The weird thing is that I never once heard "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" on the radio. I stumbled across it as an adult when I picked up a Greatest Hits CD set and assumed it didn't get much radio play because it was unusually long for a "pop" song. 1977 was the year my Dad died though so maybe I was just that deep in a funk that year that I wasn't listening to the radio when it was popular.
I do remember that Billy Joel's 52nd Street was the first album of his that I ever bought with my own money. I was babysitting and was allowed to listen to the music there and I think Billy Joel was the only name I recognized in their record collection and I just listened to that album over and over and decided I needed to buy a copy for myself. (That would have been the very early 80s so it wasn't a new album at the time. I've always been behind the times.)
Brender & Eddie
I do remember that Billy Joel's 52nd Street was the first album of his that I ever bought with my own money. I was babysitting and was allowed to listen to the music there and I think Billy Joel was the only name I recognized in their record collection and I just listened to that album over and over and decided I needed to buy a copy for myself. (That would have been the very early 80s so it wasn't a new album at the time. I've always been behind the times.)