Just The Way You Are ~ Billy Joel - Diana Krall - Barry White ~ Acoustic Cover w/ The Loar LH-300🎇VS

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(c)1977 Words & Music by Billy Joel Track 3 on Billy Joel´s album "The Stranger" Arr. stagwolf [Strummed in the key of C, Original Key=D ~~~~~~~~ Don't go changing to try and please me, you never let me down before, mm Don't imagine you're too familiar and I don't see you anymore. I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble, we never could have come this far, mm I took the good times. I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are. I need to know that you will always be the same old someone that I knew Oh, what will it take till you believe in me the way that I believe in you? I said I love you and that's forever and this I promise from the heart I couldn´t love you any better, I love you just the way you are.. [Scat I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, mm I just want someone that I can talk to.. I want you just the way you are.. mm.. ~~~ Written by Billy Joel • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group ~~~ Joel shared that the melody and chord progression for this song came to him while he was dreaming. 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". 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 album. But Joel has stated that, at the request of both Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow (both were recording in other studios in the same building at the time), Joel agreed to put the song on the final mix. 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 to choose from for the album. After Joel and Weber split 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. 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. She got the car." When "Just the Way You Are" was released as a single, it was shortened by over a minute. The differences are the removal of the second verse and an earlier fade. A live performance of the song was also used as a music video. 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"). 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. The saxophone solo was played by Phil Woods, a well-known jazz performer and Grammy award winner. 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 performance here on a hit record undoubtedly exposed him to a wider audience and introduced his music to rock fans. Other versions Since its initial release in 1977, the song has been covered by many artists including: Barry White (on his album The Man in 1978) Isaac Hayes (on his album For the Sake of Love in 1978) John Holt (in 1978) José José (in Spanish “Te Quiero Tal Como Eres” on his album Lo Pasado Pasado, in 1978) José Feliciano (live in 1978) Dionne Warwick (live in 1978) Andy Williams, Donny Osmond dueting with Cheryl Ladd (on The Donny & Marie Show, in 1978) Shirley Bassey, Les McCann (on his album The Man, in 1978) Johnny Mathis as a duet with Deniece Williams (in 1978) Mary MacGregor (on her album ...In Your Eyes, in 1978) Engelbert Humperdinck (on his album Last of the Romantics, in 1979) Kenny Rogers with Dottie West (on their duet album Classics, in 1979) Frank Sinatra (on his album Trilogy: Past Present Future, in 1980) Cilla Black (on her album Especially for You, in 1980) Gerry and the Pacemakers (on their album Ferry Cross the Mersey, in 1981) Rosemary Clooney (on her album With Love, in 1981) Diana Krall (on her album Live in Paris, in 2002) Till Brönner (on his album Blue Eyed Soul in 2002) Donny Osmond in 2005, Harry Connick, Jr. (on his album Your Songs, in 2009) Joel has performed the song as a duet in live performances with Elton John during their Face to Face tours together. [from wiki