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| 1.0 Introduction |
We created and maintain this online document as a convenient reference source for fans, journalists, researchers, and casual Web surfers, who desire one-stop access regarding Barbra Streisand's extraordinary and multi-faceted career. This FAQ continuously details virtually every aspect of Barbra's growing resume as we know it, dating back to her initial summer stock foray in 1957 and listing all her achievements.
Perhaps the most honored and studied woman in show business, Barbra Streisand has worked in every medium. Here, we have collected her voluminous achievements and the many people who have commented on and continue to chronicle these achievements.
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| 2.0 Where To Obtain More Information Online |
| 3.0 Biography of a Work In Progress |
The following is based on Barbra Streisand's official media biography. Information has been fact checked, updated, and supplemented.The career of Barbra Streisand has been paved with bold, creative achievements and highlighted by a series of firsts.
The Prince of Tides was the first motion picture directed by its female star ever to receive a Best Director nomination from the Directors Guild of America as well as seven Academy Award nominations. Barbra produced the heralded drama in addition to directing and starring in it.
For her very first Broadway appearance in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, she won the New York Drama Critics Award and received a Tony nomination.
For her very first record album, The Barbra Streisand Album, she won two 1963 Grammy Awards. One of these was Album of the Year; and she was then the youngest artist to have received that award.
For her motion picture debut in Funny Girl, she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, the first of two Oscars. With Yentl in 1983, she became the first woman ever to produce, direct, write, and star in a major motion picture.
She was honored with an Emmy Award and the distinguished Peabody Award for her first television special, My Name Is Barbra, in 1965. The program earned a total of five Emmys. This achievement was repeated 30 years later by Barbra Streisand: The Concert, with two additional Emmy awards for Ms. Streisand among the five for the production, and then again in 2001 for Barbra Streisand: Timeless Live in Concert.
She is the first female composer ever to win an Academy Award, this for her song, "Evergreen," the love theme from her 1976 hit film, A Star Is Born. She was nominated again in 1997 as co-composer of "I Finally Found Someone," based on her love theme for her most recent film as director/producer/star, The Mirror Has Two Faces.
The "actress who sings," as Barbra once termed herself, has repeatedly been at the top of the record sales charts. Her recent Columbia Records albums, A Love Like Ours (1999), the double album, Timeless - Live In Concert (2000), and The Movie Album (2003) were quickly certified as gold and then platinum. Her prior Higher Ground (1997) and earlier Back To Broadway (1993) albums are among only a handful of recordings ever to become number one on the sales charts in their initial week of release and to go platinum through their first shipping orders. The double album, The Concert (1994), was another recent effort in her parade of hits. Higher Ground occasioned two additional Grammy nominations. Timeless - Live In Concert (2000), Christmas Memories (2001) and The Movie Album (2003), all earned a nomination too. At home in pop, show tunes, rock and ballads, she even made a classical album titled Classical Barbra (1976) which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the classical division. Of all her releases, 1980's Guilty, Barbra's collaboration with Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees, achieved the greatest success worldwide, selling over 20 million units and spawning several smash hit singles. The pair teamed up again 25 years later to create Guilty Pleasures. The album was certified Gold a month later.
The statistics of her achievements as a recording sales leader are clearly drawn in platinum and gold. She has achieved sales unequaled by any other female recording artist. With 50 gold albums, she is second in the all-time charts, ahead of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, exceeded only by Elvis. Thus, she is the only artist among the top four all-time sellers who was not part of the rock & roll revolution, which has dominated the record business for four decades. Her 30 platinum albums, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, exceeds all other female singers. That organization also noted that she is the only female artist ever to have achieved 13 multi-platinum albums, which includes the soundtrack for her motion picture A Star Is Born, earning her eight Grammy Awards and Grammy's Lifetime Achievement and Legend Awards in the process.
Barbra Streisand continues to be the highest-selling female recording artist ever and has had number one albums in each of the last four decades. Her number one albums span a period of 33 years, the greatest longevity in that statistic for any solo artist. A recent poll by the Reuters news agency identified her as the favorite female singer of the 20th Century and Frank Sinatra as the favorite male singer.
Streisand's 57th album, Christmas Memories, was released in October 2001 and certified gold and platinum in December. It's her first full-length studio album since 1999's A Love Like Ours and her first new recording since her 1999-2000 New Year's Eve millennium performances captured on Timeless - Live In Concert. Christmas Memories is Streisand's first seasonal collection since A Christmas Album, which has been certified quintuple-platinum by the RIAA and has re-entered the charts each year since its 1967 release. An album of inspirational music for all seasons, Christmas Memories is "lovingly dedicated" by Barbra Streisand to Stephan Weiss, the husband of designer Donna Karan and a close friend of Streisand's, who passed away in June 2001.
Recipient in 1995 of an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Brandeis University, Barbra Streisand is a rare honoree - the only artist to earn Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, Peabody, and the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. The latter accolade, a tribute to her film work as director, performer, writer, producer and composer, was conferred in February 2001. She is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' Medal of Arts (2000) and has been honored by France as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2004 she accepted The Humanitarian Award from the Human Rights Campaign.
Her most recent motion picture directorial effort, the TriStar Pictures release, The Mirror Has Two Faces, continued the tradition of each Streisand-directed film being accorded Academy Award nominations. The romantic comedy, her third triple effort as director/producer/star, received two Oscar nominations in 1997, and led to Lauren Bacall winning the Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress.
In 1995 Ms. Streisand added to her Emmy Awards, winning two more for her performance in and work as producer of Barbra Streisand: The Concert. The HBO program earned a total of five Emmy Awards, matching the Emmy achievements of her first TV special, the one-woman show, My Name Is Barbra, exactly 30 years before. Each of the shows won the coveted Peabody Award as well. Serving In Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, the first television dramatic production for her Barwood Films, earned an additional three Emmy trophies, a total of eight Emmys for Ms. Streisand's company in the same year. Barwood Films has followed Serving in Silence with a continuing slate of television dramas, each of which addresses important issues.
Ms. Streisand's Millennium New Year's Eve concert, Timeless, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, December 31, 1999, set an all-time TicketMaster record for one- day sales of a single event, virtually selling out in the first few hours of sale eight months before the performance. The two-night Madison Square Garden conclusion of her storied live concert performance career, preceded by her two Los Angeles farewell live appearances at Staples Center, was similarly a record-setting success. One of the most talked about and well- reviewed concert productions of all time, Timeless was captured for a Valentine's Day 2001 television special, co-directed by its star, which won four Emmys including one for Streisand's performance. The home video/DVD was certified gold and platinum. Her two-night Madison Square Garden engagement in October 2000 and two preceding Los Angeles live appearances at Staples Center were similarly record-setting successes.
Virtually every aspect of Barbra Streisand's 1994 concert tour was record setting. Those 26 appearances were her first paid concerts in nearly three decades, all intervening concerts since 1966 having been fundraisers for various social and political causes. Barbra also performed some Las Vegas multi-week engagements between 1969 and 1972. The tour initiated with the celebrated 1994 New Year's performances at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas and continued to set attendance and box office records with immediate sellouts in London, Washington, D.C., Southern California, Detroit, San Jose, and New York's Madison Square Garden. Over 5 million phone requests were recorded in the first hour when tickets for the first American leg of the tour went on sale. The tour also generated over $10.25 million for charities the artist supports, channeling money to significant causes in each locale. Reflecting her social concerns, over $3 million went to AIDS organizations, with other gifts addressing such urgencies as women and children in jeopardy, Jewish/Arab relations, and agencies working to ameliorate relations between African-Americans and Jews.
Barbra Streisand: The Concert, the critically lauded film version of the concerts, became the highest-rated musical event in HBO history, as well as an equally successful quadruple-platinum home video and triple-platinum double album (exceptionally rare for a multi-disc set). In addition to its five Emmy Awards and Peabody Award, it earned three Cable Ace Awards. Six other home videos have been certified gold. In 2004, Barbra Streisand - Live at the MGM Grand was released on DVD and was quickly certified Platinum. In November 2005, Barbra Streisand - The Television Specials was released as a five-DVD box set, quickly going quintuple (5x) platinum six weeks later.
The filmmaker/entertainer was born April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn to Diana and Emanuel Streisand. Her father, who passed away when Barbra was 15 months old, was a highly respected teacher and scholar.
An honor student at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, the teenage Barbara Streisand plunged, unassisted and without encouragement, into show business by winning a singing contest at The Lion, a small Manhattan club, at which time she dropped the second "A" in her name, becoming Barbra. She developed a devout and growing following at the clubs which began hiring her, and soon she was attracting music industry attention at such spots as the Bon Soir and the Blue Angel. Streisand signed her first Columbia Records contract in 1962, and her debut album quickly became the nation's top-selling record by a female vocalist.
Following her award-winning 1962 Broadway stage debut performance as Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, she was signed to play the great comedienne and singer Fanny Brice in the Broadway production of Funny Girl. When the curtain came down at the Winter Garden Theatre on March 26, 1964, the star and the show were major hits. Her distinctly original musical comedy performance won her a second Tony nomination.
Her star on the ascent, Ms. Streisand signed a 10-year contract with CBS Television to produce and star in TV specials. The contract gave her complete artistic control, an unheard of concession to an artist so young and inexperienced. The first special, My Name Is Barbra, earned five Emmy Awards, and the following four shows, including the memorable Color Me Barbra, earned the highest critical praise and audience ratings. The two aforementioned specials were released 20 years later and became instant home video top-sellers.
In 1966 Streisand repeated her Funny Girl triumph in London at the Prince of Wales Theatre. London critics voted her the best female lead in a musical for that season.
A recounting of Barbra Streisand's movie achievements, alone, is awesome. She was already an exceptionally young Broadway, television, and recording star when she went to Hollywood in 1967-- a trip she made completely on her own terms. She first starred in Funny Girl, opposite Omar Sharif, reprising the role that had made her the toast of Broadway. Rarely has a screen debut been as auspicious. She was honored with the 1968 Academy Award, as well as the Golden Globe and Star of the Year honor from the National Association of Theatre Owners.
Ms. Streisand's next two big pictures were also inspired by hit Broadway musicals. 1969's Hello, Dolly! and 1970's On A Clear Day You Can See Forever teamed Barbra with legends Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli, respectively, as her directors.
She next co-starred with George Segal in The Owl And The Pussycat (1970), a non-musical, uproarious adult comedy, which had also run on Broadway.
In 1972 Barbra Streisand starred in another resounding comedy hit, What's Up, Doc?, which teamed her with Ryan O'Neal and was filmed in San Francisco by director Peter Bogdanovich. Later that year, Up The Sandbox, the first picture for Streisand's Barwood Films production company and made in association with First Artists, a major production company in which she was a partner, became one of the first American films to deal with the growing women's movement.
1973's memorable The Way We Were, the classic love story co-starring Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack, brought Barbra her second Oscar nomination as Best Actress. On the heels of the film's release, her own album, The Way We Were topped the charts and helped establish Marvin Hamlisch and Marilyn & Alan Bergman's "The Way We Were" as the newest Streisand signature song. It also was the top single of 1974.
In 1974 Ms. Streisand returned to comedy in For Pete's Sake and, a year later, returned to Fanny Brice in Funny Lady, opposite James Caan.The very successful contemporary musical A Star Is Born (1976) was the first feature to benefit from Barbra's energy and insight as a producer. It won six Golden Globes, and, of course, the soundtrack album, which also features Kris Kristofferson, topped the charts and has been certified as quadruple-platinum.
In 1979 Streisand reteamed with Ryan O'Neal and co-produced the comedy "glove story" The Main Event. Two years later, she appeared as Gene Hackman's co-star and love interest in the unusual comedy All Night Long, in which she substituted for another actress.
Back in 1968, when Barbra had just completed her first movie, she read a fascinating short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer entitled "Yentl The Yeshiva Boy" and hoped to make it her second film. 15 years later, as a result of her celebrated passion, persistence, and unique stature in the film community, her dream project reached the screen. Yentl, a romantic drama with music, is about a courageous woman who discovers that nothing is impossible in matters of the heart and mind. Made on difficult foreign locations, the ambitious, some said impossible, project celebrates women trying to fulfill their capabilities, not allowing traditional restrictions to deter them. The 1983 film also was the first big budget project ($15 million) which was instrumental in opening doors to women in film on a higher professional level. Ms. Streisand's directorial debut film received five Academy Award nominations, and she received Golden Globe Awards both as Best Director and as producer of the Best Motion Picture (Musical Or Comedy). The 10 Golden Globes she has received throughout her career are the most achieved by any entertainment artist. In January 2000, she received that organization's coveted Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. Barbra Streisand's follow-up to Yentl was Nuts (1987), the unusual story of a smart women shaped into an angry, anti-social character because of her childhood experiences. Surrounded by one of the most distinguished film casts of the year, including Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, and Karl Malden, in addition to starring, Ms. Streisand produced the powerful drama and composed the score.
In 1991 The Prince Of Tides became one of the most beloved motion pictures in recent years. Once again, Barbra directed, produced, and starred, this time as a New York psychiatrist enmeshed in a Southern family's web of secrets. Exploring family relationships and the consequences of childhood trauma, the movie was based on Pat Conroy's best-selling novel. The film was exceptionally well-received by both audiences and critics. It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Nick Nolte. Ms. Streisand became only the third woman ever nominated as Best Director by the Directors Guild Of America. She brought this book to the screen, because "It's about how love and compassion can heal and liberate the soul. I'm interested in telling stories about positive transformations and the potential for human growth."
After working with her for two weeks, the book's author, Pat Conroy, gave Barbra a copy of his novel with the inscription: "To Barbra Streisand: The Queen of Tides...You are many things, Barbra, but you're also a great teacher...one of the greatest to come into my life. I honor the great teachers and they live in my work and they dance invisibly in the margins of my prose. You've made me a better writer, you rescued my sweet book, and you've honored me by taking care of it with such great seriousness and love. Great thanks, and I'll never forget that you gave 'The Prince of Tides' back to me as a gift. Pat Conroy."
The Mirror Has Two Faces, released in November 1996, marks the third motion picture directed by Streisand and her 16th overall. Co-starring Jeff Bridges and Lauren Bacall, the romantic comedy was shot completely on location in New York City. Scripted by Richard LaGravenese, the film follows the unsteady platonic relationship of two mature Columbia University professors. "I wanted to examine the complications of relationships...how hard it is, how difficult it is to find people, especially in your middle years," explained Barbra. The story's mother-daughter conflict, integral to the film, partly emerged from Streisand's own life. "When I first read the script, I said, 'I know this mother.'" Barbra also composed the film's love theme, adapted by Marvin Hamlisch and integrated into his original score. Her joyful hit duet with Bryan Adams, "I Finally Found Someone" appears on the soundtrack CD and received a Best Song Oscar nomination.
Ms. Streisand's Barwood Films has placed great emphasis on bringing to television dramatic explorations of pressing social, historic, and political issues which would not otherwise be addressed in more wildly viewed television movies. In her on screen introduction to Rescuers: Stories of Courage, a series of six two-part dramas on Showtime in 1997 and 1998, she explained that these are "films about man's humanity to man, inspiring stories of non-Jews who, on their own peril, saved Jews from the Holocaust."
Barwood also helped bring to millions of television viewers a drama investigating military harassment of and repression of the civil rights of gays. It was acknowledged that the critically praised Serving In Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story would never have been realized on network television had not Barbra Streisand put her executive producing talents and considerable artistic and social issue influence behind it. It had great impact in conveying the urgent civil rights issue, and it earned three Emmys and the Peabody Award in the process.
Similarly, Barwood's The Long Island Incident, which aired on NBC in May 1998, inspired a national debate on gun control with its true story of a wife and mother, Carolyn McCarthy, who surmounted tragedy to win a seat in Congress after initiating a crusade to achieve sensible controls on guns.
Currently in the works is a Showtime film supporting the Middle East peace process. Two Hands That Shook The World parallels the lives of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat up to their historic handshake at The White House.
And like the true Renaissance woman she is, Barbra Streisand's life and art are dedicated to the humanities, as reflected by The Streisand Foundation, which is committed to gaining women's equality, the protection of both human rights and civil rights and liberties, the needs of children at risk in society, and the preservation of the environment. Through The Streisand Foundation, she directly funded the United States Environmental Defense Fund's research for and participation in the recent Global Warming world summit conference in Kyoto. Her environmental dedication is reflected also in her donation to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy of the five- home, 24-acre Malibu estate on which her One Voice concert had been performed. The site has been dedicated as a center for ecological studies.
Ms. Streisand is a leading spokesperson and fundraiser for social causes close to her heart, including AIDS. During the 22 years which preceded her limited 1994 tour and the Las Vegas New Year's appearances, she had devoted her live concert performances exclusively to the benefit of those causes she supports. Her concern with social issues is reflected not only in the dedications of her personal life, but in the subject matter of the films she has initiated, each of which has addressed some social consideration.
Recent honors reflecting the range of her involvement in charitable and social causes include the 1992 Commitment to Life Award from AIDS Project Los Angeles for her dedication to help people living with that disease, and the ACLU Bill of Rights Award for her ongoing defense of constitutional rights.
Ms. Streisand's feelings about the rights and obligations of artists to participate in the political process were brought into sharp focus by her February 1995 speech at Harvard University under the sponsorship of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The address won unprecedented reportage and reproduction in such print media as The New York Times and The Washington Post. It was carried a record number of times on C-SPAN and is included in Senator Robert Torricelli's book, In Our Words: The American Century, a collection of important speeches of the 20th century.
Prior to the 1986 elections, Barbra Streisand performed her first full-length concert in 20 years (other than those in Las Vegas hotels), raising money for the Hollywood Women's Political Committee to disburse to liberal candidates. Taped on September 6, 1986, before 500 invited guests at her California home, the concert was called One Voice and aired on HBO on December 27, 1986 to enormous acclaim. The money raised that night helped elect five Democratic Senators, which restored a Democratic majority to the U.S. Senate. To date, over $10 million, including $7 million in profits from this evening, have been channeled to charities through The Streisand Foundation, which continues to occupy much of Barbra's energy and resources.
Additionally, she headlined concerts which raised millions of dollars for each of the successful presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton. A concert at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, headlined by Ms. Streisand in support of the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign, raised over $5 million, the Democratic Party's largest "hard money" intake ever. Her celebrated speech in support of the Gore candidacy later was played in substantial excerpts on several national television broadcasts.
Her passionate political activism continues. Convinced that the 1998 national general election was one of the most crucial in recent history, she applied herself to the election of candidates and issues she felt essential. She was one of the first and most outspoken critics of the Republican Congress's use of the impeachment issue as a means of blocking or undoing the social achievements of the Clinton administration. Ms. Streisand contributed financially to support the campaigns of 35 candidates in the general election, 27 of whom won. Similarly, she also supported specified candidates by endorsing 194 of them on her web site and then recommending consideration of this list when she did her AOL get-out-the-vote Internet chat on election eve. Of the candidates she endorsed, 155 were elected and 39 were not. In both instances, that is a won/lost ratio of nearly 80%.
Today, Barbra Streisand moves from movie, television, and recording facilities, through halls of political power, philanthropy, and academia. Though she has earned the label, "legend" many times over, she continues to seek new challenges for her vast talents. And, amazingly, she still brings rare fresh focus, passion and vision to each new endeavor. Barbra has one of the most devoted legion of fans in the world, who regularly network together online and off to share news and the fruits of her extraordinary talents. She and actor-director James Brolin married on July 1, 1998.
As she suggested in 1992, her career, while already amazing, is still a "work in progress" for as long as she creates new projects, even if they are predominantly musical recordings. Barbra has recently observed that there's nothing more to prove in her career and that she values her private time over the ever-consuming work. An autobiography should be forthcoming someday, according to Streisand, who desires to set the record straight on her life story, while reflecting on over 40 years in show business.
Professional Information
Management:
Martin Erlichman Associates, Inc.
Booking:Endeavor Agency
Public Relations: Guttman Associates
Humanitarian
Organization:The Streisand Foundation
2800 28th Street
Suite 105
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Creative
Affiliations:Barwood Films, Ltd.
Columbia Records/Sony BMG Music Entertainment Inc.
Sony Pictures Entertainment Co.
Fan Mail:Barbra Streisand
160 West 96th Street
Suite 8S
New York, NY 10025
| 4.0 Body of Work |
| 4.1 U.S. Albums |
- I Can Get It for You Wholesale - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1962)
- Pins And Needles - 25th Anniversary Edition of the Hit Musical Revue (1962)
- The Barbra Streisand Album (1963)
- The Second Barbra Streisand Album (1963)
- The Third Album (1964)
- Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)
- People (1964)
- My Name Is Barbra (1965)
- My Name Is Barbra, Two (1965)
- Color Me Barbra (1966)
- Harold Sings Arlen (with Friend) (1966)
- Je m'appelle Barbra (1966)
- Simply Streisand (1967)
- A Christmas Album (1967)
- Funny Girl - Original Soundtrack Recording (1968)
- A Happening in Central Park (1968)
- What About Today? (1969)
- Hello, Dolly! - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (1969)
- Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits (1970)
- On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - Original Soundtrack Recording (1970)
- The Owl and the Pussycat - Original Soundtrack Recording (1971)
- Stoney End (1971)
- Barbra Joan Streisand (1971)
- Live Concert at the Forum (1972)
- Barbra Streisand . . . and Other Musical Instruments (1973)
- The Way We Were - Original Soundtrack Recording (1974)
- The Way We Were (1974)
- ButterFly (1974)
- Funny Lady - Original Soundtrack Recording (1975/1998)
- Lazy Afternoon (1975)
- Classical Barbra (1976)
- A Star Is Born (1976)
- Streisand Superman (1977)
- Songbird (1978)
- Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (1978)
- The Main Event - Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979)
- Wet (1979)
- Guilty (1980)
- Memories (1981)
- Yentl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983)
- Emotion (1984)
- The Broadway Album (1985)
- One Voice (1987)
- Nuts - Original Score from the Motion Picture (1987)
- Till I Loved You (1988)
- A Collection: Greatest Hits . . . and More (1989)
- Just for the Record . . . (1991)
- The Prince of Tides - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1991)
- Highlights from Just for the Record . . . (1992)
- Back to Broadway (1993)
- The Concert (1994)
- The Concert - Highlights (1995)
- The Mirror Has Two Faces - Music From The Motion Picture (1996)
- Higher Ground (1997)
- A Love Like Ours (1999)
- Timeless - Live In Concert (2000)
- Christmas Memories (2001)
- The Essential Barbra Streisand (2002)
- Duets (2002)
- The Movie Album (2003)
- Guilty Pleasures (2005)
- Live In Concert 2006 (2007)
- Love Is The Answer (2009)
| 4.2 Recordings on Other Albums |
| 4.3 Singles |
The following list refers to 7-inch Columbia U.S. singles unless otherwise
indicated.
Tracks appearing in boldface are not available on
Streisand albums/CDs or those of her duet partners.
(PS) denotes single
released with picture sleeve.
Happy Days Are Here Again / When The Sun Comes Out
#4-42631,
released November 1962
My Coloring Book / Lover, Come Back To Me
#4-42648,
released November 1962
People / I Am Woman
#4-42965, released January 1964
Absent Minded Me / Funny Girl
#4-43127, released August 1964
Why Did I Choose You? / My Love
#4-43248, released March 1965
Happy Days Are Here Again / My Coloring Book
#13-33078, released
March 1965
"Hall of Fame" series single contains original November 1962
versions of both songs.
My Man / Where Is the Wonder
#4-43323, released June 1965
He Touched Me / I Like Him
#4-43403, released September 1965
Second Hand Rose / The Kind Of Man A Woman Needs
#4-43469, released
November 1965
Where Am I Going? / You Wanna Bet
#4-43518, released January 1966
Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long / The Minute Waltz
#4-43612, released
April 1966
Non C'est Rien / Le Mur
#4-43739, released July 1966
EN FRANÇAIS - EP
Side A
1. Non C'est Rien
2. Les Enfants Qui
Pleurent
Side B
1. Et La Mer
2. Le Mur
CBS #EP 6048,
released July 1966
7-inch EP entitled En Français, manufactured in
England and released in France/Europe only.
Free Again / I've Been Here
#4-43808, released September 1966
Sleep In Heavenly Peace / Gounod's Ave Maria
#4-43896, released October
1966 (PS)
Stout-Hearted Men / Look
#4-44225, released June 1967
Lover Man / My Funny Valentine
#44331, released October 1967
Jingle Bells? / White Christmas
#4-44350, released November 1967 (PS,
promo only)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / The Best Gift
#4-44351, released
November 1967 (PS, promo only)
My Favorite Things / The Christmas Song
#4-44352, released November 1967
(PS, promo only)
The Lord's Prayer / I Wonder As I Wander
#4-44354, released November 1967
(PS, promo only)
Our Corner Of The Night / He Could Show Me
#4-44474, released
February 1968
The Morning After / Where Is The Wonder
#4-44532, released April 1968
Funny Girl / I'd Rather Be Blue Over You (Than Happy With Somebody
Else)
#4-44622, released July 1968
My Man / Don't Rain On My Parade
#4-44704, released November 1968
(PS)
Frank Mills / Punky's Dilemma
#4-44775, released February 1969
Funny Girl / I'd Rather Be Blue Over You (Than Happy With Somebody
Else)
#13-33154, released May 1969
"Hall of Fame" series single
contains same songs released July 1968.
My Man / Don't Rain On My Parade
#13-33161, released June
1969
"Hall of Fame" series single contains same songs released November
1968.
Little Tin Soldier / Honey Pie
#4-44921, released July 1969
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? / What About Today?
#4-45040,
released October 1969
Before The Parade Passes By / Love Is Only Love
#4-45072, released
December 1969
Hello, Dolly! (mono) / Hello, Dolly! (stereo)
#6714,
released December 1969 (20th Century Fox Records, promo only)
The Best Thing You've Ever Done / Summer Me, Winter Me
#4-45147,
released April 1970
On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) {mono} / On A Clear Day (You
Can See Forever) {stereo}
AE-24, released July 1970 (Columbia Records,
promo only)
Stoney End / I'll Be Home
#4-45236, released September 1970
Time And Love / No Easy Way Down
#4-45341, released February 1971
Hands Off The Man (Flim Flam Man) / Maybe
#4-45384, released April
1971
Where You Lead / Since I Fell for You
#4-45414, released June 1971
Stoney End / Time And Love
#13-33199, released August
1971
"Hall of Fame" series single contains original 2/71 side.
Mother / The Summer Knows
#4-45471, released September 1971
Space Captain / One Less Bell To Answer/A House Is Not A Home
#4-45511,
released November 1971
The Best Thing You've Ever Done / What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your
Life?
#13-33207, released May 1972
"Hall of Fame" series single contains
original 4/70 side.
Sweet Inspiration/Where You Lead / Didn't We
#4-45626, released May
1972
Sing/Make Your Own Kind Of Music / Starting Here, Starting Now
#4-45686,
released August 1972
Didn't We / On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
#4-45739, released
November 1972
If I Close My Eyes / If I Close My Eyes (Instrumental)
#4-45780,
released January 1973 (PS)
The Way We Were / What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your
Life?
#4-45944, released September 1973
The Way We Were
no serial number, released September 1973
(Columbia Pictures, promo only)
All In Love Is Fair / My Buddy/How About Me?
#4-46024, released March
1974
The Way We Were / All In Love Is Fair
#13-33262, released November
1974
"Hall of Fame" series single contains 9/73 side.
Guava Jelly / Love In the Afternoon
#3-10075, released December 1974
Jubilation / Let The Good Times Roll
#3-10130, released April 1975
How Lucky Can You Get / More Than You Know
#AS 0123, released April 1975
(Arista Records)
My Father's Song / By The Way
#3-10198, released August 1975
Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over) / Widescreen
#3-10272, released
December 1975
Shake Me, Wake Me (short version) / Shake Me, Wake Me (long version)
#3-10272, released December 1975 (promo only)
#AS 217, released December
1975 (12-inch promo only)
Love Theme From "A Star Is Born" (Evergreen) / I Believe In Love
#3-10450, released November 16, 1976 (PS)
Evergreen (French language version - De Rêve En Rèverie) / Evergreen
(English version)
CBS #5101, released February 1977 (PS)
Evergreen (Italian language version - Sempreverde) / Evergreen
(English version)
CBS #5062, released February 1977 (PS)
Evergreen (Spanish language version - Tema De Amor De "Nace Una
Estrella") / Creo En El Amor (I Believe In Love - sung in English)
CBS
#5866, released February 1977 (PS)
My Heart Belongs To Me / Answer Me
#3-10555, released May 1977
Songbird / Honey Can I Put On Your Clothes?
#3-10756, released May
1978
Love Theme From "Eyes Of Laura Mars" (Prisoner) / Laura & Neville
(Instrumental)
#3-10777, released July 1978
You Don't Bring Me Flowers (duet with Neil Diamond) / You Don't Bring Me
Flowers (Instrumental)
#3-10840, released October 1978
Superman / A Man I Loved
#3-10931, released March 1979
The Main Event/Fight (short version) / The Main Event/Fight
(Instrumental)
#3-11008, released June 1979
The Main Event/Fight / The Main Event/Fight
#AS 625,
released June 1979 (12-inch promo only - 11:42)
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) {duet with Donna Summer} / Wet
#1-11125,
released October 1979 (PS)
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) {duet with Donna Summer}
# NBD 20199,
released October 1979 (Casablanca Record & FilmWorks) {12-inch, PS}
Kiss Me In The Rain / I Ain't Gonna Cry Tonight
#1-11179, released
December 1979
Woman In Love / Run Wild
#1-11364, released August 1980
Guilty (duet with Barry Gibb) / Life Story
#11-11390, released October
1980
What Kind Of Fool? (duet with Barry Gibb) / The Love Inside
#11-11430,
released January 1981
Promises / Make It Like A Memory
#11-02065, released April
1981
Promises / Make It Like A Memory
#43-02089, released May
1981 (12-inch)
Comin' In And Out Of Your Life / Lost Inside Of You
#18-02621, released
November 1981
Memory / Evergreen
#18-02717, released February 1982
The Way He Makes Me Feel (studio version) / The Way He Makes Me Feel (film
version) {PS}
#38-04177, released October 1983
#AS99-1791, released
November 1983 (promo-only 12-inch picture disc)
Papa, Can You Hear Me? / Will Someone Ever Look At Me That
Way?
#38-04357, released January 1984 (PS)
Left In The Dark / Here We Are At Last
#38-04605, released
September 1984 (PS)
Make No Mistake, He's Mine (duet with Kim Carnes) / Clear Sailing
#38-04695, released November 1984 (PS)
Emotion / Here We Are At Last
#38-04707, released February 1985
(PS)
Emotion / Emotion (Instrumental)
#44-05167, released
February 1985 (12-inch, PS)
Somewhere / Not While I'm Around
#38-05680, released November 1985
(PS)
Send In The Clowns / Being Alive
#38-05837, released February 1986 (PS)
The Main Event/Fight / Promises
#44H-06920, released 1987
(Columbia Mixed Masters Series)
Till I Loved You (duet with Don Johnson) / Two People
#38-08062
released October 1988 (PS)
Till I Loved You (duet with Don Johnson) / Two People - CD3 single
#38K 08062, released October 1988
All I Ask Of You / On My Way To You
#38-08026, released December 1988
(PS)
What Were We Thinking Of / Why Let It Go?
#38-68691, released February
1989 (vinyl; PS cassette only)
We're Not Makin' Love Anymore / Here We Are At Last
#38-73016,
released October 1989 (vinyl; PS cassette only)
You Don't Bring Me Flowers (duet with N. Diamond) / Forever In Blue Jeans (N.
Diamond) - CD3 single
#13K 68640, released 1989
The Way We Were / All In Love Is Fair - CD3 single
#13K 68660,
released 1989
The Music Of The Night / Children Will Listen / Move On
#659738-2,
released January 1994 (Sony Music UK, PS)
Ordinary Miracles / Ordinary Miracles (Live Version)
#38-77533, released May 1994 (vinyl; PS cassette only)
ORDINARY MIRACLES - CD single
1. Ordinary Miracles
2. As If We
Never Said Goodbye
3. Evergreen
4. Ordinary Miracles (Live
Version)
#44K 77534, released May 1994 (PS)
I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE - CD single
1. I Finally Found Someone (Barbra
Streisand and Bryan Adams)
2. Let's Make A Night To Remember (Bryan
Adams)
3. Evergreen (Spanish Version)
#38K 78480, released November
1996 (PS)
TELL HIM - CD single
1. Tell Him (Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion) -
radio edit
2. Everything Must Change (Barbra)
3. Where Is The Love
(Celine)
#665305-2, released November 3, 1997 (outside U.S., PS)
Labeled "radio edit," this version of
"Tell Him" is crucial in name only. The supposedly slightly remixed track for radio virtually matches the album version.
Can you discern them?
IF I COULD - CD single
1. If I Could
2. At The Same Time
3. I
Believe (single version)
4. Evergreen (French version)
#665522-2, released February 23, 1998 (Holland, PS)
Tracks 1 & 2
also appear on a two-song single in a cardboard sleeve (#665522-1).
I'VE DREAMED OF YOU - CD single
1. I've Dreamed Of You
2. At The Same
Time
#38K 79211, released June 22, 1999 (PS)
IF YOU EVER LEAVE ME - CD single
1. If You Ever Leave Me (Duet with Vince
Gill)
2. Just Because
3. Let's Start Right Now
4. At The
Same Time
#667801-2, released September 13, 1999 (Holland, PS)
Tracks 1
& 2 appear on a two-song card sleeve single (#667801-1), which may not be
available in all markets.
#668124-2, released October 18, 1999 (UK, PS) -
omits track 4.
Track 3 also available on free promo CD single (Columbia #CSK
43719) in special limited edition of A Love Like Ours album (Columbia #CK
63981), exclusively available at all U.S. Musicland Group retail stores.
COME RAIN OR COME SHINE - CD single
Columbia #CSK 16130,
released September 19, 2000 (PS, promo only)
U.S. Barnes &
Noble stores (not available via online store) include this exclusive limited
edition promo-only bonus disc in custom designed card sleeve with special
catalog number Timeless - Live In Concert double-CD (Columbia #C2K
61635). The one-track bonus disc contains Barbra's otherwise unreleased "Come
Rain Or Come Shine," recorded live at Australia's Sydney Football Stadium, March
10, 2000.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - CD single
Columbia #CSK 54832,
released October 30, 2001 (promo only)
U.S. Target stores (not available
online) included this exclusive promo-only bonus disc inside Christmas
Memories jewel case (Columbia #CK 86203) during Christmas 2001 and 2003. Barbra's previously unreleased
"God Bless America" (by Irving Berlin) was recorded live at the Voices For
Change '92 political fundraiser on September 16, 1992.
I WON'T BE THE ONE TO LET GO - CD single
Columbia #CSK 59450, released January 6, 2003 (PS, promo only)
1. Radio Version Edit (4:13)
2. Radio Version (4:40)
Not commercially released, this disc was serviced mainly to U.S.
Adult Contemporary radio stations. Compared with the original Duets
version, the radio version is virtually identical; the edit omits the synth
introduction and deletes some of the vocal performance in the song's final
minute.
STRANGER
IN A STRANGE LAND - CD single
Columbia #CSK 17314, released September 1, 2005 (PS, promo only)
U.S. Barnes & Noble
stores and a few other major chain retailers offer this limited edition promo-only
disc in custom designed card sleeve. Album version of song.
"Stranger" enhanced CD single released in UK on October 17, 2005 with 1980's "Guilty" studio recording joining the single in
addition to "Stranger" video.
COME
TOMORROW - CD single
Columbia #82876 771472,
released December 19, 2005 (UK, PS)
1. Come Tomorrow (Duet with Barry Gibb)
2. Night Of My Life
(Love To Infinity Master Mix) (6:43)
| 4.4 Live Musical Performances |
| 4.5 Television |
| 4.5.1 Appearances |
| 4.5.2 Production |
| 4.6 Home Video Releases |
| 4.6.1 Television Specials |
| 4.6.2 Single-Song Music Videos |
| 4.6.3 Appearances in Other TV Programs and Films |
| 4.7 Films |
1. Funny Girl (1968, Columbia TriStar Home Video)
| 4.8 Theatre |
| 4.9 Radio Appearances |
| 5.0 Awards |
Oscar
| 6.0 Bibliography |
| 6.1 Biographies and Photo Books |
| 6.2 Major Magazine and Newspaper Articles |
| Life, 5/18/62 New Yorker, 5/19/62 Saturday Evening Post, 7/27/63 Life, 9/20/63 Seventeen, 10/63 Look, 11/19/63 New York Times, 4/5/64 Time, 4/10/64 Life, 5/22/64 Show, 9/64 Los Angeles Times, 3/16/65 Cosmopolitan, 5/1/65 Redbook, 7/65 The New York Times Magazine, 7/4/65 Vogue, 3/15/66 Life, 3/18/66 Vogue, 4/4/66 Look, 4/5/66 Ladies' Home Journal, 8/66 Look, 7/25/67 Chicago Tribune Magazine, 8/27/67 New York Times Magazine, 9/24/67 Life, 9/29/67 Cosmopolitan, 2/68 Look, 10/15/68 Vogue, 12/1/68 London Sunday Times Magazine, 1/12/69 Life, 2/14/69 Good Housekeeping, 4/1/69 Look, 12/16/69 Newsweek, 1/5/70 Life, 1/9/70 Rolling Stone, 6/24/71 Show, 4/72 New York Times, 1/21/73 Newsday, 1/21/73 Cosmopolitan, 2/74 House Beautiful, 8/74 Chicago Tribune, 2/27/75 People, 3/10/75 McCall's, 4/75 Seventeen, 9/75 People, 4/26/76 Ladies' Home Journal, 11/76 Cosmopolitan, 3/77 Photoplay, 7/77 Playboy, 10/77 Newsday, 10/16/77 Architectural Digest, 5/78 Look, 6/11/79 Ladies' Home Journal, 8/79 Esquire, 10/82 Los Angeles Times, 10/16/83 Harper's Bazaar, 11/83 Chicago Tribune, 11/13/83 Sunday News Magazine (NYC), 11/13/83 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 11/13/83 Newsweek, 11/28/83 Ladies' Home Journal, 12/83 Life, 12/83 Billboard, 12/10/83 People, 12/12/83 McCall's, 1/84 Ladies' Home Journal, 8/84 New York Times, 11/10/85 Digital Audio & Compact Disc Review, 2/86 US, 2/10/86 Life, 5/86 People, 9/22/86 Ladies' Home Journal, 6/88 Vanity Fair, 9/91 Cosmopolitan, 10/91 Premiere, 12/91 Los Angeles Times Magazine, 12/8/91 New York Times, 12/22/91 Washington Post, 12/22/91 Ladies' Home Journal, 2/92 People, 5/11/92 | Newsweek,
6/29/92 Goldmine, 3/5/93 Interview, 4/93 Wall Street Journal, 5/17/93 Los Angeles Times, 5/23/93 People, 5/31/93 Vogue, 8/93 Architectural Digest, 12/93 People, 1/17/94 Entertainment Weekly, 4/15/94 Time, 5/16/94 Los Angeles Times, 5/19/94 In Style, 6/94 Ladies' Home Journal, 7/94 A&E Monthly, 8/94 TV Guide, 8/20/94 Vanity Fair, 11/94 People, 2/20/95 George, 11/96 In Style, 11/96 Los Angeles Times, 11/7/96 San Francisco Chronicle, 11/10/96 USA Today, 11/12/96 New York Times, 11/13/96 Drama-Logue, 11/14/96 The Herald (Glasgow), 11/23/96 Live!, 12/96 Premiere, 12/96 Hello! (England), 12/14/96 Madame Figaro (France), 1/11/97 Sunday Times Magazine (England), 2/2/97 People, 6/2/97 New York Times, 11/11/97 Los Angeles Times, 11/20/97 McCall's, 3/98 People, 3/9/98 Mirabella, 5/98 OK! magazine (England), 5/15/98 People, 7/20/98 Bunte magazine (Germany), 7/16/98 Hello! (England), 7/18/98 7 Jours magazine (Canada), 7/25/98 American Movie Classics Magazine, 1/99 Good Housekeeping, 2/99 In Style, 2/99 Fortune, 6/21/99 Newsweek, 6/21/99 People, 7/5/99 The Advocate, 8/17/99 People, 9/20/99 McCall's, 12/99 Daily Variety special issue - Spotlight: Golden Globes, 1/14/00 The Hollywood Reporter Golden Globes Special Issue, 1/18-24/00 TV Guide, 1/22/00 Who Weekly (Australia), 3/20/00 US Weekly, 10/9/00 Los Angeles Times, 11/3/01 USA Today, 12/12/01 USA Today, 12/5/02 Associated Press, 12/5/02 Reader's Digest, 10/03 USA Today, 10/3/03 Billboard, 10/4/03 TV Guide, 10/11/03 Genre, 10/03 Sunday Telegraph (UK), 10/19/03 The Advocate, 10/28/03 The Mail on Sunday's YOU Magazine (UK), 11/23/03 The Independent (UK), 2/9/04 Time Magazine, 12/13/04 New York Post, 12/19/04 The Scotsman (UK), 12/18/04 The Age (Australia), 12/29/04 Philippine Daily Inquirer, 1/2/05 The Telegraph (UK), 1/10/05 The Mirror: (UK), 1/28/05 London Times (UK), 11/19/05 Associated Press, 11/22/05 O, The Oprah Magazine, 10/06 Parade, 8/23/09 Los Angeles Times, 8/31/09 New York Times, 9/24/09 USA Today, 9/27/09 Associated Press, 9/29/09 |
| 6.3 Song Books |
- Back To Broadway
- The Barbra Streisand Collection (UK)
- Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Volume 2
- The Broadway Album
- Christmas Memories
- Classical Barbra
- A Collection Greatest Hits . . . and More
- The Concert
- Emotion
- The Essential Barbra Streisand
- Funny Girl (Bway musical/motion picture)
- Funny Girl (motion picture)
- Funny Girl/Funny Lady
- Guilty
- Guilty Pleasures
- Hello, Dolly! (motion picture)
- Higher Ground
- Live In Concert 2006
- A Love Like Ours
- Memories
- One Voice
- The Prince Of Tides
- Songbird
- A Star Is Born
- Streisand Superman
- Till I Loved You
- Timeless
- The Way We Were
- Wet
- Yentl
| 6.4 Fanzines |
Currently available and regularly publishing
No longer published
| 7.0 Pointers |
| 7.1 Where to Find BJS Merchandise |
| 7.2 Contacting Other Fans |
| 8.0 Acknowledgements |
We pooled resources from our personal collections and many of the
above-listed sources to compile the information in this document. We wish to
thank Bob Massre, Karen Swenson, and Allison Waldman for generous assistance
in the FAQ's original publication.
Thank you to the following people for additional
information:
Richard Audet
Rafe Chase
Susan Cragg
Tom
Forsman
Tom Galyean
Kentaro Kobayashi
Lu Reyes
George
Schubert
Dwight Stevens
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