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Barbra Streisand Album - Movie Album [Bonus DVD]
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Release Date:2003-10-27
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Soft Pop
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Label:Columbia
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:5099751342137
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Review :
The idea of {$Barbra Streisand} making an album of movie songs is a no-brainer; as annotators {$Jay Landers} and {$Richard Jay-Alexander} point out, she has already recorded over 50 songs written for motion pictures on her 59 previous albums. In fact, the only real challenge may be a marketing one for {@Columbia Records}, since potential customers simply may assume this is a compilation of some of her previous performances. It is not. Rather, it is a newly recorded collection of songs chosen and arranged in {$Streisand}'s inimitable style. In keeping with the movie theme, she has thought big, using a 75-piece orchestra of the kind usually only found on a studio back lot for a {\soundtrack}. But all that firepower is used for support, not for its own sake. The key word here is "lush," not lavish. {$Streisand}'s immediately identifiable voice floats over the music, never challenged by it, so she is able to achieve her usual close-up, detailed performance, alternately intimate and expansive. At 61, she retains remarkable purity and range in her voice, though she is less interested in demanding effects. This is a smooth, conversational {\vocal} album. {$Streisand}'s song collection is characteristic of her. As usual, she isn't much interested in the Great American Songbook of the interwar period. Only two songs, 1935's {&"I'm in the Mood for Love"} and 1936's {&"Smile,"} date from before her birth, with most songs coming from the '50s and '60s. And, as usual, the songs as written sometimes don't satisfy her, so she has prevailed on the composers to change them. {$Johnny Mandel} willingly wrote a new verse to her specifications for {&"Emily,"} and {$Bob Telson} did the same for the obscure {&"Calling You"} from {#Bagdad Cafe}. {$Streisand}'s age is reflected in her choices, too. She frequently goes for lyrics about mature love such as {&"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"} and {&"The Second Time Around,"} and she sounds more convincing singing them, giving the words more emphasis than she does, for instance, when she just tosses off the line "You're life itself!" in {&"Wild Is the Wind."} As she herself notes, {&"You're Gonna Hear from Me,"} which closes the album, is reminiscent of the assertive songs she sang in her youth, such as {&"Don't Rain On My Parade,"} and that makes it all the more notable that she sings it in such a mellow way, as a fond memory rather than an upstart declaration. It makes a fitting closer. If {^The Movie Album} is not the sort of revelation that {$Streisand}'s 1985 masterpiece, {^The Broadway Album}, was, it nevertheless gives the listener some superior new takes on {\standards} the singer has not addressed previously and uncovers a gem or two that had been overlooked till now. [The album was also available in a bonus DVD edition, featuring videos for {&"Wild Is the Wind"} and {&"I'm in the Mood for Love,"} as well as audio-only song commentary from {$Streisand}.] ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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Smile [From Modern Times] |
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Moon River [From Breakfast at Tiffany's] |
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I'm in the Mood for Love [From Every Night At Eight] |
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Wild Is The Wind |
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Emily [From the Americanization of Emily] |
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More in Love With You [From "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"] |
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How Do You Keep the Music Playing? [From Best Friends] |
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But Beautiful [From Road to Rio] |
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Calling You [From Bagdad Cafe] |
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Second Time Around [From High Time] |
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Goodbye for Now [From Reds] |
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You're Gonna Hear from Me [From Inside Daisy Clover] |
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Data Track |
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Data Track |
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Data Track |
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Wild Is the Wind [DVD][*] |
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I'm in the Mood for Love [DVD][*] |
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Song Commentary [Audio Only][*][Multimedia Track] |
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