Streetlife Serenade [SEP] performer
Streetlife Serenade
Streetlife Serenade is the third studio album by American recording artist Billy Joel, released on October 11, 1974 by Columbia Records. The follow-up to his previous album "Piano Man" (1973), it was his last release until 1993's "River of Dreams" to be mostly recorded with session musicians, while Joel himself sang and played piano and other keyboards, although some of his backing musicians, guitarists Don Evans and Al Hertzberg, and banjo/pedal steel guitarist Tom Whitehorse played on the
and Canada extensively, appearing on popular music shows. Joel's songwriting began attracting more attention; in 1974 Helen Reddy recorded "You're My Home" ("Piano Man").
Music career 1974–1977: "Streetlife Serenade" and "Turnstiles".
In 1974, Joel recorded his second Columbia album in Los Angeles, "Streetlife Serenade". His manager at the time was Jon Troy, an old friend from the New York neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant; Troy would soon be replaced by Joel's wife Elizabeth