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| 1. I Won't Be The One To Let Go (Duet with Barry Manilow) |
| 2. Guilty |
| 3. You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Duet with Neil Diamond) |
| 4. I Finally Found Someone (Duet with Bryan Adams) |
| 5. Cryin' Time (Duet with Ray Charles) |
| 6. I've Got A Crush On You (Duet with Frank Sinatra) |
| 7. Tell Him |
| 8. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (Duet with Donna Summer) |
| 9. What Kind Of Fool (Duet With Barry Gibb) |
| 10. "I Have A Love/ One Hand, One Heart (Duet with Johnny Mathis)" |
| 11. One Less Bell To Answer/A House Is Not A Home |
| 12. Lost Inside Of You |
| 13. Till I Loved You (Duet with Don Johnson) |
| 14. "Make No Mistake, He's Mine (Duet with Kim Carnes)" |
| 15. If You Ever Leave Me (Duet with Vince Gill) |
| 16. The Music of the Night (Duet with Michael Crawford) |
| 17. Ding - Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Duet with Harold Arlen) |
| 18. Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again (Duet with Judy Garland) |
| 19. All I Know Of Love (Duet with Josh Groban) |
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La Barbra's 57th album, "Duets', is a collection of 17 duet hits and two new tracks. Given that there is very little previously unheard here, does this album illustrate anything more than the impossibly glamorous contents of Streisand's address book?
Well, yes. Even the most faithful Streisand acolyte must be delighted by the range of songs and singers assembled. There is 70s disco with the high priests of glitterball: Donna Summer and Barry Gibb. Streisand and Michael Crawford engage in a 'who-can-hold-the-note-longest' competition in Lloyd-Webber's "The Music of the Night". (The winner, of course, is Streisand.) And there are chart hits in the form of 1978's wistful "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" with Neil Diamond, and the 1998 epic "Tell Him" with Celine Dion.
Two new tracks bookend the previously-released pieces. "I Won't Be The One To Let Go" with Barry Manilow is a soaring, feel-good ballad. "All I Know Of Love" with young baritone Josh Groban brings the album to a stately close and shows that Barbra can still hold her own yet another new generation.
Best of all are two gems from the start of Streisand's career. "Ding-dong! The Witch is Dead", sung with a deadpan Harold Arlen, the Wizard of Oz soundtrack composer, is witty, jazzy, almost avant-garde in its syncopation. It would barely be recognised in Munchkinland.
Backed up against it is an exquisite duet with Judy Garland, recorded live in 1963 on The Judy Garland Show. "Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again" counterpoints two classic songs, with Streisand's pure, youthful notes pirouetting around Garland's throaty, unbearably melancholy voice. Simply thrilling.
Getting a duet with Streisand is an essential step on the path to musical superstardom. Robbie Williams must be hoping that his phone rings very soon. --Morag Reavley
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Two newly recorded songs - I won't be the one to let go and All I know of love - bookend this collection, no doubt included to ensure that Barbra's most fanatical supporters need this.
Some of the songs here reflect Barbra's acting career, including I finally found someone (from The mirror has two faces), Lost inside of you (from A star is born), two tracks from Back to Broadway (I have a love / One hand one heart and The music of the night) and Ding dong the witch is dead (a cover of song from The Wizard of Oz).
Everything here is brilliant, but my particular favorites are Make no mistake he's mine (a song that topped the country chart when recorded by Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap as Make no mistake she's mine), If you ever leave me and You don't bring me flowers.
If you enjoy any of Barbra's music, you will love this collection.
There really can't be anyone who has duetted with so many great artists across the decades, ranging from the great's like Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Johnny Mathis & Ray Charles, through to Barry Manilow, Barry Gibb & Josh Groban, to name but a few of the 19 artist's you can enjoy harmonising with Barbra's mesmerising voice here.
dinner party music - if over 40 as my daughter would say.
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