A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends upon your appetite I'll meet you any time you want In our Italian restaurant Things are okay with me these days Got a good job, got a good office Got a new wife, got a new life And the family's fine Oh we lost touch long ago You lost weight, I did not know You could ever look so nice after so much time Do you remember those days hanging out at the? His original band used to go there all the time. A bottle of red, a bottle of white Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight I'll meet you anytime you want In our Italian Restaurant. Brenda and Eddie tells the vignette of two high school sweethearts whose relationship has already run its course and burned out at the other side. There's a dingy strip mall there on the same side of Holy Trinity- on Newbridge Road. Shameless was our wedding song.
Quite possibly, Joel visited one or both of these diners. We were the tough guys billy's parents were just going through divorce at the time. It is almost symphonic - like a symphony, it has four distinct movements. Don't forget his first wife and also his former bass player Doug Stegmeyer are from Syosset. My mother and her sister would come in and sit way in the back and just ease drop on Billy's date. Like most of Joel's songs, he composed the music first, which in this case was inspired by The Beatles, specifically the suite of songs on their Abbey Road album where a few unfinished tunes were put together to create one coherent piece. When the school denied him the opportunity to graduate, he dropped out.
Joel shows his skill as a musician as well as his skill as a songwriter here. The Ballad of Billy the Kid25. They would later be in a band together called The Lost Souls. Sorry about the mix up in names! In an interview, Joel cites the second side of The Beatles album Abbey Road as one of the main influences behind it. I am from Syosset and have been going to Christianos since before I can remember.
Archived from on August 7, 2011. He did live on Meeting Lane as my friend and I cleaned houses to earn money and Billy Joel's parents house was one of the houses we cleaned. A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rose instead We'll get a table near the street In our old familiar place You and I,face to face A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends upon your appetite I'll meet you any time you want In our Italian Restaurant. His music is good and fun and simply enjoyable. Brian said it - yes it was one of the last out front grills. Brian tells of all the times they used to hang out at the village green. Movin' Out tells this story among others, although with a slight lyrical change, as the Brenda-and-Eddie story in Movin' Out takes place in 1965 instead of 1975.
At 7:35, it is the longest of Joel's studio cuts. One of the last out front grills. Joel had changed his story later on to give the song a wider appeal. I did not know You could ever look so good after so much time You remember those days hangin' out at the Village Green Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans Drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans Cold beer, hot lights My sweet romantic teenage nights Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies And the King and the Queen of the prom Riding around with the car top down and the radio on Nobody looked any finer Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner We never knew we could want more than that outta life Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive Brenda and Eddie were still goin' steady in the Summer of '75 When they decided the marriage'd be at the end of July Everyone said they were crazy Brenda you know you're much too lazy Eddie could never afford to live that kinda life Oh, but there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye They got an apartment with deep pile carpet And a couple of paintings from Sears A big waterbed that they bought with the bread They had saved for a couple of years They started to fight when the money got tight And they just didn't count on the tears They lived for a while in a very nice style But it's always the same in the end They got a divorce as a matter of course And they parted the closest of friends Then the King and the Queen went back to the Green But you can never go back there again Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the Summer of '75 From the high to the low to the end of the show For the rest of their lives They couldn't go back to the Greasers The best they could do was pick up their pieces We always knew they would both find a way to get by That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie Can't tell you more than I told you already And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye A bottle of red, a bottle of white Whatever kinda mood you're in tonight I'll meet you anytime you want In our Italian restaurant. .
It's something that a lot of Long Islanders do, kind of reminisce over Italian food. He does not sit there and preach to his audiance about how the world should be. Never get tired of it and the lyrics are among the best I've ever heard. Pete isn't talking about the real recording. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant19.
What i dont know is which house he lived in lol. The song tells the tale of the two through their love in high school, their marriage, and finally to their divorce shortly after. The first section, a gentle piano ballad, sets the scene: two old classmates having a reunion together at their old stomping ground. When I was in college, in Mexico City, I put together a group of friends and spent about 6 months producing a video of this song. Bottom Line: The Restaurant was Christiano's. They recently split, amicably apparently, however when they tried to return to their old ways, found the teenage lifestyle impossible for adults it is unclear whether Brenda, Eddie, and the narrator are meant to be in their twenties, thirties, or forties during the song.
October 16, 2011 300,000 views. By using their technique, Joel strung together three different sections 1:In Our Italian Restaurant 1; 2: Ballad Of Brenda And Eddie; 3: In Our Italian Restaurant 2 Reprise. What happened was The Beatles didn't have completely finished songs or wholly fleshed-out ideas, and George said, 'What have you got? Brian knew Billy since he was like 5 years old. Every town has at least one, some as many as five or ten. They got an apartment with deep pile carpets And a couple of paintings from Sears A big waterbed that they bought With the bread They had saved for a couple Of years They started to fight when the Money got tight And they just didn't count on The tears.
Billy, if you're out there, answer these qustions: 1 Who are Brenda and Eddie? Never get tired of it and the lyrics are among the best I've ever heard. Nobody looked any finer Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner We never knew we could want more Than that out of life Surely Brenda and Eddie would Always know how to survive. Christiano's has always been special to all of us from Syosset and environs nearby. I guess this was done because in the show after this song came the Viet Nam war. A bottle of red, aa bottle of white Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight I'll meet you anytime you want In our Italian Restaurant Get the embed code Billy Joel - The Stranger Album Lyrics1. Billy Joel stated, This song is dedicated to a restaurant I hung out at in Syosset call Christianos. Nobody looked any finer Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner We never knew we could want more Than that out of life Surely Brenda and Eddie would Always know how to survive.
Very easy to relate to and visualize. A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rose instead We'll get a table near the street In our old familiar place You and I - face to face, hmm hmm. Oh, oh yeah rock 'n roll Oh, oh, oh Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style But it's always the same in the end They got a divorce as a matter of course And they parted the closest of friends Then the king and the queen went back to the green But you could never go back there again Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of '75 From the high to the low to the end of the show For the rest of their lives They couldn't go back to the greasers The best they could do was pick up their pieces We always knew they would both find a way to get by Oh and that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie Can't tell you more 'cause I've told you already And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye Oh, oh, oh A bottle of red, a bottle of white Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight I'll meet you anytime you want In our Italian restaurant. A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends upon your appetite I'll meet you any time you want In our Italian restaurant Things are okay with me these days Got a good job, got a good office Got a , got a new life And the family's fine Oh we lost touch long ago You lost weight, I did not know You could ever look so nice after so much time Do you remember those days hanging out at the? On the wall is a small autographed picture of Billy Joel from his late 70s heyday. Brenda and Eddie were actually close friends of Billy Joel during his childhood. He did go to Hicksville High School which I think is on Spindle Lane, just down the street from West Green.