Barbra Streisand

Released: September 21, 1999

Songwriter: George Gershwin Ira Gershwin

Producer: Barbra Streisand

It's a funny thing
I look at you
I get a thrill
I never knew
Isn't it a pity
We never met before?

Here we are at last
It's like a dream
The two of us
A perfect team
Isn't it a pity
We never met before?

Imagine all the lonely years we've wasted
Me with the neighbors
You at silly labors
What joys untasted
My nights were sour
Spent with Schopenhauer

Let's forget the past
Let's both agree
That I'm for you
And you're for me
And it's such a pity
We never, never met before

Imagine all the years we've wasted
Fishing for salmon
Losing at backgammon
What joys untasted
Me at the Prado
You in Colorado

Happiest of girls I'm sure to be
If only you would say to me
That it's such a pity
We never met before
What an awful pity
We never, never met before

Barbra Streisand is an Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Broadway legend, film star, movie director and one of the biggest-selling recording artists of all time - a staggering amount of accomplishments for someone whose mother insisted she not to go into show business.

By the time she was sixteen, she’d graduated high school and was living on her own in Manhattan. After winning a talent contest at a gay bar on West 9th Street, Streisand’s ‘spellbinding’ voice quickly became popular at New York clubs and in Broadway shows. After appearances on a number of popular television shows including The Tonight Show, Streisand signed with Columbia Records and released several top 10 albums in the 1960s, scoring two US top 40 hits with “People” and “Second Hand Rose”.

Her success as a recording artist continued through the 1970s with several more gold/platinum-certified albums and four US “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, “No More Tears”, the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were”, and the Academy Award-winning “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”. The 1980s would begin with Streisand’s biggest-selling release of her career Guilty, a collaborative effort with BeeGees member Barry Gibb. It topped the albums chart in several countries and as did its lead single “Woman In Love”.

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