SIDE ONE
SIDE TWO
NOTES
* included on JFTR.
Side 2 was an informal recording session of Marvin Hamlisch & Barbra singing the two versions of "The Way We Were." You can hear them kibitzing around and recording different takes of the song.
SIDE ONE
SIDE TWO
NOTES
* included on JFTR; the entire show is also available on DVD. Or just watch it on YouTube.
The 1969 & 1970 Ed Sullivan songs are from the International Hotel footage that Barbra filmed for a possible television special.
“For Pete’s Sake” has never been officially released, although the song can be heard on the Columbia Pictures DVD.
SIDE ONE
SIDE TWO
NOTES
* was officially released as a 45-rpm single. Appeared, too, on JFTR.
The “Best Thing” session included Barbra’s blow up in the recording booth when the sound on her earphones goes out (“Christ! These fucking phones! They’re off! Dead!”).
The longer intro from Funny Lady is also referred to as “All My Life on the Stage” and was actually filmed. Only the first verse (“Well, I’ll be damned…”) made it into the final movie. The Kismet folks reused this track on future albums (see below) as well.
On Side 2, Mayor Lindsay interviewed Barbra at the New York Funny Girl film premiere. Barbra’s short speech for the AFI Salute to Funny Girl director William Wyler.
SIDE ONE
SIDE TWO
NOTES
* included on JFTR.
“The Promise” was written by Carole King. The recording here is a rehearsal.
The Chemstrand Commercial was a filmed industrial commercial for “My Name Is Barbra”.
The Belle of 14th Street was finally released on DVD in 2005. Columbia prepared a soundtrack album in 1967, which remains unreleased to date.
SIDE ONE
SIDE TWO
NOTES
This album contained the bootleg version of the 1966 Philadelphia JFK Stadium concert. Columbia Records recorded the concert, but it was unreleased ... until Kismet. The entire concert was not on this album. Three more tracks appeared on Kismet’s “Memory Lane” album.
This was the first Kismet album with a black-and-white cover.
SIDE ONE
Funny Lady Recording Sessions:
Funny Girl Film Alternates:
SIDE TWO
Funny Girl Alternates:
Live, Pennsylvania 1966; JFK Stadium:
NOTES
Kismet 1006 is not included here because I have never seen it! According to a published insert (from Kismet itself?), 1006 was called “Words” and was a 2-record set featuring audio of Barbra being interviewed — although the exact interviews are unknown.
LIVE — Hungry i 1963:
The Bob Hope Show, 1963:
Yentl piano demos:
NOTES
* Included on JFTR
This edition of Kismet had a couple of weird Elvis soundbites sprinkled into the tracks.
The Tonight Show 2/1/63:
The Tonight Show 10/4/62:
The Tonight Show 11/2/62:
NOTES
These are rare recordings, since Johnny Carson’s archival tapes of these shows were destroyed.
This album had two sides of outtakes (a cappella versions; demos; etc.) from “The Main Event” and “Enough is Enough” recording sessions.
Again, the numbering system inexplicably skips from 1010 to 1012.
And, again, according to an insert in one of the Kismet albums, Kismet 1011 was a 2-record set called “More Words’ — which, again, I have never seen a copy of in all my years collecting and watching eBay.
** Thanks to Ricky Coombs & his expert sleuthing, we believe the interviewer/host in this audio file to be Frank Blair (not John Chancellor, as some fans have thought) from The Today Show, 1962.
Hungry i 1963:
Hollywood Bowl 1967:
Butterfly rehearsals [multiple takes]:
On this, the last Kismet album, the numbering, again, skips sequential order.
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