Summer, Highland Falls

Infobox Song
Name = Summer, Highland Falls


Artist = Billy Joel
Album = Turnstiles
Released = May, 1976
track_no = 2
Recorded = Ultra Sonic Studio in Hempstead, NY
Genre = Ballad
Length = 3:15
Writer = Billy Joel
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Billy Joel
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Tracks =
prev = "Say Goodbye to Hollywood"
prev_no = 1
this = "Summer, Highland Falls"
next = "All You Wanna Do Is Dance"
next_no = 3
Misc = "Summer, Highland Falls" is a song from Billy Joel's 1976 album "Turnstiles". Joel has commented that, along with Vienna, this is one of his favourite songs. During the 1970s, Joel lived in the Cragston neighborhood of Highland Falls, hence the name.

The title 'Summer, Highland Falls' refers, not to any content in the song but the time and place it was written. Joel used this format after hearing Bob Dylan's Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 where the song title is never mentioned in the song. All Music Guide refers to the song as "his best ballad to date, possibly his best ever".

The song is in the key of F major with a iconic and repetitive piano lick that represents 'small town boredom' according to Joel. The song regularly appears on live albums and was featured in the musical Movin' Out.