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"Barbra Streisand" is a song by Canadian-American DJ duo Duck Sauce. It was released on September 10, 2010. The song topped the charts in Austria, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, and Switzerland and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
"Evergreen" (also called "Love Theme from A Star Is Born") is the theme song from the 1976 film A Star Is Born. It was composed and performed by American singer, songwriter, actress and director Barbra Streisand with lyrics by Paul Williams, [2] and arranged by Ian Freebairn-Smith. [3] The song was released on the soundtrack album to A Star Is ...
The best known recording of Nyro's album version of the song was a hit for Barbra Streisand in 1970. Streisand recorded "Stoney End" as the title track of her twelfth studio album. Members of the group Fanny provided backing vocals. The song reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971 and became Streisand's second Top 10 hit ...
American composer and producer Marvin Hamlisch created the final melody for "The Way We Were", which initially was a problem between himself and the singer. Barbra Streisand had asked Hamlisch to produce a composition in minor key, but he instead wrote it in major key due to his fear of the song's lyrics being revealed too quickly. [4]
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ ˈ s t r aɪ s æ n d / STRY-sand; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director.With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the first performer awarded an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony).
It spent two weeks atop the Billboard easy listening chart in July and August 1978, her fifth song to accomplish this feat. [ 2 ] One theory as to why "Songbird" was less successful on the U.S. pop chart is that Streisand recorded the theme to the 1978 film Eyes of Laura Mars , which was released as a single a few weeks after "Songbird" came out.
Streisand requested Goldenberg to take the film's score and create a song out of it. During a late night phone conversation, he developed a melody and then the song was created. The singer has never performed "If I Close My Eyes" and remained absent from any of her compilation albums until 1991, when she included it on her first box set titled ...
"Papa, Can You Hear Me?" is a 1983 song composed by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, for Barbra Streisand in the title role of Yentl. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 56th Academy Awards ; Streisand's longtime friend Donna Summer performed it during the ceremonies. [ 1 ]