My Name is Barbra - 1965 - My Name Is Barbra

My Name is Barbra - 1965 - My Name Is Barbra
A 22-year-old’s first TV special: "My Name is Barbra"
April 28, 1965
Who else could command total creative control over a national hour-long television special at the age of 22? Barbra Streisand, of course, and the artistic and audience triumph that resulted from the broadcast on April 28, 1965 has become the stuff of legend ever since.
In 1963 she released her first two albums, won her first two Grammys, and began appearing live in prominent nightclubs across the country. By the following year, she earned further nominations from the Grammys and Tonys after her success with Broadway critics and audiences in her role as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl.
Streisand signed a $5 million, 10-year contract with CBS in June 1964. With creative control, she broke all the then-current rules as to what constituted a TV special: no guest stars, no production numbers with a chorus of singers and dancers, just one woman singing. She even ventured outside the studio to shoot a medley of songs in the exclusive fur department of Bergdorf Goodman.
"You can imagine how nervous that made the network," Streisand later remarked, "when they learned that there would be no major guest stars, not even any minor ones-just me and a bunch of great songs and some wonderful musicians."
My Name is Barbra won five Emmys and a Peabody Award and was followed by two other specials for CBS: Color Me Barbra (1966) and The Belle of 14th Street (1967). Streisand later directed two movies where she again had unprecedented creative control, the Oscar-winning Yentl (1983) and the Oscar-nominated The Prince of Tides (1991).
As she later said, “I was concerned with artistic control only. I wanted to produce my own shows and now I can and nobody-not sponsors or advertisers or anyone-can interfere.”

[@italoman9]

She doesn’t get enough credit, IMO, for having been such an incredibly important continuity link in 20th century music history between the previous older and next newer generation of musically genius legends. ❤🎼

[@SomeDaysYoureBarbra]

Good comment.
What, in your mind, would be the appropriate amount of credit, and how would we acknowledge her contribution?

[@snarkyenigma9219]

Her self-awareness and uncanny ability to know exactly what suited her voice the best .... especially at such a young age is what made Barbra Streisand so brilliant. That, and her trademark "effortlessness"; for 50 yrs. of performing, you never saw her out of breath, let alone break a sweat. You either have it or you don't.

[@Itstonytime77]

And to think she was doing Funny Girl at the same time! She was so smart to get creative control in her contracts!

[@leumamk5259]

Pure excellence!

[@annemccarron2281]

She's so unique. There's no one liken her. Exquisite!

[@JoaoMelo9]

Best opening ever

[@isabellas.c.scanderbeg2670]

Incredible ✨ Her name is, indeed, Barbra

[@marimini7585]

SZUPER DRÁGA ÉDES

[@ACinemafanatic]

I wish this was re released

[@karentecott640]

Never not great.

[@chuckbracken]

too Bad it wasn't in color

[@idx1941]

More compelling in b&w