Though it is credited to Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, A Star Is Born is in effect the soundtrack album to the motion picture of the same name, a rock-oriented...
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The film adaptation of the Broadway musical Funny Girl arrived in theaters four years after the show had opened, again starring Barbra Streisand, but much had changed in the...
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After three albums related to television specials and one of French songs, Simply Streisand was Barbra Streisand's first "regular" new album since People three years earlier...
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Recorded at a one-off free concert in front of 135,000 people in New York's Central Park in June 1967, Barbra Streisand's first live album was something of a throwback to...
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While still an impressive recording, Back to Broadway is less impressive than its predecessor, The Broadway Album, for a number of reasons. The first is material. Barbra...
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Je M'Appelle Barbra is an album of songs with a French orientation, either because they are actually sung, at least in part, in French, or because they originated in France...
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The biggest selling album of Barbra Streisand's career is also one of her least characteristic. The album was written and produced by Barry Gibb in association with his...
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A live show from her new "pop" era (right before she retired from the stage), it shows how much she'd changed from her previous live LP, 1967's A Happening In Central...
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Barbra Streisand's second live album demonstrated how much her music had changed since her first one had been released four years before. (Actually, five years separated the...
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As albums go, Barbra Streisand's Memories made a great single. A compilation, but not exactly a hits collection, it contained two newly recorded songs, "Memory" from the...
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Continuing in the Stoney End vein, it's particularly bizarre to hear her interpret Steely Dan and John Lennon's "Mother"--and actually pull it off in both...
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On her followup to the comeback album Stoney End, Barbra Streisand tried to do for (or to) Carole King what she had done the last time around with Laura Nyro, i.e., redo her...
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Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments, an album drawn from Streisand's fifth and last network TV special, has the dubious distinction of being the worst-selling...
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Needs to be heard simply for the perverse pleasure of hearing her do Bowie's "Life On Mars" (which it's apparent she just didn't get), not to mention material by Buck...
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Barbra Streisand's first album of newly recorded, non-soundtrack studio material in three years, ButterFly was ridiculed at the time of its release because its credited...
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One of Barbra Streisand's more esoteric projects, Classical Barbra is an album of European art songs composed by Debussy, Handel, Schumann, and others and sung in French,...
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All of the songs on Color Me Barbra were featured on Barbara Streisand's second TV special of the same name. (There were some more songs as well, but they had appeared on...
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Barbra Streisand's first album of contemporary material in four years was a typical '80s "Adult Contemporary" superstar release, each track written and produced as a...
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At a time when Barbra Streisand's career was in decline, what turned out to be only her first greatest hits album seemed to serve as both a summing up and a kiss-off of her...
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A concept album of sorts in the sense that each of the songs has something to do with water, Wet was the third of a trilogy of albums produced by Gary Klein in a soft-rock...
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An album containing many of the songs used in Barbra Streisand's TV special of the same name, My Name Is Barbra followed the general outline of two of the three sections of...
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For her first live recording in more than 14 years (a benefit held in her backyard with tickets at five-thousand dollars a throw), Barbra Streisand reviewed her work in the...
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After two less successful albums, Barbra Streisand returned to form on her fourth album with a selection of songs that showed some of the imagination of her debut album....
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A contemporary compile of trendy '70s songwriters. Notable for the inclusion of her duet with Neil Diamond, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" done solo! Pallid. ~ James...
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Barbra Streisand scored her second Top Ten hit in early 1971 by treating Laura Nyro's recording of her song "Stoney End" as a demo and copying it practically note for note....
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A return to her roots and, in some ways, what she still does best. Perhaps the best version of Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" (from West Side Story) ever...
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Barbra Streisand's abandonment of Broadway was the worst thing that happened to the theater in the '60s. Her retreat from theater music on record was less of a loss, if only...
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Of course, the first thing that strikes you listening to the first Barbra Streisand album, recorded and released before the singer's 21st birthday, is that great voice. And...
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Though usually referred to as The Way We Were, the unwieldy full title of this album is Barbra Streisand Featuring The Hit Single The Way We Were And All In Love Is Fair, an...
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Barbra Streisand's second album might have been subtitled "The Harold Arlen Album," asince Arlen is the composer of five of the 11 selections, including four of five on the...
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Barbra Streisand's fourth live album was the only one to be drawn from a concert tour and not a one-time occasion, but it is no less special for that. For her first tour in...
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As Barbra Streisand's first studio album of mainstream pop material in nine years, Higher Ground is something of an oddity. Instead of devoting herself to Broadway standards...
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If Simply Streisand, which appeared earlier the same month as A Christmas Album, indicated that Streisand was overly reverent when it came to standards, reverence was no...
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Like Memories, A Collection/Greatest Hits...And More was an odd compilation, not quite a hits set, though it gathered up the big hits not heard on the earlier record -- "The...
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Between the release of Barbra Streisand's first hits collection in 1970 and her second in 1978, she essentially became a different kind of recording artist. In the 1960s,...
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Timeless: Live in Concert, recorded at her Las Vegas show on New Year's Eve 1999, takes as its subject the star herself. It opens with a dramatization of her first, amateur...
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Barbra Streisand makes sure there's no doubt to what love she's referring to in the title of A Love Like Ours. On both the front and back covers, and throughout the liner...
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Barbra Streisand makes a point of noting that she completed this, her second Christmas album, before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, even going so far as to list...
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Although Barbra Streisand has recorded for the same company, Columbia Records, throughout her career, her work has not been particularly well represented on compilations....
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In her lengthy career, Barbra Streisand has never shown much inclination to share the spotlight. In the movies, she must endure a leading man, but in her recordings, she has...
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There's no stopping Barbra Streisand. Believe me, it's not like many outside her rabid cult haven't tried. Her alleged 60th album (who counts this high?), it contains 12...
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The idea of Barbra Streisand making an album of movie songs is a no-brainer; as annotators Jay Landers and Richard Jay-Alexander point out, she has already recorded over 50...
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