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1. #JUST THE WAY YOU ARE BRUNO MARS SONG LYRICS FULL#
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#JUST THE WAY YOU ARE BRUNO MARS SONG LYRICS FREE#

Billy Joel – lead vocals, Fender Rhodes.Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. US Bubbling Under Hot 100 ( Billboard) Īustralia (Kent Music Report) The performance here on a hit record undoubtedly exposed him to a wider audience and introduced his music to rock fans. Woods was criticized by some purists in the jazz community for playing on a rock session, but in fact he had already played previously on such sessions both for Steely Dan and for Paul Simon. The saxophone solo was played by Phil Woods, a well-known jazz performer and Grammy award winner.

#JUST THE WAY YOU ARE BRUNO MARS SONG LYRICS FULL#

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. On February 18, 1978, the song peaked at #3, and Joel performed a shorter version of the song as the musical guest that day on Saturday Night Live (along with " Only the Good Die Young"). A live performance of the song was also used as a music video. The differences are the removal of the second verse and an earlier fade. When "Just the Way You Are" was released as a single, it was shortened by over a minute. He noted that during performances of the song around the time of his first divorce, his drummer Liberty DeVitto would jokingly parody the lyrics in the chorus as "She got the house. Īfter Joel and Weber divorced in 1982, Joel rarely performed the song live after 1986 until the 2000s, and Joel has publicly stated that he disliked playing the song live in the wake of his divorce from his first wife. The song also shares some similarities to " I'm Not in Love" by 10cc, due to the keyboard and background vocal tape loops Joel and Ramone used. However, the album's producer, Phil Ramone, later contradicted Joel's claim, stating in an interview that they could not afford to exclude the song because Joel did not have that much material from which to choose for the album.

The song, which Joel had written for his first wife (and also his business manager at the time) Elizabeth Weber, was not liked by either Joel or his band, and Joel had originally decided against making the track a part of The Stranger, but at the request of both Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow (both were recording in other studios in the same building at the time), he agreed to put the song on the final mix.

In an interview on the Howard Stern Radio Show on November 16, 2010, Joel revealed that the inspiration for writing the name of the song and how it sounds in the chorus was directly taken from 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". Joel shared that the melody and chord progression for this song came to him while he was dreaming.