Showing posts with label Barbara Streisand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbara Streisand. Show all posts
July 22, 2021
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Lenny Bruce articles/mentions
Burgess Meredith & Howard O. Sackler ~ Everyman
Murray Roman ~ A Blind Man's Movie
Mort Sahl ~ At Sunset on red vinyl
Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits
Mort Sahl ~ At Sunset on red vinyl
Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits
Lenny Bruce - January 1, 1951
photographer unknown
October 30, 2020
Florenz Ziegfeld articles/mentions
Fanny Brice ~ Baby Snooks & Daddy
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Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits
Florenz Ziegfeld - May 14, 1928
October 29, 2020
January 15, 2019
Jule Styne articles/mentions
January 21, 2018
August 18, 2016
20,000 Vinyl LPs 63: Jeremiah Johnson ~ Robert Redford @ 80
cover: film still
photos by Styrous®
Today is Robert Redford’s 80th birthday! Can you believe it? Yep, he was born on this date in 1936 in Santa Monica, California.
I recall the first time i saw him on an episode of The Twilight Zone
in 1962, in which he played The Cop/Death who gently convinces an old woman that it is a release not to be feared that he offers; it is a beautiful ending. At the time I had no idea
who he was and didn't find out his name until many years later; all I recall
was thinking, "How could anybody be so handsome?"
My next awareness of him was in the film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with Paul Newman. I thought he was terrific in Little Fauss and Big Halsy, I found his toothbrush fixation fascinating. He reached the peak of his boy next door charm in The Way We Were, with
Barbara Streisand. Since then I've had a love for any film he made.
For me, his finest film was Jeremiah Johnson which was directed by Sydney Pollack and released on December 21, 1972. It is a brilliant portrait of a vanished world and of the making of a Rocky Mountain mountain man in the mid 1800's.
Johnson is introduced at the opening, “His name was Jeremiah Johnson,
and they say he wanted to be a mountain man." But that is almost the
extent of what we know about his past. The plot kind of ambles around
aimlessly much as a man exploring the vast wilderness would have done.
It convincingly portrays the life of what is was to be a free, wandering
man with no ties. Although, he does take a wife and has a child at one
point, both are merely episodes in a life of searching for solitude. The
ending is quiet, a bit sad but beautiful with its subtle implication of
the end of the west as it was.
Everything about this film is brilliant! The cinematography by Duke Callaghan is breathtaking. The music by Tim McIntire and John Rubinstein is splendid as it captures the grandeur of a pristine west. The performance by
Redford is quietly bold with power and elegance. This
film made me look at him in a new light; made me realize what a fine
actor he is. It is splendid that years later he became an accomplished director.
The film is based on two books, Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher, and Crow Killer by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker. Crow Killer was based on the real-life mountain man, John "Liver-Eating" Johnson (c.1824 – January 21, 1900).
The film is based on two books, Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher, and Crow Killer by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker. Crow Killer was based on the real-life mountain man, John "Liver-Eating" Johnson (c.1824 – January 21, 1900).
Redford almost didn't make the film. The role of Jeremiah Johnson was originally to be played by Lee Marvin and then Clint Eastwood, with Sam Peckinpah
attached to direct. However, after Peckinpah and Eastwood did not get
along, Peckinpah left the project and Eastwood decided to make Dirty Harry. Warner Bros. then stepped in and set up Milius' screenplay as a vehicle for Robert Redford. With still no director attached, Redford talked Sydney Pollack into taking the helm; the two were looking for another film to collaborate on after This Property Is Condemned (1966).
As for the cinematography, that almost didn't happen as well. Warner Bros. decided that the film had to be shot on its backlot to save costs. Redford and Pollack insisted that the film could only be shot on location in Utah and convinced the studio that production could all be
done in Utah at the same cost as it would have been filming on the
backlot. Art director Ted Haworth drove over 26,000 miles to find the film's locations. The film was shot in nearly 100 locations across Utah that included: Mount Timpanogos, Ashley National Forest, Leeds, Snow Canyon State Park, St. George, Sundance Resort, Uinta National Forest, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, and Zion National Park.
Jeremiah Johnson had its worldwide premiere on May 7 at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened in competition. It was the first western film to ever be accepted in the festival. The film then held its American premiere on December 2 in Boise, Idaho, with its theatrical release in the United States beginning on December 21, 1972 in New York City. The film was a box office success, becoming the seventh highest grossing film of 1972 after grossing a domestic total of $44,693,786. The following year, the film went on to earn $8,350,000 in North American rentals. The film was recognized by American Film Institute.
The musical score to Jeremiah Johnson was composed by Tim McIntire and John Rubinstein. Both were actors and musicians. Together, the two made their film composing debuts with Jeremiah Johnson after Rubinstein met with director Sydney Pollack through his acting agent. As Pollack recalls during the film's DVD commentary, McIntire and Rubinstein were "kids that just auditioned with a tape."
Although the film premiered in 1972, the soundtrack LP was not released until 1976 by Warner Bros. Records. On October 5, 2009, a restored and extended version of the LP was released by Film Score Monthly.
Robert Redford Filmography
Jeremiah Johnson soundtrack on YouTube
Happy birthday, Robert,
thanks for all the years of pleasure you've given the world!
September 10, 2014
101 Reel-to-Reel Tapes 77: Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits
reel-to-reel tape box cover detail
photo by Lawrence Schiller
detail photo by Styrous©
In
addition to my vinyl LP record collection I'm selling, I have hundreds of reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes as well. This is an entry about one of
them that is for sale on eBay (see link below). Interested? Contact me by email, please, not by a comment.
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Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits includes many of her biggest charting songs such as “People” which had reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100
and “Second Hand Rose” which peaked at #32 on that chart. It also
includes Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long which had never before been
released on an album. The album would reach #32 on the Billboard 200 and would be certified double-platinum by the RIAA. This was the second album from Streisand to chart in the UK, peaking at #44 in the UK album charts.
reel-to-reel tape box cover
photo by Lawrence Schiller
photo by Styrous©
Photographer Lawrence Schiller was botn in 1936 in Brooklyn and grew up outside of San Diego, Californis. After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, he worked for Life magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times, Time, Newsweek, Stern, and The Saturday Evening Post as a photojournalist. He published his first book, LSD, in 1966. Since then he has published eleven books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. He collaborated with Albert Goldman on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce (in 1967 he edited and produced the Capitol Records audio documentary album "Why did Lenny Bruce die?") and with Norman Mailer on The Executioner's Song and Oswald's Tale. His own books that became national bestsellers and made the New York Times Bestseller list include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House, and Into the Mirror. He has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys. American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town and Into the Mirror
were made into television mini-series for CBS, all of which Schiller
produced and directed. In 2008, after the death of the writer Norman
Mailer, he was named Senior Advisor to the Norman Mailer Estate and is
the Managing Director of The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony, in
New York, NY, which he created with Norris Mailer. Schiller was a close
friend of Mailer and collaborator on five of his works, and represents
the Norman Mailer Licensing company. Schiller serves as a consultant to
political campaigns and major corporations on such issues as crisis
management, branding, public imaging and the use of social networking.
Schiller has been an on air analyst to NBC news, a consultant to TASCHEN Publshing, Annie Leibovitz Studio, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas and has written for The New Yorker, The Daily Beast and other publications.
reel-to-reel tape box back
photo by Styrous©
My favorite song on the album is Second Hand Rose which was originally performed by Fanny Brice which she introduced in the "Ziegfeld Follies of 1921."
Fanny Brice (occasionally spelled Fannie Brice) was the stage name of Fania Borach, born in New York City. She began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies from 1910 to 1911.
From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Brice made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Baby Snooks, a role she premiered in a Follies skit co-written by playwright Moss Hart. Baby Snooks premiered in The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air in February 1936 on CBS with Alan Reed playing Lancelot Higgins, her beleaguered "Daddy." Brice moved to NBC in December 1937, performing the Snooks routines as part of the Good News show, then back to CBS on Maxwell House Coffee Time, with the half-hour divided between the Snooks sketches and comedian Frank Morgan.
Don't Rain On My Parade is a popular song from the 1964 musical Funny Girl, based on the life of Fanny Brice. It was also featured in the 1968 movie version of the musical. The song was written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne. Both the movie and stage versions feature Barbra Streisand performing the song.
reel-to-reel tape box back detail
detail photo by Styrous©
Happy Days Are Here Again is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and published by EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc./Advanced Music Corp.[1] The song was recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, with Lou Levin, vocal (November 1929), and was featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows. The song concluded the picture, in what film historian Edwin Bradley described as a "pull-out-all-the-stops Technicolor finale, against a Great WarArmistice show-within-a-show backdrop."
This early example of 2-strip Technicolor footage was, along with
another Technicolor sequence, later cut from the 1931 re-edited release
of the otherwise black-and-white film, and is believed to have been lost
in the 1967 MGM Vault 7 fire.
Today, the song is probably best remembered as the campaign song for Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
successful 1932 presidential campaign. According to TIME magazine, it
gained prominence after a spontaneous decision by Roosevelt's advisers
to play it at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, and went on to become the Democratic Party's "unofficial theme song for years to come". The song is also associated with the Repeal of Prohibition, which occurred shortly after Roosevelt's election.
One of the most influential recordings of the song was by Barbra Streisand,
made 33 years after its first recording. While the song is
traditionally sung at a brisk pace, her recording is notable for how
slowly and expressively she sings it.
reel-to-reel tape
photo by Styrous©
People is the title of Barbra Streisand's fourth solo studio album which was released in September 1964. The song is also from the Broadway musical Funny Girl in which Streisand starred. The album became the first of Streisand's albums to hit #1 on the Billboard album chart, spending five weeks in the top spot; it was also certified Platinum. It was re-released in the UK on the CBS Hallmark Series label in 1966 with different artwork.
Track listing:
Side 1:
- “People” (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) – 3:39
- This song had been released on People.
- “Second Hand Rose” (Grant Clarke, J.F. Hanly) – 2:08
- This song had been released on My Name Is Barbra, Two....
- “Why Did I Choose You” (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) – 2:49
- This song had been released on My Name Is Barbra.
- “He Touched Me” (Ira Levin, Milton Schafer) – 3:08
- This song had been released on My Name Is Barbra, Two....
- “Free Again” (R. Colby, Mark Jourdan, A. Canfora, J. Baselli) – 3:40
- This song had been released on Je m'appelle Barbra and as a single in 1966.
- “Don't Rain on My Parade” (Styne, Merrill) – 2:44
- This song had been released on the soundtrack to Funny Girl.
Side 2: - “My Coloring Book” (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 4:09
- This song had been released on The Second Barbra Streisand Album.
- “Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long” (Smiley Lewis, Victor Young, F. Whitehouse, Milton Berle) – 2:04
- This song had been released as a single in 1966. An abbreviated version appears as part of a medley on Color Me Barbra.
- “My Man” (Jaques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:55
- This song had been released on My Name Is Barbra.
- “Gotta Move” (Peter Matz) – 1:58
- This song had been released on The Second Barbra Streisand Album. A rerecording appears on Color Me Barbra.
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- This song had been released on A Happening in Central Park. The original studio version appears on The Barbra Streisand Album.
Personnel:
- Mike Berniker – producer (tracks 1, 7, and 10)
- Don Costa – arranger & conductor (track 4)
- Jack Gold – producer (tracks 6 & 11)
- Frank Laico – engineer
- Michel Legrand – arranger & conductor (track 5)
- Peter Matz – arranger & conductor (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10)
- Robert Mersey – producer (tracks 2, 3, 4, 9)
- Lawrence Schiller – cover photo
- Ettore Stratta – producer (track 5)
- Barbra Streisand – vocals
- Warren Vincent – producer (track 8), sound supervisor
- Stan Weiss – engineer
Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits, reel-to-reel tape is for sale on eBay
reel-to-reel tapes on eBay
Styrous® ~ Wednesday, September 10, 2014
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