Tag Archives: Barbra Streisand

You gotta love the amount of styling that went into this selfie.

The wingnuts over at Townhall have issued a “blacklist” of artists that God-fearing patriots should refuse to support.   When it comes to musicians who attack conservatives, Christians, Republicans, America — or alternately, embrace the Left, don’t give them your money. Don’t buy their albums or their T-shirts and don’t go to their shows. Even if you do like their …

Taken from her coming album culled from unreleased master tapes, here’s Barbra Streisand’s 1971 cover of the Randy Newman standard. Newman himself plays piano.

Barbra Streisand has plumbed her vault of never-released master tapes to create a new package of tracks, some of which date back to 1963. Via press release: Highlights include: “Didn’t We” written by Jimmy Webb – recorded in 1970 for an unreleased album project titled The Singer; the standard “Willow Weep For Me” – an unreleased track recorded in 1967 …

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Fan sites are buzzing after Ticketmaster posted then immediately deleted a Barbra Streisand concert date at Brooklyn’s still unfinished Barclays Center. Ms. Streisand’s name had been scrubbed from Ticketmaster’s Barclays listings. And an eerie and oddly constrained silence was upon the lips of those who could speak to the facts. “We are not confirming this,” said a Barclays spokesman, Barry …

And here’s her first ever charting single, People. The clip below is from her Oscar-winning performance in the 1968 movie version of Funny Girl, but the single reached #5 on the Billboard pop chart when it was first released from the 1964 original Broadway cast recording. Yes kids, Babs had her first hit record 48 years ago.

It won Babs an Oscar for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Song Of The Year. And I vaguely recall that it may have been the theme song for my senior prom.

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is What Matters Most, the brand new album from the legendary Barbra Streisand, which was released nationwide today in all formats. The incomparable Barbra Streisand’s long-cherished desire to release an album of music with lyrics exclusively written by her collaborators and friends, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, is achieved on What Matters …

“I’ve endured Larry Kramer’s outbursts in the past, not wishing to dignify them with a response. But at a time when we are all pulling together to achieve such giant steps toward gay equality, it is anguishing to me to have my devotion to this cause so distorted. I think my efforts for the gay community and my immersion in …

This has got to be one of the strangest collaborations ever. Too many cameos to count. From DJ/producer Armand Van Helden.

“Barbra Streisand is a hypocrite. If she had made my play about AIDS, The Normal Heart, in 1986, when she first acquired the rights, only to sit on them for a full ten years without filming it, she could have done something for gay rights when we were really in the sewer of death. But no, she chose to go …

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Taking advantage of those in town for the Grammys, yesterday producer Quincy Jones gathered a galaxy of pop stars for a re-recording of 1984’s We Are The World. Among the 70 artists lending their voices: Beyonce, Natalie Cole, Barbra Streisand, Usher, Celine Dion, Taylor Swift, Gladys Knight, Rihanna, Harry Connick, Kayne West, Toni Braxton, LL Cool J and Wyclef Jean. …

I’m not a fan but I know my homos well enough to expect a little bit of squealing about this. Forty-eight years after she first appeared in the club opening for Miles Davis, Barbra Streisand will celebrate the release of “Love Is the Answer,” her new album of jazz and popular standards, by performing a selection of its songs at …

Courtesy of Hip-O Records and Universal Music, today’s Swag Tuesday booty is the Barbra Streisand triple DVD set The Concerts, which goes on sale nationwide today. Barbra Streisand is world renowned for thrilling audiences with her magical performances, her supreme vocal talent and setting box office records. Now fans can get front row seats to the best of Barbra Streisand …

Barbra Streisand takes a dim view of Sarah Palin. For months, John McCain and the Republicans went after Barack Obama for lacking the experience they felt was necessary in order to be commander in chief. Yet, on this day, an aging John McCain, who is the oldest Presidential nominee in history, chose a running mate—a person that is just a …