Barbra Streisand

Released: October 14, 2003

Songwriter: Jimmy Van Heusen Johnny Burke

Producer: Barbra Streisand

Love is funny or it's sad
Or it's quiet or it's mad;
It's a good thing or it's bad
But beautiful!
Beautiful to take a chance
And if you fall, you fall;
And I'm thinking I wouldn't mind at all
Love is tearful or it's gay
It's a problem or it's play;
It's a heartache either way
But beautiful!
And I'm thinking if you were mine
I'd never let you go;
And that would be but beautiful I know

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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