Escrita por Billy Joel, foi gravada entre julho e agosto de 1977, no A&R Recordings, em New York City. Foi lançada em 29 de setembro de 1977, no disco The Stranger, o quinto disco da carreira de Billy Joel. Foi produzida por Phil Ramone. Apesar de nunca ter saído em compacto, é uma das canções mais populares de Billy. É a canção de número 324 da lista da revista Rolling Stone das 500 greatest songs of all time. A canção é uma junção de três partes. A primeira, começa com um piano com uma balada melódica, em primeira pessoa, descreve a cena de dois antigos colegas de classe se reunindo em um restaurate italiano. Aí entra uma parte rápida de jazz e os colegas de classe começam a falar de outras pessoas. Temos solos de clarinete, trombone, tuba e sax e chegamos então na parte de rock and roll. Essa parte fala, em terceira pessoa, de um casal do high school que eram considerado “O casal mais top”, e que casaram e logo logo se divorciaram. A canção começa a ficar devagar novamente e um personagem fala pro outro “I'll meet anytime you want, at our italian restaurant”. Essa é a canção preferida do próprio Billy Joel. Billy Joel cantou, fez backing vocals e tocou piano. Dominic Cortese tocou sanfona. Steve Burgh tocou guitarra solo. Hugh McCracken tocou violão. Doug Stegmeyer tocou baixo. Liberty De Vitto tocou bateria e Richie Cannata tocou sax, flauta e clarinete.
A letra:
A
bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose
instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar
place
You and I, face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It
all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In
our Italian Restaurant
Things are okay with me these days
Got
a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And
the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight I did
not know
You could ever look so nice after
So much time
Do you remember those days hanging
out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And
tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New
Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular
steadys
And the king and the queen
Of the prom
Riding around
with the car top
Down and the radio on
Nobody looked any
finer
Or was more of a hit at the
Parkway Diner
We never
knew we could want more
Than that out of life
Surely Brenda and
Eddie would
Always know how to survive
Brenda and Eddie were still
going
Steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the
marriage would
Be at the end of July
Everyone said they were
crazy
Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never
afford to live that
Kind of life
But there we were wavin'
Brenda and
Eddie goodbye
They got an apartment with deep
Pile
carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that
they bought
With the bread
They had saved for a couple
Of
years
They started to fight when the
Money got tight
And
they just didn't count on
The tears
They lived for a while in a
Very
nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a
divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of
friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But
you can never go back
There again
Brenda and Eddie had had it
Already
by the summer of '75
From the high to the low to
The end of the
show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to
The
greasers
The best they could do was
Pick up the pieces
We
always knew they would both
Find a way to get by
That's all I
heard about
Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I
Told
you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda
And Eddie goodbye
A bottle of red, a bottle of
white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you
anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant
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