
I love Billy Joel’s music a lot. Seriously. A LOT. I generally dismiss covers of his songs as being inferior to the original. So when a cover of my favorite BJ song of all time popped up in my feed by a group called The King’s Singers, I didn’t expect much. Boy, was I wrong.
The King’s Singers are a world-renowned English a cappella sextet named after King’s College, Cambridge, where they got their start. Amazingly, the ensemble was first formed in 1968 by a group of music students, and though the members have changed a number of times over the last 50 years, the group’s tradition carries on to this day.
You can read all about the history of the group and enjoy some of their beautiful music on the group’s website and on their YouTube channel.
February 22, 2019 at 8:45 am
They are good. My late husband would have loved this.
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February 22, 2019 at 11:37 am
Consider today’s post dedicated to him!
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February 22, 2019 at 9:24 am
Thank you Donna, BJ is also one of my favorites. Thank you for finding the Kings Singers, I’ll enjoy this videos.
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February 22, 2019 at 11:37 am
I’m so glad!
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February 22, 2019 at 11:38 am
My favourite Billy Joel song is I’ve loved these days.
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February 22, 2019 at 12:07 pm
I adore that one! I must have played Turnstiles a million times.
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February 22, 2019 at 3:18 pm
I had found a bootleg copy of a radio concert he gave (he did impressions of Bruce Springsteen, and Joe Cocker) in Japan, and that was one of the cuts. It was awesome. Sadly, it was stolen.
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February 22, 2019 at 10:55 pm
That sounds amazing! How awful that someone stole it.
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February 23, 2019 at 1:07 am
Yes, it was a horrible thing. I don’t wish burglary on anyone. Perhaps the concert was released on CD someplace. I seemed to recall looking at something I suspected was the same in a record store a few years ago….or maybe it was being flogged on PBS as a gift when you agreed to give them money….
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February 23, 2019 at 12:10 pm
That’s ringing a bell, honestly.
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February 22, 2019 at 12:19 pm
Great sound, but I have heard them before and enjoy them over and over – – Hal
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February 22, 2019 at 2:03 pm
I can’t believe I’ve gone all this time without hearing them! Really looking forward to playing their Christmas music in December.
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February 23, 2019 at 7:12 am
The King Singers have always been excellent, and the song “And so it goes” is one of the finest songs ever written so the combination… well, I’m just going to say it was a bit of dust in my eye at the end, honest, I wasn’t really crying.
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February 23, 2019 at 12:11 pm
My allergies kicked up, too…
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