Becoming Barbra
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2023
- Everybody's gotta start somewhere. For the 19-year-old formerly known as Barbara Joan Streisand, that somewhere was Bon Soir, an intimate nightclub in New York's Greenwich Village, where her performances heralded the arrival of a major new artist. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with author James Gavin and critics Wesley Morris and Stephen Holden about Barbra Streisand's debut, and how New York's cabarets in the 1950s and '60s helped launch some of the most influential figures of American popular culture.
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I’ll never forget having the opportunity to fly Barbra and her husband James as well as 3 others on a private jet from Camarillo, Ca. to France. It was the most beautiful and memorable experience as a private flight attendant. I loved that she spoke French to me when I mentioned that I was French and is very fluent with the language. She’s even written songs in French. It was such a joy to have met her up close and personal. I was the only flight attendant on that long flight. So, I made sure she was treated like a queen. She appreciated my first class service and hugged me and thanked me with her pup in her arms as she was about to deplane. Wow! I was so fortunate to have gotten a hug from such an icon!!
That is a priceless experience. Merci beaucoup for bringing that gem of a memory to life for this lifelong Barbra fan!
"I find that story hard to swallow as I do this potage au gelée."
Her talents are undeniable and unsurpassable. I'm a fan since 1965 when I first heard her recording of "My Coloring Book." I haven't liked everything she tried, but at her best she's far and away the best.
@@jamesrobiscoe1174 Of course I prefer some material (genres) better than others, but about the only thing that didn't work for me was Classical Barbra. Every album has some very good material too, accept for Walls, which was a total bomb in every respect.
@@snarkyenigma9219 You are definitely a solidly dedicated fan. Quoting a line from the movie "What's Up Doc?"
Barbra Streisand knew at a very young age she had been given an innate talent through her voice. She has made the most of it. She nurtured it, she took care of it and she respected it. Most of all, she did not abuse her innate gift. Very few do so.
You are so right!
C'mon girl .... she's been an icon for over 50 yrs ..... It's Bar-Bra (with just 2 A's). While we're at it, it's StreiSAND (like sand on the beach). Ugh~
Her name is BARBRA, not Barbara, silly!!!!!!!!!
@@voozoo1606 The name given to her at birth was Barbara, though. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't mind that spelling (unlike the "Streizand" pronunciation).
@@lucasribeiro7534 Wouldn't mind the wrong spelling of her name? You're kidding right?
Barbra Streisand knew what she wanted when she wanted and how she wanted it. People, particularly men, call that "difficult" when it's a woman doing that. But, she has outlasted most if not all her contemporaries from the 60s in popular music and outlasted everyone since. I remember being young and hearing her duet with Celine Dion and just being amazed that this person has sung duets with Judy Garland all the way to Celine Dion. Now, that has extended all the way to Ariana Grande.
She's an icon, she's a legend, and she's earned all her titles, minus the sexist ones. Her voice will inspire for years to come.
She’s a legend. I’ve always loved her.
I remember watching her on the Mike Douglas show and being amazed at her voice. I was around 10 years old. I realized then that she was a phenomenon. Once in a lifetime.
I"m always stunned by the loyalty, the longevity .. of her fan base.
She’s so talented. I mean she not only sings incredible but she is also an actress and a director and a songwriter. Not many people today can do it like she did.
Since 1964 I wanted to see her live. Fast forward to June 1994, Madison Square Garden. Thank you God.
Her peak, vocally.
I'm glad this focused on her early career, which IMO is her very best stuff. She was so audacious, so innovative, and so unpredictable. I wasn't alive then, but when I hear her recordings from that period, I'm always struck by the risks she takes with her phrasing or the subtle ways she alters a melody. Her performance of "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" on the Judy Garland show is an absolute masterclass vocally and dramatically.
I agree
Lord Snowdon once said that the two most beautiful women he ever had the pleasure of photographing were Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand.
Great singers make me tear up so much emotion there
She is smart and laughs at herself!! She is so beautiful and talented 💗
There will never be another Barbra. When she was made they broke the mold. My favorite singer , actor , composer , director in the world. Barbra is my platonic best friend her voice and music has been there during all mu trials and tribulations.
BECAUSE OF BARBRA I’ve been watching the movie THE WAY WE WERE over and over again ❤❤❤❤❤
I’ve been in awe of Barbra since I was a young teenager. I copied her singing (as best as I could) and learned her mannerisms. The way she closed her eyes and wore her makeup….I wanted to be her so bad! There is no singer like her and never will be.
OMG SAME HERE!!!
Streisand would hate you for that ... just ask Lea Michelle. 🤣
Me too!!!
True, but also listen to Shirley Bassey.
Barbra Streisand's talent is so stunning, those specials could be aired on television (or streamed, etc.) today and still be relevant and entertaining and ground breaking. She was and is, a true original.
The Greenwich Village that was in those days over sixty years ago was the most magical of places. I am happy that I am old enough to have seen it.
It sure was happening in Greenwich Village, wasn't it. Birthplace of the beatniks. Barbra and Dylan and so many others during the same years.
@@jamesrobiscoe1174 Just amazing. Edward Albee lived nearby, Lorraine Hansberry who wrote Raisin In The Sun lived on Waverly Place, Uta Hagen on Washington Square. The Village in those years was really something!
Brava! A stunning and original force of nature. Pure talent.
You have brought so much joy into my life for over 60 years. Thank you so much.
ICON she is!!!!! Icon should not be used on anyone until they've be in the business for at least 3 decades.
EXACTLY.
The greatest ... A real Star a real Icon ...
GOD gifted her. Period
Simply the BEST singer of the 20th Century. My favorite, always......... ❤
❤ Tuesday I get her audiobook!!!😮
Omg, she is such a talent. I’m jealous of the people that got to see her in a small, intimate club in NYC in the 60s. What an experience to be in one of those jazz clubs drinking cocktails & listening to Barbra Streisand. Her voice brings tears to my eyes because it’s just so beautiful. She seemed like an old soul at 20 yrs old. Singing like someone with experience. She sings with such clarity, crisp voice. And then when she speaks, it’s totally different, still has her Brooklyn accent. I have a similar nasal voice
In a world where most people under the age of 35, only know Barbra as the kooky Mom in MEET THE FOKERS (everyone I work with only knows her for this role), this is a much needed tribute to a groundbreaking, glass ceiling shattering artist, of OUR generation! If you're over 35 or under 35 she colored your life whether you recognize it or not.
Well those are the same people who think Taylor Swift is actually important culturally speaking.
Age shaming isn't helpful.
People I know under 40 usually have no idea who she is.
@@renaemirror7662 oh what they've missed! To them, Titanic and The Notebook are their favorite romance films (not bad) but give me THE WAY WE WERE or THE PRINCE OF TIDES any day!
@@KJBigBelter Absolutely❣️💗
The new generation has no idea how influential Streisand real Was and Is today. You may find her records at Goodwill but the impact is undeniable.
No! Babs should never be at Goodwill. Never really is
I still cry when I hear her sing…hearing her voice transports me to the world of my youth…I can hardly wait to read her memoir….I’ll take the Iconic B Train!!! while the records play…THE WAY WE WERE…⭐️⭐️⭐️
She was the greatest singer she was always my favorite
The original and still the best. The GOAT Barbara!
The greatest singer that ever lived, intergenerationally adored, an all time favorite!
I saw that CBS tv show when it was new. She was a revelation!
Wish she’d do some more films. I miss her! Can’t believe she’s 81…no way!💕
Millennial fan over here! 😍
Only discovered her specials in the last couple of years and didn't know what a spectacular start she had (grew up with her Broadway album and Yentl as my only reference). And then last year that Bon Soir album (can't believe it took that long to release) really sealed the deal -- she really is phenomenal. To help plant the seed now, I've been fortunate to see jazz singer Samara Joy at several concerts, including one venue featured in this segment, Village Vanguard. I think Samara will have a similar trajectory; even in this last year after her Grammy wins, she's taken leaps and bounds in her live performances, and is similar to Barbra in taking old songs and making them new, and in that "EKG" ups and downs, taking you on a fantastic journey. Now I gotta revisit Barbara's other albums.
I’m glad she had her success and quit. She is her own person and I admire that. Thanks for all the memories and laughs and sharing your talent
She only retired from playing public concerts. She still does studio recordings. Her last studio album, _Walls_ , was released in November 2018.
She should receive the sag life achievement award in 2024.
Did she get the Presidential Medal of Freedom? That's an award she deserves.
@@yvonneplant9434 she did
She has always said her lucky number is 24. The SAG Awards take place on Feb. 24. That's 02/24/24. Sounds like destiny to me.
@@yvonneplant9434 She was award the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 by Barack Obama.
I remember watching Color me Barbra with my Mom.
Got a voice like butter : >)
Magnificent--thank you for this excellent "summation" of the early Barbra--and thank you, Barbra! :)😍
Dear Barbra........As a member of Cantata, and an admirer of Cosimo V. DiPietto........thank you for all your years of breathtaking singing, heart tugging acting, and fearless directing. I can imagine that everyone who was in the music department of Erasmus (even those in heaven now) are SINGING your praises.
We were not even teens, and my mom (a former Big Band era singer), let us stay up and watch Garry Moore. He wrote the liner notes for one of her early albums. She was as magnificent then...as now.
I discovered her in my 18s through a cassette from my grandma. I was an instant fan. That voice is a miracle of nature. a gift. Later I discovered her movies and how talented she is as an actress. No One Like Her. Not Then not Now. A True Legend!
4:29- Makes sense she'd have danced around in that department store since she likely had peered into the door as a poor girl in a struggling family and dreamt of one day being able to shop there! So her getting the WHOLE store to herself was to sing and dance likely was a MAJOR dream come true (AKA bucket list item)!
Love Barbara! This era is my fave of hers. OFTEN missing from these conversations is the influence black artists had on her. In particular Diahann Caroll who was already a star by the time Barbara hit. In fact Barbara’s debut tv performance she sang a song Carroll debuted on Broadway. Babs phrasing was very similar to Carroll’s.
A Sleepin' Bee, from the musical House of Flowers, with music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Truman Capote.
NSUVid....you spelled her name wrong!!
This is the way that it's spelled on her birth-certificate@@LondonBlue6894
Such a treat! Thank you
Incomparable. ❤👏🏽
Fierce, forthright, funny…exacting, self-possessed, powerful and luminous. What a global treasure. Thank you forever for sharing your voice and helping form the remarkable soundtrack of my childhood. I am blessed.
Genius talent!!! She skyrocketed here and Wow!💥
Yes she is... an icon!
Absolutely no one like her ❤
She made the mold and didn’t even bother to break it. Powerhouse. Stellar. Peerless.
I *love* Barbra! About the... Beatles those who liked them then had parents who did not and this was right up their alley.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥰✨She is an ICON in capital letters. ✨❤️🔥✨THANK 🌷🌻🌹✨🙏🏽💞💕
Wow-- 19 years old. Just the beginning...
Not only did Barbra create her unique singing style with her phenomenal voice but she also changed fashion styles in the 60s and 70s and even her hair styles were copied by the masses. Icon is too small a word to describe her.
I often thank God that I was born at a time when I could appreciate her incredible talents.
Beautiful.
@ 54 seconds, I've never heard anyone pronounce "Soir" the way Mo does. Barbra pronounces it correctly at 59 seconds.
Mo is a total hack. It’s pronounced ‘Swah’.
That is SO true how the words "icon" and "iconic" are SO overused today.
Listening to hear of her time at Gaslight Square in St Louis when the Brandt's nurtured her talent, dressed her from 'second hand' stores, featured her in their club & suggested she spell her name as Barbra ~ another Legendary figure with connection to the biggest small town in US 🎶🎤💜🌎
The intro clip looks like Barbra's Hound-Dog moment.
Always loved her, always will.
I always admired her for being herself and not being some kind of cookie-cutter performer. I had the same vocal coach she had, and said coach had some priceless stories about Barbra outsmarting folks who tried to rein her in.
Barbra is the best…singing perfect…acting everything you see is real…she has always been my favorite…one person you feel you know because she is really her…no deceptions…can’t help but love her❤
Barbara Streisand👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏
When I saw Barbara Streisand in Montreal it was a dream come true. It is also with the famous song, ''The Way we were'' that I I paid homage to my mother when she died on September 10th. Diva she was and will always be!
Her voice is an unmatched, elastic instrument that endures .
Her hair, her face, her skin, her figure, What a beauty!!!! I remember when I was a kid.
I totally agree with you! Her eyes are beautiful too.
@@shadykatie100 Glamourous
00", I used to massage at the Floridian Day Spa in the Palmetto Hospital in Hialeah, FL and they played odd interesting amazing non-massage beautiful music like Nat King Cole, which I later got a copy of from a colleague, Mark Anthony's English CD that I would look forward to hearing when I later worked AAA/FTX Arena 17"-22" and The Best of Barbara Streisand. I had never heard these CDs, but now a fan for life of the three amazing non-massage CDs.
That's when you control Everything you do .....& That's what she did ......& Still does.......😊. Just my opinion..
Incredible how she was guided by her own instincts from the very start. Even when she was all of 19 years old, she knew what worked, what didn't - for her. She made her own rules.
There's nothin' like a Dame!
No one like Barbra, there will never be anyone like Barbra, she is a gift from God! ❤
Streisand was, is a Force, truly a Creative Genius in every way! Young Barbra was a Shooting Comet of exquisite talents! A great actress using that magnificent voice to take you on a unique journey . She will always inspire me!
Barbra Streisand is the True Voice. The very best!!!
A genius. And my diva of lifetime. There is no one who can sing better than she does. Hands down, Barbra is the best singer of all time. It does not matter if you like her or not. You can’t neglect the fact.
BARBRA STREISAND is the greatest star of them all. Period!
She is the voice of the century! She is also very beautiful too.
JUST AMAZING 🤩
4 years ago we attended at the last concert of #BarbraStreisand at an open space outside US.
I asked her for #AnswerMe. She replied: "You're a #truecollector".
#Evergreens She co-wrote it too.
Funny story.
Chills! Now I need to find and watch all of these!
Just purely gifted beyond anyone!!!!!!
BARBRA IS UNFORGETTABLE.
Simply the best!
Such beauty and such talent the beautiful Barbra Streisand
Incomperable ❤
Such a beautiful career and person❤
Once you discover her, you want to hear every recording, watch every TV special and movie…at least that’s the way it was for me.
She said it-- her singing paid the bills, but she wanted most to be an actress.
“The ekg of it is your spirit responding to someone else’s.” What an insightful comment about what intimacy with music and place and talent offers us as humans. Music is a life force I hold with reverence. This is to CBS Sunday Morning: growing up, your show, helmed by the incomparable and missed Roger Kuralt, was the cathedral of our Sunday Mornings. The unique cadence of his voice, his framing of stories, his talent, well it
To truly a treasured touchpoint of my youth. And although my beloved and deceased mother was a remarkably gentle and kind human being, I somehow knew that when I heard that trumpet call early on Sunday’s, it was time to get my blanket and curl up next to my mama on the couch, and for the next 90 minutes, to not say a word, to just be quiet and listen and see. The gentleness of this show, the expansive, curious, humane, intelligent, wise, generous of spirit nature of this show, has for decades now been exemplary programming, right down to the sweet and quiet kiss of the natural world’s send off at the end. It’s that rare show where segment guests are afforded the unhurried silence to form and state their thoughts, without interruption and with abundant affection and grace. You’ve stayed true to the essence I grew up with, and CBS Sunday Morning is a treasure. I thank you for helping build intimacy with the less harsh nature of existence. It is a comfort, still.
Excellent commentary and testimony to her uniqueness and talent!
How is it that Jane Pauley does not age?? It's incredible. I know there's such a thing as makeup, but aging eventually catches up with you. It's taking its sweet ol' time with Jane.
exactly! before cyndi Lauper & bette midler there was Barbra!
I think you guys should do this one next week
Number One for me. Forever
The greatest entertainer on earth 🌎
Amazing!!!
The Best. 💝
Barbra Streisand is ultimately the most gifted and talented singer, actress, songwriter, concert and movie producer, concert and movie director and a filmmaker. She is truly a legendary DIVA😘
❤🎉❤ that's what fans are for 🎉❤🎉
I saw her at the Blue Angel in '63. Midnight show. Winter, pouring rain and snow.
18 people in the club. I counted. She did a full set. 40 minutes. Probably her smallest audience ever.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳!!!
Love!
The difference with Streisand is that she had a Stradivarius like gift AND she had the talent to use it. You could give me that voice (or a Stradivarius) and I’d be singing in the shower or playing a violin in my garage, that is all I could do with it. But she could play it like no one else. She brought love and life to the songs and acted them “into” life. No one else will ever, in a hundred years, manage to do that.
Amo barba👏👏👏💖🇧🇷