Hit Number One in the charts. Made double Platinum.
Duets
Capital, October 1993
Executive producers, Charles Koppelman, Eliot Weisman and Don Rubin
Produced by Phil Ramone
Co-produced by Hank Cattaneo
This is a Frank Sinatra album in which he sings duets with other singers.
Streisand paired with him on ‘I’ve Got a Crush on You’.
Barbra: The Concert
Columbia, September 1994
Two discs
Produced by Barbra Streisand and Jay Landers
Numerous arrangers
Conducted by Martin Hamlisch
Songs on disc 1: ‘As If We Never Said Goodbye’, ‘I’m Still Here’/‘Everybody Says Don’t’/‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’, ‘Can’t Help Lovin’ that Man’, ‘I’ll Know’, ‘People’, ‘Lover Man’, ‘Will He Like Me?’, ‘He Touched Me’, ‘Evergreen’, ‘The Man that Got Away’, ‘On a Clear Day’
Songs on disc 2: ‘The Way We Were’, ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’, ‘Lazy Afternoon’; medley: ‘Once Upon a Dream’/‘When You Wish Upon a Star’/‘Someday My Prince Will Come’; ‘Not While I’m Around’, ‘Ordinary Miracles’, medley: ‘Where Is It Written?’/‘Papa, Can You Hear Me?’/‘Will Someone Ever Look At Me That Way?’/‘A Piece of Sky’; ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’, ‘For All We Know’, ‘Somewhere’
Hit Number Ten in the charts. Made double Platinum.
Special Grammy Award: Lifetime Achievement Award
The Garland Duets
Paragon 1001
A collection of duets from the Judy Garland television show includes the Garland–Streisand ‘Be My Guest’, ‘Get Happy/Happy Days are Here Again’, and ‘Hooray for Love’
This material minus the ‘Be My Guest’ duet but containing the segment with Ethel Merman is available on the home video release, Judy Garland and Friends.
Streisand has also recorded numerous singles some of which, including a deleted stage version of Funny Girl, have never been otherwise released.
Theatre
Film Cast and Credits
Television Credits
The Jack Paar Show
NBC/TV, New York City, 5 April 1961
Host: Orson Bean
Streisand sang ‘A Sleepin’ Bee’
PM East
Group W Television, New York City Streisand did thirteen shows from October 1961 to January 1962.
Host: Mike Wallace
The Joe Franklin Show
Channel 11, New York City
Host: Joe Franklin
Streisand did three late-night talk shows in the autumn of 1961.
The Gary Moore Show
CBS-TV, Los Angeles, 29 May 1961
Host: Gary Moore
Streisand sang ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’
The Tonight Show
NBC/TV, New York City, November
1962-February, 1963.
Host: Johnny Carson
Streisand made four appearances.
The shows were live and very few of the early shows were taped. On one taped show she sang ‘Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most’.
The Ed Sullivan Show
CBS/TV, New York City, 9 June 1963
Host: Ed Sullivan
Streisand sang, ‘When the Sun Comes Out’. On other Sullivan shows Streisand sang ‘Lover Come Back to Me’, ‘My Coloring Book’, ‘Cry Me a River’.
The Bob Hope Show
CBS/TV, 1962
Streisand did a hillbilly routine with Hope and ‘Miss Marmelstein’.
CBS/TV, Los Angeles, 6 October 1963 Musical director, Mel Tormé
Host: Judy Garland
Guests: Barbra Streisand, the Smother Brothers, Ethel Merman
Streisand sang: a duet with Garland (‘Be My Guest’). Medley with Garland: ‘Hooray For Love’/‘Lover Come Back to Me’/‘After You’ve Gone’ /‘By Myself’/‘How About You’/‘You and the Night and the Music’/‘It All Depends on You’. Duet with Garland: ‘Get Happy’/‘Happy Days are Here Again’. Trio with Garland and Ethel Merman: ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’. Solo: ‘Down with Love’, ‘Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered’.
(There is also a video release Judy(Garland) and Friend containing the complete Streisand appearance with the exclusion of the ‘Be My Guest’ duet.)
My Name Is Barbra
CBS/TV, New York City, 28 April 1965 Black and white
Host: Barbra Streisand Executive producer Martin Erlichman Produced by Dwight Hemion Directed by Joe Layton Arranged and conducted by Peter Matz Set designs Tom John
Songs, Act One: ‘My Name Is Barbra’, ‘Much More’, ‘I’m Late’, ‘Make Believe’, ‘How Does the Wine Taste?’, ‘A Kid Again’, ‘I’m Five’, ‘Jenny Rebecca’, ‘My Pa’, ‘Sweet Zoo’, ‘Where Is the Wonder?’, “People’.
Songs, Act Two: ‘Second Hand Rose’. Medley: ‘Give Me the Simple Life’/‘I Got Plenty of Nothin”/’Brother Can You Spare a Dime?’/‘Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out’/‘The Best Things in Life Are Free’.
Songs, Act Three: ‘When the Sun Comes Out’, ‘Why Did I Choose You?’, ‘Lover Come Back to Me’, ‘You Are Woman’, ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’, ‘The Music that Makes Me Dance’, ‘My Man’, ‘Happy Days Are Here Again.’
Color Me Barbra
CBS/TV, New York City and Philadelphia, 30 March 1966 Colour
Host: Barbra Streisand Executive producer Martin Erlichman Produced by Dwight Hemion Directed by Joe Layton Arranged and conducted by Peter Matz Set designs Tom John
Songs, Act One: ‘Draw Me a Circle’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘One Kiss’, ‘The Minute Waltz’, ‘Gotta Move’, ‘Non C’est Rien’, ‘Where or When?’
Songs, Act Two: Medley: ‘Animal Crackers in My Soup’/‘Funny Face’/‘That Face’/‘They Didn’t Believe Me’/‘Where Thine That Special Face’/‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face’/‘Let’s Face the Music and Dance’, ‘Sam You Made the Pants Too Long’, ‘What’s New Pussycat?’, ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?’, ‘Small World’, ‘Try to Remember’, ‘Spring Again’, ‘Have I Stayed too Long at the Fair?’, ‘Look at that Face’.
Songs, Act Three: ‘Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home’, ‘It Had To Be You’, ‘C’est Si Bon’, ‘Where Am I Going?’, ‘Starting Here, Starting Now’.
The Belle of 14th Street
CBS/TV, New York City, 11 October 1967
Colour
Host: Barbra Streisand
Co-Stars: Jason Robards, Jr, John
Bubbles, Lee Allen and the Beef Trust Line
Executive producer Martin Erlichman
Produced by Dwight Hemion
Directed by Joe Layton
Arranged and conducted by Peter Matz
Art direction Tom John
Songs: ‘I Don’t Care’, ‘Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown’. With Robards and Allen: ‘We’re Two (Three, Four, Five) Americans’; ‘Liebestraum’, ‘Mother MacCree’, ‘Hark! I Hear Them’ (adapted from Shakespeare’s The Tempest), ‘My Melancholy Baby’, ‘Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don’t Love Nobody But Me)/ A Good Man Is Hard to Find’, ‘Some of These Days’, ‘How About Me?’, ‘I’m Always Chasing Rainbows’, ‘My Buddy’, ‘Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey.’
Sung by others: ‘You’re the Apple of My Eye’, ‘I’m Going South’.
A Happening in Central Park
CBS/TV, filmed live on 17 June 1967 in New York City
Released 16 September 1968
Colour
Executive producer Martin Erlichman
Produced by Robert Shereer
Associate producer James S. Stanley
Music director Mort Lindsey
Art director Tom John
Costumes by Irene Sharraff
Songs: ‘The Nearness of You’, ‘Down with Love’, ‘Love Is Like a New Born Child’, ‘Cry Me a River’, ‘I Can See It’, ‘L
ove Is a Bore’, ‘He Touched Me’, ‘I’m All Smiles’, ‘Value’, ‘Marty the Martian’, ‘Natural Sounds’, ‘Second Hand Rose’, ‘People’, ‘(Sleep in Heavenly Peace) Silent Night’, ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’.
The Burt Bacharach Special
CBS/TV, Los Angeles, 14 March 1971 Colour
Host: Burt Bacharach
Special guest: Barbra Streisand
Arranged and conducted by Burt Bacharach
Songs: Streisand sang: ‘One Less Bell to Answer’/‘ A House Is Not a Home’ in duet with herself. With Bacharach at piano and in duet ‘(They Long to Be) Close to You’, and ‘Somewhere in this World’.
Barbra Streisand ... and Other Musical Instruments
CBS/TV, London, 2 November 1973
Colour
Executive producer Martin Erlichman
Concept Ken and Mitzie Welch
Guest stars: Ray Charles, Dominic Savage
Songs: ‘Piano Practicing’, ‘I’ve Got Rhythm’, ‘Johnny One Note’/‘One Note Samba’, ‘Glad To Be Unhappy’. Medley: ‘People’/‘Second Hand Rose’/‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’. ‘Don’t Ever Leave Me’, ‘By Myself’, ‘Come Back to Me’, ‘I Never Has Seen Snow’, ‘Auf dem Wasser zu Singen’, ‘The World Is a Concerto’, ‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’, ‘The Sweetest Sounds’.
Dick Cavett Special
CBS/TV, 1975
Host: Dick Cavett
Guest Stars: Barbra Streisand, James Caan
Songs: ‘The Way We Were’, ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’, ‘My Man’, ‘The Man I Love’. Duet with Caan from Funny Lady, ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’, ‘I Like Him (Her)’; ‘How Lucky Can You Get’.
The Stars Salute Israel at 30
ABC/TV, Los Angeles, 8 May 1978
Colour
Host: Barbra Streisand
Special Guest: Prime Minister Golda Meir (interviewed by Streisand via telephone and satellite)
Song: ‘Hatikvah’.
22nd Grammy Awards
CBS/TV, 27 February 1980
Colour
Streisand sang a duet with Neil Diamond: ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’.
Putting It Together – The Making of the Broadway Album
HBO – CBS Fox Video, April 1986
Filmed 29 October–12 November 1985
A Barwood Film
Executive Producer Barbra Streisand
Produced by Joni Rosen
CBS Co-ordinator Jeanne Mattuissi
Edited by Tom McQuade
Conductor-arranger Peter Matz
Interviewer: William Friedkin
Guest artists for ‘Putting It Together’: Sidney Pollack, David Geffen, Ken Sylk ‘Somewhere’ musical video directed by William Friedkin
Songs included: ‘Putting It Together’, ‘Pretty Woman’, ‘Send in the Clowns’, ‘Something’s Coming’, ‘If I Loved You’, ‘Can’t Help Lovin’ that Man’, ‘Somewhere’.
One Voice
HBO, originally filmed 6 September 1986
Executive producer Marilyn Bergman
Produced by Martin Erlichman and Barbra Streisand
Co-producer Ellen Krass
Directed by Dwight Hemion
Written by Barbra Streisand and
Marilyn and Alan Bergman
Musical producer Richard Baskin
Musical director and conductor Randy Kerber
Producer designer René Lagler
Guest stars: Robin Williams and Barry Gibb
Songs: ‘Somewhere’, ‘Evergreen’, ‘Something’s Coming’, ‘People’, ‘Send in the Clowns’, ‘Over the Rainbow’, ‘Guilty’ (duet with Barry Gibb), ‘What Kind of Fool’ (duet with Barry Gibb), ‘Papa, Can You Hear Me?’, ‘The Way We Were’, ‘It’s a New World’, ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’, ‘America the Beautiful’.
Barbra: The Concert
HBO, April 1995
Repeated on NBC, September 1995
Colour
Production conceived and directed by Barbra Streisand
Executive producer Martin Erlichman
Written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Musical direction and arrangements by Marvin Hamlisch
Production designers Marc Brickman and David George
Sound designer Bruce Jackson
Clothes by BSDK (Barbra Streisand/Donna Karan)
Editor Tom McQuade
Special appearance: Mike Meyer
Voice-overs: Steven Susskind, Judith Gordin, Phil Austin
Songs: ‘As If We Never Said Goodbye’, ‘I’m Still Here’/‘Everybody Says Don’t’/‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’, ‘Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man’, ‘I’ll Know’, ‘People’, ‘Lover Man’, ‘Will He Like Me?’, ‘He Touched Me’, ‘Evergreen’, ‘The Man that Got Away’, ‘On a Clear Day’, ‘The Way We Were’, ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’, ‘Lazy Afternoon’. Disney medley: ‘Once Upon a Dream’/‘When You Wish Upon a Star’/‘Someday My Prince Will Come’, ‘Not While I’m Around’, ‘Ordinary Miracles’. Medley: ‘Where Is It Written?’/‘Papa, Can You Hear Me?’/‘Will Someone Ever Look at Me that Way?’/‘A Piece of Sky’, ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’, ‘For All We Know’, ‘Somewhere’, ‘What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life’*
*There were two recorded versions of the concert: the video release was Barbra: The Concert Live at the Arrowhead Pond, Anahem, July 1994 (the laser disc of which includes a bonus track ‘What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life’, but excludes the Disney medley. The audio version on Columbia CD, and minicassette, includes the Disney medley and was recorded at Madison Square Garden. The network telecast of the concert included the Disney medley along with other additional material.
Streisand has also given extensive interviews on television programmes that include: Dick Cavett, Barbara Walters, Sixty Minutes with Mike Wallace, Larry King Live, C-Span and the TodayShow. There is also a laser disc narrated by Streisand on the making of Prince of Tides.
As producer:
Serving in Silence
The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story NBC, 6 February 1995
A production of Barwood Films Ltd, Storyline Productions, Inc and Trillium productions Inc. in association with Tristar Television
Executive producers Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Cis Corman Produced by Richard Heus Screenplay by Alison Cross Directed by Jeff Bleckner Music by David Shire Production consultant Margarethe Cammermeyer
Cast
Colonel Margarethe
Notes
1
This chapter was greatly helped by interviews with Larry Kramer, Maureen Stapleton and others.
p. 3 ‘Listen, I cried ...’, interview, Kramer.
p. 5 ‘I didn’t grow up ...’, Los Angeles Times, 8 December 1991.
p. 6 ‘with the mosaics changing colors ...’, Christie’s, Catalogue, 3 March 1994.
p. 7 ‘I have exciting news ...’, Kramer.
p. 7 ‘I was so impressed ...’, ibid.
p. 8 ‘I’m at a place in my life ...’, interview, Gene Shalit, November 1987.
p. 9 ‘What I found difficult ... control over the story’, Kramer.
p. 9 ‘My mother is a perfectionist ...’, New York Times, 22 December 1991.
p. 10 ‘I felt totally comfortable ...’, interview, Gene Shalit, November 1987.
p. 10 ‘I don’t believe any of the women ...’, private interview.
p. 10 ‘It is fascinating to me ...’, Los Angeles Times, 8 December 1994.
p. 11 ‘Marty and Barbra didn’t always agree ...’, interview, Stapleton.
p. 12 ‘learned my own judgement ...’, interview, Gene Shalit, November 1987.
p. 12 ‘How old are you?’ Los Angeles Times, 7 April 1988.
p. 12 ‘the end title music ...’, ibid.
p. 13 ‘I’d like you to meet Don Johnson ...’, US, 3 October 1988.
2
This chapter was benefited from numerous personal interviews including that with Maureen Stapleton.
p. 16 ‘That character ...’, Los Angeles Times, 24 August 1995.
p. 17 ‘I have this persona ...’, ibid.
p. 17 ‘I don’t think Barbra ...’, private interview.
p. 17 ‘run into the woman ...’, Don Johnson interview, Playboy.
p. 18 ‘He has a killer instinct ...’, private interview.
p. 18 ‘One day, Don said to me ...’, US, 3 October 1988.
p. 18 ‘Barbra not only ...’, ibid.
p. 18 ‘Don makes me feel ...’, ibid.
p. 19 ‘It helps to have ...’, ibid.
p. 20 ‘When I first read ...’, Streisand, record notes, Just for the Record.
p. 20 ‘My mother could never make up ...’, ibid.
3
Camp Cascade and Fleischmanns was reconstructed through numerous personal interviews with attending campers, instructors and the archival records of the area.
p. 26 ‘There was something about Manny ...’, interview.
p. 27 ‘Many of his students ...’, interview, Nathan Clark.
p. 27 ‘He was, I think ...’, ibid.
p. 31 ‘It was terrible ...’, Daily Mail, 23 April 1994.
4
Much of the material on Streisand’s family, Brooklyn and the various schools described was obtained through interviews with neighbours, schoolmates and co-workers the Rosen-Streisand family; through school, city and state records, the archives of Columbia University, Erasmus Hall High School and George Westinghouse Vocational High School (formerly Brooklyn High School for Specialty Trades), and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Erasmus Hall was recreated with the help of former students, teachers and archival material at the school to which I was given access.