Barbra: The Ultimate Collection

by Barbra Streisand

Overview

Having recently become the only artist to score a U.K. number one album in each of the last five decades, the subject of Duck Sauce's Boney M-sampling club anthem, and a much talked about inspiration for one of the main characters in Glee, this 2010 Sony compilation of the legendary Barbra Streisand couldn't have been timed any better. Barbra: The Ultimate Collection may be less comprehensive than 2002's two-disc The Essential, but its track list still reads like a dictionary of definitions of easy listening pop standards, with a representative selection covering 45 years, from 1964's debut hit "People" to her cover of Frank Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" from 2009's Diana Krall-produced Love Is the Answer. All of her five Billboard chart-toppers are here, from her very first number one, "The Way We Were," to Academy Award-winning Best Original Song, "Love Theme from 'A Star Is Born' (Evergreen)," to her duets with Donna Summer (a rare venture into disco territory on "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)") and Neil Diamond ("You Don't Bring Me Flowers"), to her signature tune, "Woman in Love." But there are equally classic tracks elsewhere, with numbers from her most famous films such as Yentl's "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and Funny Girl's "Don't Rain on My Parade," collaborations with Celine Dion ("Tell Him") and Barry Gibb ("Guilty"), and her powerful renditions of musical standards from Sunset Boulevard ("As If We Never Said Goodbye"), A Little Night Music ("Send in the Clowns"), and West Side Story ("Somewhere"). There are a few notable omissions, such as her last U.S. Top Ten single (the Bryan Adams duet "I Finally Found Someone"), and a couple of heavy hitters from her prolific '70s heyday ("My Heart Belongs to Me," "Stoney End"), but on the whole, Barbra: The Ultimate Collection is a valiant attempt to paint as big a picture of her illustrious career as is possible on just a single disc. ~ Jon O'Brien

Product Details

Release Date:	11/02/2010
Label:	Col / Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music / Sony Music Entertainment
UPC:	0886977904325
Rank:	2365

Tracks

1. Woman in Love
2. Evergreen
3. The Way We Were
4. You Don't Bring Me Flowers
5. Guilty
6. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
7. Don't Rain on My Parade
8. Memory
9. Papa, Can You Hear Me?
10. As If We Never Said Goodbye
11. Tell Him
12. Stranger in a Strange Land
13. I've Dreamed of You
14. Send in the Clowns
15. People
16. Smile
17. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
18. Somewhere

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Barbra Streisand   Primary Artist
Donna Summer   Primary Artist
Celine Dion   Primary Artist
Barry Gibb   Primary Artist
Neil Diamond   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Bob Merrill   Composer
Robin Gibb   Composer
Barbra Streisand   Composer,Executive Producer
David Foster   Composer
Neil Diamond   Composer
Maurice Gibb   Composer
Mary Maurer   Design,Art Direction
Randee St. Nicholas   Photography
Ashley Gibb   Composer
Stephen Gibb   Composer
Firooz Zahedi   Photography
Greg Gorman   Photography
Linda Thompson-Jenner   Composer
Steve Schapiro   Cover Photo,Photography
Michael Lau Robles   Design
Geoffrey Parsons   Composer
Andrew Lloyd Webber   Composer
Trevor Nunn   Composer
Stephen Marcussen   Mastering
David Mann   Composer
Bob Hilliard   Composer
Christopher Hampton   Composer
Marvin Hamlisch   Composer
Don Black   Composer
John Turner   Composer
Charlie Chaplin   Composer
Marilyn Bergman   Composer
Jay Landers   Liner Notes,Executive Producer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Rolf Lovland   Composer
Jule Styne   Composer
Peter Fletcher   Product Manager
Walter Afanasieff   Composer
Michel Legrand   Composer
Ann Hampton Callaway   Composer
Paul Williams   Composer
Paul Jabara   Composer
Stephen Sondheim   Composer
Alan Bergman   Composer
Bruce Roberts   Composer
Barry Gibb   Composer