Columbia Records to Release New Barbra Streisand Album, Duets
PRNewswire
11/01/2002
Definitive Career-Spanning Collection Includes 17 Classic Vocal
Collaborations & Two Newly-Recorded Superstar Duets
New Duet With Barry Manilow, 'I Won't Be The One To Let Go,' To Premiere
Exclusively on AOL Music's 'First Listen' on Monday, November 4
Duets Album In Stores Tuesday, November 26
NEW YORK, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Records will release the new Barbra Streisand album, Duets, a comprehensive career-spanning collection of superstar vocal collaborations and two newly-recorded duets including "All I Know Of Love" and "I Won't Be The One To Let Go," a duet with Barry Manilow recorded specifically for this album. Duets will be available Tuesday, November 26.
Over the past five decades, Barbra Streisand has performed duets with the greatest vocalists in pop music history from Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra through Neil Diamond and Johnny Mathis to Celine Dion and Barry Gibb and beyond. Many of these -- including "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" with Neil Diamond and "Guilty" with Barry Gibb -- have been massive chart-topping hits while others have been treasured by fans and collectors. Duets brings together, for the first time on one album, virtually all of Ms. Streisand's extraordinary vocal collaborations beginning with her groundbreaking and revelatory performance of "Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again," recorded during a 1963 appearance on "The Judy Garland Show," through her newly recorded duet with Barry Manilow.
The full-length version of "I Won't Be The One To Let Go," Barbra Streisand's new duet with Barry Manilow, will premiere exclusively as an audio stream on AOL Music's "First Listen" on Monday, November 4. AOL Keyword: First Listen.
Having received 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. Barbra Streisand has set a series of unprecedented sales records with her recordings: to date, 47 of her albums and 8 of her singles have earned RIAA gold certifications; 28 of her albums and 5 of her singles have earned platinum certifications; 13 of her albums have broken into multi-platinum territory. In addition, she has earned 5 gold, 1 platinum, and 2 multi-platinum certifications for her video releases. 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.
Barbra Streisand
Duets
Track Listing
1. I Won't Be The One To Let Go (Duet with Barry Manilow)
Written by Richard Marx & Barry Manilow
New Recording - Previously Unreleased
Barry Manilow appears courtesy of Concord Records
2. Guilty (Duet with Barry Gibb)
Written by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice Gibb
Taken from Guilty
Released September, 1980
Barry Gibb appears courtesy of RSO Records
3. You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Duet with Neil Diamond)
Written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman and Neil Diamond
Taken from Greatest Hits, Volume 2
Released November, 1978
4. I Finally Found Someone (Duet with Bryan Adams)
Written by Barbra Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, R.J. Lange & Bryan Adams
Taken from The Mirror Has Two Faces - Music From The Motion Picture
Released November, 1996
Bryan Adams appears courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.
5. Cryin' Time (Duet with Ray Charles)
Written by Buck Owens
Initial television broadcast - November 2, 1973
Taken from Just For The Record ...
Released September, 1991
6. I've Got A Crush On You (Duet with Frank Sinatra)
Written by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
Taken from Frank Sinatra - Duets
Released November, 1993
(P) 1993 Capitol Records Inc.
Frank Sinatra appears courtesy Capitol Records, Inc.
7. Tell Him (Duet with Celine Dion)
Written by David Foster, Linda Thompson & Walter Afanasieff
Taken from Higher Ground
Released November, 1987
Celine Dion appears courtesy of 550 Music/Sony Music
Entertainment (Canada) Inc.
8. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (Duet with Donna Summer)
Written by Paul Jabara & Bruce Roberts
Taken from Wet
Released October, 1979
Donna Summer appears courtesy of Casablanca Records
9. What Kind Of Fool (Duet with Barry Gibb)
Written by Barry Gibb & Albhy Galuten
Taken from Guilty
Released September, 1980
Barry Gibb appears courtesy of RSO Records
10. I Have A Love/One Hand, One Heart (Duet with Johnny Mathis)
Written by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
Taken from Back To Broadway
Released June, 1993
11. One Less Bell To Answer/A House Is Not A Home
(Duet with Barbra Streisand)
Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Taken from Barbra Joan Streisand
Released August, 1971
12. Lost Inside Of You (Duet with Kris Kristofferson)
Written by Barbra Streisand & Leon Russell
Taken from A Star Is Born - Original Soundtrack
Released November, 1976
13. Till I Loved You (Duet with Don Johnson)
Written by Maury Yeston
Taken from Till I Loved You
Released October, 1988
Don Johnson appears courtesy of Epic Records
14. Make No Mistake, He's Mine (Duet with Kim Carnes)
Written by Kim Carnes
Taken from Emotion
Released October, 1984
Kim Carnes appears courtesy of EMI America Records
15. If You Ever Leave Me (Duet with Vince Gill)
Written by Richard Marx
Taken from A Love Like Ours
Released September, 1999
Vince Gill appears courtesy of MCA Records Nashville
16. The Music Of The Night (Duet with Michael Crawford)
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe
Taken from Back To Broadway
Released June, 1993
Michael Crawford appears courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
17. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Duet with Harold Arlen)
Written by Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg
Taken from Harold sings Arlen (with friend)
Released March, 1966
18. Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again (Duet with Judy Garland)
"Get Happy" written by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler
"Happy Days Are Here Again" written by Milton Ager & Jack Yellen
Live from The Judy Garland Show, October 6, 1963
Taken from Just For The Record ...
Released September, 1991
19. All I Know Of Love
Written by David Foster & Linda Thompson
New Recording - Previously Unreleased
SOURCE: Columbia Records
CONTACT: Claire Mercuri of Columbia Records, Media, +1-212-833-5121, or
claire_mercuri@sonymusic.com, or Online press, Lisa Linder of Columbia
Records, Online & Emerging Technologies, +1-212-833-6666, or
lisa_linder@sonymusic.com
Web site: http://www.columbiarecords.com/
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