DW taking DD back to school..cranking old CDs..do you remember this one?

[Patrick IL.]

Back a year or two RMD {Dan} and I and several others, sometimes Klombar and others use to do this. Sometimes add a midi file. We would get a song in our head...as I do right now. I have been playing this real loud doing laundry. Someone would post a stanza from a song...and it would continue. This song, which I consider one of his finest, has been blaring for an hour now Can you add the next stanza?


"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"

 

[RoutemanDan]

I remember!

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

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[Patrick IL.]

And there he is! thanks for the smile buddy

"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
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight I did not know
You could ever look so good after
So much time."

 

[RoutemanDan]

Do you remember those days hanging 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

 

[Patrick IL.]

Yup I do
"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 out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
Always know how to survive."

 

[RoutemanDan]

Brenda and Eddie were still going steady by the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would 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 kind of life"
But there were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye

 

[Patrick IL.]

"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."

 

[RoutemanDan]

guess it's just us.

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 can never go back there again

 

[Patrick IL.]

its not the first time
"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 the pieces
We always knew they would both
Find a way to get by
That's all I heard about
Brenda nd Eddie
Can't tell you more than I
Told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda
And Eddie goodbye."

 

[RoutemanDan]

True!

A bottle of red, a bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant

 

[Patrick IL.]

Thanks Buddy, good memorys, great music..hope you are well

 

[RoutemanDan]

Same here Bud!

 

[glo]

You two sounded great I could hear you both belting the tune out way over here in MA

 

[NancyIL]

I didn't HEAR the song, and the words don't ring a bell. What the heck was that?

 

[Tiggeroo]

Billy Joel
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, or Brenda and Eddie
My fave Billy Joel song of all.

 

[Tiggeroo]

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays....

 

[nativetxn]

I heard the music but didn't recognize the tune nor the words. I guess I've lead a deprived life

 

[paras4ri]

Thanks guys.....that's a great song and now it's stuck in my mind too!

 

[Mackey Mouse]

This is a great song.. and I just love seeing him perform it.. such a talent, I am so glad he pulled his act together recently.. Bravo Billy Joel..

 

[snoopy]

That was the only Billy Joel song I ever really loved.

I heard a great song today that reminded me of the old days, Bad Company's "Silver Blue & Gold".