Songbird (Barbra Streisand album)

Songbird
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released May 1978[1]
Genre Pop
Length 37:32
Label Columbia
Producer Gary Klein
Barbra Streisand chronology
Streisand Superman
(1977)
Songbird
(1978)
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [2]

Songbird is a studio album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1978. The album includes Streisand's solo version of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers". She also subsequently recorded this song as a duet with Neil Diamond and this version topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two non-consecutive weeks in December 1978. The title track reached #25 on the Hot 100 and spent two weeks atop the adult contemporary chart.

Track listing

  1. "Tomorrow" (Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin) 2:56
  2. "A Man I Loved" (Nikki Oosterveen, George Michalski) 4:02
  3. "I Don't Break Easily" (Bruce Roberts) 3:53
  4. "Love Breakdown" (Alan Gordon) 3:36
  5. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (Neil Diamond, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman) 3:58
  6. "Honey Can I Put On Your Clothes" (Jean Monte Ray, Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller) 5:24
  7. "One More Night" (Stephen Bishop) 3:10
  8. "Stay Away" (Kim Carnes) 3:47
  9. "Deep in the Night" (Helen Miller, Eve Merriam) 3:10
  10. "Songbird" (Dave Wolfert, Stephen Nelson) 3:46

Sales/chart performance

Chart Peak
position
US Billboard Top 200 Album Chart 12
Australian Album Chart 30
UK Album Chart[3] 48

References

In the United States the album has been certified Platinum for sales of 1,300,000 copies.