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Grammy Honors The Barbra Streisand Album |
News/January 2006 |
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The
Barbra Streisand Album joins the Funny Girl cast album and
the singles "People" and "The Way We Were" as Grammy Hall of Fame
honorees. |
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The Barbra
Streisand Album Inducted
January 31,
2008 (update)
At
its new facility in Los Angeles, here's how the Grammy's officially
recognize the induction of The Barbra Streisand Album into their Hall of Fame:
"Barbra
Streisand had already made an impression on
theater-goers by the time she signed to Columbia Records
in 1962. That year, the vocalist took a featured role in
Jerome Weidman and Harold Rome's Broadway musical about
the '30s garment trade in New York, I Can Get It For You
Wholesale. Streisand's show stealing performance as Miss
Marmelstein garnered her a Tony Award nomination as Best
Supporting Actress in a Musical - and a recording
contract.
She made an even bigger splash with her debut LP,
The Barbra Streisand Album. Comprising 11 standards and show
tunes by Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Rodgers & Hart, and
others, the collection spotlighted her humor and
invention; it was highlighted by her unique downbeat
version of "Happy Days Are Here Again." The Album rose to
#8 on the pop chart and won three Grammys, including Album
of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance."
January 12, 2006
The
National
Association
of
Recording
Arts
and
Sciences
has
inducted
The
Barbra
Streisand
Album
into
its
Grammy
Hall
of
Fame.
Streisand's
first
solo
studio
album
is
a
fitting
addition
to
this
illustrious
list
of
prestigious
recordings.
It's
the
second
Streisand
LP
to
be
so
honored
(in
2004,
the
Broadway
cast
album
of
Funny
Girl
was
also
inducted).
To
qualify
for
entry
into
The
Grammy
Hall
of
Fame,
a
recording
must
be
at
least
25
years
old
and
of
lasting
qualitative
or
historical
significance.
We
were
at
a
1996
seminar
in
New
York
when
Mike
Berniker,
the
producer
of
The
Barbra
Streisand
Album
and
a
multi-Grammy
award
winner
himself,
spoke
candidly
about
producing
The
Barbra
Streisand
Album:
"The
Barbra
Streisand
Album comes from her chutzpah and mine. She was so strong and so perfect on that record that the title befitted the whole idea. I worked for months on that first record. When the record came out and it started to take off, it was almost beyond belief for me. I really found it amazing that it could sell the way it was currently selling at that point. All of a sudden, of course, the record company called up and said,
'you're going to make another record and you’re going to call it
The Second Barbra Streisand Album, right?"
Which of course I did."
Mike
Berniker
produced
the
first
three
Streisand
studio
albums:
The
Barbra
Streisand
Album,
The
Second
Barbra
Streisand
Album
and
The
Third
Album.
But
perhaps
most
significantly,
Berniker
also
produced
Barbra
Streisand's
studio
single,
"People."
The
Barbra
Streisand
Album
went
on to
win
three
Grammys
in
1963:
- Best
Vocal
Performance,
Female
(Barbra
Streisand)
-
Album
of the
Year
(Columbia
Records)
- Best
Album
Cover
(John
Berg)
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