1971 studio album by Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand
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Released
| August 1971
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Recorded
| April?May 1971
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Studio
| United
(
Las Vegas
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Genre
| Pop
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Length
| 41
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23
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Label
| Columbia
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Producer
| Richard Perry
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- "Where You Lead" / "Since I Fell For You"
Released: June 1971
- "Mother / "The Summer Knows"
Released: 1971
- "Space Captain" / "One Less Bell To Answer / A House Is Not A Home"
Released: 1971
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Barbra Joan Streisand
is the thirteenth studio album by American singer
Barbra Streisand
, released in August 1971 on
Columbia Records
. It was her second consecutive album produced by
Richard Perry
and features backing work by members of the female band
Fanny
. Like the two previous studio albums, the singer continued to opt for a more contemporary repertoire, this time choosing three songs by
Carole King
, two by
John Lennon
, two by
Burt Bacharach
and
Hal David
in medley form, one each by
Laura Nyro
and the trio
Michel LeGrand
,
Marilyn Bergman
and Alan Bergman, and one by
Donald Fagen
and
Walter Becker
, who would go on to form
Steely Dan
.
Three singles were released from the album, two of which had a moderate performance on the
Billboard Hot 100
chart and were a hit on the
Adult Contemporary
chart. The album was well received by audiences and critics and went gold in the United States, Belgium and Sweden.
Production and release
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In the late 1960s, Columbia Records began pressuring Barbra to record albums with more contemporary songs, as her albums until then consisted of big band songs, broadway musicals, and cabarets. The first attempt failed, and the 1969 album
What About Today?
became the first sales failure in the singer's career. Success would come with the follow-up album
Stoney End
, which sold over a million copies in the United States alone. With the next album,
Barbra Joan Streisand
, the singer continued to choose a more current repertoire. The album includes interpretations of many contemporary singer-songwriters of the day, including
John Lennon
,
Laura Nyro
, and three selections from
Carole King
's iconic 1971 album
Tapestry
.
[1]
It also includes the first recording of "I Mean to Shine", written by the then-unknown
Steely Dan
duo of
Donald Fagen
and
Walter Becker
(Steely Dan would not issue their first record until the following year).
Three singles were released to promote the album. The first one is from the music "
Where You Lead
", composed by
Carole King
and released in the US as a single in June 1971. It charted at number 40 on the
Billboard
Hot 100
and number 3 on the
Adult Contemporary
chart.
[2]
"
Mother
" was released as the second single; it reached number 79 on the
Billboard
Hot 100 and number 24 on the AC Chart.
[2]
The third and final single, "Space Captain", failed to chart.
Critical reception
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The album received favorable reviews from music critics. William Ruhlmann from
AllMusic
website gave the album four and a half star out of five and wrote that although the singer "was not able to make the final transition into the pop/rock realm" thanks to the fact she doesn't compose her songs, she was as effective "making other people's songs her own".
[3]
Billboard
magazine wrote that the materia was "fine" and choose the songs "
Where You Lead
", "
Love
", "Space Captain" and "
Beautiful
" as the album's cuts.
[1]
Stephen Holden
from
Rolling Stone
magazine gave the album an unfavorable review and wrote that Streisand "invariably dramatizes and stylizes whatever she sings", he praised the songs "Since I Fell For You" and "The Summer Knows" but regarding to the Carole King and John Lennon songs she recorded, he wrote: "god, forbid".
[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
gave the album three out of five stars.
Commercial performance
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The album reached #11 on the
Billboard
Pop Albums chart and was certified Gold by the RIAA.
[6]
The album peaked #25 in Canada.
[7]
It peaked #99 in the 1971's Year-end chart of the
Cash Box
magazine.
[8]
According to the liner notes of Barbra's retrospective box set:
Just for the Record
, the album also received a record certification in Belgium and in Sweden.
[9]
Track listing
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Side one
- "
Beautiful
" (
Carole King
) ? 2:15
- "
Love
" (
John Lennon
) ? 3:06
- "
Where You Lead
" (Carole King, Toni Stern) ? 2:58
- "I Never Meant to Hurt You" (
Laura Nyro
) ? 3:51
- "Medley:
One Less Bell to Answer
/
A House Is Not a Home
" (
Burt Bacharach
,
Hal David
) ? 6:33
Side two
- "Space Captain" (
Matthew Moore
) ? 3:22
- "
Since I Fell for You
" (Buddy Johnson) ? 3:27
- "
Mother
" (John Lennon) ? 4:40
- "
Theme from
Summer of '42
(The Summer Knows)
" (
Michel LeGrand
,
Marilyn Bergman
,
Alan Bergman
) ? 3:43
- "I Mean to Shine" (
Donald Fagen
,
Walter Becker
) ? 2:55
- "
You've Got a Friend
" (Carole King) ? 4:54
Charts
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Certifications and sales
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Personnel
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Information is taken from the Barbra Archives
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- Barbra Streisand ? vocals (A1-A2, A4-A5, B2-B6, lead on A3, B1)
- June Millington
(A3, B1),
Mike Deasy
(B3, electric on B6),
Louie Shelton
(A1) ? guitar
- June Millington (B5-B6),
Hugh McCracken
(B5) ? acoustic guitar
- John Uribe (B5) ? lead guitar
- Eric Weissberg
(B5) ? additional guitar
- Nickey Barclay
(A3, B1),
Larry Muhoberac
(A1, B6),
Mike Rubini
(B5),
Lincoln Mayorga
(A1), Nick De Caro (A2),
Richard Perry
(B3) ? piano
- Donald Fagen
(B5),
Billy Preston
(A3, B1-B2) ? organ played by
- Richard Perry (B3) - pipe organ
- Jean Millington (A3, B1), John Osborn (B5),
Joe Osborn
(A1),
Larry Knechtel
(B3, B6) ? bass guitar
- Alice DeBuhr (A3, B1, B5-B6),
Jim Gordon
(A1),
Hal Blaine
(A2),
Jim Keltner
(B3) ? drums
- Alice DeBuhr (B1, B5), Richard Perry (B1) ? percussion
- Richard Perry (A3) ? tambourine
- Bobby Keyes
,
Jim Price
(B1, B5) ? horns
- Gene Cipriano ? clarinet solo, oboe solo (A2)
- Fanny
(A3),
Shirley Matthews
(B1),
Clydie King
,
Venetta Fields
, Oma Drake (A3, B1) ? background vocals
- Fanny (A3, B1),
Dick Hazard
(A4, B4),
Gene Page
(B2-B3, brass on B6), Kenny Welch (A5), Nick De Caro (A1-A2, strings on B5-B6), Richard Perry (B3), Head (B5-B6) ? arrangements
- Dick Hazard (A4, B4), Gene Page (B2) ? conductors
- Peter Matz
(A5) ? orchestration
Technical
- Bill Schnee
, Sy Mitchell ? remix engineers
- Bill Schnee, George Beauregard, Jack Andrews, John Fiore, Willie "The Kid" Greer ? recording engineers
- Ed Thrasher
? photography
References
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- ^
a
b
c
Billboard Magazine Review-Barbra Joan Streisand
. September 18, 1971
. Retrieved
November 17,
2012
.
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a
b
"Barbra Streisand Awards"
.
AllMusic
. Archived from
the original
on March 9, 2016
. Retrieved
October 17,
2021
.
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a
b
William Ruhlmann.
"Barbra Joan Streisand (AllMusic Review)"
. www.allmusic.com
. Retrieved
November 8,
2012
.
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Larkin, Colin (2006).
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 800.
- ^
a
b
Stephen Holden (January 6, 1972).
"Rolling Stone Review-Barbra Joan Streisand"
. www.rollingstone.com. Archived from
the original
on June 9, 2008
. Retrieved
November 8,
2012
.
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"Gold Awards"
.
Billboard
. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 25 December 1971. p. 62
. Retrieved
October 24,
2021
.
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"Top Albums/CDs ? Volume 16, No. 16 December 04, 1971"
.
Library and Archives Canada
. Archived from
the original
on July 16, 2016
. Retrieved
July 16,
2016
.
. Collectionscanada.gc.ca.
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"The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1971"
. Archived from
the original
on September 20, 2012.
.
Cash Box magazine
.
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Liner notes, C4K 44111. Columbia Records, 1991
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"Barbra Streisand Chart History (
Billboard
200)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
- ^
"American album certifications ? Barbra Streisand ? Barbra Joan Streisand"
.
Recording Industry Association of America
.
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Howe, Matthew.
"Barbra Joan Streisand (1971)"
. Barbra Archives
. Retrieved
27 January
2023
.
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