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The Best Thing That Ever Has HappenedBarbra Streisand

Released: August 26, 2016

Featuring: Alec Baldwin

Songwriter: Stephen Sondheim

Producer: Barbra Streisand Walter Afanasieff

[Spoken Intro: Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand]
You dressed yet?
Dressed? Why?
We've got cocktails at the Cosdens'
Oh, geez
We said we'd drop by
Ugh, do we have to
Then, there’s dinner at the Dodges’, the reception at the Rosens'...
Ah! I think I'm gonna die!
So how about we just stay home?
Could we do that? I like your thinking

[Verse 1: Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand and both]
You are the best thing that ever has happened to me
You are
Come on...
Okay, then, one of the best things that’s happened to me
You are
To think I'd find someone who could surprise me
And size me up without cutting me down?
Ain't this a town?
Sure is
You are the god-damned’est thing that has happened to me (Language!)
Ever... sorry
When did I have this much happiness happen to me?
Never
I can’t believe my luck
And all I can do
Is be the best thing that’s happened to you

[Chorus 1: Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand]
So whaddya say we just stay home? (So whaddya say we just stay home?)
So whaddya we just go out on the boat and get smashed and make love on the beach and stare up at the moon?
(Whaddya say we just go out on the boat and get smashed and make love on the beach and stare up at the moon?)

[Verse 2: Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand and both]
You might just be the best thing that has happened to me
Well, so far
So far?
Of course, not much very good's ever happened to me (Aww)
So far (Me too)
I never much liked love
I always fought it
I never thought it would happen like this
Give us a kiss (Muah!)
We might just be the best thing that has happened to us
Kiddo
Sugar
Another moment like this might not happen to us
Partner
Lover
When all is said and done
You happen to be
The best thing that ever has happened
The luckiest thing that ever has happened
You are the best thing that's happened to me
Who knew?
Who dreamed?
Beats me...

[Spoken Outro: Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand]
So don't get dressed
I was hoping you'd say that

Barbra Streisand

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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