Simply Streisand
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| Studio album by Barbra Streisand | ||||
| Released | October 1967 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 29:28 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Jack Gold, Howard A. Roberts | |||
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Simply Streisand (1967) is the ninth studio album released by Barbra Streisand. The album was released simultaneously with A Christmas Album and was Streisand's first that failed to chart in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 when it peaked at #12. Simply Streisand was recorded March 14, 15 and 20th, 1967. According to Billboard Magazine, Columbia Records reports a sale of nearly 250,000 in its first two weeks on the market. The album was certified Gold by RIAA in April 24, 2002.
Streisand also recorded "Willow Weep for Me" and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" during these sessions. Both songs were not included in Simply Streisand. "Willow Weep For Me" was released in the fall of 2012.
This was Streisand's first straight album — meaning songs in English, and without a TV special tie-in — since September 1964, when Columbia Records released People.
The liner notes for the LP were written by the composer Richard Rodgers. "No one is talented enough to sing with the depth of a fine cello or the lift of a climbing bird," he wrote. "Nobody, that is, except Barbra."
"The Nearness of You" was also played during the opening credits of Streisand's 1968 CBS-TV special, A Happening in Central Park.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times later wrote that Simply Streisand was similar to The Third Album (1964), "but it lacked the freshness of its prototype."
A song called "Look" (originally recorded for the previous album, "Je m'appelle Barbra" was included as a b-side to the single: "Stout-Hearted Men".
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