Barbra Streisand - The Broadway Album

The Broadway Album

Columbia #CK 85159 (CD) Original Release: November 4, 1985
Executive Producers: Barbra Streisand and Peter Matz
Tracks Produced by Barbra Streisand, Peter Matz, Richard Baskin, Bob Esty, Paul Jabara, and David Foster
Arranged by Barbra Streisand, Peter Matz, Richard Baskin, Randy Waldman, Bob Esty, Paul Jabara, and David Foster
Orchestrated & Conducted by Richard Baskin, Alexander Courage, Jeremy Lubbock, Peter Matz, Sid Ramin, Conrad Salinger,Randy Waldman
Original Recording Engineers & Mixers: John Arrias, Humberto Gatica, Don Hahn
Cover Photo: Richard Corman
Liner Notes: Alan & Marilyn Bergman

Putting It Together [4:21]
(S. Sondheim)
If I Loved You [2:38]
(O. Hammerstein II / R. Rodgers)
Something's Coming [2:55]
(S. Sondheim / L. Bernstein)
Not While I'm Around [3:24]
(S. Sondheim)
Being Alive [3:24]
(S. Sondheim)
I Have Dreamed/We Kiss In A Shadow/Something Wonderful [4:51]
(O. Hammerstein II / R. Rodgers)
Adelaide's Lament [3:24]
(F. Loesser)
Send In The Clowns [4:43]
(S. Sondheim)
Pretty Women/The Ladies Who Lunch [5:10]
(S. Sondheim)
Can't Help Lovin' That Man [3:31]
(O. Hammerstein II / J. Kern)
I Loves You Porgy/Porgy I's Your Woman Now (Bess, You Is My Woman) [4:35]
(I. Gershwin / G. Gershwin)
Somewhere [4:56]
(S. Sondheim / L. Bernstein)

Footnotes

Recorded in L.A., July-August 1985.

Barbra has recalled about this album, "It was time for me to do something I truly believed in...a return to my roots."

6th Streisand album to reach #1.

Track 7 not included on LP/cassette.

Track 10 harmonica by Stevie Wonder.
Originally intended as a double album, the project's unreleased songs reportedly include: "Home," "Shall We Dance/Hello Young Lovers," "Show Me," "An Unusual Way," "Being Good Isn't Good Enough," and "A Quiet Thing"/"There Won't Be Trumpets."
Track 6 featured during end credits in 1999 animated theatrical film, The King And I and on soundtrack CD.
Grammy Awards: Best Pop Female Vocal Performance (for the album) and Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal - "Somewhere" (for David Foster).
Reissued January 29, 2002 with original LP art restored. Remastered for the first time from the original master tapes by Stephen Marcussen, 2001. CDs released outside U.S. and Canada include bonus track "I Know Him So Well" from the album sessions, originally issued on Just For The Record...
BB: 11-23-85 / 50 / #1(3) || G, 1/13/86; P, 1/13/86; 4P, 1/31/95

For more on this outstanding album, read Barbra Streisand's extensive commentary in
The Broadway Album: "A Labor of Love"