A Star Is Born – SOUNDTRACK***

Watch Closely Now/Queen Bee/Everything/Lost Inside Of You/Hellacious Acres/Evergreen (Love Theme From A Star Is Born)/The Woman In The Moon/I Believe In Love/Crippled Crow/With One More Look At You-Watch Closely Now/Love Theme (Reprise)

The soundtrack album A Star Is Born was a collaboration between Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and was a massive commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic. Features the Grammy winning US No. 1 hit Evergreen. (US:1 UK:1)

“I can find no fault with Streisand's crystalline vocal performance and the ballad Evergreen is a contemporary classic which deservedly won an Oscar, but that is the sum total of the album.”

“Though I loved the over-bloated movie in its day, it has not held up nearly as well as this soundtrack, which features a wealth of superb songwriters strutting their stuff via Barbra and Kris Kristofferson. Barbra's pseudo rock/pop/diva material is mostly exceptionally well-performed, most of all her lovely simply ballad Evergreen. But in retrospect, it is Kristofferson's melancholy wailing that has lasting power and angst.”

“It is both funny to hear Barbra (whom I dearly love) attempt to sing rock songs, and manages to turn them all into a Broadway album. It’s also thrilling to hear her voice soar on Evergreen; Streisand’s voice is so good it’s easy to tune out the croaking whine that Kris Kristoferson calls a singing voice. Take the concept of the album with a grain of salt, and just appreciates Streisand’s amazing voice.”

“This is quintessential Barbra recording; her voice is in finest form, and each and every song has something special about it. She sings nearly every line at a break-neck speed, and at high volume, which gives this rock recording even more value.”

“The Streisand penned composition Evergreen with its haunting melody and classical style timbre is one of the grandest pop records ever recorded. Artistic justice was served when the song also became a huge commercial smash. Lost Inside Of You is a surprisingly effective duet with leading man Kris Kristofferson, that features a similar classical slant and perhaps could have been a hit as well. However, some of the other material is second-rate and forgettable, but even then Streisand's vocals make them more memorable than they deserve to be.”