My Name is Barbra Two sequel 1965 Album

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My Name is Barbra,Two ...(1965)

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  • ABOUT THE ALBUM
    • Released October 1965
    • Produced by: Robert Mersey
    • Arranged & Conducted by: Peter Matz and Don Costa
    • Cover Photo: Roger Prigent / courtesy of TV Guide




  • CATALOG NUMBERS
    • CS 9209 (Stereo LP)
    • CL 2409 (Mono LP)
    • PCT 00102 (Cassette)
    • H2C4 (Reel-To-Reel, 7 ½ ips, 4-Track Stereo)
    • CK 9209 (1987 CD & 1994 Remastered CD)




  • CHARTS
    • Debut Chart Date: 11-6-65
    • No. Weeks on Billboard 200 Albums Chart: 48
    • Peak Chart Position: #2
    • Gold: 1/4/66
    • Platinum: 11/21/86

    Gold: 500,000 units shipped


    Platinum: 1 million units shipped


    The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine.


Tracks

  • He Touched Me (from "Drat! The Cat!") [3:10]

    Written by: I. Levin / M. Schafer


    Arranged and Conducted by Don Costa


    Recorded August 31, 1965 @ Studio A, New York

  • The Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper") [2:45]

    Written by: P.F. Webster / J. Mandel


    Arranged and Conducted by Don Costa


    Recorded August 31, 1965 @ Studio A, New York

  • Quiet Night [2:25]

    Written by:  L. Hart / R. Rodgers


    Arranged & Conducted by: Peter Matz


    Recorded August 4, 1964  @ Studio A, New York

  • I Got Plenty Of Nothin' [3:08]

    Written by: I. Gershwin / D. Heyward / G. Gershwin


    Arranged & Conducted by: Peter Matz


    Recorded September 13, 1965  @ Studio A, New York

  • How Much Of The Dream Comes True [3:05]

    Written by: J. Barry / T. Peacock


    Arranged and Conducted by Don Costa


    Recorded August 31, 1965 @ Studio A, New York

  • Second Hand Rose [2:09]

    Written by: G. Clarke / J.F. Hanley


    Arranged & Conducted by: Peter Matz


    Recorded September 13, 1965  @ Studio A, New York

  • The Kind Of Man A Woman Needs (From "The Yearling") [3:53]

    Written by: M. Leonard / H. Martin)


    Arranged and Conducted by Don Costa


    Recorded February 1, 1965 @ Studio A, New York

  • All That I Want [3:48]

    Written by: I. N. Wolfe / F. Forest


    Arranged & Conducted by: Peter Matz


    Recorded September 13, 1965  @ Studio A, New York

  • Where's That Rainbow? [3:39]

    Written by: L. Hart / R. Rodgers


    Arranged & Conducted by: Peter Matz


    Recorded September 13, 1965  @ Studio A, New York

  • No More Songs For Me [2:53]

    Written by: R. Maltby, Jr. / D. Shire


    Arranged and Conducted by Don Costa


    Recorded August 31, 1965 @ Studio A, New York

  • Medley: [5:43]

    Written by:


    Second Hand Rose

    (G. Clarke / J.F. Hanley)


    Give Me The Simple Life

    (H. Ruby / R. Bloom)


    I Got Plenty Of Nothin'

    (I. Gershwin / D. Heyward / G. Gershwin)


    Brother Can You Spare A Dime?

    (E.Y. Harburg / J. Gorney)


    Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

    (J. Cox)


    Second Hand Rose

    (G. Clarke / J.F. Hanley)


    The Best Things In Life Are Free

    (B.G. DeSylva / L. Brown / R. Henderson)


    Arranged & Conducted by: Peter Matz

About the Album

Streisand in the recording studio with Don Costa
Columbia Records ad for the album MY NAME IS BARBRA

PHOTOS:  (Above) Streisand and Don Costa in the recording studio; (Below) An early advertisement for this album with a 'working title' of Act Two.


My Name Is Barbra, Two... was released October 1965 to coincide with the rebroadcast of Barbra’s first television special on CBS.


Two followed the trend set by the previous My Name is Barbra album – it contained mostly songs which were not on the TV special—only “Second Hand Rose” and the “Poverty Medley,” which closes the album, were sung by Streisand on TV.  The medley was a big selling point for the second album – the back cover featured photos of Barbra in Bergdorf Goodman department store.  The back cover also declared that My Name is Barbra was an Emmy award winning TV show (Barbra won the Emmy the previous month, September 1965). 


Columbia released “He Touched Me” as a single (Columbia #4-43403) about a month before this album came out. The song was from the Broadway production of Drat! The Cat!, a musical with music by Milton Schafer and lyrics by Ira Levin. Elliott Gould sang “She Touched Me” in the show.


“The Shadow of Your Smile” (which has become a jazz standard) was the theme song for the 1965 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film, The Sandpiper. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1966.


“Quiet Night” is from the 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical, On Your Toes.  Incidentally, “Quiet Night” was recorded by Barbra at an earlier session on August 4, 1964.


“How Much of the Dream Comes True” was written by film composer John Barry, with lyrics by Trevor Peacock. It was from their West End musical, Passion Flower Hotel, about a young girl attending an English girls' boarding school. The girls decide to lose their virginity by luring the boys from the school from across the lake. (A musical about girls losing their virginity!) The show opened at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, England on July 30, 1965 and transferred to the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, on August 24, 1965. (Streisand performed Funny Girl at the Prince of Wales in March 1966.) Besides having London in common with John Barry at the time, Streisand's manager, Marty Erlichman, also began representing Barry in 1965.


“Second Hand Rose” by James Hanley, with lyrics by Grant Clarke, was first recorded and performed by Fanny Brice in 1921.


Barbra recorded Peter Matz’s arrangement of “The Kind of Man a Woman Needs” back in February 1965.  It is another song from the score of The Yearling by Barbra’s friends Michael Leonard and Hugh Martin.


Composer Neil Wolfe wrote “All That I Want.” The song was originally recorded by Wolfe as a 45-rpm single for Columbia, titled “Barbra” (Columbia #4-43291). Later, Francine Forest wrote lyrics to the melody. Wolfe and his band opened for Barbra at Forest Hills in 1965. He also recorded a Columbia Records tribute album called Piano For Barbra (# CS 9600) in which he covered Streisand's best-known songs of the time.


Barbra included another Rodgers and Hart song on the album – “Where’s That Rainbow?,”  from the 1927 musical Peggy-Ann


Songwriting team David Shire and Richard Maltby contributed “No More Songs For Me” to My Name is Barbra, Two. Shire was the pit pianist for Funny Girl on Broadway, and served as Barbra's accompanist. Streisand recorded other Maltby/Shire songs: “Autumn”, “Starting Here, Starting Now,” “The Morning After” and “What About Today?”


The “Poverty Medley” which closes the album was pre-recorded in March, before Streisand and crew taped the segment at Bergdorf Goodman.  They have edited the track for length on this album, cutting out the dance music before “Give Me the Simple Life” and during “Brother Can You Spare a Dime.”


“The ‘Funny Girl’ does it again in this powerfully commercial follow-up to her ‘My Name is Barbra’ disk. Leading off with her currently charted ‘He Touched Me,’ she lends her inimitable style to the likes of ‘I Got Plenty of Nothing,’ ‘Second Hand Rose’ and a closing medley which includes, ‘Brother Can You Spare A Dime’ and “The Best Things In Life Are Free’ among many others. This LP should ride the same golden skyrocket as the lark’s many previous outings have.”

Cash Box, Album Reviews, October 30, 1965


Columbia Records ad for the second My Name is Barbra album

Unreleased Songs

There was only one song unreleased from the sessions for this album – “Who Would Have Dreamed,” which is a song from Cole Porter's 1940 show, Panama Hattie.


Streisand also recorded a Peter Matz arrangement of “The Kind of Man a Woman Needs.” The Don Costa arrangement was included on the album instead.

Barbra Streisand in the recording studio making this album

Singles



Album Cover

Roger Prigent photographed Streisand's My Name is Barbra, Two album cover. Prigent was a photo-reporter who got shot for Vogue and soon became a noted fashion photographer in the 1960s. 


The cover photo comes from a sitting Prigent did with Streisand wearing her My Name is Barbra designer costumes—all captured in front of a dark gray backdrop. Several more of his photos appeared in the April 24, 1965 edition of TV Guide .

SOURCES USED FOR THIS PAGE:

  • “Columbia’s Streisand Pitch is Hitting All the Bases.” Billboard Magazine, October 9, 1965.
  • Earl Wilson column. The Times (Muster, Indiana), May 10, 1965. Page B-6.
  • “Yearling Tunes Get Lots of Advance Play” by Douglas Watt. Daily News, April 6, 1965. Page 48.

END / MY NAME IS BARBRA TOO / NEXT ALBUM .....

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