by Anne Edwards
Hit Number Nineteen in the charts. Made Platinum.
Barbra Streisand ... and Other Musical Instruments
Columbia, October 1973
Produced by Martin Erlichman
Arranged by Ken Welch
Songs: ‘Piano Practicing’, ‘I Got Rhythm’, ‘Johnny One Note’, ‘One Note Samba’, ‘Glad to Be Unhappy’, medley: ‘People’/Second Hand Rose’, ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’; ‘Don’t Ever Leave Me’, monologue: ‘By Myself’, ‘Come Back to Me’, ‘I Never Has Seen Snow’, ‘Auf dem Wasser zu Singen’, ‘The World Is a Concerto’, ‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’, ‘The Sweetest Sounds’
Barbra Streisand featuring ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘All in Love Is Fair’
Columbia, January 1974
Produced by Tommy LiPuma
Arranged by Marvin Hamlisch
Songs: ‘Being at War with Each Other’, ‘Something So Right’, ‘The Best Thing You’ve Ever Done’, ‘The Way We Were’, ‘All in Love Is Fair’, ‘What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?’, ‘Summer Me, Winter Me’, ‘Pieces of Dreams’, ‘I’ve Never Been a Woman Before’; medley: ‘My Buddy’/‘How About Me?’
Hit Number One in the charts. Made Platinum.
Grammy Award: Song of the Year (‘The Way We Were’, music – Marvin Hamlisch; lyrics – Marilyn and Alan Bergman)
The Way We Were
Columbia, January 1974
Produced by Fred Salem
Arranged by Marvin Hamlisch
Motion-picture sound track. It includes the one song from the movie – ‘The Way We Were’ – sung and reprised by Barbra Streisand
It hit Number Twenty in the charts. Made Gold.
Grammy Awards: Song of the Year (Hamlisch/the Bergmans); Best Original Motion Picture Score (Hamlisch)
Butterfly
Columbia, October 1974
Produced by Jon Peters
Songs: ‘Love in the Afternoon’, ‘Guava Jelly’, ‘Grandmother’s Hands’, ‘I Won’t Last a Day Without You’, ‘Jubilation’, ‘Simple Man’, ‘Life on Mars’, ‘Since I Don’t Have You’, ‘Crying Time’, ‘Let the Good Times Roll’
Hit the charts at Number Thirteen. Made Gold.
Funny Lady
Columbia, March 1975
Motion-picture sound track
Produced by Peter Matz
Arranged and conducted by Peter Matz
Songs: ‘How Lucky Can You Get’, ‘So Long, Honey Lamb’, ‘I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store’, ‘Isn’t This Better?’, ‘Me and My Shadow’, ‘If I Love Again’, ‘I Got a Code in My Doze’, ‘Great Day’, ‘Blind Date’, ‘Am I Blue’; duet with James Caan: ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’/‘I Like Him’/‘Her’; ‘More Than You Know’, ‘Let’s Hear It For Me.’
Sung by Ben Vereen: ‘Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley’
Hit Number Six in the charts. Made Gold.
Lazy Afternoon
Columbia, October 1975
Produced by Rupert Holmes and Jeffrey Lesser
Songs: ‘Lazy Afternoon’, ‘My Father’s Song’, ‘By the Way’, ‘Shake Me, Wake Me’, ‘I Never Had It So Good’, ‘Letters that Cross in the Mail’, ‘You and I’, ‘Moanin’ Low’, ‘A Child Is Born’, ‘Widescreen’
Hit Number Twelve in the charts. Made Gold.
Classical Barbra
Columbia, February 1976
Produced by Claus Ogerman
Songs: ‘Beau Soir’, ‘Brezairola’, ‘Verschwiegene Liebe’, ‘Pavane’, ‘Apres un Rêve’, ‘In Trutina’, ‘Lascia c’io pianga’, ‘Nondnacht’, ‘Dank sie Die, Herr’, ‘I Loved You’
It is worthy of note that Streisand received a Grammy nomination for this album: ‘Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance’.
A Star is Born
Columbia, February 1976
Motion-picture sound track
Produced by Barbra Streisand and Phil Ramone
Arranged and conducted by Kenny Ascher
Songs: ‘Watch Closely Now’, ‘Queen Bee’, ‘Everything’, ‘Lost Inside of You’ (arranged by Pat Williams), ‘Hellacious Acres’, ‘Evergreen’ (arranged by Ian Freebairn-Smith), ‘Woman in the Moon’, ‘I Believe in Love’, ‘Crippled Crow’, ‘With One More Look at You’/‘Watch Closely Now’, ‘Evergreen’ (reprise)
Hit Number One in the charts. Made quadruple Platinum.
Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocal, Song of the Year – ‘Evergreen’, Streisand/Paul Williams
Streisand Superman
Columbia, June 1977
Produced by Gary Klein
Songs: ‘Superman’, ‘Don’t Believe What You Read’, ‘Baby Me, Baby’, ‘I Found You Love’, ‘Answer Me’, ‘My Heart Belongs to Me’, ‘Cabin Fever’, ‘Love Comes from Unexpected Places’, ‘New York State of Mind’, ‘Lullaby for Myself’
Hit Number Three in the charts. Made Platinum.
Songbird
Columbia, May 1978
Produced by Gary Klein
Songs: ‘Tomorrow’, ‘A Man I Loved’, ‘I Don’t Break Easily’, ‘Love Breakdown’, ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’, ‘Honey Can I Put on Your Clothes’, ‘One More Night’, ‘Stay Away’, ‘Deep in the Night’, ‘Songbird’
Hit Number Twelve in the charts. Made Platinum.
Eyes of Laura Mars*
Columbia, July 1978
Motion-picture sound track
Numerous producers
Songs: Streisand sings only one song – ‘Prisoner’
Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume2
(Volume 1, December 1969)
Columbia, November 1978
Numerous producers and arrangers
Songs: ‘Evergreen’, ‘Prisoner’, ‘My Heart Belongs to Me’, ‘Songbird’, ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’ (duet with Neil Diamond), ‘The Way We Were’, ‘Sweet Inspiration’/‘Where You Lead’, ‘All in Love Is Fair’, ‘Superman’, ‘Stoney End’
Hit Number One in the charts. Made quadruple Platinum.
The Main Event
Columbia, June 1979
Numerous producers
Songs: Streisand sings the title song and reprises it. The rest of the album includes vocal and instrumental work by various artists.
Hit Number Twenty in the charts. Made Gold.
Wet
Columbia, October 1979
Produced by Gary Klein
Numerous arrangers
Songs: ‘Wet’, ‘Come Rain or Come Shine’, ‘Splish Splash’, ‘On Rainy Afternoons’, ‘After the Rain’, ‘No More Tears (Enough is Enough)’ (duet with Donna Summer), ‘Niagara’, ‘I Ain’t Gonna Cry Tonight’, ‘Kiss Me in the Rain’
Hit Number Seven in the charts. Made Platinum.
Guilty
Columbia, September 1980
Executive producer, Charles Koppleman
Produced by Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson
Arranged by Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten and Peter Graves
Songs: ‘Guilty’ (duet with Barry Gibb), ‘Woman in Love’, ‘Run Wild’, ‘Promises’, ‘The Love Inside’, ‘What Kind of Fool’ (duet with Barry Gibb), ‘Life Story’, ‘Never Give Up’, ‘Make It Like a Memory’
Hit Number One in the charts. Made quintuple Platinum.
Grammy Award: Best Top Vocal by Duo or Group (with Barry Gibb)
Memories
Columbia, November 1981
Includes songs recorded on earlier albums.
Songs: ‘Memory’, ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’ (duet with Neil Diamond), ‘My Heart Belongs to Me’, ‘New York State of Mind’, ‘No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)’ (duet with Donna Summer), ‘Comin’ In and Out of Your Life’, ‘Evergreen’, ‘Lost Inside of You’, ‘The Love Inside’, ‘The Way We Were’
Hit Number Six in the charts. Made quadruple Platinum.
Yentl
Columbia, November 1983
Motion-picture sound track
Produced by Barbra Streisa
nd, Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman
Arranged by Michel Legrand
Songs: ‘Where Is It Written’, ‘Papa, Can You Hear Me?’, ‘This Is One of Those Moments’, ‘No Wonder’, ‘The Way He Makes Me Feel’, ‘No Wonder’ (reprise), ‘Tomorrow Night’, ‘Will Someone Ever Look at Me that Way?’, ‘No Matter What Happens’, ‘No Wonder’ (reprise), ‘A Piece of Sky’, ‘The Way He Makes Me Feel’ (a second version recorded separately), ‘No Matter What Happens’ (a second version recorded separately)
Hit Number Nine in the charts. Made Platinum.
The Legend of Barbra Streisand: a two-disc LP
The woman and the music in her own words
A one-hour interview programme
This is a demonstration-only recording, released for radio play as publicity for the movie, Yentl
Columbia A2S 1779
Produced by Westwood One for Columbia Records
Written and produced by Bert Kleinman
Hosted by Phil Hendrie
Interview by Mary Turner
Executive producer, Norman Pattiz
Songs: segment one: none (introduction); segment two: ‘People’, ‘Minute Waltz’, ‘Where Am I Going?’; segment three: ‘Second Hand Rose’, ‘My Man’, ‘He Touched Me’; segment four: ‘Free Again’, ‘Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long’; segment five: ‘The Way We Were’, ‘All in Love Is Fair’, ‘Evergreen’; segment six: ‘My Heart Belongs to Me’, ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’, ‘Songbird’; segment seven: ‘No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)’, ‘Woman in Love’, ‘Guilty’; segment eight: ‘Papa, Can You Hear Me?’, ‘The Way He Makes Me Feel’ (studio version); segment nine: ‘Where Is It Written?’, ‘A Piece of Sky’
Emotion
Columbia, October 1984
Executive producer, Charles Koppelman
Produced by Barbra Streisand, Richard Perry, Maurice White, Jim Steinman, Albhy Galuten and Richard Baskin
Numerous arrangers
Songs: ‘Emotion’, ‘He’s Mine’ (duet with Kim Carnes), ‘Time Machine’, ‘Best I Could’, ‘Left in the Dark’, ‘Heart Don’t Change My Mind’, ‘When I Dream’, ‘You’re a Step in the Right Direction’ (music by J. Mellencamp, lyrics by Barbra Streisand), ‘Clear Sailing’, ‘Here We Are at Last’ (music by Barbra Streisand, lyrics by Richard Baskin)
Hit Number Nineteen in the charts. Made Platinum.
The Broadway Album
Columbia, November 1985
Produced by Barbra Streisand, Peter Matz, David Foster and Richard Baskin
Arranged by Peter Matz and David Foster
Songs: ‘Putting It Together’, ‘If I Loved You’, ‘Something’s Coming’, ‘Not While I’m Around’, ‘Being Alive’; ‘I Have Dreamed’, ‘We Kiss in the Shadow’, ‘Something Wonderful’, ‘Adelaide’s Lament’, ‘Send in the Clowns’, ‘Pretty Women’/‘The Ladies Who Lunch’, ‘Can’t Help Lovin’ that Man’, ‘I Loves You Porgy’/‘Bess You Is My Woman’, ‘Somewhere’.
Hit Number One in the charts. Made triple Platinum.
Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocal, Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocal (‘Putting It Together’, Peter Matz)
One Voice
Columbia, April 1987
Life performance
Produced by Richard Baskin
Songs: ‘Somewhere’, ‘Evergreen’, ‘Something’s Coming’, ‘People’, ‘Send in the Clowns’, ‘Over the Rainbow’, ‘Guilty’ (duet with Barry Gibb), ‘What Kind of Fool’ (duet with Barry Gibb), ‘Papa, Can You Hear Me?’, ‘The Way We Were’, ‘It’s a New World’, ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’, ‘America the Beautiful’
Hit Number Nine in the charts. Made Platinum.
Till I Loved You
Columbia, November 1988
Songs: ‘The Places You Find Love’, ‘On My Way to You’, ‘Till I Loved You’ (duet with Don Johnson), ‘Love Light’, ‘All I Ask of You’, ‘You and Me For Always’, ‘Why Let It Go?’, ‘Two People’, ‘What Were We Thinking Of?’, ‘Some Good Things Never Last’, ‘One More Time Around’
Hit Number Ten in the charts. Made Platinum.
A Collection ... Greatest Hits and More
Columbia, October 1989
Many of these tracks first appeared in other albums.
Songs: ‘We’re not Making Love Anymore’, ‘Woman in Love’, ‘All I Ask of You’, ‘Comin’ In and Out of Your Life’, ‘What Kind of Fool’ (duet with Barry Gibb), ‘The Main Event’/‘Fight’, ‘Someone that I Used to Love’, ‘By the Way’, ‘Guilty’ (duet with Barry Gibb), ‘Memory’, ‘The Way He Makes Me Feel’, ‘Somewhere’
Hit Number Twenty-Six in the charts. Made Platinum.
Just for the Record
Columbia, September 1991
A four-disc boxed set which includes seventy-seven tracks culled from released and unreleased recordings made by Barbra Streisand over the thirty-one years of her then recording career, along with some material from her private archives, and early television and night-dub appearances. The set also came with a booklet of her own album notes and photographs.
Produced by Barbra Streisand and Martin Erlichman
Co-produced by John Arrias
Project co-ordinator: Karen Svenson
Songs from disc 1: ‘You’ll Never Know’ (recorded by Streisand December 1955 at the age of thirteen), ‘A Sleepin’ Bee’ (April 1961), ‘Moon River’ (January 1962), ‘Miss Marmelstein’ (December 1962), ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ (May 1962); selections from Live at the Bon Soir) previously unreleased material, recorded November 1962, which was to have been Streisand’s first album): ‘Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now’, ‘I Hate Music’, ‘Nobody’s Heart (Belongs to Me)’, ‘Value’, ‘Cry Me a River’, ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf’, (‘I Had Myself a) True Love’, ‘Lover Come Back to Me’, ‘Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most’ (February 1963), ‘My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms’ (February 1963), ‘Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home’ (August 1963), ‘When the Sun Comes Out’ (June 1963); from The Judy Garland Show (October 1963): ‘Be My Guest’ (with Judy Garland and Ethel Merman), medleys with Garland: ‘Hooray for Love’/‘After You’ve Gone’/‘By Myself’/‘’s Wonderful’/(‘I Like New York in June) How About You?’/‘Lover Come Back to Me’/‘You and the Night and the Music’/‘It All Depends on You’/‘Get Happy’/‘Happy Days Are Here Again’
Songs from disc 2: ‘I’m the Greatest Star’ (March 1964); closing night of Funny Girl, Winter Garden Theatre, 26 December 1965: ‘My Man’/‘Auld Lang Syne’; ‘People’ (September 1964), ‘Second Hand Rose’ (sung by Diana Streisand Kind, a home recording made April 1965), ‘Second Hand Rose’ (as part of Act II medley of TV show, My Name is Barbra, April 1965), ‘He Touched Me’ (October 1965), ‘You Wanna Bet’ (December 1965), ‘House of Flowers’/‘Ding, Dong the Witch Is Dead’ (April 1966); (‘Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair’/‘Look At that Face’/‘Starting Here, Starting Now’ (from TV show, Color Me Barbra, March 1966), ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’/‘Some of These Days’/‘I’m Always Chasing Rainbows’ (from TV show, The Belle of Fourteenth Street, October 1967); ‘Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Holy Night)’ (from TV show, A Happening in Central Park, September 1968); ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’/‘Funny Girl’ (October 1968); ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Ouly 1969); ‘On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)’ (August 1969); ‘When You Gotta Go’/‘In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning’ (recorded and previously unreleased at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, July 1969).
Songs from disc 3: (previously unreleased from aborted album, March 1970) ‘The Singer’/‘I Can Do It’, ‘Stoney End’; (‘They Long to Be) Close to You’ (The Burt Bacharach Spedal, March 1971); ‘We’ve Only Just Begun’ (previously unreleased, April 1971); ‘Since I Fell for You’ (August 1971); ‘You’re the Top’ (with Ryan O’Neal, March 1972); ‘What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?’ (home recording, summer 1972, previously unreleased); ‘If I Close My Eyes’ (December 1972); ‘Between Yesterday and Tomorrow’/‘Can You Tell
the Moment?’ (previously unreleased, April 1973); ‘The Way We Were’ (soundtrack version); ‘Cryin’ Time’ (November 1973); ‘God Bless the Child’/‘A Quiet Thing’/‘There Won’t Be Trumpets’ (unreleased tracks, March 1974); ‘Lost Inside of You’ (spring 1976); ‘Evergreen’ (November 1977); ‘Hatikvah’ (May 1978).
Songs from disc 4: ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’ (with Neil Diamond, February 1980); ‘The Way We Weren’t’/‘The Way We Were’ (June 1980); ‘Guilty’ (October 1980); ‘Papa, Can You Hear Me?’ ‘The Moon and I’/‘A Piece of Sky’ (audition tape, spring 1981, for Yentl); ‘A Piece of Sky’ (November 1983); ‘I Know Him So Well’ (previously unreleased, August 1985); ‘If I Loved You’/‘Putting It Together’ (November 1985); ‘Over the Rainbow’ (September 1986); theme from Nuts (composed by Barbra Streisand, released December 1987); ‘Here We Are at Last’ (music by Barbra Streisand, lyrics by Richard Baskin, June 1984); ‘Warm All Over’ (April 1988); ‘You’ll Never Know’ (April 1988).
Hit Number Thirty-Eight in the charts. Made Platinum.
The Prince of Tides
Columbia, December 1991
Motion-picture sound track
Produced by Barbra Streisand and James Newton Howard
Arranged by James Newton Howard
Songs: ‘For All We Know’, ‘Places that Belong to You’ (the rest of the album is instrumental music).
Back to Broadway
Columbia, July 1993
Produced by Barbra Streisand, David Foster, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nigel Wright
Songs: ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ (arranged by Johnny Mandel and David Foster), ‘Everybody Says Don’t’ (arranged by Barbra Streisand and Bill Ross), ‘The Music of the Night’ (duet with Michael Crawford, arranged and conducted by Andrew Pryce Jackman for the London Symphony Orchestra), ‘Speak Low’ (arranged by Johnny Mandel and David Foster), ‘As If We Never Said Goodbye’ (arranged by Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Cameron and David Cullen), ‘Children Will Listen’ (arranged and conducted by Jonathan Tunick), ‘I Have a Love’/‘One Hand, One Heart’ (arranged by David Foster and Bill Ross), ‘I’ve Never Been in Love Before’ (arranged and conducted by Jeremy Lubbock), ‘Luck Be a Lady’ (arranged and conducted by Jeremy Lubbock), ‘With One Look’ (arranged by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Cullen), ‘The Man I Love’ (arranged by Johnny Mandel), ‘Move On’ (arranged and conducted by Michael Starobin)