The Essential Barbra Streisand
New York, NY : Columbia, [2002]
Format: Music CD
Description: 2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Although Barbra Streisand has recorded for the same company, Columbia Records, throughout her career, her work has not been particularly well represented on compilations. Four single-disc best-ofs dot her discography, but the listener who wanted to do something as simple as purchase an album containing the original studio recordings of both her first Top Ten hit, "People," and her first number one, "The Way We Were," without plumping for the four-CD box set Just for the Record , was out of luck. Complicating the compiling of her career highlights is her position as essentially an album artist, despite having scattered 11 Top Ten pop hits across 32 years. The ideal collection would have to do justice to her popular early albums of the '60s, her mid-career singles hits of the '70s, and her renewed album success in the '80s and '90s. Here it is. At a CD-busting length of over two and a half hours, this 40-track double-disc set encapsulates Streisand's recording career in chronological order from her 1963 debut album to 1999. (Two previously unreleased tracks sound like outtakes from her later album projects. "Someday My Prince Will Come" probably got left off of A Love Like Ours, while the gospel-tinged "You'll Never Walk Alone" must have been intended for Higher Ground.) Intelligently picking signature performances from her best and most popular albums, it largely eschews a raft of singles that got into the bottom half of the Top 40, but leaves out only one Top Ten hit, "What Kind of Fool." The singer's versatility and her ability to impose her immediately identifiable vocal style on a variety of material are emphasized in recordings that range from Broadway show tunes to disco. A collection like this has been needed for a long time as a gateway to Streisand's bountiful, indeed overwhelming, catalog. ~ William Ruhlmann
Contents:
Disc 1. A sleepin' bee / Harold Arlen ; Truman Capote (4:22) -- Cry me a river / Arthur Hamilton (3:37) -- I stayed too long at the fair / Billy Barnes (4:20) -- Lover, come back to me / Sigmund Romberg ; Oscar Hammerstein II (2:17) -- People / Jule Styne ; Bob Merrill (3:40) -- My man / Maurice Tvain ; Channing Pollack ; Albert Willemetz ; Jacques Charles (2:58) -- Second hand Rose / James F. Hanley ; Grant Clarke (2:09) -- He touched me / Milton Schaeffer ; Ira Levin (3:10) -- Don't rain on my parade / Jule Styne ; Bob Merrill (2:45) -- Happy days are here again / Milton Ager ; Jack Yellen (3:14) -- On a clear day (you can see forever) / Burton Lane ; Ala Jay Lerner (2:11) -- Stoney End / Laura Nyro (2:59) -- Since I fell for you / Buddy Johnson (3:25) -- What are you doing the rest of your life? / Alan Bergman ; Marilyn Bergman ; Michel Legrand (3:20) -- The way we were / Alan Bergman ; Marilyn Bergman ; Marvin Hamlisch (3:30) -- All in love is fair / Stevie Wonder (3:50) -- Lazy afternoon / John LaTouche ; Jerome Moross (3:50) -- Evergreen (Love theme from "A star is born") / Barbra Streisand ; Paul Williams (3:05) -- My heart belongs to me / Allen Gordon (3:21) -- You don't bring me flowers / Alan Bergman ; Marilyn Bergman ; Neil Diamond (duet with Neil Diamond) (3:24) -- The main event/Fight / Paul Jabara ; Bruce Roberts ; Bob Esty (4:55) -- No more tears (Enough is enough) / Paul Jabara ; Bruce Roberts (duet with Donna Summer) (4:43).
Disc 2. Woman in love / Barry Gibb ; Robin Gibb (3:51) -- Guilty / Barry Gibb ; Robin Gibb ; Maurice Gibb (duet with Barry Gibb) (4:24) -- Comin' in and out of your life / Richard Parker ; Bobby Whiteside (4:09) -- Memory / Andrew Lloyd Webber ; T. S. Eliot ; Trevor Nunn (3:55) -- Papa, can you hear me? / Alan Bergman ; Marilyn Bergman ; Michel Legrand (3:29) -- A piece of sky / Alan Bergman ; Marilyn Bergman ; Michel Legrand (4:20) -- Putting it together / Stephen Sondheim (4:21) -- Not while I'm around / Stephen Sondheim (3:29) -- Send in the clowns / Stephen Sondheim (4:43) -- Somewhere / Leonard Bernstein ; Stephen Sondheim (4:56) -- All I ask of you / Andrew Lloyd Webber ; Charles Hart ; Richard Stilgoe (4:02) -- Children will listen / Stephen Sondheim (4:09) -- As if we never said goodbye / Andrew Lloyd Webber ; Don Black ; Christopher Hampton ; Amy Powers (4:44) -- I finally found someone / Barbra Streisand ; Marvin Hamlisch ; R. J. Lange ; Bryan Adams (duet with Bryan Adams) (3:41) -- Tell him / David Foster ; Linda Thompson ; Walter Afansieff (duet with Céline Deon) (4:51) -- I've dreamed of you / Rolf Lovland ; Ann Hampton Callaway (4:44) -- Someday my prince will come / Larry Morey ; Frank Churchill (4:06) -- You'll never walk alone / Richard Rodgers ; Oscar Hammerstein II (4:35).
Disc 2. Woman in love / Barry Gibb ; Robin Gibb (3:51) -- Guilty / Barry Gibb ; Robin Gibb ; Maurice Gibb (duet with Barry Gibb) (4:24) -- Comin' in and out of your life / Richard Parker ; Bobby Whiteside (4:09) -- Memory / Andrew Lloyd Webber ; T. S. Eliot ; Trevor Nunn (3:55) -- Papa, can you hear me? / Alan Bergman ; Marilyn Bergman ; Michel Legrand (3:29) -- A piece of sky / Alan Bergman ; Marilyn Bergman ; Michel Legrand (4:20) -- Putting it together / Stephen Sondheim (4:21) -- Not while I'm around / Stephen Sondheim (3:29) -- Send in the clowns / Stephen Sondheim (4:43) -- Somewhere / Leonard Bernstein ; Stephen Sondheim (4:56) -- All I ask of you / Andrew Lloyd Webber ; Charles Hart ; Richard Stilgoe (4:02) -- Children will listen / Stephen Sondheim (4:09) -- As if we never said goodbye / Andrew Lloyd Webber ; Don Black ; Christopher Hampton ; Amy Powers (4:44) -- I finally found someone / Barbra Streisand ; Marvin Hamlisch ; R. J. Lange ; Bryan Adams (duet with Bryan Adams) (3:41) -- Tell him / David Foster ; Linda Thompson ; Walter Afansieff (duet with Céline Deon) (4:51) -- I've dreamed of you / Rolf Lovland ; Ann Hampton Callaway (4:44) -- Someday my prince will come / Larry Morey ; Frank Churchill (4:06) -- You'll never walk alone / Richard Rodgers ; Oscar Hammerstein II (4:35).
Subjects:
Popular music.
Motion picture music -- Excerpts.
Musicals -- Excerpts.
Film, Musique de -- Extraits.
Comédies musicales -- Extraits.
Musique populaire.
Motion picture music -- Excerpts.
Musicals -- Excerpts.
Popular music.
Popular music.
Motion picture music -- Excerpts.
Musicals -- Excerpts.
Film, Musique de -- Extraits.
Comédies musicales -- Extraits.
Musique populaire.
Motion picture music -- Excerpts.
Musicals -- Excerpts.
Popular music.
UPC: 696998612327
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
CD POPULAR Str [2 DISC] | Main (Downtown) | First Level, Music CD | In |
CD POPULAR Str [2 DISC] | Sandhills Indoors | Music CD | In |
Columbia: C2K 86123 (CK 86124--CK 86125).
Popular songs, in part from motion pictures and musicals.
Selections originally released 1963-1999; includes 2 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Compact discs.
Sound recording.
Barbra Streisand, vocals; with acc. musicians.
Popular songs, in part from motion pictures and musicals.
Selections originally released 1963-1999; includes 2 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Compact discs.
Sound recording.
Barbra Streisand, vocals; with acc. musicians.