Simply Streisand

Infobox Album
Name = Simply Streisand
Type = studio
Artist = Barbra Streisand


Released = Start date|1967|10
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 29:28
Label = Columbia
Producer = Jack Gold, Howard A. Roberts
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://wc06.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hpftxqt5ldae~T1 link]
Last album = "Je m'appelle Barbra"
(1966)
This album = "Simply Streisand"
(1967)
Next album = "A Christmas Album"
(1967)

"Simply Streisand" (1967) is the ninth studio album released by Barbra Streisand.

The album was released simultaneously with "A Christmas Album" and was Streisand's first that failed to chart in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 when it peaked at #12.

Track listing

ide one

#"My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:22
#*From "Babes in Arms" (1937)
#"The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 3:27
#"When Sunny Gets Blue" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 2:56
#"Make the Man Love Me" (Dorothy Fields, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:26
#*From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1951)
#"Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger Ramirez, James Sherman)

ide two

#"More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 3:29
#"I'll Know" (Frank Loesser) – 2:47
#*From "Guys and Dolls" (1950)
#"All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:36
#*From "Very Warm for May" (1939)
#"The Boy Next Door" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 2:50
#*From "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944)
#"Stout-Hearted Men" (Hammerstein, Sigmund Romberg) – 2:43
#*From "The New Moon" (1928)

Notes

Streisand is said to have also recorded "Willow Weep for Me" during these sessions, but the recording remains unreleased. [Barbra Streisand Music Guide, The. "Simply Streisand" (1967) http://www.bjsmusic.com/simply.html]

This was Streisand's first straight album — meaning songs in English, and without a TV special tie-in — since September 1964, when Columbia Records released "People".

The liner notes for the LP were written by the composer Richard Rodgers. "No one is talented enough to sing with the depth of a fine cello or the lift of a climbing bird," he wrote. "Nobody, that is, except Barbra."

"The Nearness of You" was also played during the opening credits of Streisand's 1968 CBS-TV special, "A Happening in Central Park".

Stephen Holden of "The New York Times" later wrote that "Simply Streisand" was similar to "The Third Album" (1964), "but it lacked the freshness of its prototype." [Holden, Stephen. "The Best of Streisand is in Her Records." "The New York Times", 6 Nov. 1977, p. D24.]

Personnel

*Barbra Streisand – singer
*Ray Ellis – arranger
*David Shire – conductor
*Frank Laico – recording engineer
*Ray Gerhardt – recording engineer
*James Moore – photographer
*Richard Rodgers – liner notes

References

External links

* [http://www.bjsmusic.com/simply.html The Barbra Streisand Music Guide - Simply Streisand]