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Track sixteen of 1997’s Greatest Hits, Volume III is the second cover on the album. This time, the Freddie Scott classic gets a Billy Joel spin that closely resembles the soulful feel that was first embedded by songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King in 1963.

Joel chose to record it when he and his wife Christie Brinkley split and were moving out:

I had split up with Christie and my daughter was going to live far away, and I was very sad. When I was singing that song, that’s who I was singing to, my little girl."

The song peaked at #13 on Billboard’s Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in 1997.

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August 19, 1997
Hey Girl Is A Cover Of
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