Presents:
Cold Spring Harbor (re-issue)
This page will have info on the re-release of Billy's FRIST album Cold Spring Harbor
In the midst of the excitement and success of An Innocent Man, Columbia Records decided to re-release Cold Spring Harbor, Billy's first solo album in November, 1983.
Originally recorded for Family Productions, Cold Spring Harbor contains the original recording of She's Got A Way and Everybody Loves You Now.
short months after abandoning the heavy organ-and-drums duo Attila -- partially because their sole record flopped, partially because he stole the drummer's wife -- Billy Joel reinvented himself as a sensitive\singer-songwriter . He had shown signs of McCartney-esque songcraft on Hour of the Wolf, the last Hassles album, but his debut album Cold Spring Harbor is where these talents blossomed. The record was uneven but very charming, boasting two of his finest songs -- the lovely "She's Got a Way" and the bitterly cynical "Everybody Loves You Now" -- and a score of flawed but nicely-crafted songs that illustrated Joel's gift for melody, as well as his pretensions (the mock- \gospel in "Tomorrow Is Today," a classical stab entitled "Nocturne"). In its own way, Cold Spring Harbor was a minor gem of the sensitive \singer-songwriter era; Joel may have been in his formative stages as a craftsman, but his talents are apparent, and he never made an album as intimate and vulnerable ever again. Ironically, it didn't sound upon its original release. Through a bizarre mastering error, the tapes were sped up -- legend has it that upon hearing the completed album, he ripped it off the turntable, ran out of the house and threw it down the street. It wasn't until 1983 that Columbia released a corrected reissue. The speed wasn't the only thing changed -- some songs were edited drastically ( "You Can Make Me Free," one of the standouts, was chopped by nearly five minutes) and instruments and backing vocals were stripped away from numerous tracks. It may be a bastardization of the original release, but it's an acceptable one, since these changes only accentuate the intimacy and vulnerability of the recording.
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SONGS
she's got a way!!
you can make me free
everybody loves you now+!!
why judy why
falling of the rain
turn around
you look so good to me
tomorrow is today
nocturne
got to begin again
+ the re-re-remasterd cd features one live music video
!!recored live on the album songs in the attic
LINKS
greastest hits volume 1&2
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