Je M'Appelle Barbra

Barbra Streisand | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000024T3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,386 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What Now, My Love?

2. Autumn Leaves

3. Speak to Me of Love

4. Once upon a Time

5. I Wish You Love

6. Clopin-Clopant

7. Ma Premiere Chanson

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She 'speaks of love' better than anyone else., June 9, 2003

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Robert Johnson (Richmond, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Je M'Appelle Barbra (Audio CD)

This album devoted to songs penned by French composers marks Streisand's first collaboration with producer/composer Michael Legrand, whom would go on to write the brilliant score for Yentl in 1983. It provides the singer with a bit of challenge, seeing that it calls upon her to sing not only in English but also French for the first time as well. Not surprisingly, she pulls off the numbers splendidly and JE M'APPELLE BARBRA is yet another exceptional release from Streisand's sixties catalogue. Barbra gives definitive renditions of the French classics "Autumn Leaves," "Clopin Clopant," "Speak To Me Of Love," and the breathtaking "Once Upon A Summertime." The lessor-known material ("What Now My Love," "I Wish You Love") is just as good, with "Free Again" (which had been performed in French as "Non C'est Rien" on Color Me Barbra) standing strong as one of her most amazing vocal performances. The disc also finds Barbra composing her first melody ("Ma Premiere Chanson," which showcases her considerable writing talent in it's early stages), as well as tackling a song that was originally written for Edith Piaf ("Le Mer"), on which Streisand really excels. A delightful departure for the singer, JE M'APPELLE BARBRA Barbra became Streisand's 8 straight Top Five album on the Billboard Hot 200 and eventually went Gold several years later.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FRENCH LOVER OF BARBRA, September 7, 2000

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This review is from: Je M'Appelle Barbra (Audio CD)

Je suis un fan Français de Barbra Streisand depuis 18 ans. "Je m'Appelle Barbra" est à mon avis, le meilleur album français/anglais enregistré ce jour par une chanteuses. Même Yves Montand n'arrive pas à faire oublier l'interprétation de Barbra dans "Les Feuilles Mortes". Barbra Streisand est l'équivalent de Edith Piaf... deux très grandes chanteuses à voix, dont l'interprétation bouleverse. De plus en plus rare de nos jours ou toutes ses chanteuses ditent à voix, ne font que crier... Américain vous ne savez pas la chance que vous avez de posséder une si grande vocaliste dans votre culture musicale.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tres Bien, Barbra, August 30, 2000

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Matt Howe "outloud98" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Je M'Appelle Barbra (Audio CD)

Streisand, at the height of her 60's-phase, is flamboyantly "Barbra" on this album. At times quiet and touching, and then loud and over the top, this album is a mixture of styles and quite good.

"Ma Premiere Chanson" is Barbra's "first song". It is simple and elegant. "I Wish You Love" is performed as a swinging revenge song. I love Barbra's reading of the lyric here -- she sounds like she's seething with anger: "And in Julyyyy, a lemonade, to coooool you in a leafy glade..." It's really wonderful.

"Martina" is very moving. And "Once Upon A Summertime" and "Autumn Leaves" are brilliant, classic songs which lend authority to this album. Barbra's performances are flawless and the arrangements are quite beautiful.