Barbra Streisand info — Page 2

TBaby, THE CENTRAL PARK CONCERT as we see it on the TV special and album is only about HALF of what she performed. And ALL of it was taped & recorded!!!

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Thanks for the link, and welcome to the board!!!!!

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Thanks! This place is awesome! Glad I stumbled across it. I've been reading some of the other posts, too. Neat stuff.

I'm off to a Saturday night party!

Happy weekend, everyone.

- Matt :)

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I love Miss Streisand, but the things that I have heard about her over the years are terrible....How sad, she did not go to her mother's furenal......Some of this stuff is hard to believe, but I still try to focus on her great talent and not gossip.......It is hard to figure out what is true and what is just plain lies........

Yeah, I don't really indulge in personal rumors like that, Dollypop. I like the way she sings, ya know? It's none of my business whether she attended funerals or not.

- Matt
http://barbra-archives.com

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I disagree with Music man and his opinion on the size of early Barbra's voice...

Watch Barbra's duets with Garland ...she is literally holding herself back..

Now, Garland at that point may have seen better days vocally but the heft of that voice wasn’t all gone and yet...Streisand sensed she could overpower her and held back (note for the Streisand haters; Miss Garland’s own daughter was never as kind to her mother when singing with her as Barbra was...)..

There is no way that Peggy Lee or Dinah Shore or even Ella had the same vocal heft as early Streisand….it wasn’t a huge voice (Merman)but it had a more than significant amount of heft and was loaded with squillo (ping)…

…and if any arrangers had to work judiciously around her range, I’ll eat my hat….play “When the Sun comes out” off of the second album…. I think she ends it on a non-chest voice high A or B!

Soprano High A or B!

True her low notes were not her forte but who cares when one had a middle and top like this…

Yeah, well I happen to know someone related to someone famous (I don't want to name the celebrity), and that person doesn't like her (her own cousin). Now I know this celebrity personally, and she is incredibely nice. Just because her own cousin doesn't like her doesn't impare my judgement. Again, I don't go by rumors, even if they are coming from the person's family.

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Anybody go to the taping of the ACTORS STUDIO/James Lipton thingy last night??

Spill the beans!!

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"I'm talking about the media's need to humiliate and chastise women who know what they want, don’t really care what people think and do as they damn well please…"

Then why does the media love Cher so much?

She may not have Barbras' voice, Madonnas desperation or Lopez' Latina following. But Cher has several qualities the other three could use a lot of - self-awareness, agreeability to ones co-workers and the ability to laugh at herself.

I saw a clip of Cher last night of her performing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" at the Tony's (must have been from the mid-80s? - don't know exactly when) and though she may not have had Mary Martin's wide-eyed faux-innocence (Nah, I can't imagine Cher pulling THAT for a minute), she was terrific.

And I will always cherish her appearance on Larry King during the 2000 election, being very clear-eyed and passionate (with not a trace of the pomposity that Barbra - sadly - can fall into) about the dangers of a Bush II presidency.

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I love Cher, Madonna, Miss Streisand, all of the Great Divas, but I have noticed that there ia alot of hate for J LO...I don't understand why....Like Miss Streisand, she gets alot of bad press.......But I think Miss Streisand doesn't kiss ass and does not take an **** from anyone.....This rubs people the wrong way......If this is a BITCH, then every successful woman is one......Sweet women don't make it in life.......It takes these stronge women like Cher and Miss Streisand to take control and tell some of these men what to do........If you have talent, power and money, you can do this.....and these women do.......