Which Billy Joel album contains the song 'Just the Way You Are'?

Which Billy Joel album contains the song “Just the Way You Are”? The Stranger. Released in 1977, the album was Billy Joel’s fifth studio album and became his major critical and commercial breakthrough. The song appeared as the album’s second single and helped establish Joel as a major pop artist.

“Just the Way You Are” was unusual within the recording sessions because Joel initially considered leaving the ballad off the album. He thought it sounded too sentimental compared with the record’s other material, but producer Phil Ramone argued that it deserved a place on the track list. The song was inspired by Joel’s relationship with his first wife, Elizabeth Weber.

The track became one of the album’s signature songs and won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The Stranger also includes “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song),” “Only the Good Die Young,” “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,” and “Vienna,” which are sometimes mistakenly associated with later Joel albums.