Funny Girl
Original Soundtrack Recording
Columbia #CK 85151 (CD) Original Release: August 1968
Produced by Jack Gold
Arranged and Conducted by Walter
Scharf
Sound Supervised by Warren Vincent
Original Music by
Jule Styne; Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Original Recording Engineer: Stan Weiss
Liner Notes: Jack Brodsky
- Overture [4:00]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- I'M THE GREATEST STAR
[4:06]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- If A Girl Isn't Pretty [2:26]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- ROLLER SKATE RAG [2:01]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- I'D RATHER BE BLUE OVER YOU (THAN HAPPY WITH SOMEBODY ELSE) [2:38]
(B. Rose / F. Fisher)
- HIS LOVE MAKES ME BEAUTIFUL [5:39]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- PEOPLE [5:01]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- YOU ARE WOMAN, I AM MAN [4:23]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE
[2:45]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- SADIE, SADIE [4:19]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- THE SWAN [2:51]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- FUNNY GIRL [2:43]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
- MY MAN [2:12]
(A. Willemetz / J. Charles / C. Pollock / M. Yvain)
- Finale [2:20]
(B. Merrill / J. Styne)
Footnotes
- Streisand vocals on all EXCEPT tracks 1, 3, and 14.
- Recording sessions in L.A., May-July 1967 during film pre-production.
- Barbra remembers in Just For The Record: "I loved making this picture. I felt at home in the movies. I was crazy about my cinematographer, Harry Stradling, a wonderful man who did my first four films...And I adored my director, William Wyler. Willy loved womenand it showed."
- Gatefold album originally packaged with unique inner sleeve picturing
Barbra's 10 previous Columbia LPs.
- Quadraphonic LP (out of print) released in early 1970s, with alternate
versions of tracks 1 ("Second Hand Rose" music added), 2 (additional
music & edited dialogue), 9 (omitted music intro), 10 (additional
dialogue), and 11 (additional dialogue & music).
- Reissued January 29, 2002 with original LP art restored, including photo
collage and liner notes. Remastered from the
original master tapes by Stephen Marcussen, 2001. CDs released outside U.S.
and Canada include bonus track "I'd Rather Be Blue Over You (Than Happy
With Somebody Else)," previously issued on a July 1968 single produced by
Jack Gold and arranged and conducted by Peter Matz (different than track #5 on
the album).
- BB: 9-28-68 / 108 / #12 || G, 12/23/68; P, 11/21/86
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