Barbra Streisand - The Essential Barbra Streisand [Limited Edition 3.0]

Title: The Essential Barbra Streisand [Limited Edition 3.0] Artist: Barbra Streisand Release Date: 1/29/2002 Re-Released On: 9/30/2008 Label: Columbia/Legacy Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 886973457023 Genre: Vocal Music Styles: Adult Contemporary, Soft Rock, Cast Recordings, Musicals, Traditional Pop, AM Pop Moods: Bittersweet, Earnest, Elegant, Intimate, Sophisticated, Yearning, Calm/Peaceful, Confident, Exuberant, Gentle, Poignant, Sensual, Sentimental, Theatrical, Dramatic, Passionate, Plaintive, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Romantic, Soothing, Stylish, Warm, Wistful, Laid-Back/Mellow, Lush, Smooth Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 3

1. A Sleepin' Bee
2. Cry Me a River
3. I Stayed Too Long at the Fair
4. Lover, Come Back to Me
5. People
6. My Man
7. Second Hand Rose
8. He Touched Me
9. Don't Rain on My Parade
10. Happy Days Are Here Again
11. On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
12. Stoney End
13. Since I Fell for You
14. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
15. The Way We Were
16. All in Love Is Fair
17. Lazy Afternoon
18. Evergreen (Love Theme from a Star Is Born)
19. My Heart Belongs to Me
20. You Don't Bring Me Flowers
21. The Main Event/Fight
22. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)

1. Woman in Love
2. Guilty
3. Comin' in and out of Your Life
4. Memory
5. Papa, Can You Hear Me?
6. A Piece of Sky
7. Putting It Together
8. Not While I'm Around
9. Send in the Clowns
10. Somewhere
11. All I Ask of You
12. Children Will Listen
13. As If We Never Said Goodbye
14. I Finally Found Someone
15. Tell Him
16. I've Dreamed of You
17. Someday My Prince Will Come
18. You'll Never Walk Alone

1. Letting Go
2. Love Like Ours
3. At the Same Time
4. By the Way
5. Unusual Way [Live]
6. Evergreen (Love Theme from a Star Is Born) [Live]
7. Wild Is the Wind [From Wild Is the Wind]
8. On My Way to You
9. After the Rain

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Columbia/Legacy 734570

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Although Barbra Streisand has recorded for the same company, Columbia Records, throughout her career, her work has not been particularly well represented on compilations. Four single-disc best-ofs dot her discography, but listeners who wanted to do something as simple as purchase an album containing the original studio recordings of both her first Top Ten hit, "People," and her first number one, "The Way We Were," without plumping for the four-CD box set Just for the Record , were out of luck. Complicating the compiling of her career highlights is her position as essentially an album artist, despite having scattered 11 Top Ten pop hits across 32 years. The ideal collection would have to do justice to her popular early albums of the '60s, her mid-career singles hits of the '70s, and her renewed album success in the '80s and '90s. Here it is. At a CD-busting length of over two and a half hours, this 40-track double-disc set encapsulates Streisand's recording career in chronological order from her 1963 debut album to 1999. (Two previously unreleased tracks sound like outtakes from her later album projects. "Someday My Prince Will Come" probably got left off of A Love Like Ours, while the gospel-tinged "You'll Never Walk Alone" must have been intended for Higher Ground.) Intelligently picking signature performances from her best and most popular albums, it largely eschews a raft of singles that got into the bottom half of the Top 40, but leaves out only one Top Ten hit, "What Kind of Fool." The singer's versatility and her ability to impose her immediately identifiable vocal style on a variety of material are emphasized in recordings that range from Broadway show tunes to disco. A collection like this has been needed for a long time as a gateway to Streisand's bountiful, indeed overwhelming, catalog. [A 2008 upgrade in a Columbia/Legacy series titled "Limited Edition 3.0" added nine tracks on a third disc, including a further potpourri of Barbra Streisand career highlights, including 2005's "Letting Go," 1999's "A Love Like Ours," 1975's "By the Way," and 1979's "After the Rain." ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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