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Barbra Streisand's first album, The Barbra Streisand
Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. Her recording success
continued and Barbra Streisand's first three albums appeared
simultaneously on Billboard's pop albums Top Ten - an amazing feat
considering it was at a time when rock and roll and The Beatles
dominated the charts. Jule Styne's and Bob Merrill's Funny Girl
(1964), based upon the life of Fanny Brice, was fashioned especially
for Barbra Streisand after Styne saw her breakthrough
performance in the Broadway production of "I Can Get It for You
Wholesale".
Barbra Streisand has recorded more than 60 albums. Her
early works in the 1960s (The Barbra Streisand Album, The
Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name
Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theatre and
nightclub standards, including her famously ironic version of "Happy
Days Are Here Again". Beginning with My Name Is Barbra, her
albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials.
During the 1970s, Barbra Streisand was also highly
prominent in the pop charts, with number-one records like "The Way We
Were", "Evergreen", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" and "Woman In
Love". Some of these singles came from soundtrack records to her
films. When the 1970s ended, Barbra Streisand was named the
most successful female singer in the U.S., with only Elvis Presley
and The Beatles having sold more albums.
In 1991 a four-disc box set, entitled Just for the Record
was released, spanning Barbra Streisand's entire career. It
featured over 70 tracks, including live material, greatest hits and
rarities from her early recordings up to 1991. On New Year's Eve
1999, she returned to the concert stage, scoring another personal
triumph for giving the highest grossing single concert in Las Vegas
history to date. At the end of the last millennium, Barbra
Streisand was still the number-one female singer in the United
States, with at least two #1 albums in each decade since she had
started out.
Barbra Streisand's most recent album is 2011's two-disc set What Matters Most, which is collection of songs by close friends Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
