#Locked away instrumental free
“This nutty little kook,” Dennen realized, “had one of the most breathtaking voices I'd ever heard.” The nominal prize was a free meal and fifty dollars, but the real prize was a return engagement, then a few more. She sang two songs, which were met with “stunned silence,” then “thunderous” applause. Over the next two years she met with little success until a close friend named Barry Dennen urged her to try out for the talent contest held every week in a small gay club called The Lion, across the street from his Greenwich apartment. In 1958 she graduated high school at the precocious age of sixteen, promptly left home, rented an apartment in Manhattan’s theatre district, and started applying for any job that would get her near a stage.
The TaleĪlthough known around the Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn where she was born and raised as “the kid with the good voice,” Streisand from an early age dreamed only of becoming an actor. Turns out there was, and quite some gift it is: Barbra Streisand: Live at the Bon Soir, three nights of nightclub performances, never before released as a whole, from the dawn of her career, that constitute a major addition to the legacy of one of the most popular and highly acclaimed singers who ever lived. When, in 2022, Streisand turned eighty, even those of us who stand in some awe of her might be forgiven for wondering what else by way of recognition was left to be celebrated or more accomplishments to be discovered. As of this writing, her albums total seventy-three, eleven occupying the number one spot on Billboard (more than any other female artist), and a number one album in each of the last six decades, an achievement equaled by no other artist. Her albums have been reshuffled, remastered, and reconfigured with almost periodic regularity as “greatest hits,” “highlights,” and “essential” collections, culminating in the 1991 Barbra Streisand: Just for the record, a four-CD retrospective, with lavish 93-page book, that offers a comprehensive cross-section of her recordings up to that point in her career (she was forty-eight).Īnd still the compilations continued, along with albums of new material. Doing It Her Way: Streisand Live at Bon Soir Finally Drops 1962 recording considered technically "problematic" gets a "fix"īarbra Streisand has garnered virtually every accolade, tribute, award, and honor it’s possible for a great popular artist to get: ten Grammys, nine Golden Globes, five Emmys, two Oscars, and a Tony, not to mention four Peabody Awards, the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Arts, and France’s Légion d'honneur.
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