Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

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The Second Barbra Streisand Album

BARBRA STREISAND
...What makes her the unique and ingenious talent that she is?

Listening to this album again and again, I have reached one conclusion: besides possessing a God-given singing voice, Barbra is the first girl I have ever heard who is a great actress in each song. Barbra makes every song sound like a well-written three-act play performed stunningly in three minutes.

Although the same Barbra Streisand, she takes on an exciting new characterization for each song. At its begin-ning, she establishes her character; next, she creates a conflict (making all the lyrics mean so much more than they seem to), then she reaches a tremendous conclusion-so that, even after hearing only one song, lasting only a few minutes, one is completely overwhelmed.

Barbra knows what she is singing, knows what lyrics mean. I was one of the early, early Barbra Streisand fans and in all my years of writing songs and being associated with top singers, I have never been as thrilled as I was listening to this new album.
JULE STYNE

Songs

• Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
• Right As The Rain
• Down with Love
• Who Will Buy?
• When The Sun Comes Out
• Gotta Move
• My Coloring Book
• I Don't Care Much
• Lover
• Come Back to Me
• I Stayed Too Long At The Fair
• Like a Straw in The Wind

Je M'appelle Barbra

When handled with affection, care and respect, superb French songs, like some of the finer French wines, travel well. The flavor, the bouquet and, most important, the afterglow somehow survive the perilous journey between cultures and languages and remain to sharpen our tastes and enrich our lives.

In all, the program is a heady, potent mixture of both the old and the new: Speak to Me of Love (Parlez-moi d'amour) by Jean Lenoir, with English lyrics by Bruce Sievier, was introduced in France in 1930. I Wish You Love (Que reste-t-il de nos amours?) is from the pen of that charming troubadour, Charles Trenet, and the tender English version was written by Albert Beach. One of France's greatest contemporary poets, Jacques Prevert, wrote Les Feuilles mortes shortly after World War II to music by Joseph Kosma. As adapted by Johnny Mercer, it became Autumn Leaves and turned up in the United States in 1950. What Now My Love (Et maintenant) is by Gilbert Becaud who, like Trenet, sings only the songs he composes. The English lyrics are by Carl Sigman. Clopin Clopant, with French words by Pierre Dudan and music by Bruno Coquatrix, is presented here in its British rather than its American-lyric version. The English lyrics are by Kermit Goell. Michel Legrand, who conducted and arranged this album, wrote Once Upon a Summertime (La Valse des lilas) in 1954 at the age of twenty-two. The French lyrics are by Eddy Marnay, and the adaptation is by Johnny Mercer.

Of the new songs, I've Been Here (Le Mur) was written for Edith Piaf who did not live to perform it. When informed that Miss Streisand was planning an album of French songs, the composer, Charles Dumont, and the lyricist, Michel Vaucaire, withheld the song from French singers for more than a year in anticipation of her debut on records in France. Following traditional Gallie procedures, the English-language version by Earl Shuman was written specifically for Barbra Streisand.

Non c'est rien, which was introduced on the "Color Me Barbra" television show, has words by Michel Jourdan to music by Armand Canfora and Joss Baselli. The French version, along with its English-language counterpart, Free Again, by Robert Colby, was also written especially for Barbra Streisand. Love and Learn (Qui es-tu) and Martina (Les Enfants qui pleurent) are by the aforementioned Michel Legrand and Eddy Marnay. The English lyrics were written by, respectively, Norman Gimbel and Hal Shaper.

Ma Premiere Chanson (My First Song) was composed by Barbra herself. She asked her friend Eddy Marnay to write the lyric which says:

One finger on a piano, my voice around some words,
I played with your name and a song was born.
In my hands your heart and mine...
That old piano takes me back to the first day of my first love
And then I found.., My First Song.

The refreshing irreverence that Barbra Streisand has shown toward the moldy concepts of "accepted" popular singing is once more demonstrated in her choice of, and approach to, this group of songs adapted from their French originals. Ever unafraid of open emotionalism and yet wondrously aware of subtleties and characterization, this amazing young woman points the way toward the day when American popular music will reach a new level of intelligence and artistry. May her courage, talent and enormous popularity continue to stimulate and inspire the creation of new songs of beauty, wit and power.
Nat Shapiro

Side 1

• Free Again
• Autumn Leaves
• What Now My Love
• Ma Premiere Chanson
• Clopin Clopant
• Le Mur

• I Wish You Love
• Speak to Me of Love
• Love and Learn
• Once Upon a Summertime
• Martina
• I've Been Here

Funny Girl

Hello, Dolly!

The Owl and the Pussycat

A Star Is Born