BARBRA STREISAND - SOMEWHERE

SOMEWHERE

BARBRA STREISAND

SONGWRITERS: STEPHEN SONDHEIM & LEONARDO BERNSTEIN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE BROADWAY ALBUM

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1985

 

           Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony(EGOT).

          Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she retain full artistic control, and accepting lower pay in exchange, an arrangement that continued throughout her career, and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album(1963), which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums—a record for a woman—including People(1964), The Way We Were(1974), Guilty(1980), and The Broadway Album(1985). She also achieved five number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100—"The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "Woman in Love".

            Following her established recording success in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl(1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Additional fame followed with films including the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly!(1969), the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?(1972), and the romantic drama The Way We Were(1973). Streisand won a second Academy Award for writing the love theme from A Star Is Born(1976), the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of Yentl(1983), Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first (and for 37 years, the only) woman to win that award. Streisand later directed The Prince of Tides(1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces(1996).

      With sales exceeding 150 million records worldwide, Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. According to the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA), she is the highest-certified female artist in the United States, with 68.5million certified album units tying with Mariah Carey. Billboard ranked Streisand as the greatest female artist on the Billboard 200 chart and the top Adult Contemporary female artist of all time. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, 10Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes.

         The Broadway Album is the twenty-fourth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released by Columbia Records on November 4, 1985. Consisting mainly of classic show tunes, the album marked a major shift in Streisand's career. She had spent ten years appearing in musicals and singing standards on her albums in the 1960s. Beginning with the álbum Stoney End in 1971 and ending with the album Emotion in 1984, Streisand sang mostly rock, pop, folk, and disco-oriented songs for Columbia records. Noted Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim personally penned additional lyrics for the songs "Putting It Together" and "Send in the Clowns" on request of the singer. The album, originally released on the Columbia label and subsequently re-released by Columbia and Sony Records, was a critical and commercial success. First certified gold by the RIAA on January 13, 1986, it reached four times platinum on January 31, 1995.

       The album was accompanied by a television special, Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album. The original LP and cassette releases contained 11 tracks, while the CD release included the bonus track "Adelaide's Lament". Columbia re-released The Broadway Album in 2002 with an additional bonus track, originally cut in 1985, "I Know Him So Well".

Someday, somewhere

We'll find a new way of living

We'll find a way of forgiving

Somewhere

 

There's a place for us

Somewhere a place for us

Peace and quiet and open air

Wait for us somewhere

 

There's a time for us

Someday there'll time for us

Time together with time to spare

Time to learn and time to care

 

Someday, somewhere

We'll find a new way of living

We'll find there's a way of forgiving

Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere

 

There's a place for us, a time and a place for us

Hold my hand and we're half way there

Hold my hand and I'll take you there

Somehow, someday, somewhere

 

That were nice

Well you're all my friends

I love you for being here, thank you

Thank you

 

I wanna welcome you to my home

I don't mind telling you that, erm

I've spent more than a few sleepless nights

Wondering what I could possibly do

That would be worth 5.000 dollars

And erm, then I figured out that erm

I would be singing 3,924 notes

And that comes over a little up to a dollar a note

 

And you know some notes were longer

And so they're worth about three dollars

Some are shorter 50 cents but you know, it averages out

I'm really glad you are here tonight

This place is very special to me

Here I'm constantly reminded of the

Awesome balance of nature

And how precious it all is

 

And maybe that's why I felt like

This was the perfect place to gather

Surrounded by beauty, life, and lots of good friends, you know.