ButterFly

Barbra Streisand

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: October 1974
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000252W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #111,797 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "I WON'T LAST A DAY WITHOUT.....GUAVA JELLY?", January 14, 2000

By	CHUCK WEST (ATLANTA, GA, USA) - See all my reviews

I don't LOVE this CD, but I don't HATE it either. Anything by Barbra Streisand is usually better work than most of what is on the market...even when it's odd. This is not one of my favorite CD's, but song #4, "I Won't Last A Day Without You," is one of my all-time favorite individual tracks of Barbra Streisand's entire catalog. This is one of the most intimate, heartfelt, really- feeling-the-love-energy-go-right-through-you songs (and vocals, for that matter) ever recorded. This song alone is worth the CD purchase price. I also like the calypso "Guava Jelly." I can't help but think of Barbara Streisand singing this song dressed like Mary Ann from "Gilligan's Island." Incidentally, folks, don't forget the early 1970's were an experimental/growth time. Very little lasting/quality music, film, clothes, or interior decor came from this time. "Butterfly" is like that avocado lamp, harvest-gold rug or orange-and- brown bean bag chair you come across in the attic. Once you're through making jokes about it, you pay attention and begin to focus on what you liked about it at the time it caught your attention.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars guava jelly: TOTAL EROTICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!, September 7, 1998

By A Customer

This cd is the epitomy of all that is Barbra!! Especially liked "Guava jelly" and "Is there life on Mars" it gave me goose pimples!!She does it better than David Bowie.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Relaxed And Experimental Babs, January 13, 2003

By	NYC Music Lover (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

When this album first came out in 1974, it was treated
as a joke among critics and music industry people,
simply because Barbra's current amour Jon Peters was
given the producer credit. Up till that moment he was
known as a successful hairdresser and businessman, with
apparently no musical talent or experience. Who knows
how much control or input he really had on the project?
Tom Scott, coming right off a very successful run with
Joni Mitchell on her "Court & Spark" album, was enlisted
as musical coordinator. I think it's safe to say that
Tom was Barbra's main musical collaborator on this project.
And in retrospect, this album is very underrated. Yes,
at times Barbra tries too hard to "rock out", particularly
on David Bowie's "Life On Mars", but she does a good job
nonetheless. A few of the tracks are absolutely first-
rate, particularly "Love In the Afternoon", "Simple Man",
"I Won't Last a Day Without You" (which is the closest to

Barbra's classic 70's fare) and "Let The Good Times Roll".
And some of the less successful tracks like her attempt at
soul on Bill Withers' classic "Grandma's Hands" are, seen
many years later, interesting attempts at growth on Barbra's
part. This album is much more interesting and enjoyable than
several of Babs' later "Adult Contemporary" snoozers like
"Songbird", "Wet" and especially "Emotion", the absolute
bottom of the barrel. Those albums have very few decent
songs on them. "Butterfly", on the other hand, is fun from
start to finish. If you're a fan, you'll probably enjoy it!