TILL I LOVED YOU
BARBRA STREISAND & DON JOHNSON
SONGWRITER: MAURY YESTON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: TILOL I LOVED YOU
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1988
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,
10 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.
Till I Loved You is the twenty-fifth studio
album by American singer Barbra Streisand,
released on October 25, 1988 on Columbia Records.
The album was particularly notable both for its thematic structure (its eleven
songs chronicle a romance's beginning, middle and end) and its high-budget
production, as many guest writers, producers and musicians participated during
its making–Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager offered three brand new songs to the album, Quincy Jones produced
"The Places You Find Love" and Luther Vandross and Dionne Warwick among others added backing vocals to the track. Also, the title
track (a Top 40 hit in the Billboard Hot 100)
was a duet between Streisand and her then-boyfriend, actor Don Johnson. According
to the liner notes of Streisand's retrospective box set: Just for the Record, the
album also received a record certification in the Netherlands and in New Zealand.
Nothing lived,
nothing grew
Till I loved you
Every sky ever gray, never blue
You were my friend, good friend
And sometimes I would wonder
Could the one to save me
Possibly be you?
I was lost, I was blind
Till I loved you
Wouldn't see, couldn't find someone new
You were my friend, dear friend
I held you close to my heart
But I never thought that I'd feel the way I do
Until that certain moment when I loved you
And now I can't ever imagine
My living without you
It seems I spend all of my time
Thinking only about you
Once I dreamed in a dream I would find you
Never thought that the dream would come true
Until that curtain lifted, parted, drifted from you
Until that certain moment when I loved you
Until that certain moment
Certain moment when I loved you
When I loved you
Nothing lived, nothing grew
Till I loved you
Every sky ever gray, never blue
Empty days, empty nights
Sometimes I wonder
Could the one to save me possibly be you?
Ooooohh I was lost, I was blind till I found you
Couldn't see, couldn't find someone new
You came along, stole my heart completely
And I thought, could the one to save me possibly be you?
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