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- VIEW POINTS, Page 73MUSICThe Way She Was
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- By Elizabeth L. Bland
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- In 1955, 13-year-old Barbra Streisand and her mother met
- a piano player in the Catskills who steered them to a Brooklyn
- studio where, for a few dollars, they could record some songs.
- He accompanied them but, during Mrs. Streisand's efforts,
- intruded heavily on the vocals. Barbra would have none of that.
- "No, no," she told him, "we'll just do a little ((piano))
- interlude and then I'll come back in." That recording, of You'll
- Never Know, begins and ends Streisand's new four-CD boxed set,
- JUST FOR THE RECORD, nicely framing the point that even then her
- talent -- and chutzpah -- were well developed. The set, which
- spans three decades from stage, screen and studio, includes
- outtakes and unreleased gems as well as Streisand standards like
- People. It charts her fast climb chronologically, with
- especially fascinating bits from the young years: displaying a
- studied charm on early TV appearances, singing in a Greenwich
- Village club, holding her own in a chat with Judy Garland and
- Ethel Merman. The results are at once nostalgic and stunningly
- fresh. New fans needn't apply, but old ones will feel that, as
- another of Streisand's hits put it, Happy Days Are Here Again.
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