People (Barbra Streisand album)

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People
People cover
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released September 1964
Recorded July - August 1964
Genre Pop, Vocal
Length 35:35
Label Columbia Records
Producer Robert Mersey
Professional reviews
Barbra Streisand chronology
The Third Album
(1964)
People
(1964)
My Name Is Barbra
(1965)
This article is about a Barbra Streisand album. For the 1988 debut album by Irish band the Hothouse Flowers, see People (Hothouse Flowers album).

People is the title of Barbra Streisand's fourth solo studio album which was released in September 1964. The title track was a newly recorded version of the hit song from the Broadway musical Funny Girl in which Streisand starred. The album became the first of Streisand's eight career number one albums on the Billboard album chart, spending five weeks in the top spot; it was also certified gold. [1]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Absent Minded Me" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) – 3:07
  2. "When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:57
  3. "Fine And Dandy" (Kay Swift, Paul James) – 2:49
  4. "Supper Time" (Irving Berlin) – 2:47
  5. "Will He Like Me?" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 2:34
  6. "How Does The Wine Taste?" (Matt Dubey, Harold Karr) – 2:36
  7. "I'm All Smiles" (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) – 2:09
  8. "Autumn" (Richard Maltby, Jr., David Shire) – 1:57
  9. "My Lord And Master" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 2:59
  10. "Love Is A Bore" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:08
  11. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) – 3:14
  12. "People" (Merrill, Styne) – 3:40

[edit] Awards

Barbra won Best Vocal Performance, Female Grammy award for the album, her 2nd in this category and her 3rd overall.

[edit] Succession

Preceded by
A Hard Day's Night
by The Beatles
Billboard Top LP's
number one album by
Barbra Streisand

October 31-December 4, 1964
Succeeded by
Beach Boys Concert
by The Beach Boys

[edit] References

  1. ^ Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Albums 1955-2001 (Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, 2001), 845.

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