After reading her book I've been giving Barbara's discography a full listen for the first time, and I'm really underwhelmed. Even "Guilty" was kinda shit outside of the code singles. Really bad curation on the other albums as her career progresses, too. So many mistakes in aesthetic taste, like most of her Rupert Holmes stuff. Her incredible voice really had us forgiving her for a lot.
Barbara Streisands albums...not that great
by Anonymous | reply 241 | July 7, 2024 5:05 PM |
Hoo boy my reaction as well when I listened to 'Stoney End' for the fist time in 30 years. What a racket.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 17, 2024 4:56 PM |
She made some weird choices in the beginning, but Stoney End was when she still started really going off the rails.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 17, 2024 5:00 PM |
first*
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 17, 2024 5:00 PM |
Have you ever heard the Christmas đ Album??
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 17, 2024 5:01 PM |
Guilty is solid from beginning to end.
Make It Like a Memory is a fucking odyssey. Her bombastic delivery finds its niche here perfectly.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 17, 2024 5:04 PM |
R3, are you so full of poseur neediness that you have to mess up your reasonable post with the unacceptable "curation" and "code signals,"
You're not impressing anyone here with your silliness and off-the-mark pride.
Unlike Ms. Streisand, who works towards her own standards, which are focused on lushness, precision, and churning it all into butter.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 17, 2024 5:04 PM |
The poor girl has a God-given voice but terrible taste in music.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 17, 2024 5:04 PM |
Butterfly is a fucking mess.
Streisand's taste in music matches her taste in clothes.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 17, 2024 5:08 PM |
R5 that is an incredible record. My mother turned me on to that one a few years ago.
âThe Way We Wereâ in my opinion, has the best drumming ever executed on a pop track. Itâs just amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 17, 2024 5:13 PM |
Her voice was thrilling and often impeccable. Her taste wildly uneven. I heard it when she released each album. What took you guys so long to catch on?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 17, 2024 5:13 PM |
The only Streisand album I need in my collection is the OG Greatest Hits from 1970. Though I admit to also having A Star Is Born (sentimental/kitsch value) and Guilty (her most consistent studio album IMO, but still not devoid of filler)
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 17, 2024 5:32 PM |
core singles, not code singles.* Fucking phone.
For example: "No Mo Tears" is fucking phenomenal, but the "Wet" album wasn't.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 17, 2024 5:41 PM |
No Moâ Tears (Enuffâs Enuff)
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 17, 2024 5:45 PM |
I donât mind the Stoney End album so much.
Streisand is out of her element with the Joni Mitchell covers - she has no sense of Mitchellâs detached wariness, and her Dusty Springfield remakes donât work for me either, as sheâs missing Springfieldâs sensuality and vulnerability.
But I like the Laura Nyro songs! Stoney End benefits from the tighter production, and she really seems to have fun with Flim-Flam Man.
Most surprising to me is her rendition of Gordon Lightfootâs classic If You Could Read My Mind. It doesnât touch the original, and I still prefer Johnny Cashâs stripped down version from the Rick Rubin years, but I enjoy Streisandâs dramatic, over-the-top reading.
The seventies stuff is uneven and often bland to me, but I like this record better than the others from the decade.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 17, 2024 6:19 PM |
I never got why people referred to as some great interpreter. She seems to approach (attack) all material the same way, whether it be Beatles, Bowie, Bacharach or Harold Arlen.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 17, 2024 6:46 PM |
[quote]Dusty Springfield remakes donât work for me either, as sheâs missing Springfieldâs sensuality and vulnerability.
Nice analysis. Barbra's Who Can I Turn To is no match for Dusty's. Dusty really brought a yearning and sensuality to the song, and Barbra's was rather flat.
Here's Barbra's version ;
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 17, 2024 6:48 PM |
[quote]She made some weird choices in the beginning, but Stoney End was when she still started really going off the rails.
Hardly, r2. Regardless of how you feel about it, she was just keeping up with the times and extending her recording career.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 17, 2024 6:55 PM |
Despite her amazing voice, I don't much care for her material either. But taste is individual, isn't it? And her taste is pretty consistent whether it's music, architecture, or interior decorating.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 17, 2024 7:01 PM |
That duet with Donna Summer sounds like two cats in heat out in the back alley.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 17, 2024 7:05 PM |
Her seventies stabs at contemporary songwritersâ burgeoning classics were really hit and miss.
Sometimes, when there was swelling orchestration to complement her vocal showboating, it really comes together, as on this version of Jimmy Webbâs Didnât We, which appeared on her Live Concert at the Forum album from 1972.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 17, 2024 7:08 PM |
Her taste may be questionable - more so in later albums - but hers is a voice for the ages. Remarkable and unforgettable.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 17, 2024 7:08 PM |
I think her first album is immaculate. Itâs simple and cohesive and bizarre at times.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 17, 2024 7:08 PM |
I've never been a huge Barbra fan, but I like a lot of her late 70s/early 80s pop stuff.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 17, 2024 7:09 PM |
Her voice is certainly a beautiful instrument, but itâs always lacked soul and nuance to my ears. Sheâs no Judy
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 17, 2024 7:12 PM |
Is there filler on Guilty? If there is, itâs good filler. I love that she admitted in the book she had no real idea what Woman In Love was about - but sang it anyway as instructed by Barry Gibb. (Hint, Barbra: Itâs about belting the chorus!)
I liked A Star Is Born (as someone said above, kitsch value) but Evergreen is beautiful and so unique - does it actually have a chorus? I like Streisand Superman as a B-side/outtakes from ASIB. And sometimes her voice just sounds so good, it doesnât matter what sheâs singing. Iâve always loved her vocal performance on My Heart Belongs to Me, itâs such a hothouse of a ding. Another one where in the book she says she didnât really understand it.
Mostly, I like Kooky Barbra. And I liked The Broadway Album.
Iâm sure I said it on the book thread but listening to the memoir makes you realise that careers are what happens while the talent is waiting around for something better to do. A lot of her discography sounds like it was under contract.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 17, 2024 7:14 PM |
*hothouse of a song
Jamaican dialect unintended.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 17, 2024 7:16 PM |
[quote]Her voice is certainly a beautiful instrument, but itâs always lacked soul and nuance to my ears
It's *all* about the voice not the interpretation, r26. Like Ronstadt.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 17, 2024 7:18 PM |
ButterFly is a nadir for me, but I donât mind the next one after that, the Rupert Holmes record referenced upthread.
Again, when the big production matches her voice, the songs can work.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 17, 2024 7:25 PM |
LOL - agree Butterfly is the nadir. Blech. Guava Jelly, anyone? Grandmaâs Hands?
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 17, 2024 7:30 PM |
[quote]Grandmaâs Hands?
Grandma's Hands comes off a bit like...
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 17, 2024 7:36 PM |
If weâre talking Lazy Afternoon, I prefer this one.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 17, 2024 7:48 PM |
Her thang has always been the Power Torch Song. And she went through all the Broadway tunes.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 17, 2024 7:52 PM |
Most everything after The Broadway album is forgettable.
That was her last true masterpiece.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 17, 2024 7:54 PM |
Agreed, her version of Somewhere is my favorite recording of that song
by Anonymous | reply 37 | June 17, 2024 8:01 PM |
Barbra's best ever...
"The Way We Were" album...not the movie soundtrack, but the album titled, TWWW. It's brilliant especially the magnificent, "The Best Thing You've Ever Done."
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 17, 2024 8:01 PM |
R38, âPieces of Dreamsâ is really nice
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 17, 2024 8:08 PM |
I'm listening in a high quality headphones, and the production on every single album is masterful. The mixes are outstanding.
Also, I think the thing I'm reacting to is there's far, far more if her recordings that are of its time and haven't aged well.
Finally - Je M'apelle Barbra was underrated.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 17, 2024 8:11 PM |
Miss Lake Dardanelle, I love you.
Babs, you put out a lot of shit, but when you were good, you were very good.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 17, 2024 8:20 PM |
OP, donât listen to anything after 1970 and youâll understand why Babs was great. Was.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 17, 2024 8:48 PM |
âLove is the Answerâ is a solid album. Most of her albums since the 90s have been cheesy. The music sounds like cheesy demos on Casio keyboards from the 90s. All those cheap sounds they have on keyboards they never use for contemporary music, itâs on her albums.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 17, 2024 9:10 PM |
R42 is correct. If one is uninitiated and wants to know what all the fuss was about with her, one just needs to listen to the Greatest Hits that was posted up thread to understand what the big deal was.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 17, 2024 9:18 PM |
Most of them suck ass I couldnât stand a lot of her at any time
by Anonymous | reply 45 | June 17, 2024 9:21 PM |
The early albums especially 1, 2, and 3 are absolutely phenomenal.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 17, 2024 9:22 PM |
Really fell in love with this Anthony Newly song
by Anonymous | reply 47 | June 17, 2024 9:26 PM |
My Name is Barbra one and two, Color Me Barbra, People. A subtle album of standards that I love (she doesnât), Simply Streisand.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | June 17, 2024 9:36 PM |
I plan to redo all her greatest hits when she finally croaks.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | June 17, 2024 9:46 PM |
Oh my god thatâs a MARY! R47
by Anonymous | reply 50 | June 17, 2024 9:50 PM |
Gotta own it to sell it, r50!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | June 17, 2024 10:03 PM |
r38: I share your praise for "The Way We Were" album. Every song is exquisite.
But this cut is my favorite. It may well be my favorite Streisand recording. Flawless Peter Matz arrangement.
Recorded in 1967 for the aborted BELLE OF 14th STREET TV soundtrack album.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | June 17, 2024 10:21 PM |
R52, you must (?) know that he majority of that album was recorded in 1969 and shelved for Barbraâs contemporary period staring in 1971. It was quickly revived into a ânewâ album when The Way We Were single was a hit. They needed an album for the single and had this one in the vaults.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | June 17, 2024 11:56 PM |
r53: I do indeed! It was to be called "The Singer". Two or three (?) songs were newly recoded to fill it out.
The title song from that album was performed by new Columbia artist Liza Minnelli in 1973. "The Singer is the seventh studio album by American singer and actress Liza Minnelli, released in 1973. It marked her first release under Columbia Records and was highly anticipated by the public.
The change in Minnelli's discography began on March 1, 1972, when the actress and singer signed her contract with Columbia Records. In September 1972, recording sessions began for what would become "The Singer" .Originally, fellow label artist Barbra Streisand was set to release an album with the same title, featuring the track by Walter Marks, but the project was shelved, allowing Minnelli to breathe life into an album that would become a significant part of her own musical journey.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | June 18, 2024 12:24 AM |
Check out her 1969 âWhat About Today?â album that until recently Iâd never listened to, let alone never known existed. Really good stuff.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | June 18, 2024 12:59 AM |
Please do not compare Liza with a real SINGER like Streisand.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | June 18, 2024 1:15 AM |
Singers released so many albums back then, at least one per year. Sometimes more.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | June 18, 2024 1:16 AM |
^ two a year in the 1960s.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | June 18, 2024 1:17 AM |
How gay am I? I listened to two albums over and over and over way back when I was a young man.
Barbra's Second Album and Johnny Mathis killing it on his "Faithfully" album.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | June 18, 2024 2:10 AM |
Greatest Hits albums suck.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | June 18, 2024 2:28 AM |
It basically comes down to Broadway Barbra vs Pop Star Barbra. I prefer the former.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | June 18, 2024 12:17 PM |
I always liked the "Barbra Joan Streisand" album. It's not perfect, but her voice sure was.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | June 18, 2024 4:40 PM |
^ GOD I hate that album. Summer of 42 was nice though.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | June 18, 2024 6:04 PM |
She was lucky to come along when she did. Tastes in music and movies were going to change radically in a few years. By 1968 or 69, the music she was recording and movie musicals were over for most people. Given her lackluster pop albums from 1969 or 70 onwards, I wonder if she would have become the megastar she did.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | June 19, 2024 3:43 PM |
For the longest time I thought the disco hit "Superman" which was played on the radio was Barbra Streisand singing. Her "Streisand Superman" album was released the same year and I thought this disco song was the hit from it.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | June 19, 2024 4:00 PM |
The first Streisand album I owned was "Greatest Hits Vol 2." It had the song "Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars)" which I got for Christmas when I was a kid. I eventually bought all her albums over a short period of time from dollar bins at the record stores.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | June 19, 2024 4:06 PM |
[quote]By 1968 or 69, the music she was recording and movie musicals were over for most people
Not exactly, R64. It was over for people under 40. The record companies and TV networks froze the over 40s out and focused on youth culture. There was an audience, but it had no value to them (they thought). So they wanted the great vocalists to record "contemporary" music that alienated their audience and that youth would never buy. Streisand accepted what she had to do and created an new musical persona, one that used inferior material. But it sold better.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | June 19, 2024 8:10 PM |
What album, if any, can I find Barbra's rendition of "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" that is played at the end of the Golden Girls episode where the girls spend the night at the homeless shelter?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | June 19, 2024 9:16 PM |
R65 Has it been a challenge as a deaf person pursuing your interest in popular music?
by Anonymous | reply 69 | June 19, 2024 9:25 PM |
R68, it seems it was part of an EP called Second Hand Rose.
I was unaware that EPs were even a thing in the sixties.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | June 19, 2024 9:29 PM |
Like the eyes of Laura mars theme
by Anonymous | reply 71 | June 19, 2024 9:33 PM |
Her best music is when she is singing live in concert or on TV shows. There is an incredible amount of video available on YouTube going back to the beginning of her career.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | June 19, 2024 9:42 PM |
[quote] Grandmaâs Hands?
Her interpretation of that classic Bill Withers tune reminds me of what Truman Capote said about her version of A Sleepin' Bee: "She takes every ballad and turns it into a three-act opera. She simply cannot leave a song alone."
by Anonymous | reply 73 | June 19, 2024 9:53 PM |
R68 That was not Barbra singing.
The singer was uncredited but there is discussion on the net that it´s either Judy Collins ore GG theme singer Cynthia Fee.
The first time Babs okayed songs of hers to be used for TV was in 2016. Her husband had directed some Christmas thing for Hallmark and using two songs for that production was her gift to him. Otherwise they could not have afforded it.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | June 19, 2024 10:07 PM |
R68, it was part of the medley in MY NAME IS BARRA TWO. Forget what R70 said.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | June 19, 2024 11:19 PM |
r68: "My Name Is Barbra, Two" - Part of the "Bergdorfs " number.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | June 19, 2024 11:23 PM |
I think her two songs from SUNSET BOULEVARD from 'BACK TO BROADWAY' are two stand-outs from the 90s. She really set the standard for those two numbers - Lupone , Close, Carroll, Buckley and the others don't even come close.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | June 20, 2024 12:11 AM |
Her MEMORY on The Broadway Album is also pretty great. The whole album is very good.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | June 20, 2024 12:28 AM |
WHAT Memory from the Broadway album???
by Anonymous | reply 79 | June 20, 2024 12:37 AM |
I like 'Stoney End.'
by Anonymous | reply 80 | June 20, 2024 12:51 AM |
The problem with Barbra is that she has always been given far too much credit as a musician because of her voice's exceptional beauty, when in reality she doesn't have any taste whatsoever and is too self-indulgent to venture out of her comfort zone, unless she was forced to do so by her record company. Moreover, her neuroticism and inability to relinquish control even for one second, makes most of her albums impossibly boring because everything sounds the same.
Her first albums are soporific, but she was going against the grain by singing forgotten musical theatre tunes, old standards and making unexpected jazzy versions of songs by The Beatles, Jimmy Webb and Paul Simon. Still, they are still coma-inducing pap. When she tried to orientate her career toward a more contemporary audience, the results were uneven but the highs were glorious. Stoney End has some great numbers that show that she could do folksy pop like the best of them, and her late 70s / early 80s output, when she dabbled in rock and exploded into disco, can be sublime. Her Paul Jabara numbers, Cabin Fever from Superman and Guilty, her collaboration with the Bee Gees, are simply awesome. And let's nor forget how SUPERB her version of Jim Steinman's Left In the Dark was; just pure perfection.
Sadly, she soon grew bored with trying to occasionally challenge herself, decided to go back to what her long term fans liked the most, and she's been insufferably tiresome ever since. Not even ever attempt to recapture the magic of Guilty by working a second time with a particularly uninspired Barry Gibb, could save her from her own dullness. In short, La Streisand is very much a singles artist and most of her output is, in my opinion, inexplicably overrated.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | June 20, 2024 7:44 PM |
WELL...Smell you, R81!
by Anonymous | reply 82 | June 20, 2024 9:08 PM |
[quote] When she tried to orientate her career toward a more contemporary audience, the results were uneven but the highs were glorious.
SAYS YOU
by Anonymous | reply 83 | June 20, 2024 10:58 PM |
R81, Left in the Dark is sheer camp.
Jim Steinman meets Barbra Streisand. Iâm envisioning the studio starting to smoke because every dial had been turned up to 11 and Barbra broke off the chain keeping up.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | June 20, 2024 11:07 PM |
[quote]Truman Capote said about her version of A Sleepin' Bee: "She takes every ballad and turns it into a three-act opera. She simply cannot leave a song alone."
Also from House of Flowers...
by Anonymous | reply 85 | June 20, 2024 11:08 PM |
R81 Hi Patti! Sorry Madonna took Evita from ya but at least we will always have your tits on screen from Summer of Sam!
by Anonymous | reply 86 | June 20, 2024 11:16 PM |
[quote]unless she was forced to do so by her record company.
She was never 'forced to do' anything by her record company. She always had complete control over her recordings, and Columbia let her. That is why she has been with them for over 60 years.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | June 20, 2024 11:57 PM |
One of the funniest bits in IN 'N' OUT is the fight that erupts at Kevin Kline's bachelor party -- among a bunch of straight men -- about Barbra being overrated.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | June 21, 2024 12:03 AM |
R87, she and her manager negotiated for total control with Columbia in her first contract. It cost her some money but turned out to be the right decision.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | June 21, 2024 1:45 AM |
I don't this video was ever released. I think she's vocally incredible here while giving the song a poignancy.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | June 21, 2024 1:47 AM |
R89 Correct - and she has kept that in her contract ever since. She's probably the only artist to have that kind of control throughout their career.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | June 21, 2024 2:06 AM |
R90 That is Barbra at her best. It was recorded in early 1988 for her second Broadway album, produced by Rupert Holmes. For reasons not really understood, she decided to shelve the album when it was nearly completed. Some tracks have been released, but never this one. It should have been released on 1993's 'Back to Broadway' instead of some of the crap she did release on it ("Some Enchanted Evening", "Music of the Night"). We fans are hoping she will release it on an upcoming 'Release Me' album (we thought for sure it would have been included on the first or second volume, but no...).
by Anonymous | reply 92 | June 21, 2024 2:10 AM |
R90 more like Make My Garden BLOW!
by Anonymous | reply 93 | June 21, 2024 2:18 AM |
R81, one of the best assessments Iâve ever read, bravo!
by Anonymous | reply 94 | June 21, 2024 2:24 AM |
R94 is R81.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | June 21, 2024 11:53 AM |
Barbra sounds great on that Make Our Garden Grow but the arrangement is for shit. The point of the song is contentment, a point that is lost as she makes the song bigger and bigger in typical Barbara fashion.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | June 21, 2024 12:09 PM |
I actually like two of her most reviled 70s cover versions: Bowieâs Life on Mars and Lennonâs Mother.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | June 21, 2024 12:20 PM |
Her first, "The Barbra Streisand Album," and "Color Me Barbra" are about perfect.
For Streisand albums. It IS a special category.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | June 21, 2024 12:35 PM |
^ Jon Peters
by Anonymous | reply 99 | June 21, 2024 12:41 PM |
R89, She has also owned her masters since the very beginning. This is one of the reasons why she is incredible wealthy. She has a special vault containing the tapes of everything she has ever recorded.
If she were to ever sell her catalog like other musicians are doing right now, then she would be an instant billionaire. It makes sense for her to do that before she dies.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | June 21, 2024 12:50 PM |
This is gayest fucking thread I've ever read in all my years on DL.
Keep it up fags.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | June 21, 2024 1:15 PM |
She does not like the first at all. I agree. Sone good stuff but also lots of unnecessary dramatics, yelps etc that were not really characteristic of her at the time. Listen to her Bon Soir album for an example of her early voice.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | June 21, 2024 1:54 PM |
I have long wondered how perfectionist Barbra allowed that horrendous crack at the end of Donât Rain on My Parade on the OBC to stand.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | June 21, 2024 3:19 PM |
^ She hates it, I LOVE it
by Anonymous | reply 104 | June 21, 2024 3:40 PM |
R64, it really is fascinating how Barbra was the best-selling female artist of all time until Madonna and Whitney along. But whereas those two men still generate SOME interest in Gen Z members, Barbra does not. And it's not hard to see why. She comes across as pre-modern in many ways, including her music. She debuted the same year as The Beatles but the latter's catalogue is far more popular by a landslide. Barbra has always seemed older than she actually is. She and Celine have that in common. That, and neither would ever be called "cool", ever.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | June 21, 2024 3:50 PM |
R65 Hard to believe Columbia was trying to sell Barbra as "hot" with that ad campaign.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | June 21, 2024 4:13 PM |
r100 her catalogue is not worth a billion, but the $300 million they'd offer might tip her into billionaire status.
Let's face it, if you can't sell the music commercially, then it's of little value. No one is buying her albums like they used to. Her streaming numbers are shit. Broadway tunes and sleepy ballads haven't been in style since the 70s, maybe the 80s. Many people have sold their catalogues recently, none of them are getting big bucks because unless you can be placed into a TV commercial, a movie, or have loads of covers, your work has little value today.
So, I think she'd get an offer so small, her fans' heads would explode. Celine Dion's catalogue is likely worth more than Streisands today, because at least her songs are relevant with Gen-Z thanks to TikTok. No one is checking from grandma Barbara.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | June 21, 2024 4:18 PM |
R105, Barbra always seemed "older" because her music belongs to the previous generation, and that wasn't a bad thing. The Beatles and all the 1960s rock groups was music for teenagers. Streisand was for adults, people over 30 bought her records. In the 70s, Clive Davis talked her into going contemporary, and appealed to her age - she was still in her 20s. Rarely have I liked that music, but I understand why she agreed to join her age group.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | June 21, 2024 4:18 PM |
That $300 million number was being SUPER generous. She's probably be under in the $200 million range.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | June 21, 2024 4:18 PM |
^ EWWWWW
by Anonymous | reply 111 | June 21, 2024 4:26 PM |
R110, I thought that was Richard Simmons.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | June 21, 2024 4:42 PM |
If Queen's catalogue is at 1.3 billion or so, there is no way in hell Barbra's is anywhere near 1 billion. Probably 300 or 400 million.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | June 21, 2024 5:42 PM |
Would actually suck to be her and look back and remember the endless fuss she made over every detail on every album and every movie, only to have 90% of her lifeâs work have such little meaning, relevance, staying power, or vitality later on.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | June 21, 2024 6:43 PM |
No it wouldnât, R114. Thatâs because Barbra doesnât know any of that.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | June 21, 2024 7:08 PM |
[quote]it really is fascinating how Barbra was the best-selling female artist of all time until Madonna and Whitney along.
Barbra has fallen down on the global all-time biggest selling female artists list. Madonna has fallen to #6, and Whitney is hanging on at #10. Celine is at #13.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | June 21, 2024 7:59 PM |
She probably has one of the greatest voices of all time but her choice of music was meh most of the time. I loved the Funny Girl album and the duets she did. Her Broadway album was great. She is great at torch songs. I wish she had done more of them.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | June 21, 2024 8:39 PM |
Anyone know what OBC stands for?
by Anonymous | reply 118 | June 21, 2024 8:47 PM |
R117, then you simply donât know her catalogue. Its easily contains the widest breadth of music ever recorded by a single artist. He Mr concerts are a tour through great composers, lyricists and songwriters of the 20 and 21st centuries- many who she knew and literally clambered to have her record their music. Very few people, even fans really know all her catalogue but rather early, Broadway, pop etc. Dans tend to think early Barbra is the great Barbra,, or Bee Gee Barbra or Broadway etc.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | June 21, 2024 8:59 PM |
R119 is the epitome of a stan
by Anonymous | reply 120 | June 21, 2024 9:00 PM |
As a middle schooler I got hooked on Color Me Barbra after the telecast......
Soon got all the LPs up to that point, and was exposed to the American Songbook,... many cuts I was not familiar with at age 14.
By Stony End, I was a fan of all those current singer songwriters, so Barbra's covers seemed rather pointless.
So I'm a fan of the early stuff.......
also a fan of Peter Matz.... whose name seems to have been forgotten ... it took up to R52 for his name to appear on this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | June 21, 2024 9:03 PM |
R120, thatâs âcharlieâ - big Streisand worshipper/apologist and celebrity bullshiter at the Datalounge.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | June 21, 2024 9:03 PM |
As a middle schooler I got hooked on drugsâŚ.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | June 21, 2024 9:05 PM |
R119 is good ole Charlie, defending Babs as always.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | June 21, 2024 9:05 PM |
R121
The last time she used a "new" orchestration by the great Peter Matz was 2006 live in concert.
[quote] âMy personal thanks to Marilyn Lovell Matz for sharing a very special piece of music with me. Marilyn combined and arranged William Saroyan's foreward to his play The Time of Your Life with Rodgers & Hammerstein's âA Cockeyed Optimistâ from South Pacific, orchestrated by her late husband Peter Matz. Peter was a gifted composer and arranger who was so important to my musical career ... and to me.â
by Anonymous | reply 125 | June 21, 2024 9:30 PM |
R118 OBC is the catalog code for 'Original Broadway Cast', which is for a music album from a Broadway production. Shows that originate outside of Broadway usually go by 'OCR' for "Original Cast Recording" (such as the West End recording of 'Phantom of the Opera', or the LA production of 'Sunset Boulevard').
For music from movies, it's 'OMPS' which stands for 'Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' (though over the years it has also been labeled 'OMS' for 'Original Movie Soundtrack').
Hope this helps
by Anonymous | reply 126 | June 21, 2024 9:38 PM |
âHe Mr concerts are a tour through great composers, lyricists and songwriters of the 20 and 21st centuries- many who she knew and literally clambered to have her record their music. Very few people, even fans really know all her catalogue but rather early, Broadway, pop etcâ
Maybe SOME songwriters would have clambered to have her record their songs, but even some of those people would have shuddered at the thought of actually producing them with her. And itâs simply not true that âvery few peopleâ know her catalog. She has sold millions of records. Even an inconsequential platter of pap like Songbird sold a million copies. But her music just doesnât hold up. Itâs either of itâs time and/or for people with a specific interest in her kind of showbiz soft rock or Broadway pop. Cher and Dolly Parton donât have the amazing gift that Streisand has (her voice) but they are more relevant to younger audiences because their older songs still resonate and theyâre more charismatic and likable. And despite all of the plastic on the outside, there are actual real people inside.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | June 21, 2024 10:09 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 128 | June 21, 2024 10:13 PM |
[quote] Its easily contains the widest breadth of music ever recorded by a single artist.
Oh please, go fuck yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | June 21, 2024 10:20 PM |
R116, Madonna is still number one but she will be overtaken by Taylor Swift soon. I think it's like comparing apples and oranges but it is what it is.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | June 21, 2024 11:21 PM |
There's a fairly new book out that explores her entire recording career.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | June 22, 2024 2:15 AM |
This is an example of what Iâm talking about where her music sounds like a demo on a Casio keyboard from the 90âs.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | June 22, 2024 2:40 AM |
This song is from 2005. Yes, almost 20 years ago but 20 years ago didnât sound like this. This sounds like 1988.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | June 22, 2024 2:46 AM |
R134 Sounds like the same album but itâs 17 years apart.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | June 22, 2024 2:48 AM |
R108 Here she is covering The Beatles in the 60s.
Paul and Barbra are the same age.
Barbra sang it like she was his motherâs age.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | June 22, 2024 2:52 AM |
God, that is ONE song that doesn't need the showtunes reinterpretation! Capote was right! ^^
by Anonymous | reply 138 | June 22, 2024 2:56 AM |
Her rendition of "Jingle Bells" has always been my most hated Christmas song ever.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | June 22, 2024 2:58 AM |
I was born in 1987. I did not grow up with Barbra on the radio, she certainly was never on MTV.
I remember âTell Himâ with Celine. But I remember hearing it through commercials and being promoted through shows like Entertainment Tonight. Maybe they played the music video on VH1 but I didnât like it as a 10 year old.
I think when I was younger, she was like Frank Sinatra to me in that I knew who she was, I knew she was famous and beloved but I didnât know her music and it certainly wasnât for me.
It wasnât until I got older that I started listening to Barbra. I enjoy her first album the most. The rest are tough to get through although thereâs some songs here and there I like.
The âGuiltyâ album has definitely had a revival. I didnât hear those songs until I was older and satellite radio started playing them.
But to me, Julie London and Ella Fitzgeraldâs music aged better to me.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | June 22, 2024 3:21 AM |
Once the rhythm kicks in halfway into this song the Babyface production suits her really well here.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | June 22, 2024 11:33 AM |
OMG. The âLeft in the Darkâ trollâŚthe only person who should be singing that song is Ellen Foley.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | June 22, 2024 11:48 AM |
Barbraâs Emotion videos actually played on MTV when they were released. As did Bette Midlers cover of The Rolling Stones Beast of Burden, which also got nominated for a few VMAs.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | June 22, 2024 12:26 PM |
R129, Rondstat herself the first person to tell you the same!
by Anonymous | reply 144 | June 22, 2024 1:16 PM |
Thanks R131 I ordered that book ($40 on Amazon)
by Anonymous | reply 145 | June 22, 2024 3:54 PM |
I didnât order the book (R131) because the author prefers the FG movie soundtrack over the Bway cast album. Movie = overproduced, Broadway = spontaneous
by Anonymous | reply 146 | June 22, 2024 4:20 PM |
I got the book and went through it once. It's all the same info that's on his website already - nothing new.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | June 22, 2024 4:52 PM |
Well, if it sucks I'll just send it back.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | June 22, 2024 4:56 PM |
I was told that the song was "sexy," R149
by Anonymous | reply 150 | June 22, 2024 5:13 PM |
R103, that "nasty crack" (in her voice) what got her the two votes that provided her with an Oscar in the fateful tie.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | June 22, 2024 6:02 PM |
[quote]Its easily contains the widest breadth of music ever recorded by a single artist. He Mr concerts are a tour through great composers
And no one needed the tour through the fatness of your fingers pounding in exasperated, erroneous fanaticism, dear.
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | June 22, 2024 6:07 PM |
R149, I would never call it funny. She slowed the tempo unnecessarily and her delivery was excessively mannered, turning a lighthearted, danceable song into a boring snooze fest. Again, if someone had pushed her a little instead of allowing her to do exactly what she wanted, the results would have been infinitely better.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | June 22, 2024 6:16 PM |
R103 and R151, that "nasty crack" in her voice, in all seriousness, was what Bob Ross would have termed "a happy accident." In almost anyone else's voice, that crack would have come out as a horrible squawk, but because of the beautiful vocal instrument she was given, it cracks from the original pitch into a perfect overtone and then back to the original pitch. This is an effect that jazz trumpeters and saxophonists strive for but seldom achieve, and that I've never heard a vocalist manage, even by accident like this. Ella would imitate this effect in her scat singing when she was really cooking, but it wasn't the real thing, like this was. They would have been crazy to throw that take out.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | June 22, 2024 6:17 PM |
Thanks, R126.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | June 22, 2024 7:42 PM |
R153 It makes me giggle because she took a very sensual lusty song and took it to Disneyland.
She gave the cruise ship version.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | June 22, 2024 8:26 PM |
That crack is horrible.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | June 22, 2024 8:28 PM |
Note that the illiterate Trump lover Jon Peters âproducedâ the Butterfly album.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | June 22, 2024 8:31 PM |
Walls? Lmao!
by Anonymous | reply 159 | June 22, 2024 9:09 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 160 | June 22, 2024 10:20 PM |
I wish my last name was Von Tussle
by Anonymous | reply 161 | June 22, 2024 10:24 PM |
"Evergreen" is her best song IMO. So beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | June 22, 2024 10:27 PM |
^ no taste
by Anonymous | reply 163 | June 22, 2024 11:10 PM |
If mentioned above I missed it, but in hindsight the poor box office of Hello Dolly and On a Clear Day had to be part of the reason she shifted gears into the Stony End era.
If those two films had been big moneymakers, her solo output from 1970-73 may have been very different.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | June 23, 2024 2:25 AM |
Clive Davis from Columbia Records visited Babs on the set of Hello Dolly to propose that she do an album of contemporary songs. The result was Stony End. Dolly and Clear Day had not been released yet.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | June 23, 2024 8:53 AM |
^^My apologies. I fucked up. I remembered the story that Clive Davis told in his autobiography about visiting Babs on the Dolly set, but Stoney End did indeed come out after those two movies. As punishment, I will force myself to listen to Streisand Superman album and ponder those super-sexy cover images.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | June 23, 2024 8:59 AM |
Well, before she recorded the Stoney End album in 1971, the result of Clives visit on the Dolly set were Barbra recording three pop songs. Clive was concerned about the failure of her latest album of standards "Simply Streisand" to reach the top 10.
So in an effort to update her repertoire she recorded three contemporary pop songs. The single released in 1968 (âOur Corner of the Nightâ / âHe Could Show Meâ ) did not sell well . Nore did the follow up album "What About Today?" in 1969.
After disappointing sales of the Dolly and Clear Day soundtracks and her first Greatest Hits collection, she finally managed to boost her sales in 1971 with Stoney End.
Stoney End came after she successfully managed to modernise her image in movies with The Owl And The Pussycat.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | June 23, 2024 10:39 AM |
âOur Corner of the Nightâ and âHe Could Show Meâ could qualify for one of the top three WORST pop singles ever recorded.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | June 23, 2024 4:47 PM |
Wet
by Anonymous | reply 169 | June 23, 2024 5:26 PM |
Really wet
by Anonymous | reply 170 | June 23, 2024 8:55 PM |
"Wet" was one last chance to try to get Barbra looking sexy with that perm.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | June 23, 2024 9:25 PM |
With the title "Wet" was Barbra referring to her Downtown Suzie?
by Anonymous | reply 172 | June 23, 2024 9:30 PM |
Ugh, R171. I would call Barbra many things, but sexy? You would need to use a very loose definition of the word, as well as relying on a darkened lens smeared in LOTS of Vaseline. Also, there's nothing sexy about the insanely mediocre and dull title track, as well as most of the equally drab ballads that make the majority of that album.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | June 23, 2024 9:31 PM |
No R172 because they would have included barf bags with the album if that was the case.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | June 23, 2024 9:32 PM |
Lots and lots of schlock
by Anonymous | reply 175 | June 23, 2024 9:37 PM |
^ but it was POPULAR!!!
by Anonymous | reply 176 | June 23, 2024 11:45 PM |
Actually, r172, she was, explicitly referencing her vaginal secretions in the title song.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | June 23, 2024 11:56 PM |
R173 is an idiot.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | June 24, 2024 12:13 AM |
Bab's personal musical tastes don't bother me half as much as the fact OP forgot to include an apostrophe in the thread title.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | June 24, 2024 12:16 AM |
Is is pronounced Strei-SAND or Strei-ZAND?
by Anonymous | reply 180 | June 24, 2024 12:54 AM |
R180, I've always thought that it is pronounced SHTREI-zand, since it's a German surname.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | June 24, 2024 1:04 AM |
Sand, like on the beach.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | June 24, 2024 1:11 AM |
WET is (supposedly) the only album in music history which begins and ends with the same word - which happens to be the title of the album.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | June 24, 2024 1:13 AM |
I wish she would release an album of music from the movies.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | June 24, 2024 5:10 AM |
I did, bubbeleh at R184. They got my good side for the record sleeve.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | June 24, 2024 5:13 AM |
I love her version of One Tin Soldier
by Anonymous | reply 186 | June 24, 2024 5:54 AM |
^ WHAT?
by Anonymous | reply 187 | June 24, 2024 12:09 PM |
Skip 'The Movie Album'. After 17 years in the making, it was a major disappointment to fans of Streisand and fans of Hollywood. There's a reason she never did a sequel to it (in 21 years) as she did with 'The Broadway Album'.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | June 24, 2024 10:00 PM |
But the sequel to the Broadway album has some of the worst, overblown arrangements of any of her albums. Makes one appreciate the genius of Peter Matz.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | June 27, 2024 11:27 AM |
I am revolted by her "Ladies Who Lunch".
by Anonymous | reply 190 | June 27, 2024 11:33 AM |
A spectacular voice whose oeuvre, with a few exceptions, bores me to tears.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | June 27, 2024 11:48 AM |
R191, well snell you!
by Anonymous | reply 192 | June 27, 2024 1:41 PM |
The instrument is great but she has the worst taste of all time
by Anonymous | reply 193 | June 27, 2024 1:51 PM |
Was she popular with teenagers in the 60s - 80s?
I imagine she was like Michael Buble, Norah Jones, and Josh Groban a little bit? No one my age as a teenager liked them but they sold a shit ton of records and they were really popular?
by Anonymous | reply 194 | June 27, 2024 1:59 PM |
The age of music consumption has also decreased throughout the years. Like itâs truly a young persons game. You have to practically be under 25 to score a hit single today unless youâve been out for a long time.
I feel like Iâm the 90âs when I was growing up, age and image wasnât that important if you had a good song.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | June 27, 2024 2:01 PM |
R194, there was a small teenage audience for Babs in the 1960s because she was ârebelliousâ and outside the norm, but most of her audience was 30+. In the 70s those silly pop songs and love ballads were all over the radio (especially The Way We Were and A Star is Born) but thatâs where it ended. By then it was a late 40s, 50s+ audience.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | June 27, 2024 2:26 PM |
I love her version of Disco Duck.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | June 27, 2024 2:34 PM |
When she dusts off some old nuggets from the early days it´s still phantastic.
Her voice is pretty solid for a 78 year old singer to my untrained ears.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | June 27, 2024 8:00 PM |
R196 Wow, so older audiences were carrying her career the whole time?
Wow!
by Anonymous | reply 199 | June 27, 2024 8:49 PM |
I've always thought if her as a caberet artist. I do like her early work, the television specials were innovative at the time. She matured but her taste wasn't suited to the times. Jon Peters sexed her up but it always seemed contrived. We wanted our 2nd hand Rose and she wanted hot pants. Watch, A Star is Born. her ass is very prominent. He made sure
by Anonymous | reply 200 | June 27, 2024 9:40 PM |
Jon Peters was the largest of her many mistakes. What a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | June 27, 2024 9:45 PM |
Do you think she let Peters pop it in her pooper? Somehow I cann't see her giving up the backdoor...
by Anonymous | reply 202 | June 27, 2024 9:51 PM |
Now was this song supposed to be a joke? With a sense of humor?
by Anonymous | reply 203 | June 27, 2024 9:54 PM |
I do love her version of We've Only Just Begun
by Anonymous | reply 204 | June 27, 2024 9:58 PM |
It was released 20 years after it was recorded, R204.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | June 27, 2024 11:16 PM |
R201, Jon Peters was the best thing that happened to her career post-The Way We Were. Her music and film careers were going nowhere fast before she met him. She was seen as uncool and old-fashioned. He came along and turned her into the biggest singer and box-office star of the decade. A Star is Born was huge and a real cultural moment. Her albums during the Peters years were the biggest of her career, especially Guilty. The public was fascinated by their passionate relationship.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | June 28, 2024 12:13 AM |
Thank you for your contribution, Jon.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | June 28, 2024 12:56 AM |
BS Go help someone else you self centered rich bitch-you put that âstiff-shit-spellâ on Celine you jealous cunt!
by Anonymous | reply 208 | June 28, 2024 2:47 AM |
IDGAF what OP thinks.
I love Babâs voice and much of her songs.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | June 28, 2024 4:05 AM |
I never liked the songs she chose. At least Whitney could get down.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | June 28, 2024 4:27 AM |
[quote]r206 - A Star is Born was huge and a real cultural moment
Oh brother.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | June 28, 2024 4:35 AM |
I donât think Jon Peters was around by 1980 when she recorded the Guilty album.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | June 29, 2024 10:06 AM |
I was an infant, but I can still remember how over-marketed A Star Is Born was.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | June 29, 2024 10:10 AM |
I think Barbra had a kind of universal appeal initially, and also with younger women. When she emerged, it was a different time culturally. It was during the Kennedy administration when the country had actual cultural aspirations. There was also a show business firmament. If you won an Oscar - it made you (Iâm talking prior to her win though it was still incredibly prestigious then too). And of course television was monolithic. If you were on television on a Sunday night you were talked about all week. And even in the early â60s, your parentsâ records were your records. And Barbra Streisand, as evidenced by her television specials, was a dynamic, even edgy performer. On television, her vocal performances were physically raw which gave her a unique energy. And throughout the 1960s she was ascendant, with an âugly duckling/underdogâ narrative. She wasnât the pretty girl but she became fashionable and, on second thought, gorgeous. You couldnât believe the voice, the passion, the sexual energy of her performances (the girl always yearning for more) coming out of someone so young. She was kookie. She conquered Broadway. And by the end of the decade, film, of all things. Her talent and unique persona were undeniable. Iâm reminded of Debra Winger singing along to the OBCs of Mermanâs Anything Goes and West Side Story (also an INCREDIBLY popular film) in Terms of Endearment and I think Barbra had that kind of appeal as well. Iâm sure Emma in Terms wouldâve sung along to Donât Rain On My Parade as well.
As a child in the early â70s, I loved the song The Way We Were - everybody did. I remember going to other peopleâs homes and their young mothers had the 8-track tape of The Way We Were album with Barbra in a black turban. There was still more of a mono culture than people think. Even if you donât embrace Star Wars, you canât escape it.
Barbra had many cultural moments like that throughout the â70s - Evergreen was certainly one. It was undeniably beautiful. Youâd her the opening guitar strings on the radio and your heart would stop, drawn into the exquisite beauty and undefinable mystery of love itself. You Donât Bring Me Flowers was another - a recording that was made on demand for its adoring audience, which was everybody, graceful and dignified in its depiction of heartbreak, divorce and separation, something that was keenly felt given the divorce rate in the â70s and was only beginning to be acknowledged in popular culture (Kramer v Kramer would be released about two years later - the No. 1 box office hit of its year). And the Guilty album, of course, which just took on a life of its own from the day of its release, topping the singles and the album charts almost immediately, that all in white campaign everywhere, huge posters of Barbra & Barry clinched in their tight white silk outfits that seemed to define the moment - inheriting a lot of the Saturday Night Fever listeners as well, almost as if Barbra & Barry had reinvented each other. Barbra was a pop star. Even something like My Heart Belongs To Me was a huge hit for her in the summer ofâŚ1977? â78? And it sounded sexy and steamy.
She broke through to a universal audience at different times with different offerings which strung together to make her an undeniable super star, aside from her massive devoted fan base. Not as niche as you might think, in retrospect.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | June 29, 2024 10:46 AM |
Interesting that the culture knew better than she did with "You Don't Bring Me Flowers".
by Anonymous | reply 215 | June 29, 2024 11:00 AM |
R214, I was eighteen in 1974 when The Way We Were was all over the radio. My peers - the ones who knew her - considered her records âmy parents music,â and had little interest in Barbra Streisand. It was like that even though her fans like to think otherwise.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | June 29, 2024 1:19 PM |
The amazing thing is that she did almost no promotion for her albums from 1964 to1986. There were ad campaigns and some rare radio callins but no personal appearances whatsoever. No late night shows ore touring to push album sales.
Starting with The Broadway Album she startet to put more effort into her promotion.Only when her sales were dwindling and she opted for the recordbreaking Nr1 in every decade did she play the game. For her last Nr1 she even pulled a trick out of the Madge handbook of recordsales and did a couple of live gigs before the album release,where each ticket included a purchase of the new album.
Since she is in the record studio now i´m looking forward to see Babs maybe out and about again.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | June 29, 2024 1:30 PM |
Sure R216 but like you said âit was all over the radio.â Inescapable.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | June 29, 2024 4:51 PM |
cabin fee eee eeee ver is killing me
by Anonymous | reply 219 | June 29, 2024 5:01 PM |
You laugh, R219. But on Streisand Superman she also sang Love Comes From the Most Unexpected Places of which she said, âFrom having read the book, this would be a great theme song for [DL Fave Film] LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBARâ !!
And the song was written by DL Cult Fave KIM CARNES!! Pre-Bette Davis Eyes!
by Anonymous | reply 220 | June 29, 2024 8:38 PM |
WHEN WE
by Anonymous | reply 221 | June 29, 2024 9:09 PM |
[quote]OBC of Mermanâs Anything Goes
Sadly, no such album exists.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | June 29, 2024 10:48 PM |
Why didn't she sing on We are the World? Was she too good to sing for black children?
by Anonymous | reply 223 | June 29, 2024 11:31 PM |
R223, they wouldn't allow her to perform with her (natural) boobs hanging out, so she passed. Ten years later she added silicone. Too LATE!
by Anonymous | reply 225 | June 30, 2024 12:09 AM |
Was this song popular with the kids of the 80s when it came out? It was cool?
by Anonymous | reply 226 | June 30, 2024 3:05 AM |
R222, from the soundtrack credits for Terms of Endearment:
Anything Goes By Cole Porter Performed by Ethel Merman Produced by Jule Styne (uncredited) Orchestrated by Buddy Bregman (uncredited) and Nelson Riddle (uncredited) Courtesy of National Broadcasting Company
Not an OBC but it is Merman.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | June 30, 2024 8:55 AM |
No, no, no, R226. And that was 4 years after Guilty. That was all done with Richard Baskin and a slew of other producers.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | June 30, 2024 8:59 AM |
Why is it so important that âthe kidsâ like anything? Teenagers donât control the world, and most of them have lousy taste. When someone over 40 tries desperately to appeal to kids, it looks foolish.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | June 30, 2024 10:50 AM |
It's fulfilling to know that things you have enjoyed and are meaningful to you have a cultural legacy. It's a pity if you don't know that sort of joy.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | June 30, 2024 11:01 AM |
Emotion was considerd Easy Listening /Adult contemporary music. She was as cool with the kids as Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow, Olivia Newton John and Miss Ross, whose 1984 release Swept Away considered a similiar mix of synthesized uptempo songs and schmaltzy power ballads.
Even though Emotion is considered a dud by Barbra herself, the critics and fans it managed to find an audience and sold over 1 Million copies
by Anonymous | reply 231 | June 30, 2024 11:39 AM |
R229 Because they were the main consumers of music for a long time.
Cher and Tina were able to do it, thatâs what extended their careers.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | June 30, 2024 12:27 PM |
R231 Diana had a little more life with the kids in the 80s. I think âTelephoneâ was a big song in the R&B crowd with the kids.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | June 30, 2024 12:30 PM |
R231 Which is dead now. Easy Listening / Adult Contemporary is gone now.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | June 30, 2024 12:33 PM |
Mature Content Warning:
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by Anonymous | reply 235 | June 30, 2024 1:04 PM |
She looks good on the r70 album cover.
Maybe because the cameraâs far away.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | June 30, 2024 1:05 PM |
Re: album covers: Why is she standing in the pit from âSilence of the Lambsâ @ r141?
by Anonymous | reply 237 | June 30, 2024 1:20 PM |
Actually, R232, they were a large segment of the record buying audience, not the only segment. Youth oriented performers yearned to graduate into the adult market. Such as how Bobby Darin did it, such as how Berry Gordy got The Supremes a gig at the Copa. They sang Rodgers and Hart in the act, the idea was being more sophisticated.
by Anonymous | reply 238 | June 30, 2024 2:15 PM |
Lauper reflected on her path to success - and some of the challenges sheâs faced along the way - in a recent interview with The Guardian. Her advisors originally wanted to try and position her as the next Barbra Streisand.
âLook, you already had a Streisand,â Lauper recalled telling them.
Next, she said they pitted her against Madonna, as the two women rose to fame around the same time.
âAs if you could only have one woman who is successful. What the hell is that about?â Lauper told the publication. âThat womanâs been entertaining us for years. Sheâs made great pop songs. I want to be competitive, but not pitted against another woman. Iâm not into that.â
by Anonymous | reply 239 | June 30, 2024 5:19 PM |
[quote]Why didn't she sing on We are the World?
She was asked but turned it down. She reportedly regretted her decision, and jumped on the next big charity song which was "Hands Across America" the following year.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | July 1, 2024 1:13 AM |
R136, that reminds me of how Barbra was one of the few female singers Aretha admitted she admired. It's interesting because Barbra was far more popular than Aretha when they were both at their prime but the latter is a far bigger catalogue seller.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | July 7, 2024 5:05 PM |