Funny Girl – SOUNDTRACK*****

Overture/I’m The Greatest Star/If A Girl Isn’t Pretty/Roller Skate Rag/I’d Rather Be Blue Over You/His Love Makes Me Beautiful/People/You Are Woman I Am Man/Don’t Rain On My Parade/Sadie Sadie/The Swan/Funny Girl/My Man/Finale

Barbra Streisand cemented her reputation with the long running stage musical Funny Girl. She starred alongside Omar Sharif in the film version. Score by Julie Styne & Richard Merrill. (US:12 UK:11)

"This movie soundtrack is as good as the Broadway original recording, with Barbra Streisand in both cases. A wonderful musical approach to the life of the divine Fanny Brice from the Ziegfeld Follies. Classical songs with Streisand at her very best moment. Not to be missed."

"In Funny Girl, Streisand's range is as outstanding as on her earlier albums. She creates characters within her songs, which are either humorous, dramatic or romantic. We follow the different emotions and progressive experiences of her character's personality through each song. The music in this album is exquisite and Streisand's voice is at her usual peak. You really hear in the voice the various characterizations she gives to each of the performances."

"Funny Girl was one of the greatest musicals to come out of Broadway, and it created one of the world's greatest performers ever. Happily Barbra Streisand successfully transported herself to film and out came one of the most enjoyable soundtracks ever produced. The film score is so minutely different, the show's composers Styne and Merrill had to take out a couple of songs from the show and wrote the beautiful Funny Girl in it's place for the film. This soundtrack tends to be more authentic than the original cast recording because they put in non original material such as I'd Rather Be Blue Over You."

"A notable name before Funny Girl, Barbra Streisand became a superstar, as well as a bankable actress, when the film was released in 1968. Not only is it one of the best musical soundtracks, it is one of Barbra Streisand's best albums."

"In a word, amazing. The score, the story, the emotion, and the truth. All things that help to make Barbra what she has become. It all started here as her first show, and as her first movie. If you like this one, you'll love everything else that comes after.”