I love that you love Barbra. I can remember performances of hers from television when I was a kid in the 60s. My mom adored her. Even as a child I recognized she is brilliant.
Of all the compliments given to Streisand, I think Sidney Poitier said it best. "We thank you, Barbra Streisand, for giving us that voice, that echoes so beautifully across time'.
She was starring in hit a show on Broadway. The three albums she'd released all charted top ten (the first was Album of the Year). She had signed a $5M contract for this TV special plus three more. As with her record contract, she accepted less money for complete creative control. The show would win five Emmys. She was 22. Amazing.
Shame on you David....FOUR more specials! You can't just "CST" the year 1967 from the history books. The Belle of 14th Street DID occur...and was actually quite good. Remember David, using Critical Streisand Theory to alter the facts is a VERY dangerous practice. (insert emoji here)
@@richardherdman2121 But...but... I did error! But it wasn't "Belle..." I forgot about. I forgot that "A Happening In Central Park" was a TV special! I know that doesn't make it any better! It's still inexcusable. Just don't pull my membership. I'm begging. 😰
@@BrettTwinSavage Ok, but this is your last chance. Even one more factual error about Barbra Joan will be grounds for immediate expulsion! So study up!
Kudos to paying tribute to Barbra on her 80th. She's my favorite vocalist/entertainer of all time. This video of Barbra when she was shooting to fame is incredible. She sounds so young and her accent is so strong. It's totally endearing. But your analysis of her vocal technique is spot on. She was/is sublime and the most versatile singer ever.
For the concert segment, the studio (CBS) bussed in members of her fan club because they were uncertain of how a random audience would react. And RCA passed on signing her to a record deal. Mind boggling. Columbia Records had the sense to sign her and give her free reign.
Thanks Pat, she's the greatest singer in my book.. Dramtic, smooth, vocal, emotional, clear. and sings songs with sense.. Powerful in her low and high vibrato.. More as aways of Babs..Happy more birthdays.. Here's smiling at you.
I'm 61 now and fell in love with her talent at 14. I have never wavered in all of that time. Great singers have come and gone in that time, but none come close to Barbra. I saw her live twice in London. Two nights that will always stand out in my life. Happy Birthday Babs!
I call this entire TV show "Peak Streisand." That concert segment at the end is one of the most sublime things I've ever seen and the fierceness with which she sings is incomparable.
There's no such thing as her peak...her peak is the 60's...70's...80''s...and even 90's...it's a LOOOONG PEAK.here it's just an example of her greatness and why she's UNIQUE as singer,interpret,actress...an how charismatic she is by the way...
You really need to watch the movie Funny Girl to understand about her voice and her acting talent! That was her first movie and she won her first Oscar for it! That was 1968 and I remember being in that movie theater just mesmerized by all of it! I had never seen anything quite like it and haven't to this day! That was the year I graduated high school and I've been a fan since! Please watch the movie and let us know what you think. This medley is just a preview -- there is sooo much more! ♥
Barbra was just 23 here. She’s a powerhouse with that gorgeous voice and very captivating! Shes an EGOT - actress, singer, writer, movie star, Broadway star, director and producer…I was always introduced to great music by my parents…Barbara, Judy Garland…you should do the duo of Judy/Barbra - Come On Get Happy! ❤❤
Thanks for your commentary. I've been a Babs fan for decades. Her greatest period, IMO, was from 1960-1970. Her first two TV specials (My Name is Barbra and Color Me Barbra) are must-see's. She's one of the greatest voices ever.
She only sang "My Man" once: as a post-curtain call encore on the closing night of "Funny Girl" on Broadway. It wasn't part of the stage show. But then they DID put it in the movie.
Her early career is something to behold. I admire her growth as an artist over the decades, while some insist that she abandoned her "roots" by the 1970's. I completely disagree. She was just maturing, both as a woman and an artist. There was just more to her than just being a singer. Either way her voice and interpretive skills only became more nuanced as time went on. Very little vocal decline untill her late sixties. And her vibrato has never changed, which is very unusual. It's only her mid-range that has lost it's purity. I am so glad she has such a long and great catalog of music to choose from.
Agree completely with you regarding those who claim she abandoned her roots in 1970. Besides the rationale you mention, she ran the risk of becoming completely incongruent with the times--but thank God for Richard Perry and "Stoney End" in 1971. I think it's no coincidence that at the same time she updated her music career, she was also staring in her first non-big budget musical playing a loud-and-filthy mouthed hooker in a raucous comedy (that was originally rated X no less!). I would assume Streisand knew she had to make both leaps to stay relevant. She was only 28 years old. It was time she went back to her real age.
I grew up listening to Babs and had the opportunity to see her at Madison Square Garden in June 1994. It was a dream come true. She is a phenominal actress, singer, and business woman. In the pre-video tape/DVD/internet days, it was always a treat when one of her movies aired or she made the rare TV appearance or interview.
Funny Girl was a play-turned-film from 1965. The routine she did on stage, in roller skates (singing "I Wanna Be Blue") was HILARIOUS. I've never heard or seen anything like it ever! ❤
I just love your reactions to Barbra's vocal talents, Patrick, and featuring her from different decades; thanks for educating newer gens about Barbra, especially to celebrate her 80th birthday. No one has done it better than Barbra in any of the past 6-7 decades she's been singing. She's a rarity. Her ability to make you 'feel' the lyrics is sublime. And even though her belting, high "money notes" as they say, are carefully placed in every song and not overdone like some singers like to do, her greatest gift is when she nuances notes and delivers them almost endlessly in a whisper, soft and tender like on a cloud of air and emotion. As the late great lyricist, Marilyn Bergman, once said, "The best singer that any lyric writer could ever have." There isn't another artist I've ever heard that I could 'literally' listen to 24/7 and 'never' tire of their voice. She's that special, that unique, that extraordinary!
Thank You for posting this. I guess I've been under a rock for the last few decades . . . I've never seen this medley b4. She truly is SpEcTaCuLaR ! ! ! Love your commentary too.
You should check out Barbra’s definitive performance of “Bewitched “ from the judy garland show in October of 1963. She sounds like a Stradivarius and opera’s supreme actress and diva Maria Callas. You’ll love it
I can remember this special when it was first broadcast in Australia. Have been a fan ever since and have never, never grown tired of her voice or her artistic talent. Chris Australia
Bárbra es la mejor cantante de todos los tiempos, mucho y muy bellos matices, vibrato, respiraciòn, notas altas y largasss, un control vocal extraordinario, y cuando canta su voz es inconfundible, nadie la ha podido superar, Bárbra una voz como un angel, ahhhhh, después de ella, las otras buenas cantantes.
I recently turned 67. Have watched Barbra since I was about 5. I was in musical theater as a youngster and always looked to her as the epitome of singing. Just an amazing talent.
As always I love your reactions to Barbra! I have followed her since I was a little guy. I was fortunate to see her live twice. You mentioned here you couldn't think of anyone else in the world that comes close to her... Please check out Shirley Bassey.. She is 85 now.. but was a force to reckon with just as Barbra.. A good place to start with Shirley is the Albert Hall Concert.. in the 60's.
It makes me so hopeful that someone of your generation is willing to research, as you said, and discover and appreciate music from before your time, and be moved by it as you have shown.
Tellement incroyable, talentueuse, magique....une vraie star, le son est direct ....imaginez aujourd'hui la nouvelle génération chanter dans de telles conditions ??elle est unique ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for doing this! (Wouldn't have minded AT ALL if you had let the clip go on to include the phenomenal version of "My Man" she segued into after the medley). In her retrospective album, one of the earliest set of tracks is from her performing at a nightclub when she was only 19 or 20 years old. She does a full blown comedy number, "I Hate Music" which is actually part of a song cycle written by Leonard Bernstein, and is always amazes me how someone who has such innate perfect pitch and musical ability is able to make it comedic by singing 'just' off-key in it and sounding like a 5 year old girl. And then she immediately follows it with "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me", and you can just sense the audience sitting there, mesmerized as she breaks your heart as the lyrics protest just a little too much that she doesn't at all mind the lack of romance in her life. You probably don't know the comedienne Phyllis Diller, but she was already an established star when Barbra was her opening act, and she has talked of how this '19-year-old child' would have the audience in the palm of her hand taking them on a musical journey that was absolutely thrilling. Mike Wallace had a rather confrontational relationship with Streisand and could be very critical of her. "From the time I met her as a 19-year-old, I knew she was a control freak, absolutely self-involved and a real diva." Pause. "Of course I also knew from the first moment I heard her sing, with only a piano to accompany her, that I was in the presence of one of the greatest singers who has ever lived"
This is just marvelous! You’ll love her songs from the movie she directed and starred in “ Yentl”. “ Papa Can You Hear Me?” is one. ❤️ and her version of Somewhere from West Side Story is beyond dreamy!
It's really a shame that "The Music That Makes Me Dance" was never included in the film version of "Funny Girl". Of course, her version of "My Man" (which WAS in the film) could never be topped by anyone, but I feel that "The Music That Makes Me Dance" could have become iconic if they hadn't made that switch.
One thing I disagree with Barbra about: I prefer her right profile to her left. I find it slightly more regal. But hey, we can't agree about EVERYTHING. :)
Shouldn't your picture be smaller than hers---while she is performing?! I'm sorry, but it makes you seem quite a ham, as though you're the main attraction, not her. I'd re-edit that. But I love your enthusiasm for Barbra---that is charming.
No one can match her!! Never could, never will, ever 🤷🏻♂️👏🥰
Barbra Streisand is simply the best 💖
Love love her. Best singer eva❤❤
It will be hard to imagine a world without Barbra. Your reactions are beautiful. Thank you Pat for honoring her.
Welcome to the Barbra fan club, President Pat; you're right--she's the greatest!!
And that's why she is the Greatest in the world.
Dude...one of the best of all time. Kudos for daring to show talent..
This clip is an excellent demonstration of why one of her nicknames is The Actress Who Sings.
Goddess.
I love that you love Barbra. I can remember performances of hers from television when I was a kid in the 60s. My mom adored her. Even as a child I recognized she is brilliant.
Of all the compliments given to Streisand, I think Sidney Poitier said it best. "We thank you, Barbra Streisand, for giving us that voice, that echoes so beautifully across time'.
THERE'S ONLY A FEW ...TIMELESS THEY ARE❤❤❤
She was to pop vocalizing at this time what the Beatles were to rock and roll; a genuine game changer.
The stunning, God given voice in the Woman is profound.
She is in 3 words - one singular sensation !
She's hypnotic. You cannot take your eyes off her for a second.
Wow! What a performance. She’s so beautiful and talented. My idol.
She was starring in hit a show on Broadway. The three albums she'd released all charted top ten (the first was Album of the Year). She had signed a $5M contract for this TV special plus three more. As with her record contract, she accepted less money for complete creative control. The show would win five Emmys. She was 22. Amazing.
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Shame on you David....FOUR more specials! You can't just "CST" the year 1967 from the history books. The Belle of 14th Street DID occur...and was actually quite good. Remember David, using Critical Streisand Theory to alter the facts is a VERY dangerous practice. (insert emoji here)
@@richardherdman2121 But...but... I did error! But it wasn't "Belle..." I forgot about. I forgot that "A Happening In Central Park" was a TV special! I know that doesn't make it any better! It's still inexcusable. Just don't pull my membership. I'm begging. 😰
@@BrettTwinSavage Ok, but this is your last chance. Even one more factual error about Barbra Joan will be grounds for immediate expulsion! So study up!
Greatness, thy name is Barbra!!!!!!!!
If you have ears, you know Streisand is the best.
Kudos to paying tribute to Barbra on her 80th. She's my favorite vocalist/entertainer of all time. This video of Barbra when she was shooting to fame is incredible. She sounds so young and her accent is so strong. It's totally endearing. But your analysis of her vocal technique is spot on. She was/is sublime and the most versatile singer ever.
*~ Barbra is a rare talent phenomenon and is STILL the highest selling female artist (pre-digital) in the United States. ~*
For the concert segment, the studio (CBS) bussed in members of her fan club because they were uncertain of how a random audience would react. And RCA passed on signing her to a record deal. Mind boggling. Columbia Records had the sense to sign her and give her free reign.
Thanks Pat, she's the greatest singer in my book.. Dramtic, smooth, vocal, emotional, clear. and sings songs with sense.. Powerful in her low and high vibrato.. More as aways of Babs..Happy more birthdays.. Here's smiling at you.
I'm 61 now and fell in love with her talent at 14. I have never wavered in all of that time. Great singers have come and gone in that time, but none come close to Barbra. I saw her live twice in London. Two nights that will always stand out in my life. Happy Birthday Babs!
I call this entire TV show "Peak Streisand." That concert segment at the end is one of the most sublime things I've ever seen and the fierceness with which she sings is incomparable.
Nonono. 70s is peak
Amen!!
There's no such thing as her peak...her peak is the 60's...70's...80''s...and even 90's...it's a LOOOONG PEAK.here it's just an example of her greatness and why she's UNIQUE as singer,interpret,actress...an how charismatic she is by the way...
You really need to watch the movie Funny Girl to understand about her voice and her acting talent! That was her first movie and she won her first Oscar for it! That was 1968 and I remember being in that movie theater just mesmerized by all of it! I had never seen anything quite like it and haven't to this day! That was the year I graduated high school and I've been a fan since! Please watch the movie and let us know what you think. This medley is just a preview -- there is sooo much more! ♥
Barbra was just 23 here. She’s a powerhouse with that gorgeous voice and very captivating!
Shes an EGOT - actress, singer, writer, movie star, Broadway star, director and producer…I was always introduced to great music by my parents…Barbara, Judy Garland…you should do the duo of Judy/Barbra - Come On Get Happy!
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You should hear the song when the sun comes out from this special. It’s fantastic!
It's so fun as someone who grew up with her to see young people reaching back and finding out why she was such a big deal.
Thanks for your commentary. I've been a Babs fan for decades. Her greatest period, IMO, was from 1960-1970. Her first two TV specials (My Name is Barbra and Color Me Barbra) are must-see's.
She's one of the greatest voices ever.
I love the '60s Streisand: The albums, the TV specials, the movies!!! Too bad times changed and she went pop.
You stopped before she sang My Man! Barbra Streisand is incredible at any age.
She only sang "My Man" once: as a post-curtain call encore on the closing night of "Funny Girl" on Broadway. It wasn't part of the stage show. But then they DID put it in the movie.
Queen…..
Untouchable!!
Love your channel!
Her early career is something to behold. I admire her growth as an artist over the decades, while some insist that she abandoned her "roots" by the 1970's. I completely disagree. She was just maturing, both as a woman and an artist. There was just more to her than just being a singer.
Either way her voice and interpretive skills only became more nuanced as time went on. Very little vocal decline untill her late sixties. And her vibrato has never changed, which is very unusual. It's only her mid-range that has lost it's purity. I am so glad she has such a long and great catalog of music to choose from.
Agree completely with you regarding those who claim she abandoned her roots in 1970. Besides the rationale you mention, she ran the risk of becoming completely incongruent with the times--but thank God for Richard Perry and "Stoney End" in 1971. I think it's no coincidence that at the same time she updated her music career, she was also staring in her first non-big budget musical playing a loud-and-filthy mouthed hooker in a raucous comedy (that was originally rated X no less!). I would assume Streisand knew she had to make both leaps to stay relevant. She was only 28 years old. It was time she went back to her real age.
Wasn't she like the last generation of Broadway singers that had to belt out the tunes without aid of modern mics?
BRILLIANT 🎉❤😊
I grew up listening to Babs and had the opportunity to see her at Madison Square Garden in June 1994. It was a dream come true. She is a phenominal actress, singer, and business woman. In the pre-video tape/DVD/internet days, it was always a treat when one of her movies aired or she made the rare TV appearance or interview.
Best singer ever.
Simply the best ever!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Funny Girl was a play-turned-film from 1965. The routine she did on stage, in roller skates (singing "I Wanna Be Blue") was HILARIOUS. I've never heard or seen anything like it ever! ❤
One of my all time favorite movies, starring Ms. Streisand, Funny Girl!!!! I could watch it over and over.
I just love your reactions to Barbra's vocal talents, Patrick, and featuring her from different decades; thanks for educating newer gens about Barbra, especially to celebrate her 80th birthday.
No one has done it better than Barbra in any of the past 6-7 decades she's been singing. She's a rarity. Her ability to make you 'feel' the lyrics is sublime. And even though her belting, high "money notes" as they say, are carefully placed in every song and not overdone like some singers like to do, her greatest gift is when she nuances notes and delivers them almost endlessly in a whisper, soft and tender like on a cloud of air and emotion. As the late great lyricist, Marilyn Bergman, once said, "The best singer that any lyric writer could ever have."
There isn't another artist I've ever heard that I could 'literally' listen to 24/7 and 'never' tire of their voice. She's that special, that unique, that extraordinary!
Same here
So happy you went back to the beginning! Love Barbra in every decade!☮️❤️😎🎂
Thank You for posting this. I guess I've been under a rock for the last few decades . . . I've never seen this medley b4. She truly is SpEcTaCuLaR ! ! ! Love your commentary too.
You should check out Barbra’s definitive performance of “Bewitched “ from the judy garland show in October of 1963. She sounds like a Stradivarius and opera’s supreme actress and diva Maria Callas. You’ll love it
Somewhere on You Tube there used to be an technical analysis of this performance
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Yessss I agree
In the beginning of this song, she sings the word "againnn"🎤🎶 3 different ways.
Truth. It’s gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.
And when you’re done listening to Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered check out Down With Love.
She did Funny Girl on Broadway and then in the Movie
Thank You. This is why I subscribed to you. Barbra turning 80. Get in touch with Matt howe your reactions are some of the best.
I can remember this special when it was first broadcast in Australia.
Have been a fan ever since and have never, never grown tired of her voice or her artistic talent.
Chris
Australia
One more bell to answer/a house is not a home medley will blow your mind. It's perfection
Bárbra es la mejor cantante de todos los tiempos, mucho y muy bellos matices, vibrato, respiraciòn, notas altas y largasss, un control vocal extraordinario, y cuando canta su voz es inconfundible, nadie la ha podido superar, Bárbra una voz como un angel, ahhhhh, después de ella, las otras buenas cantantes.
I recently turned 67. Have watched Barbra since I was about 5. I was in musical theater as a youngster and always looked to her as the epitome of singing. Just an amazing talent.
I love your appreciation of this great gift to the world. You're pretty special yourself, I can tell.
As always I love your reactions to Barbra! I have followed her since I was a little guy. I was fortunate to see her live twice. You mentioned here you couldn't think of anyone else in the world that comes close to her... Please check out Shirley Bassey.. She is 85 now.. but was a force to reckon with just as Barbra.. A good place to start with Shirley is the Albert Hall Concert.. in the 60's.
From the 1960s through the mid 90s..BARBRA was the ABSOLUTE BEST...She did Everything and Led the Pack through Sheer Talent & Hard Work.💯
It makes me so hopeful that someone of your generation is willing to research, as you said, and discover and appreciate music from before your time, and be moved by it as you have shown.
You need to watch her in the movie Funny Girl to really appreciate these songs. You will be blown away!
Thank you President Pat. Simply sensational. The greatest! ❤
Well said! She is one of the greatest ever.
Tellement incroyable, talentueuse, magique....une vraie star, le son est direct ....imaginez aujourd'hui la nouvelle génération chanter dans de telles conditions ??elle est unique ❤❤❤
Amazing!
Thank you so much for doing this! (Wouldn't have minded AT ALL if you had let the clip go on to include the phenomenal version of "My Man" she segued into after the medley). In her retrospective album, one of the earliest set of tracks is from her performing at a nightclub when she was only 19 or 20 years old. She does a full blown comedy number, "I Hate Music" which is actually part of a song cycle written by Leonard Bernstein, and is always amazes me how someone who has such innate perfect pitch and musical ability is able to make it comedic by singing 'just' off-key in it and sounding like a 5 year old girl. And then she immediately follows it with "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me", and you can just sense the audience sitting there, mesmerized as she breaks your heart as the lyrics protest just a little too much that she doesn't at all mind the lack of romance in her life. You probably don't know the comedienne Phyllis Diller, but she was already an established star when Barbra was her opening act, and she has talked of how this '19-year-old child' would have the audience in the palm of her hand taking them on a musical journey that was absolutely thrilling.
Mike Wallace had a rather confrontational relationship with Streisand and could be very critical of her. "From the time I met her as a 19-year-old, I knew she was a control freak, absolutely self-involved and a real diva."
Pause.
"Of course I also knew from the first moment I heard her sing, with only a piano to accompany her, that I was in the presence of one of the greatest singers who has ever lived"
I truly believe Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston are the greatest female voices ever.
Streisand and Aretha Franklin.
Thanks for pronouncing her name correctly. I really liked this video.
Absolutely love your channel! 💜
This is just marvelous! You’ll love her songs from the movie she directed and starred in “ Yentl”. “ Papa Can You Hear Me?” is one. ❤️ and her version of Somewhere from West Side Story is beyond dreamy!
i love this tv special, have you watched her sing when the sun goes out on the sullivan show?
This is amazing I've never seen it! Another great one from this movie is 2nd Hand Rose. New subscriber, 😊
It is a movie and it is really good.
Please do The man that got away in concert. It is so amazing on of my favorites!
Nobody will ever sound like they have a string instrument stuck in their voice box!
Review "places that belong to you" from prince of tides. Unique, lush, amazing.
Someone else that lives and breathes their performance is Dame Shirley Bassey,
Meant to say royal variety performance 1994 hey Jude.
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It's really a shame that "The Music That Makes Me Dance" was never included in the film version of "Funny Girl". Of course, her version of "My Man" (which WAS in the film) could never be topped by anyone, but I feel that "The Music That Makes Me Dance" could have become iconic if they hadn't made that switch.
One thing I disagree with Barbra about: I prefer her right profile to her left. I find it slightly more regal. But hey, we can't agree about EVERYTHING. :)
Hope all is well with you! I always loved Funny Girl.
I hope you get to watch at least one of her movies. I really like Funny Girl, and Yentl.
Pomg u cute
please do with one more look at you thanks
Please go watch the movie Funny Girl. You won't be disappointed.
Check out OH MY MAN.
Chech Out Funny Girl The Movie
Shouldn't your picture be smaller than hers---while she is performing?! I'm sorry, but it makes you seem quite a ham, as though you're the main attraction, not her. I'd re-edit that. But I love your enthusiasm for Barbra---that is charming.
u talk to much