Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Columbia Records ta gabatar da Joel ga Phil Ramone, wanda zai samar da dukkan kundin kundin Joel daga The Stranger (1977) zuwa The Bridge (1986). Baƙon ya kasance babbar nasara ta kasuwanci, yana samar da manyan abubuwa guda 25 a kan jadawalin Billboard: "Just the Way You Are" (# 3), "Movin' Out" (# 17), "Only the Good Die Young" (# 24), da "She's Always a Woman" (# 17). Joel na farko Top Ten album, The baƙo aka bokan Multi-platinum da kuma kai lamba biyu a kan Charts, outselling Simon & Garfunkel ta Bridge kan Troubled Ruwa, Columbia ta baya mafi kyau-sayar da album. Baƙon kuma ya nuna "Scenes daga Gidan Abincin Italiyanci", kundin kundin kundin kundin kundin kundin, wanda ya zama ɗaya daga cikin waƙoƙin da aka fi sani da shi.  Tambaya: Wace waƙa ce ta kasance a matsayi na 17?
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