THE BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM
The Barbra Streisand Album is the debut album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1963 on Columbia Records. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA. Material was mostly chosen from Broadway standards, many of which were fairly obscure. At the 1964 Grammy Awards, The Barbra Streisand Album won awards in the categories of Album of the Year, Best Female Vocal Performance, and Best Album Cover – Other Than Classical, the latter presented to art director John Berg. In January 2006, the album was a Grammy Hall of Fame selection. (More from Wikipedia)
Those fancy singers do love their nursery rhymes: Barbra Streisand put “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” on her debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album. I picked that one up for a buck in mint condition not long ago, though that was local, not in Atlanta.
(October 2010)
