😱 Throwback To The Time The Grammys Cut Off Frank Sinatra And Billy Joel Made Them Pay!

Let's wind the clock back to 1994...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
You kind of don't think of Billy Joel being a
champion of all of Frank Sinatra, but these two names
came together in nineteen ninety four. I'll tell you the story.
Frank Sinatra received a Grammy Legend Award at the Grammys.
So he's there being awarded this incredible thing and he's
only halfway through. It's probably a rambling speech, but it's

(00:26):
Frank Sinatra and they cut him off to go to ads.
He's Frank's bit.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is like being in baseball. The bases are loaded
and you're at bath. You don't know what you're gonna do.
Isn't that tretty?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
I can use this when the wind blows. It won't
blow me away anymore. With this thing here, it's quite beautiful.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
They cut, they went to ads, and Billy Joel, along
with other people in the crowd, were just outraged on
Frank's behalf. So Billy came out not long after to
sing the song River of Dreams, and he thought, you
know what, I'm going to put a giant pause in
River of Dreams and to string this out so we
lose advertising time. It went like this.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Valuable advertising time going by valuable advertising time going by.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Dollars dollars, dick it to the man.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
I wonder what ads they were going to that was
so important, that valuable advertising.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Who knows Brendan where the sweetest? Do you think it was?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Come on?

Speaker 6 (02:03):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
And then Billy started singing it an album.

Speaker 6 (02:07):
He should have put that inside his song.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
That'll get him back, That'll get Billy back.