Barbra Streisand - People (1964) - Lp

People is the title of Barbra Streisand's fourth solo studio album which was released in September 1964. The title track was a newly recorded version of the hit song from the Broadway musical Funny Girl in which Streisand starred.
The album became the first of Streisand's albums to hit #1 on the Billboard album chart, spending five weeks in the top spot; it was also certified Platinum. It was re-released in the UK on the CBS Hallmark Series label in 1966 with different artwork.

After two less successful albums, Barbra Streisand returned to form on her fourth album, People, with a selection of songs that showed some of the imagination of her debut album. Much of the material was new. The album opened and closed with songs by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, first "Absent Minded Me," and then the Top Ten title song that was the hit from Streisand's triumphant Broadway show, Funny Girl. Streisand introduced Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's "When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do)," a lively song that allowed her to display some of the spirit and humor that had been missing on her last two outings.

And when picking from older songs, she again found obscure or atypical tunes from prominent composers or lost gems she could make her own. In the former category were Irving Berlin's "Supper Time," a blues song unlike any the composer had ever done, and "My Lord and Master," from Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I. In the latter was the delightful "Fine and Dandy," from the 1930 show of the same name, with music by Kay Swift.
Add in some obvious choices like Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn's "Love Is a Bore" (a companion to the previously recorded "Down with Love") and "Don't Like Goodbyes," another selection from Harold Arlen and Truman Capote's House of Flowers, from which Streisand had earlier picked "A Sleepin' Bee," and you have an album fashioned to play to the singer's strengths and musical tastes instead of trying to fit her into existing ones. That wasn't quite enough to match the quality of her debut album, but it was a definite improvement over the second and third albums. (People won Grammy Awards for Best Vocal Performance and Best Album Cover.)

The cover photo was taken by Don Bronstein at Chicago's Oak Street Beach in June 1963, when Streisand was in town for an engagement at Mister Kelly's nightclub.

Side A
A1. Absent Minded Me
A2. When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)
A3. Fine And Dandy
A4. Supper Time
A5. Will He Like Me
A6. How Does The Wine Taste?

Side B
B1. I’m All Smiles
B2. Autumn
B3. My Lord And Master
B4. Love Is A Bore
B5. Don’t Like Goodbyes
B6. People

Credits

• Arranged By, Conductor – Peter Matz (tracks: A1, A2, A6, B3 to B6), Ray Ellis (tracks: A3 to A5, B1, B2)
• Performer [Miss Streisand Accompanied By] – Peter Daniels
• Photography By [Back Cover] – Hank Parker
• Photography By [Cover] – Don Bronstein
• Producer – Robert Mersey

Notes
Release: 1964
Genre: Easy Listening
Format: LP
Label: Columbia Records
Catalog# CS 9015
Prijs: €6,95

Vinyl: Goed
Cover: Goed

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