"You May Be Right" is a single written and performed by rock singer Billy Joel

Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...

 from his 1980 album Glass Houses

Glass Houses

Glass Houses is the seventh album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released in 1980 . It features Joel's first song to peak at #1 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." The album itself topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and was ranked number 4 on...

. The song reached #7 on the US charts, but failed to chart in the UK unlike his preceding and succeeding singles "All for Leyna

All for Leyna

"All for Leyna" is a song by Billy Joel from the 1980 album Glass Houses. "All for Leyna" was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where it reached #40 on the charts....

" (UK #40) and "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me

It's Still Rock and Roll to Me

"It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" is a hit 1980 song performed by Billy Joel, from the hit album Glass Houses. The song was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two weeks, from July 19 through August 1, 1980...

" (UK #14). The song was used as theme song for the television show Dave's World

Dave's World

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, as sung by Southside Johnny

Southside Johnny

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. "You May Be Right" and "All for Leyna" both last 4 minutes 15 seconds on the album, making them the longest songs on Glass Houses

Glass Houses

Glass Houses is the seventh album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released in 1980 . It features Joel's first song to peak at #1 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." The album itself topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and was ranked number 4 on...

. "You May Be Right" is featured in disc 2 of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits - Volumes I and II

Greatest Hits (Billy Joel albums)

Billy Joel's Greatest Hits is a collection released in two sets, 12 years apart. The first set, consisting of two discs, titled Volume I and Volume II, was released in 1985. The second, single disc titled Volume III was released in 1997. All songs but the last three on Volume III, "To Make You Feel...

album.

The song was performed by Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...

 on the live video This Is Garth Brooks recorded in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

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 and at Brooks's 1997 New York concert with Joel as a special guest. The song has been covered by AVAIL

Avail

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, Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks

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, Keith Urban

Keith Urban

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 and the Rock Bottom Remainders

Rock Bottom Remainders

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Personnel

• Billy Joel: vocals, piano
  Piano
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   and harmonica
  Harmonica
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• Dave Brown: electric guitar
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• Richie Cannata: saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
   solo
• Liberty DiVitto: drums and percussion
• Russell Javors: electric guitar
• Doug Stegmeyer: bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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Chart positions

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	28
Canadian Singles Chart Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....	6
Japan Oricon Singles Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...	60
New Zealand Singles Chart	23
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	7
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...	38