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Barbra Streisand is an American actress and singer. Her discography consists of 118 singles, 36 studio albums, 12 compilations, 11 live albums, and 15 soundtracks.According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Streisand is the second-best-selling female album artist in the United States with 68.5 million certified albums in the country, [1] [2] and a career total ranging from 150 ...
In the original Broadway production, "Somewhere" was sung by Reri Grist who played the role of Consuelo. At the end of the show, when Tony is shot, Maria sings the first few lines of the song as he dies in her arms. In late 1957, this recording was released on the album West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast).
It features 21 "personal favourite" recordings from Streisand's sixty year-long recording history as well as a new mix of the title track, featuring tracks from most of Barbra's studio albums. [ 2 ] The album was released on the same day as the 40th Anniversary re-issue of her soundtrack to the 1983 film Yentl , which she directed and starred in.
Mara Papalas' father, Louis, spent decades collecting six storage units worth of Streisand paraphernalia, ranging from posters and record jackets to clocks and nesting dolls.
Live in Concert 2006 is a live album by American singer Barbra Streisand which was recorded during her record setting 2006 US tour known as Streisand: The Tour.The double album contains songs recorded at different shows and venues including New York City's Madison Square Garden and Washington, D.C.'s Verizon Center.
The Broadway Album is the twenty-fourth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released by Columbia Records on November 4, 1985. Consisting mainly of classic show tunes, the album marked a major shift in Streisand's career. She had spent ten years appearing in musicals and singing standards on her albums in the 1960s.
In 1989, Barbra Streisand began devoting most of her time towards directing the 1991 film adaptation of Pat Conroy's 1986 novel The Prince of Tides.Due to her tight schedule and limited availability, Columbia Records approached Streisand on releasing another greatest hits album, since she had been in a similar situation during the distribution of her prior compilation release, Memories (1981). [1]
The album was certified 5× Platinum by the RIAA, [2] reaching number 10 on the US Billboard 200. [3] In the UK, where it was released as Love Songs, it reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart for nine weeks (seven of them consecutively and it became the best-selling album of 1982 there, the first album by a female performer to achieve it). [4]