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Barbra Streisand - A Collection Greatest Hits... And More (1989)

2010-08-09T12:49:41Z

Barbra Streisand - A Collection Greatest Hits... And More (1989)


01.-We're Not Makin' Love Anymore
02.-Woman In Love
03.-All I Ask Of You
04.-Comin' In And Out Of Your Life
05.-What Kind Of Fool (Duet With Barry Gibb)
06.-The Main Event / Fight
07.-Someone That I Used To Love
08.-By The Way
09.-Guilty (Duet With Barry Gibb)
10.-Memory
11.-The Way He Makes Me Feel
12.-Somewhere

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Barbra Streisand - Guilty (1980)

2016-05-15T15:50:14Z

Barbra Streisand - Guilty (1980)


1 	Guilty     (Vocals – Barry Gibb)	4:24
2 	Woman In Love 	3:51
3 	Run Wild 	4:06
4 	Promises 	4:20
5 	The Love Inside 	5:07
6 	What Kind Of Fool   ( Vocals – Barry Gibb) 	4:04
7 	Life Story 	4:34
8 	Never Give Up 	3:41
9 	Make It Like A Memory 	7:25

Barbra Streisand - Vocals
Barry Gibb - Guitar (Acoustic), Producer, Vocals
George Bitzer - Piano, Piano (Electric), Piano (Grand), Synthesizer
Dan Bonsanti - Sax (Tenor)
Neal Bonsanti - Sax (Tenor)
Dennis Bryon - Drums
Hollis "Bud" Burridge - Trumpet
Pete Carr - Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic)
Howard Cowart - Guitar (Bass)
Cornell Dupree 	- Guitar
Kenneth Faulk - Trumpet
Russ Freeland - Trombone
Steve Gadd - Drums
Albhy Galuten - Producer, Synthesizer
Peter Graves - Trombone, Trombone (Bass)
David Hungate - Bass, Guitar (Bass)
Mike Katz - Trombone
Joe Lala - Congas, Cowbell, Cymbals, Guido, kabassa, Maracas, Percussion, Shaker, Tambourine, Timbales, Triangle
Bernard Lupe - Drums
Myrna Matthews - Vocals (Background)
Denise Maynelli - Vocals (Background)
Marti McCall - Vocals (Background)
Brett Murphey - Trumpet
Jerry Peel - French Horn
Lee Ritenour - Guitar
Whit Sidener - Sax (Baritone)
Richard Tee - Clavinet, Guitar (Electric), Piano, Piano (Electric), Piano (Grand)
George Terry - Guitar, Gut String Guitar, Slide Guitar

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 brothers and the producers of the Bee Gees, and in essence it sounds like a post-Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees album with vocals by Streisand. Gibb adapted his usual style somewhat, especially in slowing the tempos and leaving more room for the vocal, but his melodic style and the backup vocals, even when they are not sung by the Bee Gees, are typical of them. Still, the record was more hybrid than compromise, and the chart-topping single "Woman in Love" has a sinuous feel that is both right for Streisand and new for her. Other hits were the title song and "What Kind of Fool," both duets with Gibb. (The song "Guilty" won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal by Duo or Group.) --- William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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Barbra Streisand - Love Songs (Memories) [1981]

2011-02-13T10:02:14Z

Barbra Streisand - Love Songs (Memories) [1981]


01. Memory (Them From 'Cats')
02. You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand)
03. My Heart Belongs To Me
04. Wet
05. New York State Of Mind
06. A Man I Loved                       play
07. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer)
08. Comin' In And Out Of Your Life
09. Evergreen
10. I Don't Break Easily
11. Kiss Me In The Rain
12. Lost Inside Of You
13. The Love Inside
14. The Way We Were                     play

Memories is an album released by Barbra Streisand in 1980. It is primarily a compilation of previously released material, but includes three newly recorded songs. The album was certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA,[1] reaching #10 on the US charts. First released on Columbia, it was re-released under the CBS imprint in 1981 with four additional tracks. In the UK, where it was released as Love Songs, it reached #1 on the album chart for nine weeks (seven of them consecutively) and it became the UK's best-selling album of 1982. The album was certified platinum in the UK (prior to multi-platinum awards being given), and 6x platinum in Australia. Three previously unreleased tracks, "Memory", "Comin' In and Out of Your Life", and "Lost Inside of You" were featured on the album. "Comin' In and Out of Your Life" was the most successful of the new singles, peaking at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.. The album has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide,and it sold more than 10 million in 1981, which made it the first compilation album to sell more the 10 million in history. The album won Best Album at the 1983 Brit Awards.

“ 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 musical Cats and the Top 40 hit "Comin' in and Out of Your Life," plus a re-recorded version of "Lost Inside of You," a song previously done as a duet with Kris Kristofferson in A Star Is Born, and seven tracks from the previous eight years, three of which were making their third or fourth appearance on record. In other words, Memories was a blatant consumer rip-off, highly unusual for an artist who usually gave value for money. That said, the album contained some of Streisand's biggest hits -- "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," "Evergreen," and "The Way We Were," as well as some excellent performances, such as Streisand's take on Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." Thus, it was a good collection thought of independently (which may help explain why it became one of Streisand's biggest sellers), even if in the context of her overall catalog it was an album of reruns baited with a couple of new songs. [In the U.K., the album was released with four additional tracks -- "Kiss Me in the Rain," "I Don't Break Easily," "Wet," and "A Man I Loved" -- under the title Love Songs (CBS 10031).” – Album Information on discogs.com

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Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were (1974)

2010-02-16T23:12:25Z

Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were (1974)


1 	Being At War With Each Other 	4:01
2 	Something So Right 	4:26
3 	The Best Thing You've Ever Done 	2:49
4 	The Way We Were 	3:31
5 	All In Love Is Fair 	3:49
6 	What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? 	3:19
7 	Summer Me, Winter Me 	2:55
8 	Pieces Of Dreams 	3:26
9 	I've Never Been A Woman Before 	2:44
10 	My Buddy/ How About Me (Medley) 	4:08
Vocals - Barbra Streisand
Arranged By – Nick De Caro (tracks: A1, A2, A5)
Producer – Tommy LiPuma (tracks: A1, A2, A5), Wally Gold (tracks: A3, B1 to B5)

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 important distinction because it was released simultaneously with the original soundtrack album for the film The Way We Were (Columbia 32830), which also contained a Streisand recording of the title song, along with the film score composed by Marvin Hamlisch. This album was thrown together quickly after that song took off as a single (in a recording different from the one in the film) in the wake of the success of the movie. In addition to the single and the Stevie Wonder song that also features in its title, the album contained a grab-bag of stray tracks dating back as far as seven years and coming from Streisand's fourth TV special, The Belle of 14th Street and an unfinished album project called "The Singer" largely made up of ballads written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand. The combined commercial impact of the film and the single propelled this album to the top of the charts. ---William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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Barbra Streisand – What Matters Most (2011)

2011-08-25T18:22:13Z

Barbra Streisand – What Matters Most (2011)

CD1:
01 – The Windmills Of Your Mind
02 – Something New In My Life
03 – Solitary Moon
04 – Nice ‘n’ Easy
05 – Alone In The World
06 – So Many Stars
07 – The Same Hello, The Same Goodbye		play
08 – That Face
09 – I’ll Never Say Goodbye
10 – What Matters Most

CD2:
01 – The Way We Were
02 – What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
03 – You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (Duet With Neil Diamond)
04 – Papa, Can You Hear Me
05 – Pieces Of Dreams
06 – The Island
07 – The Summer Knows				play
08 – How Do You Keep The Music Playing
09 – After The Rain
10 – A Piece Of Sky

For her thirty-something-th album, Barbra Streisand returns to old married friends for 10 songs of bleeding-heart inspiration. Since the then-18-year-old club singer first met lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, she’s recorded 51 of their compositions (she says in the liner notes for “What Matters Most”), including songs from her 1983 film “Yentl.” The most successful living female recording artist (judging by record sales and awards) knows a good thing when she’s got it. “What Matters Most” is a lovefest: romantic songs drenched in strings and a booklet crammed with photos of Streisand nestled up to the Bergmans, the prodigal daughter and her musical parents.

But Streisand’s somber production and emotional vocals evoke melancholy more than joy — a fitting mood for these theatrical but not sentimental songs. This career couple returns to themes of the struggle of commitment, the torment of passion, the loneliness of love (“Solitary Moon” and “Alone in the World”). Streisand, who has made her mark in part by dragging out the drama of ballads and pop tunes, sets the tone by singing the first few verses of the psychological thriller “The Windmills of Your Mind” a cappella. She precisely cups the mouthful of metaphors — “Like a clock whose hands are sweeping/ Past the minutes of its face’’ — in her sure, lovely tones, unshaken by age. She sings the Ol’ Blue Eyes toe-tapper “Nice ‘n’ Easy” nice and slow.

Not until the eighth track, the sprightly Cole Porter-esque “That Face,” does the old funny girl show up. But she doesn’t stick around for long, because love is a serious matter — the matter that matters most, as the Bergmans write in the title track. If this album goes to No. 1, Streisand will have topped the charts during six decades, demonstrating that even in pop, there’s such a thing as timeless talent. ---latimesblogs.latimes.com

At an age when many singers would be content to re-record earlier hits and package the end product as a ‘new’ release, Barbra Streisand has here produced 10 wholly new recordings of material featuring words by lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, a duo with whom she has enjoyed a long and successful partnership, on both disc and film.

Throwing down the gauntlet, she begins by singing the first verse of one of their best loved songs, The Windmills of Your Mind, unaccompanied. It’s a daring move, but one that she pulls off thanks to her innate artistry; though it’s notable that even her peerless technique can’t quite disguise the greater effort required in sustaining the extended vocal lines. Many of the more familiar Bergman titles previously tackled by Streisand, like The Way We Were and You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, can be heard on the second disc contained in the deluxe edition of this CD.

For the single-disc version, though, Streisand focuses on new recordings, and she has roamed far and wide reintroducing songs that were written for Fred Astaire (That Face) and Frank Sinatra (Nice n Easy) – the latter a song so tailor-made for Ol’ Blue Eyes that it could well have been written by his house songwriters Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. Both arrangements include swing passages that show off the expertise of the orchestra. Other songs are romantic and frequently nostalgic in tone, including many titles from well off the beaten track. Some come from the world of jazz, including compositions by Johnny Mandel and Dave Grusin, and from the cinema with credits for John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith. So Many Stars, a gentle bossa nova from Sergio Mendes, rounds off the composer credits.

Something New In My Life is a real highlight. A rarely heard piece by Michel Legrand, composer of The Windmills of Your Mind, it brings out a new expressive vein in the Bergmans’ lyrics. Fans of John Williams will note his inimitable harmonic touch and lyrical style in The Same Hello, the Same Goodbye, originally composed for an enraptured Sinatra. The state of the art recording ensures that this is another unmissable feast of song from an artist seemingly unstoppable in her continuing quest to present something new to her worldwide audience. ---Adrian Edwards, bbc.co.uk

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