The Stranger was Billy Joel's fifth studio album and the first produced by Phil Ramone, originally released in 1977. Ramone brought Joel's regular touring band into the studio, and you can hear it in the loose but tight playing: the whistled theme of the title track, the saxophone solo in Just the Way You Are, and the stitched-together sections of Scenes from an Italian Restaurant. Four singles reached the American top 40, and Just the Way You Are won Grammys for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It became the best-selling album Columbia had released up to that point and remained Joel's best-selling studio album.

This edition is an LP.