Barbra Streisand: C/D?

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Rosemary and I decided we want to throw a costume party where each guest dresses as a different Barbra Streisand album cover.

If I can get the poodle, I wanna be Songbird.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c421/c42199l0ya6.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 June 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://matthewkingston.com/theatre/database/covers/yentl-soundtrack.jpg

http://www.bjsmusic.com/colorcov2.jpg

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 1 June 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Jody, you wouldn't dare.

I was originally going to say too bad I can't post an image *inside* the gatefold of A Star is Born, but a quick search turned it up.

http://www.bjsmusic.com/starpic.jpg

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Sean, I expect you'll come to this when it happens.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c436/c436866bpl6.jpg

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I'll be at that party. I will be there as "Recent Babs."

http://www.altocelebs.com/s/barbra-streisand/c-000005-pi-100846.jpg

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 1 June 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll do my best to make it.

http://www.bjsmusic.com/owlpuss.jpg

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 1 June 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Bowie totally ripped that look off for the 1980 Floor Show!

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 1 June 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

She looks like Andrea Feldman in that pic!

http://www.warholstars.org/indfoto/afvb.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 June 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

SHOWTIME!!!

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 2 June 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my gosh you two.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 2 June 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

my ex-girlfriend had some thing for Barbara. But she was (sha la la) a Jersey Girl. it seems common there. I sure as fuck don't have it.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 June 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, Barbra.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 June 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ick. Yentl was a riot though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 2 June 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My music teacher in grade school made us all watch Yentl in 5th grade. I didn't realize till much later that that our teacher was such a homo.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 2 June 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you sure? He might also have been a big Andre Agassi fan.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 2 June 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

a fan of his tight ASS maybe

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 2 June 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Like the two are mutually exclusive?

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 2 June 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I realized upon typing my first response that his Andre Agassi fandom would probably have confirmed your initial hypothesis.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 2 June 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't undestand how anybody could not have a thing for Barbra. That voice. That VOICE.

There, I've said it.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 2 June 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

*tumbleweed rolls by*

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 2 June 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

And she's a graduate of Brooklyn's Erasmus High School, which I didn't attend but visited once on a junior high school class trip.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 June 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

J.Lo's working the Owl and the Pussycat look in this pic:

http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/reuters_ids/20021110/i/3529611762.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 June 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

DUD. Best line on Streisand ever: I was talking with a fairly well-known NY cabaret singer and said I didn't understand what anyone saw in Streisand. To which she replied, "Oh, she's awful. She sounds like a vacuum cleaner."

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/vacuum.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone wanna come as Lazy Afternoon Barbra? I bought this for $1 today (see the Herbie Mann thread for one of my other great bargain-bin scores).

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000255P.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I started writing a long piece for the next print-edition of Last Plane to Jakarta called "1978: Barbra Streisand Invents New Country," but that next print edition keeps getting more and more unwieldy

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Look, it's "I Wish I Was Viva" Barbra! She really had a thing for those Factory broads.

http://www.bjsmusic.com/whatday.jpg

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

She looks like Lisa Lisa on the cover of that Cult Jam/Full Force record.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

okay dammit I've talked before about the absolute rooling brilliance of the ButterFly album -- she covers Bowie's "Life on Mars?", fer godssake!!! -- but the cover just shows a fly on a stick of butter. Can anyone locate and post the illustration from the back cover, which is a mad psychedelic Streisand-turning-into-a-butterfly sort of illustration?

oh and on the inside foldout she's lookin' braless and hott.

― Neudonym, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Barbra Streisand
to be a 'Focker'?

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does she not have an E in her first name?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean an A

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah that's what I meant. I can't spell so good.

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you ever have the dress-up party, Jody?

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Any 'pinions on Barb's Mexican rekkids?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

well it finally happened. a thread about barbara streisand is at the top on the 'new answers' list.

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

and friends we can keep it there!

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

pulling

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

stunts

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, m.g...!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

for

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

example

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

come

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

babs

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

fans

― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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Papa can you feel me in the night?
http://www.mjchina.com/pic/pic3/barbra.jpg

― queen G of the misty mammories, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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― queen G of the misty mammories, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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― queen G of the misty mammories, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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― AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm cracking up here
http://greetz.com/Xtreme/Celebrities/Streisand/barbra4.jpg

― queen G of the misty mammories, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Her first 2 LPs are classics in the genre of unrestrained (nearly giddy) girl-singer enthusiasm and are right up there with "She's So Unusual" or Madonna's debut. And the cover of her second was my contribution to the "Truly Sexy Album Cover" thread!

Then sbe turned 21, and got kinda boring...

― Scott, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Babs boobs

(.)(.)

― *, Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

TWO CLASSICS FROM LADY S:

(1) Stoney End (1971) - surprisingly rich country (pedal steel) / soul (horns) / pop (tunes) set, much of it fantastic - check out Harry Nilsson's "Maybe", Randy Newman's "I'l Be Home", Carole King's "No Easy Way Down", plus Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Laura Nyro, Kurt Weill etc. Nice cover too.

(2) What's Up Doc? (1972) - Bogdanovich's screwball homage, still very much underrated - both Streisand and Ryan O'Neal (et al) very lovable and very funny.

Rest dud, natch.

― Mutey, Friday, 4 February 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

C/D: Barbra Streisand Broadway Covers;

I'll start.
"As If We Never Said Goodbye" - Classic
"Music of the Night" - Dud
"Being Alive" - 50% Dud, then 50% Classic
"Something's Coming" - Dud
"Send In the Clowns" - Classic

Seems I like her much more when she's doing those soaring show-stoppers, and I don't really like her covers of originally male-sung tunes (like "Lady Luck" and "Some Enchanted Evening"). I would love to hear her do a cover of "The Miller's Son" which I bet would be even better than "Send In the Clowns."

― Mordechai Shinefield, Monday, 14 May 2007 05:56 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

guess who's 70 today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-lY952YrEw&feature=share

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:43 (thirteen years ago)

I dated a guy a few years ago who played the album on which "Life On Mars?" is found; almost jumped out the window.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:37 (thirteen years ago)

Babs is not fond of it either.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 00:31 (thirteen years ago)

"You have nothing to be guilty of!" he insisted, holding on to my legs.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 00:33 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

Me on a soundtrack which legally is stocked in every UK charity shop ever: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/barbra-streisandkris-kristofferson-star.html

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 5 August 2012 14:08 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZluHkt_n8IE

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 28 September 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

playing Seth Rogen's mom in a holiday road movie. That'll be quite a throng coming from every NYC Chinese restaurant on Christmas Day.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

YEP H'WOOD YOU GOT ME, YOU HAVE FOUND THE ONE WAY TO MAKE ME WATCH THE FUCKING OSCARS

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:05 (twelve years ago)

speaking of the fucking oscars, barbara and randy newman from her 2012 odds-and-sods album release me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dqfZAk3bbk

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:58 (twelve years ago)

barbra. not barbara. may have to turn in my jewish ID card.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:59 (twelve years ago)

didn't she cover that way back when?

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:21 (twelve years ago)

the recording is from way back when, but not released till last year.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:28 (twelve years ago)

at the AAs she can do a medley of all the Django Unchained needledrops.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:30 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

I know both she and Bowie hate her cover of "Life on Mars?" but I've been coming back to it over and over the last few weeks. Obviously I am broken.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:09 (ten years ago)

That whole album is soooooo misguided...

― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 22:38 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

I learned in a Times interview today that she has an anti-Trump album coming out. She spent a lot of time talking about how much she likes Bob Dole and liked John McCain. So, fairly typical 76-year-old millionaire Democrat.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:36 (six years ago)

five years pass...

Hoo boy this biog has got some *tales*. Anyone dipped in?

― piscesx, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 15:49 (one year ago)

Yes I've read all the way up to 1969 so far.

So far I've learned a lot about which colors Barbra likes and which she dislikes.

LIKES:

burgundy
off white
black
dusty rose
navy blue

DISLIKES:

royal blue
turquoise
orange
red (won't wear it bc it only looks good on dark-haired people)

― Josefa, Monday, 13 November 2023 15:22 (one year ago)

From ‘Yentl’ to ‘Prince of Tides’ her book is rough going. After that it’s unreadable. I feel as if I’ve learned a lot about her, but not necessarily what she intended to convey.

― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 03:43 (one year ago)

Do tell

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 04:15 (one year ago)

She’s charming in many ways but the relentless disingenuousness is just too much to take. She becomes a bore and then she doubles down on it.

― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 04:28 (one year ago)

Isn’t that so often the case.

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 04:55 (one year ago)

She reads the audiobook herself which surprised me. Not sure why, maybe it's more common than i thought.

― piscesx, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:12 (one year ago)

I'd be surprised if she didn't.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:49 (one year ago)

Yeah she would never relinquish control of something like that. This is one of the themes that the book hammers into the ground.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:52 (one year ago)

I’ve seen a handful of those As Read By The Author audiobooks, not sure it’s always a wise choice.

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:04 (one year ago)

She’s charming in many ways but the relentless disingenuousness is just too much to take. She becomes a bore and then she doubles down on it.

― Josefa,

It's as if wants to project a vanished era's idea of "girlishness."

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:05 (one year ago)

According to the Spotify page for the audio book it "includes extra anecdotes and [exclusive] music" and is also over 48 hours long.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:25 (one year ago)

She reads the audiobook herself which surprised me. Not sure why, maybe it's more common than i thought.

this is honestly very impressive, I wonder how many days they tracked. doing an audiobook is very fucking tiring; you every time you say a word weird or skip a definite object or whatever you start that over, I guess in her cased the engineer just grabs it all and puts it back together instead of stopping, dragging back & punching (which saves a little time) -- but seriously, it takes a week to do 200+ pages, it's WORK.

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 22:45 (one year ago)

Debbie Harry read her autobiography, it definitely gives you a different sense of the "voice."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 22:48 (one year ago)

apparently babs’ audiobook digresses from the actual book quite a bit with asides so yknow, babs being babs

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:08 (one year ago)

_She reads the audiobook herself which surprised me. Not sure why, maybe it's more common than i thought._

this is honestly very impressive, I wonder how many days they tracked. doing an audiobook is very fucking tiring; you every time you say a word weird or skip a definite object or whatever you start that over, I guess in her cased the engineer just grabs it all and puts it back together instead of stopping, dragging back & punching (which saves a little time) -- but seriously, it takes a week to do 200+ pages, it's WORK.

I can only imagine. Just listened to the samples of yours, they sound pretty good, kudos. And they are still 50% off for the next few days.

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:57 (one year ago)

Live at the Bon Soir is amazing. It's a shame they didn't have the noise reduction technology in 1962 to clean up the recording and make this her debut album. I know her actual debut won the Grammy for Best Album, but this live collection is better. The ease and relaxed humor she has at age 20 in front of what was purportedly a sophisticated crowd is almost uncanny.

― Josefa, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:05 (one year ago)

two months pass...

Babs' half-sister covering Max Frost & The Troopers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmZl1BCaBuI

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 February 2024 20:21 (one year ago)

you know i've been wondering if i should explore Barbra's catalog! i do love her voice.

― Swen, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 15:24 (one year ago)

My two cents:

Get Live at the Bon Soir instead of her actual debut album.
My Name is Barbra and Color Me Barbra are great examples of her classic style.
Stoney End is perhaps the most successful of her "contemporary" albums.

Barbra Streisand... and other musical instruments is her most bizarre album.

― Josefa, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 15:46 (one year ago)

Chris Molanphy's Hit Parade podcast just had an episode on her music and chart career, and I learned quite a lot!

https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2024/02/how-barbra-became-the-original-taylor

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:06 (one year ago)

I'm waiting for the biog to come out in paperback because i don't care who you are, that hardback can not be easily read by a human.

― piscesx, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:13 (one year ago)

Chris made the case for its best form being audiobook, not least because song clips are part of it. Based on the shared snippet I'm inclined to agree!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:16 (one year ago)

Damn yeah that does sound good. Bono's is like that, so it must be A New Thing these days.

― piscesx, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:27 (one year ago)

lol at Roslyn Kind up there, she's such a total half-Barbra!

― Josefa, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:56 (one year ago)

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