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1. Nov 04,  · “Captain Jack isn't Jack Daniels. I used to live near the projects in Long Island and there were drugs going on and the dealer was called Captain Jack. There was also smack. They used to use the rhyme for smack, Captain Jack. So I didn't mean it to be any specific drug, it's whatever people had to take to escape reality. It was drugs in general.

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2. It was played from the Billy Joel compilation CD Greatest Hits Volume 1, and the song intended to be played was " New York State of Mind ", which was track five on the CD. The Clinton staffer inadvertently played track two, which was "Captain Jack".

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3. Mar 23,  · Joel's first hit became his signature song, but it might never have happened if not for "Bill Martin" and "Captain Jack." Joel performed a concert for Philadelphia radio station WMMR in .

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4. Captain Jack This song is by Billy Joel and appears on the reissue of the album Piano Man () on the live album Songs in the Attic () on the album Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II () on the album The Essential Billy Joel () on the box set My Lives () on the reissue of the album The Stranger () on the album Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert () This song.

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5. Background. Prior to The Stranger, Billy Joel was on the verge of being dropped by his record label, Columbia cauramathowemaskdomagcupitihos.coinfoe the unexpected success of Joel's 2nd album, Piano Man, his album efforts had nonetheless failed to reach any impressive sales numbers, with the release Turnstiles, Joel's latest release, peaking at only on the Billboard charts, meaning that Joel was under.

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6. This song is based on a real person: A drug dealer who lived near Joel in Oyster Bay, New York. But, as the singer explained in a interview with ZigZag, the character "Captain Jack" was a composite of different kinds of cauramathowemaskdomagcupitihos.coinfo Joel: "I was just sitting around one day looking out of the window wondering what I was going to write about, and kinda wrote about what was going on outside.

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7. Billboard ; Artist ; Pop Songs; Breaking and Entering; Digital Song Sales; All Weekly Charts; YEAR-END. Year-End Hot Songs; Year-End Billboard .

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8. Captain Jack himself was the nickname of a local drug dealer. However what the song refers to is suburban boredom and perceived youthful failure. Billy Joel was in his early-mid twenties when he wrote the song, and was inspired by those friends an.

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