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Song of the Day #5,889: ‘Something So Right’ – Barbra Streisand

Barbra Joan Streisand came out the same year as Stoney End and found Streisand continuing her shift into pop music.

The album is an interesting one that helps define both her strengths and limitations. Covers of songs by John Lennon and Carole King fall rather flat. The beauty of King’s Tapestry tracks, for example, is how simply and earnestly she sings them. The same songs delivered with theatrical bombast are somehow lessened.

But Streisand’s delivery of work by Burt Bacharach and Lara Nyro on the same record is transcendent.

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Song of the Day #5,705: ‘The Way We Were’ – Barbra Streisand

Throwing back to the week of February 16, 1974, we find Barbra Streisand atop the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘The Way We Were,’ the theme song from her movie of the same name.

In addition to topping the charts for three non-consecutive weeks that year, ‘The Way We Were’ took home an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and the Grammy for Song of the Year. Streisand was also nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Actress, the last time the Best Song winner was performed by a nominated actress until Lady Gaga repeated the feat with 2018’s A Star is Born.

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