Barbra Streisand

Released: May 1, 1962

Songwriter: Harold Rome

Producer: Charles Burr Elizabeth Lauer

Everywhere I go I hear sweet songs about the moon
Songs about the stars above and songs of love in June
Songs of hearts that beat as one to some sweet lovers' tune
But they're not songs that sing for me

Songs about the dreams that lie within a lover's eyes
Songs about the cloudless sky in lovers' paradise
Songs about the joys of love and lovers' lullabies
But there not songs that sing for me

What good is love if you have to face
Cold hungry days and sighing?
What good is love if life's just a race
To keep your heart from crying?

Lеt the poets sing of skies abovе
And endless love and hearts that dance
Where is my chance for the call of romance?

What good is love if you haven't got
All that makes life worth living?
What good is love if you haven't got
Even a thing worth giving?

You can keep your little songs that sing
Of all the joy that love can bring
What good's romance?
What good is love, to me?

You can keep your little songs that sing
Of all the joy that love can bring
What good's romance?
What good is love, to me?

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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