KISS ME
IN THE RAIN
BARBRA
STREISAND
SONGWRITERS: SANDY FARINA & LISA RATNER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: WET
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1979
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/;
born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. With a
career spanning seven decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of
entertainment and is one of the few entertainers who have been awarded
an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award (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 and released her debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album (1963). It won
two Grammy Awards,
including 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 Higher Ground (1997). She has attained five number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart: "The
Way We Were", "Evergreen",
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers",
"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)",
and "Woman in Love".
After becoming an established recording
artist 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. Her
other films include Hello,
Dolly! (1969), The Way We Were (1973), Nuts (1987), The
Prince of Tides (1991) and A Star Is Born (1976), for
which she won her second Academy Award, composing music for the love
theme "Evergreen",
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 only woman to win that award.
With sales of over 150 million records
worldwide, Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lists her as the highest-certified female album
artist with 68.5 million album units in the
United States. Billboard honored Streisand as the greatest Billboard 200 female artist
of all time. Her accolades include two Academy Awards,
ten Grammy 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.
Wet is the twenty-first studio album released by Barbra
Streisand in 1979. The album is a concept album of sorts with all the songs referring to, or expressing different
interpretations of, water. Wet is also the first and the last word sung on the
album.
The album was a major success for Streisand,
propelled by the album's US Nº. 1 hit single, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", a
duet with American disco singer Donna
Summer which underwent a retitling and
change of emphasis in order to qualify under the water theme.
There are two covers on the album: the 1940s
standard "Come
Rain or Come Shine" and the Bobby Darin classic "Splish
Splash", which features background vocals by Toto lead singer Bobby
Kimball.
I remember sitting on
the front steps
Feeling the softness of a warm summer rain
I see the reflections of my mind
All the sadness all the pain
Visions of yesterday,
How fast they slip away
And though my dreams have come and gone
With one wish I can say:
Kiss me in the rain, and make me feel like a child again
Bring back all those memories
Kiss me in the rain, and make me feel like a child again
With the feeling that I get,
I don't even mind if we get wet
And if I drift outside myself
Please don't turn away
I'm searching for the innocence
I've lost along the way
Come join me in my fantasy
Step out of space and time
There's only one thing left to do
So if you wouldn't mind:
Kiss me in the rain, and make me feel like a child again
Bring back all those memories
Kiss me in the rain, and make me feel like a child again
With the feeling that I get,
I don't even mind if I get wet
Kiss me in the rain, and make me feel like a child again
Bring back all those memories
Kiss me in the rain, and make me feel like a child again
With the feeling that I get,
I don't even mind if I get wet
Come on kiss me in the rain
Oh, won't you kiss me in the rain
With the feeling that I get
I don't even mind if I get wet.
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