| "Just the Way You Are" | ||||
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Just_the_Way_You_Are_by_Billy_Joel_US_vinyl.png) Side-A label of U.S. vinyl single | ||||
| Single by Billy Joel | ||||
| from the album The Stranger | ||||
| B-side | "Get It Right the First Time" "Vienna" | |||
| Released | November 1977[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 4:47 (album version) 3:36 (single version) | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Billy Joel | |||
| Producer(s) | Phil Ramone | |||
| Billy Joel singles chronology | ||||
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| Audio | ||||
| "Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are (Audio)" on YouTube | ||||
| Alternative release | ||||
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Just_the_Way_You_Are_-_Billy_Joel.jpg) Dutch vinyl single | ||||
"Just the Way You Are" is a song by Billy Joel from his fifth studio album The Stranger (1977), released as the album's second single in early November 1977. It became both Joel's first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 single (reaching No. 3 and No. 19 respectively), as well as Joel's first Gold single in the US. The song also topped the Billboard Easy Listening Chart for the entire month of January 1978.
"Just the Way You Are" garnered two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1979 and is considered a pop standard.[4]
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