Barbra Streisand - The Essential Barbra Streisand
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Artist: Barbra StreisandEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-01-29
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- A Sleepin' Bee
- Cry Me A River
- I Stayed Too Long At The Fair
- Lover, Come Back To Me
- People
- My Man
- Second Hand Rose
- He Touched Me
- Don't Rain On My Parade
- Happy Days Are Here Again (Live From Central Park)
- On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
- Stoney End
- Since I Fell For You
- What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
- The Way We Were
- All In Love Is Fair
- Lazy Afternoon
- Evergreen
- My Heart Belongs To Me
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers (w/ Neil Diamond)
- The Main Event/Fight
- No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (w/ Donna Summer)
- Woman In Love
- Guilty
- Comin' In And Out Of Your Life
- Memory
- Papa, Can You Hear Me?
- A Piece Of Sky
- Putting It Together
- Not While I'm Around
- Send In The Clowns
- Somewhere
- All I Ask Of You
- Children Will Listen
- As If We Never Said Goodbye
- I Finally Found Someone (w/ Bryan Adams)
- Tell Him (w/ Celine Dion)
- I've Dreamed Of You
- Someday My Prince Will Come (2001 Version)
- You'll Never Walk Alone (2001 Version)
Music reviews of The Essential Barbra Streisand
Music Review: Two CD's, and yet, some of her charted hits are still missing
Rating: 3 Stars
I'll jump right to 1971 with her charted single "Where You Lead" which just charted at #40 on the pop chart, but, it's nowhere to be found on this double CD collection, and yet, oddly enough, the non-hit track "Since I Fell For You" (which was on the flip side of that single) is in this collection. But, I can live with that. Let's move on....
But four things that really bug me about this double CD collection is the lack of four very important songs for Barbra Streisand. Two of her Top 20 singles "Songbird" (#25) and "Love Theme from "Eyes of Laura Mars" (#21). Plus, from her 1983 soundtrack "Yentl," they took two non-hit songs from this album, "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "A Piece of Sky," which of course, are great songs, but my most absolute favorite song from Barbra Streisand is not on this collection from that album. Sure, it only charted at #40 in 1983, but "The Way He Makes Me Feel" is her most beautiful song ever written about a girl starting to discover her own raging hormones. And, because it did chart on the Top 40, I just think that it shouldn't have been overlooked.
But, I would think everyone's biggest compliant would probably be for the lack of one of her very few Top Ten Singles. In 1981, her shared single with Barry Gibb, "What Kind of Fool" is not in this collection. What kind of fool would choose to leave it out from an Essential collection while putting in so many non-familiar recordings?
I can see now why people just download individual songs to just make their own interpretation of someone's most essential songs.
Description of The Essential Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand's bravado made her one of the 1960s' overnight sensations. This 40-cut compendium traces her recording career from early tracks that frequently relay her subtlety to often impressive accommodations with soft rock and still later vibrato-fests that find her taxing the limits of performer's ego and listeners' ears. The narrative is one of direct, sometimes showy, emotion giving way to empty displays of technique. By 1983's icky anthem "A Piece of Sky," Streisand has plowed under the light touches of "Lover, Come Back to Me" and the triumphal Central Park version of "Happy Days Are Here Again." Where she produced schlock masterworks when teamed with Neil Diamond ("You Don't Bring Me Flowers") and Donna Summer ("Enough Is Enough") in the '70s, a diva summit with Celine Dion led to the car wreck of 1997's "Tell Him." Essential wraps up with previously unreleased takes of "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "You'll Never Walk Alone." --Rickey WrightGeneral CDs
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