| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $1200: Various people who live lives of quiet desperation, like Davy in the Navy, yell at Billy Joel to sing at a watering hole "Piano Man" |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | OUR SONG $800: One of his "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" had "Brenda & Eddie... the popular steadies & the king & the queen of the prom" Billy Joel |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $600: Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird "Piano Man" |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $400: "Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $1600: This Billy Joel song /history lesson references the Rosenbergs, Dien Bien Phu, the Edsel & of course, "Wheel of Fortune" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $1000: In "Grease" & Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant", this outerwear goes with blue jeans leather jacket |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $200: You may be right, I may be this man who periodically gets his own channel; in 2022, his "52nd Street" got played track by track Billy Joel |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE $1600: In a 1983 song & album, this piano man was "An Innocent Man" Billy Joel |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Body of Jesus" & an "Uptown Girl", onetime wife of Billy Joel Corpus Christi Brinkley |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | THE GERSHWIN PRIZE $1600: The 2014 Gershwin Prize concert honoring him included Boyz II Men performing his doo-wop tribute "The Longest Time" Billy Joel |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE FAMOUS MOM $1600: Of
Alexa Ray Joel (Christie) Brinkley |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $400: In "We Didn't Start The Fire", Billy Joel sings of "trouble in" this Mideast canal region, the site of a 1956 crisis Suez |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | IT'S THEIR SONG $800: Subtitled "Anthony's Song", this singer's "Movin' Out" is enough to give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack Billy Joel |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LET'S MAKE A SUPERGROUP $400: Over on piano, this New Yorker who had his own residency at Madison Square Garden Billy Joel |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $800: After performing there in 1965, Paul McCartney got back to this large N.Y. venue in 2008 to help Billy Joel play its last show Shea Stadium |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR $200: Christie Brinkley, in 1985 Billy Joel |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: In concert, after playing this song that begins, "Don't go changing, to try & please me", Billy Joel said, "& then we got divorced" "Just The Way You Are" |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | JUKEBOX MUSICALS $800: "Movin' Out":
This keyboard guy Billy Joel |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | LYRICALLY INACCURATE $1000: In this "mortal" tune from 1977, Billy Joel sang "Only" this occurs, yet Caligula expired at 28 "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | THIS IS "MY" SONG $400: It's the 1978 anthem of independence by Billy Joel heard here "My Life" |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $200: An L.A. bar gig in the '70s inspired Billy to write this song "Piano Man" |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $400: In 2018 a banner honoring the 50th show of Billy's residency at this arena was raised into its rafters Madison Square Garden |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $600: This tender song was Billy's first U.S. Top 10 hit "Just The Way You Are" |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $800: In 2009 Billy headed back out on the road for a "Face 2 Face" tour with this other legend of the 88 keys Elton John |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $1000: This song mentions, among many others, "Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SONG TIME $400: "It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in", begins this Billy Joel signature song "Piano Man" |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | STREET MUSIC $1000: In 1978 this singer-songwriter parked "Big Shot" & "Honesty" on "52nd Street" Billy Joel |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | INSTRUMENTAL SONG TITLES $1200: Billy Joel based this song on his experience playing at an L.A. bar called The Executive Room "Piano Man" |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | FINGER-SNAPPING TUNES $2000: "The Longest Time" kept its time with snapping & this man had himself a 1984 hit Billy Joel |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | BARBRA STREISAND DUETS $400: Who better to duet with Barbra on "New York State Of Mind" than this piano man Billy Joel |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BILLY IDOL $400: This musician had a sold-out 12-show run at Madison Square Garden in 2014 & keeps filling the place Billy Joel |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | JOEL $400: It's been more than 30 years since his 2-album "Greatest Hits", featuring "Big Shot" Billy Joel |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | STEP RIGHT "UP" $400: It comes before "Girl" in a Billy Joel title & "Funk!" in a Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars title uptown |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A New Jersey governor tries a modeling career & marries Billy Joel (for a while) Chris Christie Brinkley |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $800: No. 74:
"Just The Way You Are"--by him, not Billy Joel Bruno Mars |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | RECENT MUSIC $1000: Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman" inspired John Legend to write this song for Chrissy Teigen "All Of Me" |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | '90s POP CULTURE $400: She was Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" until their marriage ended in 1994 Christie Brinkley |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | NAME THAT TUNE $1000: "Now Paul is a real estate novelist, who never had time for a wife" in this signature Billy Joel song "Piano Man" |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | NAME-DROPPING SONG LYRICS $1200: "Liston beats Patterson" is a line from his hit "We Didn't Start The Fire" Billy Joel |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $800: Billy Joel:
"Well, we're living here... and they're closing all the factories down" Allentown |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | DEEP CUTS $400: Off "Piano Man":
"Stop In Nevada",
"Ain't No Crime" Billy Joel |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | 2-"TO"-2 $1600: Characteristic of affluent people, like Billy Joel's "Girl" uptown |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ALBUM FILLER $400: Billy Joel:
"____ Street" 52nd |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | WEB MUSIC PARODIES $800: Billy Joel is parodied in "We Didn't Start" this type of war in which insults are hurled online a flame war |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | POP GO THE LYRICS! $400: As Billy Joel put it, "everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound / funny, but it's still" this "Still Rock & Roll To Me" |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN $400: The original "Piano Man" (1974) Billy Joel |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | "M"USICALS $2000: For this 2002 musical, Twyla Tharp used 28 Billy Joel songs Movin' Out |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $200: Billy Joel the piano |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $1600: "They're closing all the factories down", sang Billy Joel about "living here" Allentown |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | CURRENT MUSIC (GET IT?) $200: "The River" was his next album after "Darkness on the Edge of Town" Bruce Springsteen |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | INCLUDES A PAPAL NAME $800: "Oh Yes I Am" this, just like in the title of a 1983 Billy Joel album & song an innocent man |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | STATE SONGS? $400: Billy Joel:
"____ State Of Mind" New York |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $600: 1979: His "52nd Street" Billy Joel |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BROADWAY BILLYS $1600: "Movin' Out", which moved into the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2002, was based on the songs of this pop star Billy Joel |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | I THEE DIVORCE $800: 1994:
Billy Joel
(the second of her 4 divorces) Christie Brinkley |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | MANLY HITMAKERS $800: 1974:
"Piano Man" Billy Joel |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $200: Your first hit was this /
'74 was the year /
Say, does that microphone /
Still smell like beer? "Piano Man" |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $400: I recall this 2-word vid /
That starred a young top model /
The song was nice, but nicer still /
Was watching Christie waddle "Uptown Girl" |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $600: We saw your show with this man /
But some of it's a blur /
Loved that duet on "Your Song" /
Hey, do you call him "Sir"? Elton John |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $800: You sang to Virginia in this hit /
Don't get mad & don't try to fix me /
All I'm saying about it /
Is that you just turned 60 "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | ODE TO BILLY JOEL $1000: This album won a Grammy /
& made you some real bones /
Its title's a reminder /
Some folks should not throw stones Glass Houses |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | QUOTES ABOUT SPORTS TEAMS? $800: Billy Joel:
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the ____; the sinners are much more fun" saints |
| #5671, aired 2009-04-13 | I DO'S & I'M DONES $1200: Being blonde & beautiful wasn't enough to save the 4th marriage of this supermodel, Billy Joel's ex Christie Brinkley |
| #5448, aired 2008-04-23 | L.A. GEOGRAPHY IN POP CULTURE $600: Billy Joel wanted to "Say Goodbye To" this storied L.A. area Hollywood |
| #5410, aired 2008-02-29 | FOR SAX AND VIOLINS $600: In 1977 Phil Woods was smooth as silk playing a sax solo on this man's "Just The Way You Are" Billy Joel |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | GRAMMY'S RECORD OF THE YEAR $400: 1978:
"Just The Way You Are" Billy Joel |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | YOUR PARENTS' MUSIC $2000: This "Piano Man" has had hits with "Uptown Girl", "My Life" & "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" Billy Joel |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | MORE SONGS $1000: This Billy Joel song says, "Sinners are much more fun" "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | HOT TUNES $1000: "Wheel of Fortune', Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide" is a line from this hot Billy Joel tune "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | 1970s ALBUMS $1600: His 1978 album "52nd Street" was named for a NYC area famous for its jazz scene Billy Joel |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Billy Joel could tell you this "town" near Bethlehem, Penn. has the oldest municipal band in the U.S. Allentown |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | SINGERS $1200: "New York State Of Mind" is a classic by this singer from Hicksville, New York Billy Joel |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | STREET SMARTS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a New York City street.) At the heart of Midtown, you'll find this street that became a Billy Joel album title 52nd Street |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | NAME THE INSTRUMENT $200: In Billy Joel's "___ Man" Piano |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | DANCING BAREFOOT $1200: She choreographed the show "Movin' Out" to Billy Joel's songs Twyla Tharp |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY IN SONG $600: In 1981, Billy Joel told us to "Say Goodbye To" this title place Hollywood |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | 1970s ALBUM COVERS $1000: 1978:
Billy Joel leans against an alley wall holding a trumpet 52nd Street |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | MUSIC $400: In a Billy Joel hit, she's "looking for a downtown man" an Uptown Girl |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Graham,
Joel,
Wilder Billy |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | THE 2nd MRS. $400: Billy Joel Christie Brinkley |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | NO. 1 HITS IN OTHER WORDS $600: (1989)
Billy Joel:
"You & I Weren't Responsible for Those Flames" "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | ROCK NICKNAMES $200: "Piano Man" Billy Joel |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $200: She's the type of girl Billy Joel was "in love with" in a 1983 hit "Uptown Girl" |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | MUSIC MAKERS $1600: He wrote "My Life", "Big Shot" & the piano works on the recent album "Op. 1-10 Fantasies & Delusions" Billy Joel |
| #4030, aired 2002-02-22 | MUSIC STYLES $600: "Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound, funny, but it's still" this to Billy Joel rock and roll |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | TOP 40 DEBUTS $100: 1974:
"Piano Man" Billy Joel |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | MUSIC OF THE '70s $300: His "52nd Street" was the No. 1 album of 1979 Billy Joel |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | U.S. CITY SONGS $200: In 1976 Billy Joel was in this city's "state of mind" New York |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | "C.B." $100: The ex-Mrs. Billy Joel Christie Brinkley |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FUN WITH AREA CODES $200: This 1982 Billy Joel hit is covered by 610 "Allentown" |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | INSTRUMENT BY PERFORMERS $100: Keith Jarrett,
Barry Manilow,
Billy Joel piano |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | CLASSIC ROCK LYRICS $300: "Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound, funny, but it's still" this to Billy Joel rock and roll to me |
| #3515, aired 1999-12-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Piano Man" who pounded out the folktales of Uncle Remus Billy Joel Chandler Harris |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | SCRAMBLED SINGERS $200: Jolly bile Billy Joel |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | NO. 1 ALBUMS $400: "Glass Houses" Billy Joel |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | ON THE "TOWN" $500: This industrial city & surrounding area in eastern Pennsylvania provided the title of a 1982 Billy Joel hit Allentown |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $500: Miss Marple creator once married to Billy Joel Agatha Christie Brinkley |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | SINGERS $100: Rolling Stone named this "Piano Man"'s "River of Dreams" CD sleeve 1994's worst album cover Billy Joel |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | SONGS $200: Billy Joel's "Sleeping With the Television On" samples this song played by TV stations at sign-off "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | WHAT'S "UP"? $200: In a 1983 hit Billy Joel was a "downtown man" in love with her Uptown Girl |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | POP MUSIC $200: His then-wife Christie Brinkley painted the cover of his 1993 album "River of Dreams" Billy Joel |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | POP MUSIC $200: "Piano Man", released in 1973, was his first successful album Billy Joel |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | NO. 1 HITS $200: In 1980 this "Piano Man" had his first No. 1 hit with "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" Billy Joel |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | FAMOUS PAIRS $300: This Piano Man & Uptown Girl ended their marriage in 1994 Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | THE 1994 GRAMMYS $400: Although he didn't win for his "River of Dreams" album, he performed the single on the telecast Billy Joel |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | ROCK MUSIC $400: 5 years after the release of his first album, he had his first top 10 hit with "Just The Way You Are" Billy Joel |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | POP MUSIC $400: The title cut from his 1974 LP "Piano Man", was an account of his own experiences Billy Joel |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | 1980s ROCK $100: His "Uptown Girl" was a love letter to his future wife, model Christie Brinkley Billy Joel |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: This model & wife of Billy Joel says she was a chubby & self-conscious teenager Christie Brinkley |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | POP MUSIC $200: "Wheel of Fortune" is mentioned in his 1989 hit "We Didn't Start The Fire" Billy Joel |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | SONGS $300: 1 of 2 drinks mentioned in Billy Joel's "Piano Man" (1 of) tonic & gin (or beer) |
| #993, aired 1988-12-21 | 1987 $400: This "Piano Man"s 6-concert high tech tour of the USSR began at Moscow's Olympic Stadium Billy Joel |
| #703, aired 1987-09-30 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $1000: Billy Joel turned this proverb of death into a Top 40 Hit in 1978 "Only the Good Die Young" |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | TV TRIVIA $400: Billy Crystal called this "mahvelous" man "1 of the great guests in the history of 'The Tonight Show'" Fernando Lamas |
| #492, aired 1986-10-28 | ODD COUPLES $100: Chet Huntley's former partner & Billy Joel's present one David Brinkley & Christie Brinkley |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | "LONG" SONGS $500: Other than a bass, the only instrument used in this 1984 Billy Joel song was his voice "The Longest Time" |
| #407, aired 1986-04-01 | POP SINGERS $200: His 1984 hit, "Some Guys Have All The Luck", might well refer to himself Rod Stewart |
| #118, aired 1985-02-20 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: She met Chevy Chase on "Vacation", but now spends her time with Billy Joel Christie Brinkley |
| #60, aired 1984-11-30 | GIRLS IN SONG $400: To Billy Joel she lives in a white bread world his "Uptown Girl" |
