Streisand Music Videos

In addition to the music video for the single “Emotion,” Columbia Records also produced The Making of Barbra Streisand’s “Emotion.”

The promotional 6-minute-plus documentary film was seen on various video outlets February 1985.

Barbra was seen at the beginning of the documentary, sniffling from a cold, and talking about emotion: “How do you visualize emotion? What does emotion mean to me? I guess to everybody it’s very personal ... I’ve always been drawn to the sensual.” 

The documentary showed behind-the-scenes shots of director Richard Baskin and costar Roger Daltrey (playing her nerdy husband).

Barbra spoke about the video's color palette and camera lenses, and Richard Baskin said some nice things about working with Barbra. We even got a glimpse of them kissing on the set! 

Barbra, her voice over the footage, said the experience was like making a little film and joked that Daltrey “kept wanting to make this into a feature.” 



Barbra also told the story about how she managed to get Mikhail Baryshnikov into the video: “... we were having dinner in a Chinese restaurant and in walks Mischa ... and I said, ‘Hi! Do you want to be in my video?’” The reason for casting Baryshnikov was clear to Streisand: “In one’s fantasies, Baryshnikov would leap across the stage, sweep you off your feet and sweep you out the door.”