Columbia Records Releasing the Essential Barbra Streisand

Columbia Records is releasing The Essential Barbra Streisand, the definitive career-spanning overview of the artist's 40 years on the label. The Essential Barbra Streisand brings together for the first time all of Streisand's groundbreaking pop hits, classic recordings, and fan favorites on one breathtaking two disk, 40 song collection. Beginning with 1963's "A Sleepin' Bee" and culminating with a stunning new studio performance of "You'll Never Walk Alone" (the song she performed at the 2001 Emmy Awards ceremony), The Essential Barbra Streisand is an indispensable gallery of career highlight performances -- from one of the most successful and enduring artists in recorded music history. Featuring including two performances -- "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come" -- previously unavailable on CD, The Essential Barbra Streisand is in stores Tuesday, January 29th.

Having earned Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace and Peabody Awards (among numerous others), Barbra Streisand is truly a Renaissance woman with her extraordinary popularity now entering its fifth decade. She is the highest-selling female recording artist ever, the only artist to have had a #1 album in each of the past four decades. Consistently releasing #1 albums over a period of nearly 40 years, she has achieved the greatest longevity of success of any recording artist or group. With 45 gold albums, 29 platinum album and 13 multi-platinum albums to her credit, Barbra Streisand has set a series of unprecedented sales records. Her unbroken string of successes began when her debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album, became the nation's top-selling record by a female vocalist in 1963 and has continued unabated through the release of Christmas Memories, which was certified gold and platinum by the RIAA shortly after its release in late 2001.

A recent national poll by the Reuters News Agency named Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra as the favorite female and male singers of the century while the RIAA confirmed her status as the leading female recording artist of the 20th century.

                      The Essential Barbra Streisand

  (DISC #1)

  1. A Sleepin' Bee
  Taken from The Barbra Streisand Album
  Released February, 1963

  2. Cry Me A River
  Taken from The Barbra Streisand Album
  Released February, 1963

  3. I Stayed Too Long At The Fair
  Taken from The Second Barbra Streisand Album
  Released August, 1963

  4. Lover, Come Back To Me
  Taken from The Second Barbra Streisand Album
  Released August, 1963

  5. People
  Taken from People
  Released September, 1964

  6. My Man
  Taken from My Name Is Barbra
  Released May, 1965

  7. Second Hand Rose
  Taken from My Name Is Barbra, Two ...
  Released October, 1965

  8. He Touched Me
  Taken from My Name Is Barbra, Two ...
  Released October, 1965

  9. Don't Rain On My Parade
  Taken from Funny Girl - Original Soundtrack Recording
  Released August, 1968

  10. Happy Days Are Here Again
  Taken from A Happening In Central Park
  Released September, 1968
  11. On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
  Taken from On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - Original Soundtrack
  Recording
  Released July, 1970

  12. Stoney End
  Taken from Stoney End
  Released February, 1971

  13. Since I Fell For You
  Taken from Barbra Joan Streisand
  Released August, 1971

  14. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
  Taken from The Way We Were
  Released, January, 1974

  15. The Way We Were
  Taken from The Way We Were
  Released, January, 1974

  16. All In Love Is Fair
  Taken from The Way We Were
  Released, January, 1974

  17. Lazy Afternoon
  Taken from Lazy Afternoon
  Released October, 1975

  18. Evergreen (Love Theme from "A Star Is Born")
  Taken from A Star Is Born - Original Soundtrack
  Released November, 1976

  19. My Heart Belongs To Me
  Taken from Streisand Superman
  Released June, 1977

  20. You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Duet with Neil Diamond)
  Taken from Greatest Hits Volume 2
  Released November, 1978

  21. The Main Event/Fight
  Taken from The Main Event - Music From The Original Motion Picture
  Soundtrack
  Released June, 1979
  22. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (Duet with Donna Summer)
  Taken from Wet
  Released October, 1979

  (DISC #2)

  1. Woman In Love
  Taken from Guilty
  Released September, 1980

  2. Guilty (Duet with Barry Gibb)
  Taken from Guilty
  Released September, 1980

  3. Comin' In And Out Of Your Life
  Taken from Memories
  Released November, 1981

  4. Memory
  Taken from Memories
  Released November, 1981

  5. Papa, Can You Hear Me?
  Taken from Yentl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  Released November, 1983

  6. A Piece of Sky
  Taken from Yentl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  Released November, 1983

  7. Putting It Together
  Taken from The Broadway Album
  Released November, 1985

  8. Not While I'm Around
  Taken from The Broadway Album
  Released November, 1985

  9. Send In The Clowns
  Taken from The Broadway Album
  Released November, 1985

  10. Somewhere
  Taken from The Broadway Album
  Released November, 1985
  11. All I Ask Of You
  Taken from Till I Loved You
  Released October, 1988

  12. Children Will Listen
  Taken from Back To Broadway
  Released June, 1993

  13. As If We Never Said Goodbye
  Taken from Back To Broadway
  Released June, 1993

  14. I Finally Found Someone (Duet with Bryan Adams)
  Taken from The Mirror Has Two Faces - Music From The Motion Picture
  Released November, 1996

  15. Tell Him (Duet with Celine Dion)
  Taken from Higher Ground
  Released November, 1997

  16. I've Dreamed Of You
  Taken from A Love Like Ours
  Released, September, 1999

  17. Someday My Prince Will Come
  Bonus Track - Previously Unreleased

  18. You'll Never Walk Alone
  Bonus Track - Previously Unreleased

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