All for Layna...what's her number ?
Tip
the right computer program, or just allot of time on their hands.
In the opening seconds of the Billy Joel song All For Layna , on the Glass
Houses CD, a telephone number is (touch tone) dialed.
What is the number (the digits)?
Bonus points to anyone who can say who Layna was.
Her name is fictitious.
Ray M
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Here is a geek question that I know someone should be able to answer with
the right computer program, or just allot of time on their hands.
In the opening seconds of the Billy Joel song Sometimes A Fantasy, on the
Glass Houses CD, a telephone number is (touch tone) dialed.
What is the number (the digits)?
An unrelated question: Can anyone say who Layna was?
Her name is fictitious.
GRANT BARTRAM
> Glass Houses CD, a telephone number is (touch tone) dialed.
>
> What is the number (the digits)?
>
I tried calling it once. It's some sort of travel agency.
> An unrelated question: Can anyone say who Layna was?
> Her name is fictitious.
It's spelled LEyna. She is probably a fictional character... like Dian
from "Sleeping With The Television On."
Tip
the number? If you called it around the release of the Glass houses record
in 1980 and found it to be A Travel Agency, then it probably was a random
choice during the recording session. The 516 area code (an extra three tones
is not there) you had to guess that.
Or maybe the dialing tones sounded right from a musicians point of view.
And thank you for the heads up on the spelling of Leyna. It's been a bunch
of years since I pulled out the sleeve and looked at the song track names.
I believe too that Leyna was a fictional name. Which leads me to my next
challenge.
Name all the people Billy Joel names (real or fictional) in all or his
released songs in title or lyric. Captain Jack is disqualified because it
is a thing. Elvis Presley Boulevard is a place and is diqualified also.
------------Tip
Grant Bartram
> Thanks for that answer on the phone number. How long ago did you test
out
> the number? If you called it around the release of the Glass houses
record
> in 1980 and found it to be A Travel Agency, then it probably was a random
> choice during the recording session. The 516 area code (an extra three
tones
> is not there) you had to guess that.
Listen to it again. There are indeed 10 numbers there. I know that those are
the numbers because you can see him dialing them at the beginning of the
music video.
I called the number a few years ago. All I did was press "1" and then I set
the phone next to the stereo speaker and I played the beginning of the song
(dial tone part) into the phone speaker... and yes, that IS possible. The
phone system goes by the tones, it can't tell whether you are punching the
numbers or not.
>
> Or maybe the dialing tones sounded right from a musicians point of view.
>
> And thank you for the heads up on the spelling of Leyna. It's been a
bunch
> of years since I pulled out the sleeve and looked at the song track names.
>
> I believe too that Leyna was a fictional name. Which leads me to my next
> challenge.
>
> Name all the people Billy Joel names (real or fictional) in all or his
> released songs in title or lyric. Captain Jack is disqualified because
it
> is a thing.
No. Billy has stated several times that Captain Jack was a drug dealer.
Here are all the names that are his songs:
Judy, Elisa, John, Paul, Davy, Billy The Kid, Captain Jack, Roberta, Bobby,
Johnny, James, Anthony, Leone, Brenda, Eddie, Virginia, Elaine, Ali, Rose,
Rosalinda, Little Geo, Leyna, Dian, Laura, Charlie, Baker, Christie Lee,
Viktor, Charlie
I think thats it. The only thing I left out was all of the names mentioned
on We Didn't Start The Fire. I don't have time to think of those.
Tip
Just for fun let's list all the names in We didn't start the fire.
Harry Truman
Doris Day
Johnnie Ray
Walter Winchell
Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs
Sugar Ray
Brando
Eisenhower,
Marciano
Liberace
Santayana
Joseph Stalin
Malenkov
Nasser
Prokofiev
Rockefeller
Campanella,
Roy Cohn
Juan Peron
Toscanini
Einstein
James Dean
Davy Crockett
Peter Pan
Elvis Presley
Bardot
Krushchev
Princess Grace
Pasternak
Mickey Mantle
Kerouac
Chou En-Lai
Charles de Gaulle
Starkweather
Buddy Holly
Ben Hur
Castro
Syngman Rhee
Kennedy
Chubby Checker
Hemingway
Eichmann
Dylan
(Irving) Berlin
"Lawrence of Arabia"
John Glenn
Liston
Patterson
Pope Paul
Malcolm X
JFK
Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon
Begin
Reagan
Ayatollah
Sally Ride
Bernie Goetz
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(De) Vito / (unpublished lyric in fadeout of Say Goodbye to Hollywood)
Rico / (unpublished lyric) It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
Joe (guess who) / Christie Lee
Angelina / Half a Mile Away
Sonny/ Movin Out
Sergeant O'Leary / Movin Out
Uncle Sam/ Movin Out
Mister Cacciatore / Movin Out