Scott,
thank you for your kind words, but if you think that I changed too much the melody in "Just the way you are", wait until you hear the song I just finished to record: it's another Billy Joel hit: the beautiful "New York State of Mind" and I used a Blues style (!), because I felt that it could do well and, besides, the VA7 has a terrific Blues. My only problem is that I cannot upload the song to my website because I get a message saying that my account has been temporarily suspended due to excessive bandwidth consumption, so I guess that I will have to wait until tomorrow.
I hope that Billy Joel will forgive me for having slaughtered his songs
(and the same goes for Uncle Dave: I know that he loves these tunes...)