Second Barbra Streisand Album

Barbra Streisand | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000029BL
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,334 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home

2. Right as the Rain

3. Down with Love

4. Who Will Buy? [From the Broadway Musical Production oliver!]

5. When the Sun Comes Out

6. Gotta Move

7. My Coloring Book

8. I Don't Care Much

9. Lover, Come Back to Me

10. I Stayed Too Long at the Fair

11. Like a Straw in the Wind

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ---and five stars MORE !!!, May 16, 2008

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Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Second Barbra Streisand Album (Audio CD)

The Second Barbra Streisand Album came out not too long after Barbra's first record album; she had become wildly popular almost overnight. That's very much to her credit. This album features Barbra at her peak--although, then again, it's tough to think of Barbra Streisand NOT singing at her peak! The quality of the sound is excellent and the artwork is terrific.

"Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" starts the album off with Barbra singing this so very well; the music that accompanies her fits in perfectly to make this number a strong beginning for this album. Barbra sings this with some great tempo changes and her voice is extremely vibrant--I love it! "Down With Love" again features Barbra Streisand squarely in the spotlight--and that was certainly right where she belonged and still belongs! Barbra sings "Down With Love" without a superfluous note and the horn solo is very beautifully done; this all works wonders for this classic love song. Terrific! There's also a stunning rendition of "Who Will Buy?" that gets the royal treatment from Barbra as she sings this with great sensitivity and panache. The beautiful music in the background fits in perfectly with Barbra's vocals to make "Who Will Buy?" a very well done number.

"When The Sun Comes Out" has Barbra giving this ballad a passionate delivery that strikes you as very special the instant you hear it; her voice is clear as a bell and her excellent diction enhances her performance even further! "When The Sun Comes Out" is easily a major highlight of this album. Listen also for "Gotta Move;" this tune has some great singing from Streisand and the percussion works so well--as do the strings. Barbra sings of a woman who needs to find a new man who will love her just the way she is; and that's certainly something many people can relate to sooner or later in life.

"My Coloring Book" is a ballad that stuns me with its beauty and deep sensitivity; Barbra sings very sweetly of a woman's emotions and experiences and the violin is very pretty. "Lover, Come Back To Me" has a strong big band musical arrangement and Barbra gives this her all by delving into the tune and coming up fresh and perfectly able to convey every subtle nuance of the lyrics to this ballad. "I Stayed Too Long At The Fair" gets another touching treatment from Barbra Streisand; and her second album ends strong with Barbra singing "Like A Straw In The Wind." "Like A Straw In The Wind" has a fine arrangement and it makes a splendid ending for this CD.

Barbra Streisand's fans may have this already--but if some of them don't I recommend they get this and enjoy it!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This one will hook you on Barbra's early music!, May 10, 1999

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Christopher Sullivan (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Second Barbra Streisand Album (Audio CD)

I was first introduced to Streisand's work in 1980 with her "Guilty" album and during the years that followed I slowly started listening to her older music while waiting for something new. I found that alhough there were many songs from the 70's I liked, I just couldn't get into her earliest recordings...until... "The Second Barbra Streisand Album"!

At some point in the long stretch between "Till I Loved You" and "Back to Broadway" I became desperate for something, anything, I hadn't heard before. So when I caught Barbra's STUNNING performance of "Down With Love" from the old Judy Garland show, I quickly raced to buy whatever album it came from...it turned out to be "The Second Barbra Streisand Album".

If I had to choose one definitive album that so completely catches the magic that was Streisand in the beginning, this album is it.

From the first notes of "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" to the moment when it is reprised again at the end of "Like A Straw In the Wind" Barbra's voice will hypnotize you...!

On the minus side: It seems Barbra's nose was "straightened" on the cover!

On the plus side: This is a better set of songs than even her first solo album "The Barbra Streisand Album".

Best cuts: Any Place I hang My Hat Is Home, Down With Love, When the Sun Coems Out, Like A Straw in the Wind.

The song "Gotta Move" was used in the film "Too Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar"!

As for me, I'll always remember this as the album that unlocked "early Barbra" for me... if you just can't seem to get into her early stuff, maybe this album will do the trick for you as well!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now, For My Second Act...., June 6, 2005

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James Fenos "music freak" (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Second Barbra Streisand Album (Audio CD)

Barbra's studio work was becoming more polished as the sixties progressed and it seems to start with this album. My favorite track on this album, as I listen to it as a whole, is "My Coloring Book." I've always liked that song ever since I first heard it on the original "Greatest Hits" album. When I found this album on cd and played it in it's entirity I didn't realize "My Coloring Book" was the only pop recording surrounded by standards written by Harlod Arlen. Barbra tended to get hyperactive recording Arlen material for some reason but the Big Band treatment of "Lover, Come Back To Me" detracts from the depressing message of a love lost. Barbra's treatment of "When The Sun Comes Out" is regarded by many to be the definitive version and "Gotta Move" captures the sixties and the bongo craze that was happening in coffee houses in the early part of that decade. Barbra would revisit "Gotta Move for "Color Me Barbra" and somehow records an even more dramatic version with more strings. It was this second version that gets used in the motion picture "Too Wong Foo With Love, Julie Newmar." "I Stayed Too Long At The Fair" also gets revisited for the same t.v. special and resulting soundtrack, but this version is absolutely beautiful. It was around this time Barbra made a guest appearance on the "Judy Garland Show" and her career just exploded. All in all a teriffic album that would have done just as well titled "Barbra Sings Harlod Arlen."