The Main Event: A Glove Story - Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Michael Melvoin, Barbra Streisand | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 1993)
• Original Release Date: June 22, 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000029BI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,479 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Event/Fight

2. The Body Shop

3. The Main Event/Fight [Short Version]

4. Copeland Meets the Coasters/Get a Job

5. Big Girls Don't Cry

6. It's Your Foot Again

7. Angry Eyes

8. I'd Clean a Fish for You

9. The Main Event [Ballad]

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Streisand is the main event here!, June 9, 2003

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Robert Johnson (Richmond, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Main Event: A Glove Story - Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Barbra Streisand was on an incredible success streak in the late seventies, and she racked up another huge hit with Gold disco single "The Main Event/Fight" (#3 Pop, #5 Adult Contemporary) in summer of '79. As a film, THE MAIN EVENT had many shortcomings, but it was good fun and a pretty big box office hit. The soundtrack album is pretty much the same: the instrumentals and tracks by others are filler, and the whole disc only comes to life during Barbra's three (?!) renditions of the title song.

The ballad and short (45 rpm) versions of the song are fun, but it's the full eleven-and-a-half minute extended version that really shines. The song (which is actually a medley of two separate songs) is a typically silly disco concoction, but Streisand's performance gives it an almost otherworldly power, with more impossibly big notes than one person can count. This bumps up the album's rating considerably, especially since this is the only place to get the long version. Just think of it as a maxi-single and not an actual album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The full disco mix is on here., January 13, 2003

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K. Eisenberger "dance music freak!" (Defiance, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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I bought the cassette in 1981 and have looked for the cd for a long time now so I finally found this and there is truly 1 reason for this cd to even to be released- the 11:37 minute disco mix of "The Main Event". This was a huge step for Barbra in that she finally went and followed most of the acts in 1979 and did disco. This song went as far as #13 on the disco charts and even crossed over to the black charts. The rest of the cd is blah - in that I only play the disco version and that is all.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good CD, Great cover!, March 23, 1999

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This review is from: The Main Event: A Glove Story - Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Barbra Streisand's "The Main Event/Fight" is one of the best disco songs ever, and on this CD you get to hear it in three different versions. The rest of the disc isn't that great, but Barbra's song is worth the price alone. The fact that the cover features a picture of Ryan O'Neal shirtless helps things quite a bit.