Barbra Streisands: Greatest hits Volume 2 LP 1970 – 1978. Check audio

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Label: Columbia
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: England
Released: 1978
Genre: Jazz, Rock
Style: Pop Rock, Easy Listening

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Tracklist
A1 Love Theme From “A Star Is Born” (Evergreen) 3:05
Producer – Barbra Streisand , Phil Ramone
A2 Love Theme From “The Eyes OF Laura Mars” (Prisoner) 3:53
A3 My Heart Belongs To Me 3:21
Producer – Charlie Calello
A4 Songbird 3:44
A5 You Don’t Bring Me Flowers 3:23
Producer – Bob Gaudio
Vocals – Neil Diamond

B1 The Way We Were 3:29
Producer – Marty Paich
B2 Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead 6:25
Producer – Richard Perry
B3 All In Love Is Fair 3:49
Producer – Tommy LiPuma
B4 Superman 2:47
B5 Stoney End 2:59
Producer – Richard Perry

Front cover reads: Barbra Streisands Greatest Hits – Volume 2
and label reads: Barbra Streisands Greatest Hits, Volume II
Manufactured and distributed by CBS Records Canada, Ltd.

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding.
This album is one of my all time favourites. I used to play the LP and it wore. It captures the immense power and emotion of Barbras voice beautifully. There are many Streisand LPs available, but for me, this particular LP stands out because like many great albums, it has a momentum which starts from the first note of the first track and continues right through till the last track. It almost forces you to listen through until the end, flowing from track to track. Truly awesome.
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5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous,
has lots of lovely love songs. excellent for evenings by the fire with a glass of wine!

Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 is the second greatest hits album recorded by American vocalist Barbra Streisand. It was released on November 15, 1978 by Columbia Records. The album is a compilation consisting of ten commercially successful singles from the singer’s releases in the 1970s, with a majority of them being cover songs. It also features a new version of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, which was released as the collection’s only single on October 7, 1978. Originating on Streisand’s previous album, Songbird, the new rendition is a duet with Neil Diamond who had also recorded the song for his 1978 album of the same name. The idea for the duet originated from DJ Gary Guthrie who sold the idea to the record label for $5 million.

Critically appreciated, Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 received a perfect five star rating from both AllMusic and Rolling Stone. It was also a commercial success, topping the charts in Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, and peaking at number two in Australia. The album later received certifications in a total of six countries, including in Australia, Canada and the United States. In the latter country, it was certified 5× Platinum and sold over 5 million copies according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

Promotion and development
In May 1978, Streisand released her twentieth studio album Songbird that featured the song “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”. Despite not being released as a physical or commercial single from Songbird, it was distributed in a 7″ record format on October 7, 1978. However, the version that appears on Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 is a duet with American singer Neil Diamond, who also contributed to the song’s lyrics. As Streisand released Songbird, Diamond recorded a version of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” originally meant for his 1978 album of the same name. Because both versions of the single were recorded in the same key, American DJ Gary Guthrie combined the two songs together while playing records at a local radio station in Louisville, Kentucky. Guthrie pitched the idea to CBS Records International (the international arm of Columbia) for a $5 million contract, to which they eventually accepted, despite CBS breaching the contract initially.  Their collaboration was a global, commercial success, topping the charts in both the United States and Canada. The version with Diamond has since sold more than 2 million copies in the United States.

A sequel to her first greatest hits album, Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits (1970), the second volume contains ten singles released during Streisand’s second decade in the recording industry, ranging from “Stoney End” (1970) to “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (1978). Unlike the former release, Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 did not feature any new material (referring to the other’s inclusion of “Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long” in 1970). The songs featured on the record were recorded between July 1970 and February 1978. Overall, it features a total of three number-one hits (“The Way We Were”, “Evergreen”, and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”), two top-ten singles (“Stoney End” and “My Heart Belongs to Me”), and three Top 40 songs (“Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead”, “Songbird”, and “Prisoner”). “All in Love Is Fair” and “Superman” are the two other songs on the track listing. Columbia Records released the compilation on November 15, 1978. The label also issued an 8-track cartridge version of the album in 1978, with a differing track listing; single “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” was split into two separate parts increasing the amount of tracks on the record from ten to eleven.  In 1987, the album was released in a compact disc format.

Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 was critically acclaimed by music critics. It was given a perfect five out of five stars rating by AllMusic’s William Ruhlmann, who called it a “genre-defining album […] that drew upon the rock revolution to redefine classic pop for a new generation”. He also gave praise towards the album for successfully capturing the best of her “contemporary soft-rock [and] highly successful” singles from her “largely inconsistent” albums. Additionally, Ruhlmann claimed that the success of the record stemmed from the fact that her singles in the 1970s were more “precious” and not always “show music material”, contrasting to her songs in the 1960s. As part of Rolling Stone’s The New Rolling Stone Record Guide, released in 1983, they rated the collection a perfect five stars. Streisand’s first volume from 1970 and Guilty from 1980 also achieved the same status.

Commercial performance
The compilation album was a success, topping the charts in four countries. In the United States, Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart for the week ending December 2, 1978 (also serving as the week’s highest new entry). The following week it rose to number three and on January 6, 1979, it topped the chart. The record spent a total of 46 weeks on the Billboard 200  and by December 1984, the album and Streisand’s Guilty (1980) had both sold over 4 million physical copies in the United States, becoming quadruple certified by the RIAA.[19] It would later be re-certified to 5× Platinum on October 28, 1994. It was the one of the United States’ best-selling albums in 1979, coming in at number 28 on Billboard’s annual year-end chart.  Billboard’s Fred Bronson wrote in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits that the commercial and critical achievements of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” is what made Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 a certified Platinum album in the US.

On Canada’s chart, compiled by RPM, it debuted at number 60 on the week ending December 9, 1978. Four weeks later, it would top the chart on January 13, 1979. Overall, it spent a total of 20 weeks charting in Canada and later received a triple platinum certification from Music Canada on March 1, 1979.  It was also Streisand’s first chart-topping album in the United Kingdom, where it spent four consecutive weeks at the highest ranking position and later was certified Platinum for sales upwards of 300,000 copies.

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