Artist Spotlight = Barbra Streisand (4 songs)

This New York-native singer-songwriter-author-actress also produced & directed films. She is the best-selling female music artist of all time.

#1
This song was composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Bob Merrill for the 1964 Broadway musical ‘Funny Girl’, starring Streisand, who introduced the song. While others have recorded it, the song is considered her signature song. Released as a single January 1964, it reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart & claimed #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

#2
Following Adult Contemporary chart Top 10s in 1964’s “Funny Girl” (#6), 1965’s “He Touched Me” (#2) & 1965’s “2nd Hand Rose” (#5), this song was released in 1966 from the musical ‘Sweet Charity’. The single reached #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

#3
In the early 1970s, she had Top 10 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1970’s “Stoney End” (#2) & 1971’s “Time & Love” (#3). This song, from the 1973 movie of the same name in which she starred alongside Robert Redford, was released as a single November 1973. While others have recorded it since, it is considered another signature tune for Streisand; her version claimed #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 3 straight weeks, her 1st #1 on that chart. It also claimed #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, her 2nd #1 there. This song also claimed #1 on 2 different Canadian charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUBh0CRfj9E

#4
The theme song from the 1976 movie ‘A Star Is Born’, this was composed & performed by Streisand. Released from the album’s soundtrack December 1976, the song because her 2nd Billboard Hot 100 chart topper (3 weeks) & 3rd Adult Contempory chart topper (6 weeks). It sparked a string of 3 straight Adult Contemporary chart toppers, followed by 1977’s “My Heart Belongs To Me” & 1978’s “Songbird”. Later tunes from her include 1978’s “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (duet with Neil Diamond), 1979’s “No More Tears” (duet with Donna Summer) & 1980’s “Woman In Love”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7AIBlzCluc