60 years after recording, Barbra Streisand - Live by the Bon Soir will be released on November 4
Cast Recordings & Albums60 years after recording, Barbra Streisand – Live at the Bon Soir Is released on November 4th
Look at the full playlist and listen to Streisand’s 1962 recording of “Cry Me a River.”

Columbia Records and legacy recordings, a section of Sony Music Entertainmentrelease Barbra Streisand—Ly at the Bon Soir Digitally and on CD November 4th.
Not released for six decades, Live at the Bon Soir contains the earliest live recordings of the egot-winning artist. Recorded in the Greenwich Village Nightclub 4-6 November 1962-Net weeks after Streisand placed her first record label with Columbia-Live at the Bon Soir was originally intended to be Streisand’s debut album. The tires were eventually off in favor of 1963s The Barbra Streisand album, which offered studio versions of 11 songs from her nightclub repertoire. The album catches Streisand the year when she is in her Broadway debut I can get it for your wholesaleand two years before her career -determined performance in Funny girl.
Streisand is accompanied by Tiger Haynes on guitar, Averill Pollard on Bas, John Cresci on drums and Peter Daniels on piano. Listen to “Cry Me A River” of the recording by clicking here.
With new mixtures under the supervision of Streisand and the Grammy-winning engineer Jochem van der Saag, Barbra Streisand – Live at the Bon Soir is manufactured by Streisand, Martin Erlichman and Jay Landers.
Landers says in the lining notes: “The science of recording has made quantum prraces since 1962. Grammy-winning engineer Jochem van der Saag solved sound problems in the ways in which his predecessors could barely understand. Absolutely none of Barbra’s sterling chorus was changed.
According to Van der Saag, the moment we played the tires through modern modern speakers, it was clear what the original engineers, Roy Halee and ‘Pappy’ Theroux, were facing. The acoustics of the club were obviously not designed to record, and there were many leaks of the instruments in her vocal microphone. For example, if we wanted to lower the volume of the piano, the vocal volume would also decrease. To give listeners ‘the best seat in the house’, we used the latest spectral editing technology and brightened the true artistry of Barbra and her orchestra. ‘
Streisand adds: ‘I’ve never been to a nightclub until I sang in one. I sang two songs in a talent competition at a small club called The Lion and Won, which led him to be rented around the corner on a more sophisticated dinner, with a real stage and a spotlight. The buzz that started at the Bon Soir began a contract with Columbia records. Plan for my first album was to record it at the club, and these early tires have been sleeping in my safe for six decades. Live at the Bon Soir. “
The full playlist follows (some of the tracks were released in Streisand’s Justify for the Record Boxed Set in 1991):
- Introduction by David Kapralik (Columbia Records)/My name is Barbra (Leonard Bernstein)
- Much more (Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt)
- Napoleon (Harold Arlen/EY HARBURG)
- I hate music (Leonard Bernstein)
- Right like the Rain (Harold Arlen/Ey Harburg)
- Cry for me a river (Arthur Hamilton)
- Value (Jeff Harris)
- Lover, come back to me (Oscar Hammersstein II/Sigmund Romberg)
- Band introductions
- Soon it will rain (Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones)
- Come to the supermarket (in old Peking) (Cole Porter)
- If the sun comes out (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
- Happy days are here again (Jack Yellen/Milton Ager)
- Keep out of evil now (Andy razaf/Thomas “Fats” Waller)
- A towin ‘at (Harold Arlen/Truman Capote)
- I had a true love myself (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)
- Enchanted, bothered and confused (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz hard)
- Who is afraid of the big bad wolf? (Frank Churchill/Ann Ronell)
- I will tell the man in the street (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Heart)
- A Taste of Honey (Bobby Scott/Ric Marlow)
- I will never get married (Looter)
- No one’s heart belongs to me (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Heart)
- My Honey’s Lovin ‘Arms (Herman Ruby/Joseph Meyer)
- I stayed on the fair for too long (Billy Barnes)
Streisand recorded 52 gold, 31 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums and achieved number 1 albums in each of the six consecutive decades. She is the only artist to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Director Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peaabody Awards, as well as France’s Legion D’Honor, the US Filmetime Achievement Award, and is the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center. In 2015, President Barack Obama presented her the presidential medal of freedom.
The release, which is available here, coincide with the 60th anniversary of Streisand recording on the Columbia label.
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Look back at Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl on Broadway

Look back at Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl on Broadway
24 photos
Streisand and Sydney Chaplin during rehearsals
Streisand and Sydney Chaplin, January 1964 Playbill, Shubert Theater, Boston
In rehearsal: Sydney Chaplin, Streisand, Bob Merrill and Jule Styns
May 1964 Playbill, Winter Garden Theater, Broadway
Streisand’s Playbill Bio
“I’m the biggest star”
“Cornet Man”
“Cornet Man”
“Cornet Man”
“Henry Street”
“Sadie, Sadie”
“Sadie, Sadie”
“You’re woman, I’m man”
“You’re woman, I’m man”
Danny Meehan, Streisand and Kay Medford
Danny Meehan and Streisand
Lee Allen and Streisand
Streisand and Johnny Desmond
Streisand and Johnny Desmond
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand and Sadie, 1965
Friedman-Abeles/NYPL
Streisand in her locker room in the winter Garden Theater.
An opening night gift given by designer Barbra Streisand to the cast and crew