Barbra Streisand

Released: May 8, 2007

Songwriter: Barbra Streisand

Producer: Barbra Streisand Jay Landers

[Spoken]:
"That song was written by my very good friends Alan and Marylin Bergman, and Marvin Hamlish
And... Ah... they're real song writers you know. (laughs) Thank you
Me I dabble
My career is 46 years old not counting summer stock., and in all that time I've written approximately 10 songs, which averages out to be about 2-3 songs per decade
But I was 22 when I wrote my first song and music, which I thought I would sing for you tonight which is short and sweet
It's called "Ma première chanson" which in French means "My First Song"
It's in French because I was working on one of my least popular albums called, "Je m'appelle Barbra" that just went gold after 42 years
Better late than never, right?
But, it wasn't very popular, except in France and Montreal, Vienna, Algeria, I think
Where else do they speak French?
Anyway, the essence of it says with my finger on the piano on the first day of my first love with your heart in my hand I found my first song
So, I'm not a really good piano player, so excuse my
Imperfections (cheers). Thank you
My glasses, my glasses. A senior moment
Oh you're very kind."

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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