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Barbra Joan Streisand (album)

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Released
  
August 1971

Length
  
41:23

Release date
  
August 1971

Label
  
Columbia Records

Recorded
  
June 1971

Artist
  
Barbra Streisand

Producer
  
Richard Perry

Genres
  
Pop music, Soft rock

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Barbra Joan Streisand is an album by Barbra Streisand, released in August, 1971 on Columbia Records. It is notable for including "I Mean to Shine", the first recording of a song written by the Steely Dan duo of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The album also features production and backing work by members of the female band Fanny.

Contents

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Commercial performance

The album reached #11 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and was certified Gold by the RIAA. The album peaked #25 in Canada. 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.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Beautiful" (Carole King) – 2:15
  2. "Love" (John Lennon) – 3:06
  3. "Where You Lead" (Carole King, Toni Stern) – 2:58
  4. "I Never Meant to Hurt You" (Laura Nyro) – 3:51
  5. "Medley: One Less Bell to Answer/A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 6:33

Side two

  1. "Space Captain" (Matthew Moore) – 3:22
  2. "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) – 3:27
  3. "Mother" (John Lennon) – 4:40
  4. "The Summer Knows" (Michel LeGrand, Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman) – 3:43
  5. "I Mean to Shine" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) – 2:55
  6. "You've Got a Friend" (Carole King) – 4:54

Personnel

  • Barbra Streisand – vocals
  • June Millington, Mike Deasy, John Uribe, Louie Shelton, Eric Weissberg – guitar
  • Hugh McCracken, June Millington – acoustic guitar
  • Larry Muhoberac, Nickey Barclay, Michel Rubini, Nick De Caro, Lincoln Mayorga – piano
  • Donald Fagen, Billy Preston – organ
  • Joe Osborn, Jean Millington, Larry Knechtel – bass
  • Alice DeBuhr, Jim Gordon, Hal Blaine, Jim Keltner – drums
  • Richard Perry, Alice DeBuhr – percussion
  • Bobby Keys, Jim Price – horns
  • Gene Cipriano – clarinet, oboe
  • Clydie King, Oma Drake, Venetta Fields, Fanny, Sherlie Matthews – background vocals

    • Songs

    1Beautiful2:16
    2Love3:11
    3Where You Lead3:01

    References

    Barbra Joan Streisand (album) Wikipedia
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