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New York State of MindBarbra Streisand

Released: May 31, 1977

Songwriter: Billy Joel

Producer: Gary Klein

Some folks like to get away
Take a holiday from the neighborhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood

But I'm takin' a Greyhound
On the Hudson River line
I'm in a New York state of mind

Seen all those movie stars
And their fancy cars and their limousines
Been high in the Rockies, under the evergreens

But I know what I'm needin'
And I don't wanna waste more time
I'm in a New York state of mind

It was so easy livin' day by day
Out of touch with the rhythm and blues
But now I need a little give and take
The New York Times and the Daily News

Comes down to reality
And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide
I don't care if it's Chinatown or up on Riverside

I don't have any reasons
I've left them all behind
I'm in a New York state of mind

I don't have any reasons
Cause left them all behind
I'm in a New York, I'm in a New York state of mind...

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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