scenes From An Itillian Resturaunt is his best.


45 posted on 04/15/2024 8:55:08 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: SamAdams76

We are pretty close in age, and I grew up in Connecticut listening to Casey Kasem on WDRC, even getting a Long Distance Dedication in 1982. Also won the Captain Fantastic contest in 1975 by holding the last digit of the phone call to the station until I heard the Captain Fantastic whistle.

By definition, the Billboard Hot 100 doesn’t do album tracks. That wasn’t what it was for. So, Bruce Springsteen could be on the cover of both Time AND Newsweek, and the “Born to Run” single didn’t crack the Top 10.

Billy Joel was a bigger thing in Connecticut than nationwide in 1973 (possibly due to him being NYC centric). I remember his Turnstiles album was only available in mono from the Columbia Record Club, so he was pretty fresh then.

“Show Me the Way” only made #6 (as I recall), even though “Frampton Comes Alive” was among the all-time greatest selling albums.

I was told by a former Billboard employee that there was latitude in chart placement (advance orders and radio airplay being especially squishy measurements). That is how the Captain Fantastic album could debut at #1. I got suspicious when a novelty record called “18 With a Bullet” debuted at #18 . . . with a bullet. I have no idea how they measured double-sided hits (e.g. Ringo Starr’s Snookeroo/No-No Song, Wings’ Jr’s Farm/Sally G, Elton John’s “Grow Some Funk/Feel Like a Bullet”)

Of course “Piano Man” was a thing, but it was not a Top 20 single. His follow-up “The Entertainer” from Streetside Serenade barely tickled the Top 40, even though I liked the number. He had to get out of singing and playing songs about singing and playing songs before he could hit really big.

I certainly agree that you cannot compare one era with another. There was something democratically leveling about going to the Barker’s store and buying a 45 of your choice for 69 cents. A half dozen streaming sites with different track pricing and promotional models and freebies throws everything off. It would be like if they counted those Archies’ records that were printed on the backs of “Super Sugar Crisp” cereal.


46 posted on 04/15/2024 9:02:44 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Tiger didn’t even play Sun. I didn’t see anything about him on that day.


47 posted on 04/15/2024 9:05:14 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: The Louiswu

I was happy to see Heidi. It was a great movie. I didnt care about football as I was 4.


48 posted on 04/15/2024 9:07:48 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: FLNittany

I’ve never particularly liked Joel’s music. But Piano Man is a great song.


49 posted on 04/15/2024 9:08:40 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: cowboyusa

My favorite as well. Anyone who has been to a class reunion (just one) can relate.

His heroin era was really good too imo (though he obviously looks strung out on the cover of The Stranger). Captain Jack, Miami 2017, New York State of Mind, etc.


50 posted on 04/15/2024 9:09:58 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: subterfuge

Tiger finished last amongst those that made the cut w/ 82-77 the last 2 rounds.

I give him credit for making the cut. Many better players didn’t. It pretty much ends there though.


51 posted on 04/15/2024 9:12:25 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: Red Badger

Tell me about it. My wife and I used to go visit my folks a couple of Sundays every month and they would always be plopped in front of the TV watching golfzzzzzzz.....


52 posted on 04/15/2024 9:14:26 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: subterfuge

I didn’t watch Sunday. but on Saturday, it was thick and heavy.


53 posted on 04/15/2024 9:29:15 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: FLNittany

It was 30 minutes behind already.


54 posted on 04/15/2024 9:31:26 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Fledermaus

They could have cut 60 Minutes short. Everyone had it on mute so they didn’t forget to change the channel back after the Masters anyway.


55 posted on 04/15/2024 9:42:57 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: FLNittany

So Tiger played Sunday?


56 posted on 04/15/2024 2:59:13 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: FLNittany
CBS announced today that they will rebroadcast the Billy Joel Concert in its entirety on April 19th at 9:00pm EDT / 8:00pm CDT.

-PJ

57 posted on 04/15/2024 3:08:56 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: FLNittany

No.

The diddonuffin crowd will rob them blind.


58 posted on 04/15/2024 4:05:00 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: JSM_Liberty

No, it was SeeBS.


59 posted on 04/15/2024 4:06:55 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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