Upcoming Barbra Streisand remasters on CD

[luke j. chung]

According to the websites Barbra-Streisand.com and LegacyRecordings.com, five of Streisand's albums have been remastered and are being rereleased on January 29th. Also, there's a new 2-disc compilation containing 40 songs, "The Essential Barbra Streisand". Since none of these releases make it out to store shelves without Ms. Streisand's final approval and given Barbra's penchant for perfectionism, what is the forum membership's reaction to this announcement? The five reissues are: "Funny Girl"(movie soundtrack), "The Way We Were", "A Star Is Born"(movie soundtrack), "The Broadway Album" and "People".:cool: These reissues and the compilation are the starting point for Columbia/Sony's 40th anniversary celebration of Barbra's association with their record label, by the way.

[feinstein]

Wasn't "Funny Girl" orginally released on Capitol?

[Grant]

I'll be getting "A Star Is Born" and "The Broadway Album".

"Broadway" was not remastered in the first reissue program and "A Star Is Born" has only come out on CD in the last several years. There was extensive tape damage done to some of the tapes, particularly on the song "One More Look At You/Are You Watching Me Now", where they had to splice in a part from vinyl. I wonder if they found a better tape.

[Jimbo]

Originally posted by feinstein
Wasn't "Funny Girl" orginally released on Capitol?

The Broadway Cast recording of "Funny Girl" was on Capitol. The movie soundtrack was released by Columbia.

[Beagle]

Sheesh, why can't they release the Art Garfunkel solo albums on Legacy and SACD?

[Kym]

According to Tower Records, this is the tracklisting for the Essential Barbra Streisand CD:

DISC 1:
A Sleeping Bee
Cry Me A River
Happy Days Are Here Again
Have I Stayed Too Long At The Fair
Lover, Come Back To Me
People
My Man
Second Hand Rose
He Touched Me
Don't Rain On My Parade
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Stoney End
Since I Fell For You
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
Way We Were, The
All In Love Is Fair
Lazy Afternoon
Evergreen
My Heart Belongs To Me
You Don't Bring Me Flowers - (with Neil Diamond)
Main Event/Fight, The
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - (with Donna Summer)

DISC 2:
Woman In Love
Guilty - (with Barry Gibb)
Comin' In And Out Of Your Life
Memory
Papa, Can You Hear Me?
Piece Of Sky, A
Putting It Together
Not While I'm Around
Send In The Clowns
Somewhere
All I Ask Of You
Children Will Listen
As If We Never Said Goodbye
I Finally Found Someone - (with Bryan Adams)
Tell Him - (with Celine Dion)
I've Dreamed Of You
Someday My Prince Will Come - (bonus track)
You'll Never Walk Alone - (bonus track)

I'm annoyed that the following are missing:

Songbird
Prisoner (from "The Eyes of Laura Mars")
What Kind of Fool (a Top Ten hit!)
The Way He Makes Me Feel
Till I Loved You (I guess she's embarrassed about the whole Don Johnson thing)

Kym

[Grant]

I won't be buying it now. Thanks, Kym!

[Jimbo]

Originally posted by Kym in Hawaii
I'm annoyed that the following are missing:

Songbird
Prisoner (from "The Eyes of Laura Mars")
What Kind of Fool (a Top Ten hit!)
The Way He Makes Me Feel
Till I Loved You (I guess she's embarrassed about the whole Don Johnson thing)

Kym [/B]

Kym: Have we met?;)

What about "Emotion"? I have fond memories of the video, with Roger Daltry. The closest she got to rock since "Stoney End."