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Songbird (Barbra Streisand album)

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Released
  
May 1978

Artist
  
Barbra Streisand

Label
  
Columbia Records

Genre
  
Pop music

Length
  
37:32

Release date
  
May 1978

Producer
  
Gary Klein

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Songbird(1978)
  
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Volume 2(1978)

Similar
  
Barbra Streisand albums, Pop music albums

Barbra streisand songbird


Songbird is a studio album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1978. The album includes Streisand's solo version of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers". She also subsequently recorded this song as a duet with Neil Diamond and this version topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two non-consecutive weeks in December 1978. The title track reached number 25 on the Hot 100 and spent two weeks atop the adult contemporary chart.

Contents

In the United States the album has been certified Platinum for sales of 1,000,000 copies.

Track listing

  1. "Tomorrow" (Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin) – 2:56
  2. "A Man I Loved" (Nikki Oosterveen, George Michalski) – 4:02
  3. "I Don't Break Easily" (Bruce Roberts) – 3:53
  4. "Love Breakdown" (Alan Gordon) – 3:36
  5. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (Neil Diamond, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman) – 3:58
  6. "Honey Can I Put on Your Clothes" (Jean Monte Ray, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 5:24
  7. "One More Night" (Stephen Bishop) – 3:10
  8. "Stay Away" (Kim Carnes) – 3:47
  9. "Deep in the Night" (Helen Miller, Eve Merriam) – 3:10
  10. "Songbird" (Dave Wolfert, Stephen Nelson) – 3:46

Personnel

  • Barbra Streisand – vocals, back cover photography
  • Jay Graydon, Steve Lukather, Dennis Budimir, Lee Ritenour, Mitch Holder, Charlie Brown, Sal DiTroia, Larry Carlton, John Tropea – guitar
  • David Hungate, Will Lee, Abraham Laboriel, Reinie Press – bass
  • Larry Muhoberac, David Foster, Lincoln Mayorga, Greg Mathieson – piano
  • Leon Pendarvis, Pat Rebillot – keyboards
  • Ian Underwood, James Newton Howard – synthesizer
  • Ed Greene, Allan Schwartzberg, Jeff Porcaro – drums
  • Bob Zimmitti, Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Gayle Levant – harp
  • Ronny Lang, Ernie Watts, Jim Horn – saxophone
  • Jerry Hey, Steve Madaio – trumpet
  • Bill Reichenbach – trombone
  • Louise Di Tullio – flute
  • George Michalski, Niki Oosterveen, Jim Gilstrap, Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters, Stephanie Spruill
  • Charles Koppelman – executive producer
  • Nick DeCaro, James Newton Howard, Lee Holdridge, Gene Page – orchestral arrangements
  • Steve Schapiro – front cover photography

    • Songs

    1Tomorrow3:00
    2A Man I Loved4:03
    3I Don't Break Easily3:56

    References

    Songbird (Barbra Streisand album) Wikipedia
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