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Barry White

Just The Way You Are

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1978
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“Just the Way You Are” is a love song from Billy Joel’s 1977 pop/rock album, The Stranger. It was written as a birthday gift to Joel’s first wife, Elizabeth Weber. After they divorced, Joel said that when performing the song, he would imagine what he would eat for dinner or what he would do after the show, or even accidentally sing alternate lyrics written by Liberty DeVitto (“She took the dog, the house, the car”). “Just the Way You Are” was Joel’s first US Top 10 (reaching #3) and UK Top 20 single, as well as Joel’s first Gold single in the US. “Just the Way You Are” won the 1978 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Joel has gone on record stating that he personally dislikes the song and was originally going to leave it off the album.... Read on...

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More songs by Barry White (See Charts): I Found Someone, I'M Qualified To Satisfy You, Playing Your Game, Baby, I'Ve Got So Much To Give, Love Serenade, I'M Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby, Your Sweetness Is My Weakness, It'S Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me, Love'S Theme, and Practice What You Preach.

Popular in Soul (See Charts): On The Line, Music And Me, Fall Again, I'Ll Be There, It'S A Man'S Man'S World, Stand By Me, I Got You (I Feel Good), (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay, Upside Down, and Isn'T She Lovely.

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