Richard Skipper Celebrates Barbra Streisand: The Music | The Albums | The Single
b'On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was \\u201cCry Me a River,\\u201d and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as \\u201cone of the two or three best voices in the world of singing songs,\\u201d adding \\u201cIt\\u2019s not just her voice but her intensity, her passion and control.\\u201d Harold Arlen, another of her favorite composers, commented, \\u201dThis young lady . . . has a stunning future.\\u201d With all-male rock groups like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Four Seasons ruling the charts, no one expected a twenty-year-old female singer from Brooklyn to not just hit No. 1, but repeat that accomplishment every decade that followed all the way to the next millennium and become the best-selling female recording artist of all time. Now, for the first time ever, comes the definitive book on the extensive recording career of this towering cultural icon, the Funny Girl considered by many to be the most talented singer of her generation. Barbra Streisand: The Music | The Albums | The Singles takes readers on a journey through every album, soundtrack, and single Streisand has released over the past sixty years. Our guide on this musical tour is Matt Howe, who has run Barbra Archives, the definitive Streisand-themed website, since 2003. He also has assisted Team Streisand on her Release Me album series. Besides analysis of every studio, live concert, and official compilation release, the book contains over three hundred FULL-COLOR photos from the albums, press kits, and Streisand herself.'