Allentown- Billy Joel

Home-made music video of Billy Joel's "Allentown".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Billy
• Joel
• Allentown
• U.S.
• Steel
• philidelphia
• steel
• workers
• united
• states
• history
• mark
• ellers
• 1983
• music

[JeffTheCanuck2]

It's called an American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

~George Carlin.

[plumeria66]

Replace "Allentown" with "USA" and it depicts what is happening today to so many people.

[princessryan96]

i live in Allentown..

[krosm]

Great montage for this song! And to JeffTheCanuck2, don't you think that the fact that George Carlin could become famous for what he did and still be remembered for that is indicative that there is an American dream? Reality never fits the vision but its whole helluva lot better than the horror some people in other places go through. Not perfect but there's hope so why not look at it that way?

[primeror]

Sad but true.....What is those country coming to ?

[latubein]

If you can't say something nice to the videographer, don't say anything. It's just rude.

[latubein]

Awesome job with this video! It speaks volumes of the problems not only in PA but the USA. thank you for such great photos!

[Pinestraw7]

This video seems like a little boy made it

[antoinegabby]

That's my song!

[keepnhblue89]

cont. What he is talking about is the good things Government did before being taken over by finance. He is talking about the GI Bill, the FHA, SS, and Medicare. He is talking about the war on poverty and the policies that bolstered the middle class. The government is to blame now, but only when it became Conservative and bowed down to business. Regulations are not the problem, its business doing whatever it can to make a quick buck. If you think otherwise, you are being mislead.

[keepnhblue89]

Anybody who is naive enough to say the government is to blame for this, does not understand the song or what he is talking about. These were decisions made by corporations, who run government btw through lobbying and finance, to hire non-union workers in the 70's and 80's, and then when those non-union workers didnt want to work for less anymore, they got the government to join NAFTA and the WTO. Now if we want to buy American, we cant, because the WTO says we have to buy whatever is cheapest

[OliviaBreadhouse]

This is a well done video. Images are so appropriate to the subject matter.

I notice that this was uploaded before the "crash" of late 2008.

The song and this video are both so prophetic. This has happened in so many places; heartbreaking.