Funny Lady (soundtrack)
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| Soundtrack album by Barbra Streisand | ||||
| Released | March 15, 1975 | |||
| Length | 47:25 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Producer | Peter Matz | |||
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Funny Lady is a soundtrack album by American vocalist Barbra Streisand. It was released by Arista Records on March 15, 1975 to promote the 1975 American musical comedy-drama film Funny Lady. Executively produced by Peter Matz, the fifteen tracks on the album were performed by Streisand, James Caan, and Ben Vereen. A soundtrack sequel to 1968's Funny Girl, Funny Lady is a collection of songs from the point of view of American performer Fanny Brice. "How Lucky Can You Get", the album's only single released in April 1975, promoted the record and was written by Fred Ebb and John Kander, who also co-wrote the majority of the songs on Funny Lady.
The soundtrack divided music critics; among the negative aspects of the album included Caan's singing abilities while others found it a worthy companion of the film. Commercially, it entered the charts in Australia, Canada and the United States, peaking within the top ten of the Billboard 200 in the latter country. The Recording Industry Association of America certified the album Gold for shipments exceeding 500,000 copies in late 1975. It was later reissued as a compact disc in 1998 and with the single release of "How Lucky Can You Get" being a bonus track.
Due to her contract with Ray Stark, Streisand was required to reprise her role as Fanny Brice in the sequel to Funny Girl (1968), which became Funny Lady. Accompanying the 1975 film was the official soundtrack and one of the first records to be released by Arista Records, a new label created by record producer Clive Davis. Davis later revealed in his autobiographical book, The Soundtrack of My Life, that Streisand was the perfect singer for the soundtrack as she was "the top female singer-actress in the world" and would likely be a good first effort to be released by a newly-founded record company. The soundtrack to Funny Lady was released on March 15, 1975 by Arista Records, despite Streisand being signed to Columbia Records. It features fifteen songs, with a majority of them being brand new tracks written by the songwriting duo of Fred Ebb and John Kander. Bay Cities Records, a subsidiary of Arista, had announced interest in reissuing the soundtrack collection for Funny Lady in 1990. The plans stalled for several years and it was not until May 19, 1998 that it would be released in a compact disc format. The reissued version features a rearranged track listing, plus a second version of "How Lucky Can You Get", being the "Finale" single release. It would be reissued once more by SBME Special Markets on February 3, 2009.
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