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1963 studio album by Barbra Streisand

The Barbra Streisand Album is the debut album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released February 25, 1963, on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 2007 in mono and CS 8807 in stereo. It peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Top LPs, and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA. By 1966, the album had sold over one million copies worldwide.

The album was nominated for five Grammys at the 1963 Grammy Awards and won Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance.^[1] The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2006.^[2]

Background

Columbia label president Goddard Lieberson initially resisted signing Streisand to a contract, finding her style too close to the cabaret singers he disliked and too far from the understated approach of Jo Stafford or Rosemary Clooney, who recorded for the label in the 1950s.^[3] Lieberson relented and agreed to sign her. Nearly three decades later Streisand said:

The most important thing about that first contract – actually, the thing we held out for – was a unique clause giving me the right to choose my own material. It was the only thing I really cared about. I still received lots of pressure from the label to

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For various reasons, some of the songs Barbra Streisand has recorded over the years have never been released or included on commercially available Streisand albums. Knowing that Barbra is a high-caliber artist and an admitted perfectionist, some of the songs she's recorded over the years may remain unreleased based on her own high standards—the arrangements or vocals simply may fall short of the high bar she sets for herself.

Streisand herself wrote, “For me, the studio is a combination musical playground and laboratory…a private sanctuary, where the possibility of catching lightning in a bottle always exists. Whenever that kind of magic happens, it’s extremely satisfying. Sometimes though, when the arrangement doesn’t quite gel or the song no longer fits the tone of the album it was meant for, the tapes go into the vault for safekeeping.”

Barbra has dipped into her vault before — 1991'sJust For The Recordcontained many previously unreleased tracks, demos, and live recordings. And in 2012, more unreleased tracks were included on Streisand'sRelease Mealbum, followed by its sequel album in 2021,Release Me 2.

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Barbra Streisand

American chanteuse and actress (born 1942)

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