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key confidence medium · relative A minor · tempo confidence medium · half-time 60.4 · low end 26% · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13 · how accurate
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Why it is here
- Joel wrote the song as a deliberate attempt to create a pop standard, an ambition dating from his time covering traditional standards at a Los Angeles piano bar. source
- The idea came to him while literally riding a Greyhound bus along the Hudson River Line after returning home to New York from three unhappy years in Los Angeles. source
- Joel and Tony Bennett's 2001 duet version of the song received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 2002 Grammy Awards, and the pair opened that ceremony performing it live. source
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