25-09-2014, 19:53
enters the Billboard chart this week at #1
Spotify online listen
3.5 of 5.0 from allmusic
familiar with all but 6,8,9,10
of those only the Blake Shelton was interesting
don't like the change for the others
she's still got the voice though
not my thing but it may be yours
artist website - http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/home
Bio - from allmusic
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Barbra Streisand's status as one of the most successful singers of her generation was remarkable not only because her popularity was achieved in
the face of a dominant musical trend -- rock & roll -- which she did not follow, but also because she used her vocal skills as a mere stepping
stone to other careers, as a stage and film actress and as a film director. Born in 1942 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she struggled briefly
as an actress and nightclub singer in New York during the early '60s before landing her first part in a Broadway show, I Can Get It for You
Wholesale, in 1962. The cast album for that show, as well as a subsequent appearance on a studio revival of Pins and Needles, were her first
recordings. Signed to Columbia Records, she released her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, in 1963. It became a Top Ten, gold-selling
record, thus paving the way for Streisand's status as one of the best-selling recording artists of the early '60s.
But despite three successful albums by early 1964, Streisand turned her back on potentially lucrative concert bookings in favor of a starring
role in the Broadway show Funny Girl, in which she appeared for more than two years. "People" from that show became her first Top Ten single,
and the People album her first chart-topping LP. She turned to television in 1965 with My Name Is Barbra, the first of five network specials. In
1967, Streisand went to Hollywood to film Funny Girl, for which she would win an Academy Award. But by 1970, with her second and third films
flops and her recording career flagging in the face of rock, she seemed consigned to Las Vegas before turning 30. Instead, she returned to
hitmaking with a Top Ten cover of Laura Nyro's "Stoney End" and a successful non-singing performance in the comedy The Owl and the Pussycat.
In the '70s, Streisand successfully married her musical and film acting interests, first in The Way We Were, a hit film with a theme song that
became her first number one single, and then with A Star Is Born, which featured her second number one single, "Evergreen," a song she co-wrote.
From that point on, every album she released sold at least a million copies. In the late '70s, she found recording success in collaboration: her
duet with Neil Diamond, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," hit number one, as did "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," a dance record sung with Donna
Summer. She had her biggest-selling album in 1980 with Guilty, which was written and produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and contained the
number one hit "Woman in Love." In 1983, Streisand's first directorial effort, Yentl, became a successful film with a Top Ten soundtrack album.
In 1985, The Broadway Album returned her to the top of the charts. The year 1991 saw the release of Just for the Record..., a box set
retrospective, and her second film as a director, The Prince of Tides. Streisand returned to the concert stage in 1994, resulting in the Top
Ten, million-selling album The Concert. In 1996, she directed her third film, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and in 1999 she released A Love Like
Ours.
Timeless: Live in Concert, which was recorded at her Las Vegas show on New Year's Eve 1999, was released on both CD and DVD in 2000. A year
later, the new holiday album Christmas Memories arrived, followed in 2003 by a sequel to The Broadway Album entitled The Movie Album. A deluxe
CD/DVD reissue of the original Guilty appeared in 2005 and was followed a month later by Guilty Pleasures, a new album that reunited Streisand
with Gibb. She returned to the concert stage in 2006, a move that was documented in the 2007 Sony release Live in Concert. For her final release
of the decade, Streisand turned her attention to jazz standards, and Love Is the Answer found her singing such songs as "Here's to Life" and "In
the Wee Small Hours." Released in 2011, What Matters Most: Barbra Streisand Sings the Lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, featured ten Bergman
tracks that the singer had never tackled, including "The Windmills of Your Mind" and "So Many Stars."
In 2012, a collection of previously unreleased material came to light, featuring tracks collated from hundreds of hours of '60s acetates and 48
-track tapes by Streisand and co-producer Jay Landers. Titled Release Me, the compilation includes recordings from 1967-2011 that provide a
wonderful representation of her varied career. Streisand toured heavily in support of the release. One of the biggest dates on the tour was her
first-ever show on her home turf, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which featured guest appearances from trumpeter Chris Botti and poperatic
trio Il Volo. The show was recorded, and released in 2013 as the double live album Back to Brooklyn. In 2014, Streisand returned with the
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds-produced duets album Partners, featuring such guest artists as Michael Bublé, Andrea Bocelli, Lionel Richie, and John
Mayer.
Album Review - from allmusic
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Barbra Streisand's 2014 duets album, Partners, features the legendary vocalist performing songs associated with her storied career alongside a
handful of handpicked guests. Produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Walter Afanasieff, Partners is a duets album in the modern tradition of
such similarly inclined releases as Frank Sinatra's Duets, Tony Bennett's Duets: An American Classic, and Paul Anka's Duets. The album also
follows up Streisand's 2013 live concert recording Back to Brooklyn. As with that album, Partners works as a retrospective, with Streisand
revisiting songs she's recorded on past albums, such as her classic "Evergreen" from the soundtrack to her 1976 remake of A Star Is Born,
performed here with Babyface. Also joining Streisand are such luminaries as Michael Bublé for "It Had to Be You," Stevie Wonder for "People,"
Billy Joel for "New York State of Mind," Andrea Bocelli for "I Still Can See Your Face," and others. John Mayer even brings along his guitar for
a bluesy, Count Basie-inspired rendition of "Come Rain or Come Shine." With Edmonds and Afanasieff on board, the tracks on Partners showcase a
pleasing balance between Streisand's various stylistic wheelhouses from Broadway standards, to adult contemporary pop, to classical crossover,
and even a hint of country (as her duet with Blake Shelton reveals). While certainly a novelty, the digitally created, fan-service duet with the
late Elvis Presley (Streisand's original choice of co-star for A Star Is Born) is tastefully and lovingly crafted. Ultimately, Partners works as
guided tour down Streisand's memory lane, and with her resonant voice still in supple shape, any excuse to hear her sing is a welcome
invitation.
best thing for me:
[video=youtube;Oy-hA6Q9N68]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-hA6Q9N68[/video]
Track Listing
1. It Had to Be You - w/Michael Buble
2. People - w/Stevie Wonder
3. Come Rain or Come Shine - w/John Mayer
4. Evergreen - w/Babyface
5. New York State of Mind - w/Billy Joel
6. I'd Want It to Be You - w/Blake Shelton
7. The Way We Were - w/Lionel Richie
8. I Still Can See Your Face - w/Andrea Bocelli
9. How Deep Is the Ocean - w/Jason Gould
10. What Kind of Fool - w/John Legend
11. Somewhere - w/Josh Groban
12. Love Me Tender - w/Elvis Presley
Spotify online listen
3.5 of 5.0 from allmusic
familiar with all but 6,8,9,10
of those only the Blake Shelton was interesting
don't like the change for the others
she's still got the voice though
not my thing but it may be yours
artist website - http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/home
Bio - from allmusic
Barbra Streisand's status as one of the most successful singers of her generation was remarkable not only because her popularity was achieved in
the face of a dominant musical trend -- rock & roll -- which she did not follow, but also because she used her vocal skills as a mere stepping
stone to other careers, as a stage and film actress and as a film director. Born in 1942 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she struggled briefly
as an actress and nightclub singer in New York during the early '60s before landing her first part in a Broadway show, I Can Get It for You
Wholesale, in 1962. The cast album for that show, as well as a subsequent appearance on a studio revival of Pins and Needles, were her first
recordings. Signed to Columbia Records, she released her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, in 1963. It became a Top Ten, gold-selling
record, thus paving the way for Streisand's status as one of the best-selling recording artists of the early '60s.
But despite three successful albums by early 1964, Streisand turned her back on potentially lucrative concert bookings in favor of a starring
role in the Broadway show Funny Girl, in which she appeared for more than two years. "People" from that show became her first Top Ten single,
and the People album her first chart-topping LP. She turned to television in 1965 with My Name Is Barbra, the first of five network specials. In
1967, Streisand went to Hollywood to film Funny Girl, for which she would win an Academy Award. But by 1970, with her second and third films
flops and her recording career flagging in the face of rock, she seemed consigned to Las Vegas before turning 30. Instead, she returned to
hitmaking with a Top Ten cover of Laura Nyro's "Stoney End" and a successful non-singing performance in the comedy The Owl and the Pussycat.
In the '70s, Streisand successfully married her musical and film acting interests, first in The Way We Were, a hit film with a theme song that
became her first number one single, and then with A Star Is Born, which featured her second number one single, "Evergreen," a song she co-wrote.
From that point on, every album she released sold at least a million copies. In the late '70s, she found recording success in collaboration: her
duet with Neil Diamond, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," hit number one, as did "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," a dance record sung with Donna
Summer. She had her biggest-selling album in 1980 with Guilty, which was written and produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and contained the
number one hit "Woman in Love." In 1983, Streisand's first directorial effort, Yentl, became a successful film with a Top Ten soundtrack album.
In 1985, The Broadway Album returned her to the top of the charts. The year 1991 saw the release of Just for the Record..., a box set
retrospective, and her second film as a director, The Prince of Tides. Streisand returned to the concert stage in 1994, resulting in the Top
Ten, million-selling album The Concert. In 1996, she directed her third film, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and in 1999 she released A Love Like
Ours.
Timeless: Live in Concert, which was recorded at her Las Vegas show on New Year's Eve 1999, was released on both CD and DVD in 2000. A year
later, the new holiday album Christmas Memories arrived, followed in 2003 by a sequel to The Broadway Album entitled The Movie Album. A deluxe
CD/DVD reissue of the original Guilty appeared in 2005 and was followed a month later by Guilty Pleasures, a new album that reunited Streisand
with Gibb. She returned to the concert stage in 2006, a move that was documented in the 2007 Sony release Live in Concert. For her final release
of the decade, Streisand turned her attention to jazz standards, and Love Is the Answer found her singing such songs as "Here's to Life" and "In
the Wee Small Hours." Released in 2011, What Matters Most: Barbra Streisand Sings the Lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, featured ten Bergman
tracks that the singer had never tackled, including "The Windmills of Your Mind" and "So Many Stars."
In 2012, a collection of previously unreleased material came to light, featuring tracks collated from hundreds of hours of '60s acetates and 48
-track tapes by Streisand and co-producer Jay Landers. Titled Release Me, the compilation includes recordings from 1967-2011 that provide a
wonderful representation of her varied career. Streisand toured heavily in support of the release. One of the biggest dates on the tour was her
first-ever show on her home turf, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which featured guest appearances from trumpeter Chris Botti and poperatic
trio Il Volo. The show was recorded, and released in 2013 as the double live album Back to Brooklyn. In 2014, Streisand returned with the
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds-produced duets album Partners, featuring such guest artists as Michael Bublé, Andrea Bocelli, Lionel Richie, and John
Mayer.
Album Review - from allmusic
Barbra Streisand's 2014 duets album, Partners, features the legendary vocalist performing songs associated with her storied career alongside a
handful of handpicked guests. Produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Walter Afanasieff, Partners is a duets album in the modern tradition of
such similarly inclined releases as Frank Sinatra's Duets, Tony Bennett's Duets: An American Classic, and Paul Anka's Duets. The album also
follows up Streisand's 2013 live concert recording Back to Brooklyn. As with that album, Partners works as a retrospective, with Streisand
revisiting songs she's recorded on past albums, such as her classic "Evergreen" from the soundtrack to her 1976 remake of A Star Is Born,
performed here with Babyface. Also joining Streisand are such luminaries as Michael Bublé for "It Had to Be You," Stevie Wonder for "People,"
Billy Joel for "New York State of Mind," Andrea Bocelli for "I Still Can See Your Face," and others. John Mayer even brings along his guitar for
a bluesy, Count Basie-inspired rendition of "Come Rain or Come Shine." With Edmonds and Afanasieff on board, the tracks on Partners showcase a
pleasing balance between Streisand's various stylistic wheelhouses from Broadway standards, to adult contemporary pop, to classical crossover,
and even a hint of country (as her duet with Blake Shelton reveals). While certainly a novelty, the digitally created, fan-service duet with the
late Elvis Presley (Streisand's original choice of co-star for A Star Is Born) is tastefully and lovingly crafted. Ultimately, Partners works as
guided tour down Streisand's memory lane, and with her resonant voice still in supple shape, any excuse to hear her sing is a welcome
invitation.
best thing for me:
[video=youtube;Oy-hA6Q9N68]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-hA6Q9N68[/video]
Track Listing
1. It Had to Be You - w/Michael Buble
2. People - w/Stevie Wonder
3. Come Rain or Come Shine - w/John Mayer
4. Evergreen - w/Babyface
5. New York State of Mind - w/Billy Joel
6. I'd Want It to Be You - w/Blake Shelton
7. The Way We Were - w/Lionel Richie
8. I Still Can See Your Face - w/Andrea Bocelli
9. How Deep Is the Ocean - w/Jason Gould
10. What Kind of Fool - w/John Legend
11. Somewhere - w/Josh Groban
12. Love Me Tender - w/Elvis Presley
