Barbra Streisand

Released: October 14, 1975

Songwriter: Roger Nichols Paul Williams

Producer: Rupert Holmes Jeffrey Lesser

I never had much money
I never won a race
My jokes don't end that funny
And I had door slammed on my face
But I think you've charmed me
I always hoped that someone would
I never had a love like this before
No...I never had it so good
I'm not the type that's trusted
Always tripping over logs
And often I've been busted

And chased by friendly dogs
But I think you've charmed me
I always hoped that someone would
I never had a love like this before
No...I never had it so good
Hmm...hmm...hmm...
But I think you've charmed me
I always hoped that someone would
I never had a love like this before
No...I never had it so good

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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