Streisand: Unreleased Recordings
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Songs, Sessions, Demos, Albums, Live recordings ...
Barbra Streisand has recorded many, many songs.
For various reasons, some of the songs she's recorded over the years have never been released or included on commercially available Streisand albums. Sometimes Streisand's attention span moves on to another project and songs are abandoned. It's possible, too, that Streisand does not release certain songs because of personal reasons—maybe the recording session was disagreeable or she wasn't in the mood to sing a disco song, or the arrangement or key felt odd to her. Finally, knowing that Streisand is a high-caliber artist and an admitted perfectionist, some of the songs she's recorded over the years may remain unreleased based on her own high standards—the arrangements or vocals simply may fall short of the high bar she sets for herself.
That being said—and although she has classified herself as a “work in progress”—Streisand has shown interest in looking backward on her recording history and revisiting previously unreleased work. Barbra has dipped into her archives before—1991's Just For The Record contained many previously unreleased tracks, demos, and live recordings. Streisand and Sony have been working on a 3-CD compilation which will contain more unreleased tracks and singles. It's rumored to be titled Release Me, and will probably be available in 2012—the year in which Streisand will celebrate her 50th Anniversary in show businsess (she signed a recording contract with Columbia in 1962).
About this list ...
When I redesigned Barbra-Archives.com in November 2008 and added the Streisand Discography section, I incorporated a lot of this information into each Streisand album's individual page. However, several fans have requested that I repost this comprehensive list ... so it's back (with improvements) !
Below is a comprehensive list of songs and sessions that were recorded and remain unreleased. They are in ascending order by year. You can jump to a year by using the key above (“Recording Session By Year”). Click on the blue arrow 
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Since Barbra Archives is an unofficial fan site, I cannot vouch that the list below is 100% accurate. However, I have endeavored to make it as accurate as I can, based on my resources.
About the Sources ...
Various sources were used to compile this list including Spada's 1995 biography; interviews with Streisand and colleagues; Considine's 1985 biography; bootleg recordings traded by fans; Karen Swenson's book, Barbra: The Second Decade; and Allison Waldman's 2005 publication*, Between the Grooves, which references actual Columbia Records recording sessions — but does not, unfortunately, identify the songwriters. Also, it only covers Streisand recording sessions until 1992. Therefore, sometimes I've had to search ASCAP and BMI's databases to determine who wrote some of the songs listed here. In several cases, I've made an educated guess based on songwriters Streisand has worked with before, or styles of music she would most likely record, or even “six degrees” criteria—like if the songwriter had worked with Streisand's producer before.
It'd be fascinating to look through Columbia Record's archives! In doing my research, I have learned that Columbia has kept recording diaries since 1941 which contain a list of every planned session in their recording studios. The diaries list the time, name of the studio, name of the producer, engineers and artist. Columbia also keeps Recording Sheets — lists made during each session and put into each tape box. They also store Artist Cards, which catalogue every recorded composition with the recording date, the official Columbia identification number (CO number), and detail the song's release information (i.e. if the track was released — or not.)
Finally, I wanted to reiterate that this list contains unreleased songs only. Fans should check out The Barbra Streisand Music Guide for comprehensive information on Streisand's 7-inch singles and Barbra's album catalogue. Barbra-Archives.com offers the Streisand Discography. There is a plethora of rare Streisand songs that have been officially released, but have fallen into obscurity because the recording industry discarded vinyl records for compact discs. Fans with old-fashioned turntables can hear alternate takes on Quadraphonic albums as well as 7-inch singles. There are some songs that have never made it onto a Streisand album, and, thus, have never been “digitized” on compact disc.
(* “Between the Grooves” is out of print, but contact Allison Waldman directly if you are interested in a copy: Barbfile [at] aol [dot] com.)
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| Have You Heard | At age 9, Barbra auditioned for MGM and sang “Have You Heard” — a song Joni James made famous. Barbra told Clive James in 1999: “My mother ... got me an audition with MGM 'cause I think I once auditioned for Star Time Kids or something and didn't get accepted. [I] went to this booth for the MGM audition, and I thought I'd become famous just by singing, and the guy just said thank you, that was it, you know.” This was probably the very first time Streisand was recorded. It is very unlikely that the acetate still exists, as Streisand herself never had a copy. |
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Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart (J. Hanley) |
December 29, 1955 Nola Recording Studios New York | At age 13, Barbra recorded “You'll Never Know” and “Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart” at Nola Recording Studios. Barbra dramatized this session, attended by her mother, for her Timeless concert in 1999. “You'll Never Know” appeared on Barbra's 1991 retrospective Just For The Record. “Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart”, however, remains unreleased. A short snippet of it was used on an Australian interview show in the 90s and has been traded among fans. Barbra wrote in 1991: “This scratchy acetate was the kind that would wear out after a couple of dozen plays. Mine sat on a shelf for twenty years before I put it on tape.” |
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| Barry Dennen Tapes |
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In 1961 Barbra Streisand auditioned for an agent who was casting The Sound of Music tour (Barbra was up for the part of Liesl). She asked her friend Barry Dennen, who had an Ampex tape recorder, if he would tape her singing. Barry Dennen recorded Barbra (and guitarist Carl Esser) singing "Day By Day" (Cahn S.; Stordahl A.; Weston P.) Unfortunately, the audition tape was sent away to the agent and not copied. Dennen also recorded some of Streisand's 1961 Bon Soir shows. Dennen and Barbra reviewed the previous night's performance and honed her act that way. The tapes of the shows were also played for Columbia Records President Goddard Lieberson when Barbra's manager Marty Erlichman was pursuing a recording contract for her. Dennen wrote in his book, "And tucked away in my bank vault, the tapes I made of her so long ago at the Bon Soir, the tapes that caused so many problems between us." Dennen spoke at one of the Streisand Fan gatherings in the mid-90's and played a compilation tape of the Streisand songs. |
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Fine Recording Inc. 118 West 57th Street New York |
In 1961 Barbra recorded a 10-inch 45 rpm acetate demo at Fine Recording. On one side was “Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair”, and the flip side, “Come to the Supermarket (in Old Peking)”, with what sounds like a trio backing her. |
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| RCA Records Demo | March 1962 |
In March 1962, Streisand auditioned for RCA Records by recording nine songs, pressed on a 12-inch acetate record. Side A:
Side B:
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| Columbia Records Demo | Columbia's Studio B 799 Seventh Avenue New York |
Columbia Records President Goddard Lieberson asked Barbra to audition for the label again in early 1962. Marty Erlichman—Barbra's manager— said, “This time he wanted to put her into a studio and record her. He wanted to hear how she sounded professionally taped. Part of the deal I made with him is that we'd get to keep those tapes. And we weren't gonna sit forever for his decision. We'd record on a Friday, and he'd get back to us on Monday. So we went up there—me, Barbra, and her accompanist, Peter Daniels.” Lieberson and record producer John Hammond attended the audition. Barbra recorded:
These audition songs have never appeared on any Streisand albums, nor have they circulated among fans. However, according to Marty Erlichman's comments above, they probably sit in Barbra's personal archives and have not been included on any Streisand albums. |
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Right As The Rain (E.Y. Harburg & H. Arlen) |
October 16, 1962 Columbia's Studio C 207 East 30th Street New York |
7-inch Columbia Records single.
This session produced Barbra's first 45 rpm singles: When the Sun Comes Out, Happy Days, and Lover, Come Back to Me. Right As The Rain was recorded but not released. |
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| Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir | November 5, 6, 7, 1962 Bon Soir 40 West 8th Street New York |
Streisand's first album, after signing with Columbia Records, was recorded live at the Bon Soir. Columbia did not release it. Some (but not all) of the tracks from these sessions surfaced on the 1991 retrospective, Just For The Record. |
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Who Would Have Dreamed (Cole Porter) |
The Second Barbra Streisand Album February 8, 1963 Columbia's Studio A 799 7th Ave. New York |
From Cole Porter's 1940 show, Panama Hattie |
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| Live at the hungry i | March/April 1963 |
One of Barbra's shows at the hungry i nightclub was recorded. |
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(J. Styne, B. Merrill) |
December 20, 1963 Columbia's Studio A 799 7th Ave. New York |
7-inch Columbia Records singles.
I Am Woman and People were released as 7-inch singles from this same session. These other two songs from the Funny Girl score have remained unreleased. |
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Who Would Have Dreamed (Cole Porter) |
September 13, 1965 Columbia's Studio A 799 7th Ave. New York |
A second attempt at this Cole Porter song, this time with Mersey producing. |
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Napoleon (E.Y. Harburg & H. Arlen) |
December 14, 1965 Columbia's Studio A 799 7th Ave. New York |
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Nobody's Heart Belongs To Me (E.Y. Harburg & H. Arlen) |
January 7, 1966 Columbia's Studio A 799 7th Ave. New York |
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La Valse des lilas * (Music: M. Legrand & E. Barclay * French lyrics: Eddie Marnay English lyrics: J. Mercer) |
January 13, 1966 Columbia's Studio A 799 7th Ave. New York |
Streisand recorded a French version of Once Upon A Summertime. | |
Down With Love (E.Y. Harburg & H. Arlen)
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January 27, 1966 CBS Broadcast Center |
During the taping of the concert segment for her television show, Streisand reportedly performed Down With Love for the cameras. | |
| “A Very Informal History of the American Musical Theater: 1926—1966” | June 12, 1966 U.S. Embassy Grosvenor Square, London, England |
Barbra's portion of the program was taped by Columbia Records. broadcast on the BBC radio. |
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| An Evening With Barbra Streisand | July—August, 1966 | Reportedly, Columbia Records recorded one or more of Streisand's 1966 concert tour. |
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(Music: M. Legrand * French lyrics: Eddie Marnay) (Music: Gilbert Bécaud * French lyrics: Pierre Delanoë) (Music & French Lyrics: Jean Lenoir) (Music & French lyrics: Charles Trénet) |
September 14, 1966 Columbia's Studio C 207 East 30th Street New York |
Streisand recorded French versions of Love And Lear, What Now, My Love?, Speak to Me of Love, and I Wish You Love. |  |
(B. Coquatrix, P. Dudan & K. Goell) (Music: Joseph Kosma French lyrics: Jacques Prévert) |
October 14, 1966 Columbia's Studio A 799 7th Ave. New York |
Streisand recorded French versions of Clopin Clopant and Autumn Leaves. |  |
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March 15, 1967 Columbia's Studio C 207 East 30th Street New York |
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| Belle of 14th Street Soundtrack Album | April, 1967 | Columbia Records and Streisand decided not to release the soundtrack album to her 1967 television special. Presumably, studio versions of Streisand's songs from the special would have comprised the bulk of the album: I Don't Care, Alice Blue Gown, Liebestraum, Mother Machree, Everybody Loves My Baby, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows*, My Buddy/How About Me, A Good Man is Hard to Find/Some of These Days, and Put Your Arms Around Me Honey. * The studio version of Rainbows appeared on Just For The Record. |
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| Hollywood Bowl concert | July 9, 1967 | Columbia Records recorded Streisand's live concert at the Bowl. Her “folk monologue” from Act One was used on the Happening in Central Park album. |
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One Day (Music by: M. Legrand Lyrics by: Alan & Marilyn Bergman) |
March 16, 1968 Los Angeles |
This pro-peace song is based on a Michel Legrand theme from the 1965 French film The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, which Streisand originally heard as an instrumental. She requested Marilyn and Alan Bergman contribute lyrics. |
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Lost in Wonderland (Jobim/Barer) |
June 23, 1968 Columbia's Studio C 207 East 30th Street New York |
7-inch Columbia Records singles session.
Lost in Wonderland is the English-language version of Jobim's song, Antigua. (Also recorded at this session were the single versions of Funny Girl and I'd Rather Be Blue, as well as Punky's Dilemma for the What About Today? album) |
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One Day (Music by: M. Legrand Lyrics by: Alan & Marilyn Bergman) |
February 8, 1969 Los Angeles |
This pro-peace song is based on a Michel Legrand theme from the 1965 French film The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, which Streisand originally heard as an instrumental. She requested Marilyn and Alan Bergman contribute lyrics. |
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* composer unknown. (Music by: M. Legrand Lyrics by: Alan & Marilyn Bergman) |
May 14, 1969 Columbia's Studio C 207 East 30th Street New York |
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(B. Lane / A.J. Lerner) |
March 19, 1970 Columbia's Studio C 207 East 30th Street New York |
7-inch Columbia Records singles session.
At this session, the promotional 7-inch version of On A Clear Day was recorded as well (which was different than the soundtrack version). |
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Didn't We (J. Webb) |
The Singer April 30, 1970 Columbia's Studio C 207 East 30th Street New York |
Barbra, producer Wally Gold, and arranger/conductor Peter Matz recorded nine songs for an album Streisand was going to call The Singer. Starting in September 1969 (What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?, My Buddy/How About Me); continuing on March 10, 1970 (I Can Do It, Best Thing You've Ever Done, The Singer, Summer Me, Winter Me); then concluding on April 30, 1970 (I've Never Been A Woman Before, Pieces of Dreams, and Didn't We) ... Streisand stopped recording The Singer at the behest of Clive Davis, then the head of Columbia Records, who wanted a more contemporary sound from her. Davis recruited producer Richard Perry, who abandoned all of the 1969-70 tracks and started fresh in July 1970 recording songs with Streisand for Stoney End. Streisand sang a live version of Didn't We at The Forum in 1972 and Columbia even released it as a single. However, the original, studio version of Didn't We remains unreleased. It is most likely this version that Streisand sang when she appeared on the David Frost interview show in 1971. You can watch the clip on YouTube here. If you notice, there is no orchestra in the studio—most likely, Streisand is singing to a pre-recorded track (note the string section!) of the original studio recording. |
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September 23, 1970 New York |
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Because (Lennon/McCartney) |
September 26, 1970 New York |
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Your Loves Return (G. Lightfoot) |
September 30, 1970 New York |
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| Talk About Your Troubles (H. Nillson) |
March 3, 1971 Columbia's Studio A 799 7th Ave. New York |
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| French and English love songs album | 1973 | On May 5, 1973, Hollywood agent Sue Mengers married Belgian writer-director Jean-Claude Tramont. Barbra Streisand was her maid of honor. Streisand recorded an album of love songs for her friend ... Reportedly, Mengers has the only copy. | |
| Daniel Ellsberg ACLU Fundraiser | April 7, 1973 |
Columbia Records recorded the entire evening, in which Streisand took song requests to raise money for Daniel Ellsberg. Read more about the evening, including some of the unique songs Streisand sang, here. |
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April 19, 1973 TTG Studios Los Angeles |
Read more about these Legrand/Bergman recording sessions here. | |
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May 9—10, 1973 RCA Recording Studio Los Angeles |
Streisand sang Auf dem Wasser zu Singen in comedic fashion on her television show, Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments in 1973. The recording she made in the May 1973 sessions with Ogerman was straightforward and not comedic. Ogerman and Streisand also recorded an orchestrated version of “I Loved You”—a piano-only version is on the final album. |
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June 6, 1973 Sunset Sound Studio Los Angeles |
Better was written by Ed Kleban, who is most known for writing the lyrics to Marvin Hamlisch's music for A Chorus Line. Streisand recorded Better three times. This 1973 session with Richard Perry was the first attempt. The song appeared in the 2001 Broadway show, A Class Act, which featured an actor playing Kleban and focused on his frustrated career. Better opened Act Two, and the fact that Streisand recorded it and didn't release it figured into the plot of the show.
Do Me Wrong, But Do Me was written by Alan O'Day, who wrote hits like Angie Baby for Helen Reddy and Rock and Roll Heaven for The Righteous Brothers. O'Day had his own hit with his own recording of Undercover Angel. Johnny Mathis recorded Do Me Wrong, But Do Me, too, in 1976. Columbia released it as a single, arranged by Gene Page and produced by Jack Gold — both of whom worked with Streisand on recording projects! You can hear a version of Do Me Wrong by singer Chris Christman over at YouTube. The song's got a great hook! |
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| Better (E. Kleban) | September 12, 1973 RCA Recording Studio Los Angeles |
At this recording session, when Streisand and Paich recorded the 7-inch single version of The Way We Were, they also laid down tracks for another version of Ed Kleban's Better. |
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| Make the Man Love Me (Mann/Weill) |
December 14, 1973 United Recorders Studio Los Angeles |
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* demo only |
February 18, 1974 Burbank Studios Los Angeles |
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For Pete's Sake (Don't Let Him Down) (Artie Butler / Mark Lindsay) |
Spring 1974 | Recorded for Streisand's 1974 film, For Pete's Sake. You can hear the song over the opening credits. It's never been released on an official Streisand album, though. | |
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| Everything (R. Holmes) |
June 12, 1975 Record Plant Los Angeles |
This song, written by Holmes, has a different melody and lyric than the same-titled song on the Star is Born soundtrack. |
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| Better (E. Kleban) |
June 26, 1975 RCA Studios Los Angeles |
This was the third, and last, attempt to record Kleban's song, Better. |
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| A Child Is Born [Orchestrated version] | Lazy Afternoon |
Holmes arranged and conducted a fully orchestrated version of “A Child Is Born”. (The simple, piano-accompanied version ended up on the final album.) |
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| "Gospel" songs | 1976-77 | On the commentary track to the DVD of Streisand's film, A STAR IS BORN, she mentions recording some "gospel songs" at the home of Leon Russell and his wife while they were working on the movie. Streisand stressed she wanted to release these recordings on a future album of unreleased songs. | |
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A Star is Born February 24, 1977 United Western Recorders Los Angeles |
7-inch Columbia Records singles.
Klein produced Lost Inside of You and With One More Look At You and Woman in the Moon as singles during the session. Neither were released — however Lost Inside ended up on Barbra's 1981 greatest hits album, Memories. (To date, Streisand's released three different versions of Lost Inside of You). With One More Look At You remains unreleased. |
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| Shadow in the City (J. Ian) |
March 23, 1977 Sound Labs Los Angeles |
Shadow in the City is, I'm pretty certain, a Janis Ian song. Ian recorded it 10/11/75 and lists it on her website as an "outtake for publishing company". Since Ian recorded for Columbia during this time period and was friends with Charles Koppelman (Klein's partner in The Entertainment Company), I'm going to assume this song was by Janis Ian. |
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April 12—13, 1977 United Western Recorders Los Angeles |
Barbra's friend Johnny Mathis recorded Try To Win A Friend, too. On YouTube, you can watch a video of Mathis singing this song live with Larry Gatlin, its writer. Evie Sands, who originally wrote and recorded I Love Making Love to You, heard Karen Carpenter's version of the song when she recorded it in 1979. Sands recalled in the bio Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, “I imagined [Karen's] take on it would be similar to mine or closer to the mellow Barbra Streisand version. It turned out to be a perfect blend of both.” |
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| Music Man |
April 20, 1977 Capitol Records Los Angeles |
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November 13, 1977 Media Sound New York |
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Looking Out for Number One (Carole King) |
February 6—8, 13, 15,16, 1978 Sound Labs Los Angeles |
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July 16—19, 1979 Sound Labs Los Angeles |
I am perplexed by the song Understand Your Man. It appears that Streisand recorded Alan Gordon's song. Johnny Cash had a hit with the same song. But the lyrics are written so distinctly from a male point-of-view that I am questioning whether the song Streisand recorded was by a different composer. |
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Rainbow Connection (P. Williams/ K. Ascher) |
July 23, 1979 Capitol Studios Los Angeles |
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The Tracks of My Tears (W. Robinson, Jr., W. Moore, & M. Tarplin) |
August 8, 1979 Capitol Studios Los Angeles |
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March 1980 |
Shaun Considine says in his Streisand biography that Barry Gibb recorded Streisand singing these two rock-and-roll classics and that they were unused because the concept of the album was Streisand singing Gibb songs ... A Streisand insider, however, has confirmed that these songs were incorrectly attributed to Streisand. Only Barry Gibb's vocals are there, probably recorded for himself during the GUILTY sessions. |
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April 1983 A&M Studios Los Angeles |
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May 21, 24, 1984 Los Angeles |
Streisand re-recorded How Do You Keep the Music Playing with a different arrangement and producer for The Movie Album in 2003. In her liner notes, she wrote: “I'd actually recorded this song once before in the 1980s, but wasn't quite satisfied with the arrangement, so I never released it.” |
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Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine (Kern / Hammerstein) |
July 29, 1985 A&M Studios Los Angeles |
This is the jazzy version with trumpet, as seen on Putting It Together: The Making of The Broadway Album television special. |
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Being Good Isn't Good Enough (J. Styne / Comden / Green) From Hallelujah, Baby! |
August, 1985 A&M Studios Los Angeles |
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August, 1985 A&M Studios, Lion's Share Recording Studio, Village Recorders Los Angeles |
The King and I Medley, produced and arranged by Bob Esty and Paul Jabara, was a full 8-minutes long. It began with the songs Shall We Dance and Hello Young Lovers, then sequed into I Have Dreamed and We Kiss in A Shadow, which was included on the final album. | |
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Back To Broadway (Abandoned sessions) April 14, 15, 21, 1988 MGM/Lorimar Studios Los Angeles |
Rupert Holmes: arranger/producer |
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Keeper of the Flame could possibly be the Charles Derringer song which Nina Simone has covered. Give Me Tonight is a pop song by Jack Ponti and Seth Swirsky. |
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Halfway Through the Night (Masser/Weil) |
A Collection: Greatest Hits and More June 1989 |
Streisand recorded Masser's song, Halfway Through the Night, during the same session in which We're Not Making Love Anymore and Someone That I Used To Love were sung. |
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For All We Know (Coots / Lewis) |
The Prince of Tides Soundtrack June 11, 1991 Sony Studios |
Paich's orchestration of For All We Know didn't make it onto the soundtrack album — Johnny Mandel's did. They recorded Mandel's version a month after Paich's. It'd be fascinating to hear the two! |
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November 1992 |
Streisand's second attempt to record both Unusual Way and Being Good for a Broadway album. Neither were included ... again. Streisand revealed in 2009 that she'd recorded Smoke Gets In Your Eyes with David Foster. “... I wasn’t thrilled with the arrangement.” Foster's 1992 arrangement featured electronic keyboards. Streisand felt the original chords that she and Foster rehearsed were better than some of the Jeremy Lubbock chords that Foster incorporated into the demo recording. She also didn't like Foster playing melody on the keyboards. “That's why I've got to sing it before you do all this work [on the demo],” Streisand complained. |
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Note: After 1992, I have less details and sources about Streisand's unreleased songs and recording sessions. It's also interesting to note that Streisand's album output changed post-1992. Not counting her three live albums (released in 1994, 2000, and 2007), Streisand's studio albums seem to have fallen into an every-other-year release schedule. There was Back To Broadway in 1993; then four years until 1997's Higher Ground; then original studio albums in 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005. Streisand's next studio album (Love is the Answer)—released four years after her last—came out Fall 2009.
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It Doesn't Get Better Than This (Streisand / Hamlisch / Bergmans) |
The Mirror Has Two Faces Spring 1996 |
Alternate Mirror theme song; actually played during credits at July 1996 preview screening. |
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If Only (You Were Mine) (B. Gibb) |
May 2005 Grandma's House Malibu |
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You Must Believe In Spring [Orchestra version] (Legrand / Alan & Marilyn Bergman) |
November 2008 Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Calif. |
Streisand wrote in her liner notes: “We recorded Michel Legrand's fine melody with a big string orchestra, but we all loved the purity of this Bill Evans inspired piano track, played here by Bill Charlap.” |
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* unknown (Alan & Marilyn Bergman) |
What Matters Most: Barbra sings the lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman November 2008 |
Streisand wrote in her liner notes: “To give you some idea as to how much I admire [the Bergman's] lyrics, I've already recorded 51 of their songs ... and with this new collection it will be 63!” If you do the math: 51 plus 12 equals 63. However, the Bergman album only contains 10 songs! Therefore, Streisand has indirectly told us that 2 of the 12 new Bergman songs she recorded were not released. The other 2 songs are not known at this point. It is possible they will be released on a future Streisand CD. |
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