Barbra Streisand - The Essential Barbra Streisand (2002)
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Artist/Composer Barbra Streisand
Length 152:23
Format CD
Genre General Folk; General Pop
Label Columbia
Index 389
In Collection Yes
Packaging Viewpak
Credits
Songwriter Alan Bergman
Songwriter Truman Capote
Songwriter Barbara
Track List
Disc One 75:29
01 A Sleepin' Bee 04:24
02 Cry Me A River 03:39
03 I Stayed Too Long At The Fair 04:22
04 Lover, Come Back To Me 02:19
05 People 03:42
06 My Man 03:00
07 Second Hand Rose 02:11
08 He Touched Me 03:12
09 Don't Rain On My Parade 02:45
10 Happy Days Are Here Again 03:13
11 On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) 02:11
12 Stoney End 03:02
13 Since I Fell For You 03:27
14 What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? 03:20
15 The Way We Were 03:31
16 All In Love Is Fair 03:51
17 Lazy Afternoon 03:49
18 Evergreen (Love Theme from"A Star Is Born") 03:06
19 My Heart Belongs To Me 03:23
20 Neil Diamond With Barbra Streisand - You Don't Bring Me Flower 03:26
21 The Main Event/Fight 04:54
22 Barbra Streisand With Donna Summer - No More Tears 04:42
Disc Two 76:54
01 Woman In Love 03:53
02 Guilty 04:25
03 Comin' In And Out Of Your Life 04:10
04 Memory 03:54
05 Papa, Can You Hear Me? 03:31
06 A Piece Of Sky 04:23
07 Putting It Together 04:21
08 Not While I'm Around 03:30
09 Send In The Clowns 04:42
10 Somewhere 04:56
11 All I Ask Of You 04:03
12 Children Will Listen 04:09
13 As If We Never Said Goodbye 04:45
14 I Finally Found Someone 03:43
15 Tell Him 04:54
16 I've Dreamed Of You 04:53
17 Someday My Prince Will Come 04:07
18 You'll Never Walk Alone 04:35
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Notes
The Ulitmate Collection Artist Barara Streisand Album Title Essential Barbra Streisand Date of Release Jan 29, 2002 AMG Rating Genre Vocal Type compilation 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 1. A Sleepin' Bee (Arlen/Capote) - 4:24 2. Cry Me a River (Hamilton) - 3:39 3. I Stayed Too Long at the Fair (Barnes) - 4:22 4. Lover, Come Back to Me (Hammerstein/Romberg) - 2:19 review 5. People (Merrill/Styne) - 3:42 6. My Man (Charles/Pollack/Willemetz/Yvain) - 3:00 review 7. Second Hand Rose (Clarke/Hanley) - 2:11 review 8. He Touched Me (Levin/Schaeffer) - 3:12 review 9. Don't Rain on My Parade (Merrill/Styne) - 2:45 review 10. Happy Days Are Here Again (Ager/Yellen) - 3:13 review 11. On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) (Lane/Lerner) - 2:11 review 12. Stoney End (Nyro) - 3:02 review 13. Since I Fell for You (Johnson) - 3:27 review 14. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (Bergman/Bergman/Legrand) - 3:20 review 15. The Way We Were (Bergman/Bergman/Hamlisch) - 3:31 review 16. All in Love Is Fair (Wonder) - 3:51