Supposedly Bab's vocal peak. She sounds so angelic in this live performance, but I'll cry a river and say that she is just a bore to listen to. Manufactured emotion, especially after hearing pre-performance patter.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 154 | December 22, 2022 3:11 PM |
I actually would say her vocal peak is 1969-1979.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 28, 2022 1:05 AM |
Barbra had the pipes, but Julie had the magic.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 2 | September 28, 2022 1:10 AM |
Julie was a dud on screen.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 28, 2022 1:14 AM |
I don't like Streisand at all as a human being. I think she's selfish, obnoxious, and self-important.
And her voice today is gone (of course... she's in her eighties, so what else does anyone expect?).
BUT... she had an absolutely extraordinary voice during her prime, and I will say this is a beautiful performance from that time. I loved listening to this.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 28, 2022 1:55 AM |
Such control and power. So free, and none of the self-consciousness that affect some of her later performances. Prime Barbra. A miraculous one-of-a-kind voice. Can't wait for the full album release.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 28, 2022 3:54 AM |
LIVE AT THE BON SOIR TO BE RELEASED NOV. 4TH
From Columbia's press release:
Recorded in a tiny Greenwich Village nightclub on November 4, 5 and 6, 1962 (just weeks after Streisand inked her first record deal with Columbia on October 1), Live At The Bon Soir was originally intended to be Barbra’s debut album for the label. The tapes for Live At The Bon Soir were eventually shelved in favor of 1963’s The Barbra Streisand Album.
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of her legendary appearances at the famed Greenwich Village haunt, The Bon Soir. For the first time, Barbra Streisand – Live At The Bon Soir includes 24 tracks that have been produced, mixed and approved by Barbra Streisand and released in their entirety as an album. All of the original master tapes are from Barbra’s personal vault.
Grammy Award-winning engineer, Jochem van der Saag, has subtly solved audio issues in ways his predecessors could hardly have fathomed. Absolutely nothing about Barbra’s sterling vocals has been altered. However, the overall sonic picture has been greatly improved from the original tapes.”
Jay Landers wrote the extensive liner notes for the CD, which includes rare photos.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 28, 2022 4:31 AM |
1. Introduction by David Kapralik (Columbia Records)/My Name Is Barbara (Leonard Bernstein)0 2. Much More (Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt) 3. Napoleon (Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg) 4. I Hate Music (Leonard Bernstein) 5. Right As The Rain (Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg) 6. Cry Me A River (Arthur Hamilton) 7. Value (Jeff Harris) 8. Lover, Come Back To Me (Oscar Hammerstein II/Sigmund Romberg) 9. Band Introductions 10. Soon It’s Gonna Rain (Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones) 11. Come To The Supermarket (In Old Peking) (Cole Porter) 12. When The Sun Comes Out (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler) 13. Happy Days Are Here Again (Jack Yellen/Milton Ager) 14. Keepin’ Out Of Mischief Now (Andy Razaf/Thomas “Fats” Waller) 15. A Sleepin’ Bee (Harold Arlen/Truman Capote) 16. I Had Myself A True Love (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer) 17. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart) 18. Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? (Frank Churchill/Ann Ronell) 19. I’ll Tell The Man In The Street (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart) 20. A Taste Of Honey (Bobby Scott/Ric Marlow) 21. Never Will I Marry (Frank Loesser) 22. Nobody’s Heart Belongs To Me (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart) 23. My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms (Herman Ruby/Joseph Meyer) 24. I Stayed Too Long At The Fair (Billy Barnes)
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 28, 2022 4:33 AM |
Julie's version is far superior, but nice to hear Barbra in a more intimate setting. It's a shame that Barbra favoured syrupy, schlocky adult contemporary material as the years went on.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 28, 2022 4:53 AM |
Julie's version is certainly good, the commercial way of doing it, but it's safe, "pretty", and middle of the road generic. Barbra makes it her own, emotional and personal. I'd argue Barbra's version is far superior and one of the reasons she's a legend, while Julie is merely fondly remembered.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 28, 2022 5:07 AM |
Barbra as Greenwich Village thrift-store kook had great taste.
Barbra as Malibu compound diva has had schlocky taste.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 28, 2022 5:11 AM |
Julie feels more cool jazz. Barbra is the theatrical actress.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 28, 2022 5:33 AM |
I'd say Barbra tries way too hard to make it her own, and the straining for effect and emotion becomes too much, at least for my taste.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 28, 2022 5:34 AM |
R13=JimBee@theBu "Can I send this now, honey?"
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 28, 2022 5:38 AM |
There is also the age factor. Barbra was ten years younger so her version has all the drama of young love. Julie's more laid back and not so injured.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 28, 2022 5:41 AM |
I wonder if Barry Dennen will get a thank you on the new album.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 28, 2022 5:44 AM |
Julie sounds a lot like Perry.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 17 | September 28, 2022 5:45 AM |
No, she doesn't.
Someone's pressed that there are Julie fans posting here.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 28, 2022 5:48 AM |
Marie Knight really knocks it out of the park! What a voice.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | September 28, 2022 6:02 AM |
Julie has the best filmed scene from The Girl Can't Help It. I'll give her that. Although I'm not sure what they were going for. Sexy poltergeist?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 20 | September 28, 2022 6:04 AM |
I kept waiting for her Justin Timberlake duet to make the light of day.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 28, 2022 6:07 AM |
It's nice to hear alternative versions, but I prefer the album version.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 22 | September 28, 2022 7:02 AM |
This is huge news for Barbra fans. Her time at the Bon Soir is the stuff of absolute legend. So few can boast that they were there to witness her astonishing arrival on the scene. To have these mythologized performances released 60 years later is a gift. And I know this post is the Mary-est of Mary’s.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 10, 2022 11:39 AM |
[quote]Supposedly Bab's vocal peak.
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 10, 2022 3:00 PM |
Oh for chrissakes. Comparing Barbra to Julie is like comparing Ethel Merman to Blossom Dearie.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 10, 2022 3:06 PM |
Wondered who was doing Barbra in the video. Director said: I had a hunch my friend Kristin could represent the 20-year-old Barbra. Kristin is an artist who finds beauty in objects from the past; she’s a renowned mudlarker! I felt there was something in her artistic temperament that would connect with the young Barbra who scoured thrift stores, forging her own style. Kristin didn’t know much about Barbra; she’s never seen one of her movies. I think that was good. She only studied the teen-aged Barbra who was a nightclub regular and just starting out in theater. After listening to and watching Barbra's early recordings and TV appearances, Kristen rightly intuited, “her whole body is an instrument.” Bill Eppridge’s book of photos, Becoming Barbra, was a good reference for us. Also a book called, The Enigma Of The Owl. Kristin studied pictures of owls, the gestures of their wingspan, to inspire her movement.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 10, 2022 3:24 PM |
It drives me crazy that Barbra always fucks up this rhyme:
Told me love was too plebeian / Told me you were through with me an'
By signing it:
Told me love was too plebeian / Told me you were through with meeeeeeeeeee
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 10, 2022 4:50 PM |
I wonder when we will get the TV concert from the International Hotel that was supposed to be a CBS special, or anything live from the 69-72 era when she was performing live in Vegas? Her voice was at its peak.
Apparently, Barbra was given audio tapes of all of her shows that she did at the Hilton, International and Riviera hotels. So there should be stuff to work with.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 10, 2022 5:27 PM |
She doesn't fuck it up, r28, she just doesn't make it rhymity-rhyme.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 10, 2022 5:28 PM |
[quote]She doesn't fuck it up, [R28], she just doesn't make it rhymity-rhyme.
I'm just glad Sondheim died before those stupid words were ever typed.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 10, 2022 5:46 PM |
Barbra's 'Cry Me a River' is brilliant and withstood the test of time.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 10, 2022 6:30 PM |
Streisand's version of Cry Me a River is superb.
Julie London's version is like listening to bad elevator music where you would prefer to get off on the wrong floor rather than listen to any more of that drivel.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 10, 2022 6:33 PM |
1960s Babs is my favorite. Bold.
Her “attack” on the songs is funny when it gets super aggressive: this song always makes me laugh. It’s so campy! A singer friend of mine said, “Gee, those SNAPPING consonants! And she grabs some words like a PIT BULL that won’t [italic]let go!”
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | October 10, 2022 7:33 PM |
"rhymity-rhyme" is also called "rhymes that work"
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 10, 2022 7:47 PM |
"Gotta Move!" is so fucking campy. Especially the version in one of Barbra's TV specials, where she is jumping all around the Philidelphia Museum of Art.
I remember being at a dinner party and a bunch of older, drunk queens trying to outdo each other by over-enunciating the lyrics.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 10, 2022 7:49 PM |
I'm with you, OP. Streisand has a nice voice but is absolutely devoid of emotion and passion whenever she sings. It's why, when people compare Judy to Babs, they usually like Judy better. Judy knew how to convey feelings in her singing. Babs is more like a precision tuned robot.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 10, 2022 7:59 PM |
I love to hear Barbra do her '60s-era stuff, vocals and arrangements. She is the only young singer from that era who I could think of as having the dynamic singing actress electricity, talent, power and commitment to getting across songs' emotions and lyrics like Judy Garland. I, too, love her studio-album version of "River." Fascinating.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 10, 2022 8:05 PM |
[quote]Babs is more like a precision tuned robot
Babs is/was a beautiful *sound*, r40. She isn't an emotional singer like Garland or Piaf.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 10, 2022 8:05 PM |
I think of rhymity-rhyme as relentless foursquare jingles, like most of Sideshow, for example.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 10, 2022 8:06 PM |
[quote]It's why, when people compare Judy to Babs, they usually like Judy better. Judy knew how to convey feelings in her singing. Babs is more like a precision tuned robot.
Which is why Streisand sold TENS OF MILLIONS of albums more than Garland.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 10, 2022 8:09 PM |
Anyone who thinks Streisand’s voice is devoid of emotion and feeling simply doesn’t know her work.
One of the mist subtle and wistful things she’s ever done is Auld Ang Syne in her 2000 concert- find it. And then sample “I Dreamed of You” in the same concert. Follow that up with the encore of her 2016 concert “Didn’t Know What Time It Was”. All these are from her latter career and are sublime vocal artistry. Then tell me she is all technique.
Streisand is among a handful of singers since recorded music began who you can truly call great. And there is no singer who has recorded the breadth of music that she has. Some like the standards, some the pop, done the novelty tunes, even the classical. Aretha could sing almost anything too.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 10, 2022 8:19 PM |
r44 that's because Babs is still alive.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 10, 2022 8:22 PM |
R46 Judy Garland was never much of a record seller when she was alive.
Outside of the Carnegie Hall concert, her records only sold modestly.
I think it was because you had to see the whole thing working together. When it was just her voice, it tended to sound too overwrought.
Plus, who the fuck wants to listen to Al Jolson songs?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 10, 2022 8:41 PM |
[quote]that's because Babs is still alive.
Yeah, because people can only buy your records while you're alive.
Tell that to Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, who still outsells Garland.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 10, 2022 8:42 PM |
A great talent but a miserable, shitty attitude.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 10, 2022 8:57 PM |
Her voice sounds great, but her patter sounds lame.
"I wish there were another word for thank you"?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 10, 2022 9:18 PM |
I think that Bon Soir recording of Cry Me a River was on Barbra’s pink boxed set, For the Record. I remember it as an obvious and histrionic performance of a song that works best when coolly underplayed. Like Julie London or, of all people, Joan Baez.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | October 11, 2022 12:24 AM |
I discovered Barbra when I was 14 in 1963 after my mom saw her appear on Jack Paar's show and encouraged me to buy the very first album, which we played incessantly on the hi-fi in out knotty-pine paneled den. I knew all those songs inside and out and bought each succeeding album at the Sam Goody's at Paramus' Bergen Mall (or was it the Garden State Plaza mall?). Of course, all my friends were into the Beatles.
My parents treated me to a performance of Funny Girl. Barbra walked through the first half of Act I (dismal & bored versions of I'm the Greatest Star and Cornet Man) but finally came alive singing People and was golden for the rest of the show. I forgave her and continued to adore her through everything she did (those first 2 TV specials!!) and the film of Funny Girl which I must have seen 2 dozen times in its original run. But I started to become disenchanted when she took on Hello. Dolly! I felt she was betraying her talent and her fans and poor Carol Channing. And then she made that horrible album What About Today? and I was done (and just cringed watching her in On a Clear Day....). By now, all my Beatle fan friends were into Barbra but.....I was done.
I've never recovered my love for her but I do look forward to this new release and expect it might rekindle a very nostalgic love.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 11, 2022 2:33 AM |
R53. Too bad for you. You've missed so much of the fabulous, wonderful and talented Streisand. There has been so much--and you're stuck from 50 years ago. Granted Barbra was brilliant in the 1960s, but she has also been brilliant since as well.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 11, 2022 2:56 AM |
Barbra's best album ever. It's one for the ages. She sings the hell out of these songs especially "The Best Things You've Ever Done," "Summer Me, Winter Me" and "I've Never Been a Woman Before."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 55 | October 11, 2022 3:03 AM |
Pretty sure that these Bon Soir tracks were released a few years back in London.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 56 | October 11, 2022 3:16 AM |
I like all of Judy's 1950s Capitol Records albums, the arrangements and musicianship are superb and they are a lot of fun with Judy in excellent voice.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 57 | October 11, 2022 3:47 AM |
[quote] I was 14 in 1963 after my mom saw her appear on Jack Paar's show and encouraged me to buy the very first album
That was the most intriguing part of your post, R53. Curious what was behind that?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 11, 2022 3:55 AM |
r55: That's a great album. . "My Buddy/How About Me" is my single favorite Streisand recording. Its flawless. Every phrase rendered with exquisite delicacy until the passionate cri de cœur "You'll find somebody new, but what am I to do?" And nobody arranged Streisand better than Peter Matz.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 60 | October 11, 2022 10:05 AM |
I think she was at her vocal peak in Clear Day. He Isn't You is a blue diamond of perfection.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 11, 2022 10:47 AM |
Barbra is superb in that Ed Sullivan clip, but it seems as if she's channeling Eydie Gormé in her style. A wise choice.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 12, 2022 12:55 AM |
"The Way We Were" album was thrown together at the last minute to capitalize on the success of the title song.
They used tracks from a shelved album called "The Singer."
by Anonymous | reply 64 | October 12, 2022 2:29 AM |
Judy was a genius. Babs is merely terrific.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 12, 2022 2:18 PM |
[quote]"The Way We Were" album was thrown together at the last minute to capitalize on the success of the title song.
That may be, but it's one of the few albums where I like every track on it.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 13, 2022 7:07 PM |
Prompted by this thread to listen to the Way We Were album and while the voice is perfection, the arrangements are really dated, particularly the wooka-wooka rhythms and the heavy orchestrations.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 13, 2022 8:07 PM |
I miss wooka-wooka rhythms, r68...
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 13, 2022 8:11 PM |
R68 and that’s exactly why I love it. That was the first album she started using her Neumann M49 microphone from the 1950s which gave her voice a lovely warm sound.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 13, 2022 8:12 PM |
The albums I keep listening to after all these years are still The Third Album, People and Simply Streisand. For me, that was Barbra at her absolute peak.
Also love The Second Album, My Name Is Barbra and Color Me Barbra. Oh, and what the hell, the very first one, of course, even if she does seem to be yelling through a couple of numbers.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 13, 2022 8:30 PM |
And speaking of The Way We Were album: years ago on a dl thread about subliminal gay songs (or something like that), someone mentioned “Pieces of Dreams” as really being about a gay man. I’ve never listened to the song the same way since.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 13, 2022 8:58 PM |
Superb vocals. She was IT. Back then she had guts and hunger.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 13, 2022 9:13 PM |
Barbra at her best. Stay til the end. She knocks you out.
The Best Thing You've Ever Done
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 74 | October 13, 2022 9:27 PM |
Another from Barbra at her best...
I've Never Been a Woman Before. Again, the ending blows me away.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | October 13, 2022 9:31 PM |
[quote]JUST RELEASED: Barbra Streisand - Cry Me A River live
She's alive?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 13, 2022 9:33 PM |
I just love this album. It's her best. I never get tired of it.
Barbra does it again with Summer Me, Winter Me.
I love the album cover too.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 77 | October 13, 2022 9:33 PM |
R77, she said in an interview that she threw on the turban (?) because she was having a bad hair day.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 13, 2022 9:39 PM |
Boot-legs of the 'Bon Soir' have been around for decades. Most fans have their copy already even though it has never been formerly released by Columbia.
What has changed this year, and what may have prompted Columbia to finally release this, is that many of Streisand's recordings are losing their copyright protection in countries around the world, outside the USA. Most of the copyrights in the UK, France, Germany, etc. were only for 60 years - so starting this year, her earlier works are up for grabs.
In this case, any record label in the UK who has access to her Bon Soir tapes can release the album commercially - and not 'boot legged' - without getting sued. And shipping to the USA is no problem. Columbia is not stupid - they've decided to get ahead of this competition by releasing their own album commercially before the other labels release theirs.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | October 13, 2022 9:50 PM |
She was 18. Her voice was extraordinary. Listen to the orchestration.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 14, 2022 11:55 PM |
[quote] many of Streisand's recordings are losing their copyright protection
Damn she's old!!
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 16, 2022 2:47 AM |
Barbra's voice is young and pristine and she can hit all the high notes. Toward the end of the song she came on like the powerhouse that she is. Just by listening you can tell that she still needed training and more experience with her voice but that came about nicely in the years to come. The VOICE of our times.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 16, 2022 3:09 AM |
Young Barbra back in the day.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 83 | October 16, 2022 3:12 AM |
[R81] She just turned 80 in April. She started out when she was 19 / 20 - so yes, 61 year career.
Expect more from her 60s catalog to start being re-released, as Columbia tries to stay ahead of the competitors in Europe.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 16, 2022 4:34 PM |
‘Simply Streisand’ was the first LP of hers I remember taking notice of and liking. I think I was around seven! I remember my parents were relieved I liked one their records, because my favorite record ‘Supremes A-Go-Go’ had been getting HEAVY play and they were sick of it. I mean sick of it.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 17, 2022 5:45 PM |
[quote] I remember my parents were relieved I liked one their records
You think they were relieved their young son liked Streisand?
by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 18, 2022 2:13 PM |
Re-read the comment, r87. To them I liked something adult, this was in 1967 or ‘68. It gave their ears a break.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 18, 2022 2:23 PM |
Her hair was so greasy back then.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | October 19, 2022 1:49 PM |
Napoleon
Music written by Harold Arlen
Lyrics written by E.Y. Harburg
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 91 | October 21, 2022 8:02 AM |
Les débuts de la plus légendaire des stars!
by Anonymous | reply 93 | October 21, 2022 8:56 AM |
Lena Horne. I always felt Barbra sounds like Lena.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 94 | October 21, 2022 9:11 AM |
You can tell why Streisand dropped the song from her repertoire. She's great in the first chorus, but she barrels through the second - you can barely understand her. She's gives "Down With Love" (a much better song) a similar treatment but her enunciation in the brisk second half is sharper and more satiric.
Also, the song references many products and brands that have faded from public consciousness: "Venus de Milo is just a pink brassiere" "DuBarry is a lipstick" Not unlike the lipstick tagline "if the color keeps, Louis-Philippe's to blame" in the song "Tangerine".
The song sounds like something cut from HOUSE OF FLOWERS. Did Pearl Bailey ever sing it?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | October 21, 2022 9:41 AM |
My favorite version is the one from the [italic]Dinah Shore Show.[/italic] You can't tell me she didn't get some coaching from a drag queen along the way.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 96 | October 21, 2022 10:35 AM |
Am surprised she allowed the camera to shoot her from her bad side.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | October 21, 2022 10:59 AM |
No, not cut from House of Flowers. That show had lyrics by Arlen and Capote. The Napoleon score was written by Arlen and Harburg. Pearly may have recorded it though.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | October 21, 2022 12:49 PM |
[quote] Am surprised she allowed the camera to shoot her from her bad side.
Wow. After seeing R96's clip I now see that she really does have a "bad side" indeed. No wonder she insists on the right camera angle.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | October 21, 2022 3:50 PM |
I believe it was Stradling who told her she had this bad side. He shoots her from this side when she sings People in Funny Girl. I don't notice the difference but I haven't seen the above video.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | October 21, 2022 4:13 PM |
r98: Thank you - I did know that re: Capote & Harburg , but it does *sound* like a HOUSE OF FLOWERS reject. I didn't make myself clear (wink).
by Anonymous | reply 101 | October 21, 2022 5:12 PM |
Thanks for posting that R91. I didn't know Amazon is releasing songs every few weeks, I had no desire to buy another Streisand anthology. I probably put Jason through college.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | October 22, 2022 3:08 AM |
Napoleon was a great example of Barbra's genius. She said she wanted to be an actress not a singer
by Anonymous | reply 103 | October 22, 2022 4:15 PM |
Her voice really did lose its power after around the late 60s. Here you can tell she has great control of her vibrato and can put it where she wants it and know exactly how it'll sound. By "People" she has to work herself up to belt with a consistent vibrato. She settled into a pure sounding belter by then. But in this early 60s era she could swing hard and style the song exactly how she pleased.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | October 22, 2022 11:10 PM |
R103, Napoleon was from Lena Horne's - a Streisand idol, though she's NEVER admit it - Broadway show Jamaica, 1957-58. You know Barbra knows this, yet she'll never mention it, just like she used the arrangement of Snowbound, written for Sara Vaughan, for her 2001 Christmas CD, without mentioning it. How convenient. (Arrangements are considered owned by the singer they were written for).
I think Streisand oversings "Napoleon." This is the REAL THING:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 105 | October 22, 2022 11:18 PM |
I wish she kept up songs like the above. Her catalog after 1965 was utter dreck
by Anonymous | reply 106 | October 22, 2022 11:49 PM |
I'm 27 r107 what kpop are you into?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | October 23, 2022 1:37 AM |
Interesting how a young Shirley Bassey sounded so much like Barbra singing "Cry Me A River" in 1959.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 111 | October 23, 2022 2:11 AM |
I think Babs thing was being cheeky for people her parents age. Then as she got older nobody cared about impressing people her parents age and lost her purpose and just hurled headfirst into dreck.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | October 23, 2022 2:13 AM |
That dreck bought her that compound in Malibu which is why she dove headfirst into it. She couldn't buy it with the great American songbook.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | October 23, 2022 5:02 AM |
She sold out early is what I meant
by Anonymous | reply 114 | October 23, 2022 5:08 AM |
That dreck bought her a pack of state of the art cloned dogs.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | October 23, 2022 6:34 AM |
Leave it to Barbra to sing a song like Cry Me A River without any feelings at all.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | October 23, 2022 8:03 AM |
That dreck bought her me.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | October 23, 2022 5:39 PM |
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 118 | November 4, 2022 6:50 PM |
Happy Days Are Here Again
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 121 | November 4, 2022 6:53 PM |
ya'll are too much for an ugly jewess!
by Anonymous | reply 128 | November 4, 2022 7:01 PM |
R130=ugly queen. Die in a grease fire, loser.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | November 4, 2022 7:04 PM |
OP, there was norhing boring about that.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | November 4, 2022 7:04 PM |
It's interesting to me that Barbra--one of the biggest solo artists in history--is getting outstreamed by Louis Armstrong, a singer who sang in a genre that stopped being popular among mainstream audiences in the 50s/60s. Miles Davis has almost the same amount of streams she does.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | November 4, 2022 7:09 PM |
I like how the official Barbra Streisand account turned off comments for Supermarket in Old Peking.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | November 4, 2022 7:12 PM |
Listening to it now. It's wonderful. "Nobody's Heart Belongs To Me" and "Keepin Out of Mischief Now". Perfection.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | November 4, 2022 9:06 PM |
Amazon doesn't have it until mid December. Did they underbuy? You can get it mid this month if you're willing to pay more.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | November 5, 2022 8:42 PM |
It’s streaming on Apple Music.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | November 5, 2022 9:25 PM |
Does Streisand get as many royalties when a person streams it as when they buy a cd?
by Anonymous | reply 138 | November 5, 2022 10:00 PM |
I bet you anything SHE does.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | November 5, 2022 11:11 PM |
This is just a magical rendition of Stayed Too Long At The Fair. The best she’s ever sang it. And that piano is so intimate!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 141 | November 11, 2022 10:29 AM |
This is turning out to be one of my most favorite albums.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | November 11, 2022 9:54 PM |
I know all these songs, have heard some of these recordings, but the overall effect was an out-of-body experience. Phenomenal.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | November 11, 2022 11:15 PM |
Does anyone recall seeing the Streisand cutout at the link in a record store? I presume it originates from after Streisand's solo success. She was only a featured performer in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" so it seems odd that there was a cutout of her holding that album.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 20, 2022 6:56 AM |
She sang this on one of her early albums and she is just great.
I loved her and would blare her music and drive my father crazy because he hated her "nasal" voice as he put it.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 20, 2022 7:04 AM |
Arthur Laurents wrote in his autobio Sondheim didn't like her voice because it was too nasal. Wonder what they both thought him putting that in there. He also wrote at the time of Whistle he thought she should record a couple of songs from it. I guess she didn't like them very much. Of course that would have been a perfect time to record them and they would have been great. Maybe she heard Sondheim's comment.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | December 20, 2022 2:54 PM |
I always got mad at my father for saying that about her but there's some argument for that opinion. As much as I love her, I can hear some nasal quality to her voice at times. So I get it.
Listen to her nail this Frank Loesser from Guys and Dolls. Perfection.
Yes yes I can hear a tiny bit of nasal but I don't care.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 148 | December 20, 2022 6:16 PM |
I'm sure Sondheim changed his tune when her recordings of his work made him a boatload of money.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | December 20, 2022 6:18 PM |
Just read a book about pop music called Let's Do It, that mentions a 1970s Streisand single "Our Corner of the Night" that apparently Babs hated so much that she never allowed it to be included on any of her albums or be released digitally. I don't think it's that bad.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 150 | December 22, 2022 12:45 PM |
Actually R147 Sondheim is on record identifying her with Sinatra as the two best pop singers of their times. And anyone who thinks that the Bon Soir recordings are Streisand at her peak, doesn’t know her catalogue. Rather the recording displays Streisand at her audacious beginning. For the most part she just got better, even though in many recordings she moved to conventional pop of the present. But always you will find gems and in total her catalogue is staggering. No singer in any era comes close.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 22, 2022 12:54 PM |
Streisand didn't record or sing Sondheim until he was already a wealthy legend, R149.
I agree with her on that shitty record, R150. It was an early attempt to go "pop," and a song anyone could have sung as well or better.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | December 22, 2022 1:01 PM |
Oh, please. Her catalogue isn't a patch on the great black singers. Once the 1970s dawned, she was artistically gone.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | December 22, 2022 1:09 PM |
First time I heard that single, I thought it was Lesley Gore.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | December 22, 2022 3:11 PM |
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