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  • The Entertainer
has format
  • Gramophone record
has language
  • eng
Subject
  • Columbia Records singles
  • 1974 singles
  • 1974 songs
  • Billy Joel songs
  • Songs written by Billy Joel
  • Song recordings produced by Michael Stewart (musician)
abstract
  • %22The Entertainer%22 is a single by singer Billy Joel released as the only single from his 1974 album Streetlife Serenade. The song peaked at #34 on the US charts, a Top 40 hit for Joel that year. The song is a cynical and somewhat satirical look at the fleeting fame of a musician and fickle public tastes (%22Today I am your champion. / I may have won your hearts. / But I know the game. / You'll forget my name. / And I won't be here / in another year / if I don't stay on the charts.%22); this theme would be examined in the later song %22It's Still Rock and Roll to Me%22. Another verse in the song references the shortening of Joel's song, %22Piano Man%22, from 5 minutes and 38 seconds to 3 minutes and 5 seconds to fit a radio slot, referenced by the lyrics %22It was a beautiful song, / but it ran too long. / If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit. / So they cut it down to 3:05.%22 Additionally, the timing printed on the label of the 7%22 release of %22The Entertainer%22 was 3:05, although the actual 45 length was 3:11 (while the album length was 3:41). In the single version, Verse 3 (which starts at 1:02 in the album version) is edited out, and Verse 2 (which starts at 0:40) contains a steel guitar in its second half, which is actually featured in the second half of the third verse in the album version; indeed, on the single mix, the instrumental crescendo of the album version is anticipated by bringing the fuller instrumentation of Verse 3 under the vocals of Verse 2. As a result of this, the slightly emptier original instrumentation of Verse 2 (which includes a downward slide on the synth) and the vocals of Verse 3 are completely omitted, while the instrumentation of Verse 3 (featuring the steel guitar) does appear, but earlier.On some of the singles released for %22The Entertainer%22 the song was b-sided with %22The Mexican Connection%22.
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  • Billy Joel
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  • USSM17400212
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  • Phil Ramone
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  • 423
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  • 627032
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  • english
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  • B Multitracks/Billy Joel - The Entertainer
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wsb:record_label
  • Columbia Records
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  • Devonshire Sound, Hollywood, California
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  • The Entertainer
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  • TRQMCJH128F92EA516
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