Je m'appelle Barbra

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Je m'appelle Barbra
Studio album by Barbra Streisand

Publication
(s)

1966

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Chanson, pop

Title (number)

12

running time

34:23

production

Ettore Stratta

Studio (s)

New York City (1965/1966)

chronology
Color Me Barbra
(1966) 		Je m'appelle Barbra Simply Streisand
(1967)

Je m'appelle Barbra is a music album by Barbra Streisand .

history

Je m'appelle Barbra is the eighth studio album by Barbra Streisand. For the first time she worked with the French composer Michel Legrand for this production . Over a decade later, Legrand composed the music for Streisand's film Yentl . Legrand wrote three songs for this album and worked as arranger and conductor for the recordings of the album. Only in What Now My Love is the arrangement by Ray Ellis. There are only French compositions on the album, and with a few exceptions all of Streisand's songs are sung in French . The Streisand audience was irritated by this, however, and so this production was the greatest failure of Streisand's career. It wasn't until 2002, 36 years after its release, that this album received a gold record .

Track list

  1. "Free Again" (Joss Baselli, Armand Canfora, Robert Colby, Michel Jourdan) - 3:43
  2. “ Autumn Leaves ” ( Joseph Kosma , Johnny Mercer , Jacques Prévert ) - 2:50
  3. "What Now My Love" ( Gilbert Bécaud , Pierre Delanoë , Carl Sigman ) - 2:41
  4. “Ma Première Chanson” ( Eddy Marnay , Barbra Streisand) - 2:19
  5. "Clopin Clopant" ( Bruno Coquatrix , Pierre Dudan, Kermit Goell) - 3:10
  6. “Le Mur” (Charles Dumont, Michel Vaucaire) - 2:34
  7. " I Wish You Love " (Albert A. Beach, Charles Trenet , Léo Chauliac ) - 3:01
  8. “Speak to Me of Love” (Jean Lenoir, Bruce Sievier) - 2:52
  9. "Love and Learn" ( Norman Gimbel , Michel Legrand, Marnay) - 2:29
  10. "Once Upon a Summertime" ( Eddie Barclay , Legrand, Marnay, Mercer) - 3:37
  11. "Martina" (Legrand, Hal Shaper) - 2:21
  12. "I've Been Here" (Dumont, Earl Shuman, Vaucaire) - 2:31

Others

The photographer Richard Avedon photographed Barbra Streisand for the record cover . Maurice Chevalier wrote the accompanying text for the cover.

On her concert tour in North America and Europe in 2006/2007, Barbra Streisand made fun of her album Je m'appelle Barbra in her conference. She claimed that this album was the biggest flop of her life. It only received a gold record 36 years after it was released.

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