![]() Despite her stratospheric fame, Streisand was anything but a diva in conversation. When you’re a mega-celebrity, people sometimes overlook, or take for granted, the essential talent that made you that famous to begin with. In a nearly two-hour interview, conducted by phone, the singer talked about the motivations behind her early recordings – something she rarely does, in part because she is seldom asked. “What you hear is exactly what she sang.”īarbra Streisand at the Bon Soir Photograph: Don Hunstein / Columbia Records While the new mixes allow the four instruments that backed Streisand on those nights to finally find their rightful place, “Barbra’s vocals were left untouched,” said the album’s co-producer, Jay Landers. “After I heard Joachim’s mixes I was very, very pleased,” Streisand said.Īs a result, in November, the Barbra Streisand at the Bon Soir album will finally be released, exactly 60 years after the original shows were recorded. Another three decades would pass before innovations in sound mixing would advance to the point where a gifted engineer – in this case, Joachim van der Saag – could achieve the proper balance. But even there the instruments bled into each other. Over the years, shoddy bootlegs have turned up, and in 1991, some of its songs appeared on Streisand’s box set, Just for The Record. Even so, dedicated fans have pined for decades to hear the legendary, shelved recording from the Bon Soir. The result paid off big time, resulting in a top 10, platinum-selling hit that also earned her two Grammys, including the album of the year award. That room wasn’t meant to be a recording studio.”Ĭonsequently, Columbia shelved the album, releasing a studio recording as her debut instead. But “when I heard them, I was very disappointed”, she said. Considering the power of the shows they recorded, she expected to be thrilled by the tapes. To capture the buzz Streisand had created in the Village, Columbia executives suggested she make her debut album a live recording from the club that launched her. Two years into her run at the Bon Soir, Columbia Records, the same company that had recently signed Dylan, had enough confidence in the singer to consent to a gutsy stipulation in her contract that she retain total artistic control. She has been awarded the National Medal of Freedom, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.In the same time frame that artists like the Beatles and Bob Dylan revolutionized the world with startlingly new sounds, Streisand became their chart rival with albums that somehow made decades-old songs sound like a revolution of their own.The Barbra Streisand Foundation, which she started in 1986, has distributed more than $25 million to support environmental protection, civil liberties, and AIDS research.The first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture, she won two Academy Awards for her 1983 film Yentl. ![]()
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