The Broadway Album

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The Broadway Album
The Broadway Album cover
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released 1985
Genre vocal, show tunes
Length 47:44
Label Columbia
Producer Richard Baskin, Bob Esty, David Foster, Paul Jabara, Peter Matz, Kim Skalecki, Barbra Streisand
Professional reviews
Barbra Streisand chronology
Emotion (album)
(1984)		 The Broadway Album
(1985)		 One Voice (live)
(1987)

The Broadway Album is a 1985 award-winning album of vocalist Barbra Streisand performing classic show tunes. Streisand, who had formerly represented only minor theater composers on her albums, not only chose in this instance to represent more major figures but also to work with one of them: Stephen Sondheim personally penned additional lyrics for the songs "Putting It Together" and "Send in the Clowns" for the singer.[1] The album, originally released on the Columbia label and subsequently rereleased by Columbia and Sony Records, was a critical and commercial success. First certified "gold" by the RIAA on January 13, 1986, it reached "four times platinum" on January 31, 1995.[2]

The album was accompanied by a television special, Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album.[3] In 2002, Columbia rereleased The Broadway Album with a bonus track.[4]

Contents

[edit] Critical reception

In 1993, Entertainment Weekly looked back nostalgically on the album as "the work of a supreme singer-actress still unspoiled enough to fall in love with the characters she sings".[5] Writing at the time of the release, Rolling Stone took a slightly more cynical view, although after criticizing the album for its self-consciousness and overproduction, reviewer Francis Davis did concede that the album "works somehow, if only as a reminder of what a neglected wealth of riches Broadway offers and what a marvelous singer Streisand is when she's not trying to pass herself off as a rock star".[6] New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden, once himself with Rolling Stone, had no such reservations, declaring shortly after the album's release that Streisand had "just released what may be the album of a lifetime".[7]

[edit] Awards

The album reached #1 on the "Billboard 200" chart in 1986 and earned Streisand a Grammy Award for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance". It launched two successful singles. "Send in the Clowns", from A Little Night Music, reached #25 on the "Adult Contemporary" chart. "Somewhere", a song from West Side Story, reached #5 on "Adult Contemporary" and also earned a Grammy for producer David Foster for "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)/Best Background Arrangement".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Putting It Together" (live) (Stephen Sondheim) – 4:20
  2. "If I Loved You" (live) (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 2:38
  3. "Something's Coming" (from West Side Story) (Leonard Bernstein, Sondheim) – 2:55
  4. "Not While I'm Around" (live) (Sondheim) – 3:29
  5. "Being Alive" (live) (Sondheim) – 3:23
  6. "I Have Dreamed/We Kiss in a Shadow/Something Wonderful" (Hammerstein, Rodgers) – 4:50
  7. "Adelaide's Lament" (live) (Frank Loesser) – 3:25
  8. "Send in the Clowns" (from A Little Night Music) (Sondheim) – 4:42
  9. "Pretty Women/The Ladies Who Lunch" (live) (Sondheim) – 5:09
  10. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (live) (Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) – 3:31
  11. "I Loves You, Porgy/Porgy, I's Your Woman Now (Bess, You Is My Woman)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Deborah Heyward) – 4:35
  12. "Somewhere" (from West Side Story) (Bernstein, Sondheim) – 4:56

[edit] Bonus track

  1. "I Know Him So Well" (Session Outtake)(Tim Rice, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus) – 4:14

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Performance

[edit] Production

  • John Arrias – engineer, remixing
  • Israel Baker – concert mastering
  • Richard Baskin – arranger, producer
  • Michael Boddicker – programming, synthesizer programming
  • Alexander Courage – orchestration
  • Bob Esty – arranger, producer
  • Benny Faccone – engineer, assistant engineer
  • David Foster – arranger, producer
  • Humberto Gatica – engineer, remixing
  • Don Hahn – engineer, remixing
  • Jerry Hey – arranger, horn arrangements
  • Paul Jabara – arranger, producer
  • Gregg Jampol – assistant engineer
  • Rhett Lawrence – programming, keyboard programming
  • Laura Livingston – engineer, remix assistant
  • Jeremy Lubbock – orchestration
  • Stephen Marcussen – remastering, original mastering
  • Peter Matz – arranger, producer, executive producer, orchestration
  • Magic Moreno – engineer, assistant engineer
  • Sid Ramin – orchestration
  • Conrad Salinger – original orchestrations
  • Kim Skalecki – producer, production coordination
  • Barbra Streisand – arranger, producer, executive producer, mastering supervisor
  • Gerald Vinci – concert master
  • Randy Waldman – arranger, assistant engineer
  • Stewart Whitmore – digital editing
  • Jay Willis – engineer, remix assistant
  • Jeffrey "Woody" Woodruff – assistant engineer

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Broadway Album at Allmusic
  2. ^ RIAA search engine. Accessed October 18, 2007.
  3. ^ Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ The Broadway Album [Bonus Track] at Allmusic
  5. ^ Sandow, Greg. (June 25, 1993). Back to Broadway. EW.com. Accessed October 18, 2007.
  6. ^ Davis, Francis. (January 16, 1986) The Broadway Album. Rolling Stone. Accessed October 18, 2007.
  7. ^ Holden, Stephen (November 10, 1985), “Barbra Streisand: 'This is the music I love. It is my roots'”, The New York Times: Late City Final Edition, Section 2, Page 1, Column 1 
  • Audio reference for unreleased song " I know him so well"

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Preceded by
Miami Vice (soundtrack) by Various artists		 Billboard 200 number-one album
January 15 - February 14, 1986		 Succeeded by
Promise by Sade
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