Barbra Streisand included about eight minutes of this evening on her 1991 retrospective box set
Just For the Record. On that set, fans can hear the audio of Harold Arlen singing special lyrics to “Come Rain Or Come Shine” (“Come Ray Or Come Stark”); Jule Styne brought the house down with his opening lyric, “Time after time I tell myself that I'm so lucky to be Jule Styne ...” (sung to the tune of his song “Time After Time”); and Richard Rodgers provided a sensitive talk-sung version of “The Sweetest Sounds” in which he declared, “The world will know its happiest times when wondrous Barbra sings...” That's ASCAP president Stanely Adams introducing each composer from the dais.
Streisand confessed on Instagram years later that “Being skewered by Don Rickles was sidesplittingly funny. A gentle soul with rapid fire wit.” Known as an “insult comedian,” Rickles had everyone at the Friars Club in stitches when he told Streisand, “I'm so fed up with this fakakta
affair, you can't believe ... Barbra, I say this publicly, I never liked you.”
Seated on the dais (as common for comedy roasts) were an array of talented showbiz people who did not speak or perform: Darryl Zanuck (Fox) and Howard Koch (Paramount), Leo Jaffe (Columbia Pictures), Clive Davis (Columbia Records president), Broadway's David Merrick; Ed Sullivan; Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence.
At the mic and on the stage were a slew of toasters, roasters and performers: Joe E. Lewis, Flip Wilson, Rodney Dangerfield, Gene Baylos, William B. Williams, Bob Merrill, and Hines, Hines and Dad [that's Maurice Hines Sr., and his tap-dancing sons Gregory and Maurice Jr.].