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Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Funny Girl
(Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Cast recording by
Barbra Streisand / various artists
ReleasedApril 1964
RecordedApril 5, 1964
GenrePop
Length50:14
LabelCapitol
ProducerDick Jones
Barbra Streisand chronology
The Third Album
(1964)
Funny Girl
(Original Broadway Cast Recording)

(1964)
People
(1964)
Singles from Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
  1. "People"
    Released: January 1964
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Record Mirror[2]

Funny Girl is the original Broadway cast recording of the musical of the same name, starring Barbra Streisand. The Funny Girl cast album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in June 1964,[3] selling 250,000 copies by the following month.[4] The recording went on to beat Fiddler on the Roof and Hello, Dolly! to win the Grammy for Best Original Cast Show Album.

Production

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The Broadway show opened on March 26, 1964, at the Winter Garden Theater, and the cast album was recorded in a one-day session in early April, then released one week later by Capitol Records. Streisand performs twelve of the album's seventeen tracks, and the album marked the first time a Streisand recording was not released through Columbia. Streisand was already a successful singer at the time, with her prior three studio albums charting in the Billboard top 10.

Track listing

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All lyrics are written by Bob Merrill; all music is composed by Jule Styne

Act One
No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."Overture"Orchestra4:03
2."If a Girl Isn't Pretty"
2:16
3."I'm the Greatest Star"Barbra Streisand4:00
4."Cornet Man" (Trumpet soloist: Dick Perry)Streisand3:52
5."Who Taught Her Everything?"
  • Medford
  • Meehan
3:05
6."His Love Makes Me Beautiful"
3:20
7."I Want to Be Seen With You Tonight"1:55
8."Henry Street"Cast1:53
9."People"Streisand3:25
10."You Are Woman, I Am Man"
  • Chaplin
  • Streisand
3:48
11."Don't Rain on My Parade"Streisand2:44
Total length:34:21
Act Two
No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."Sadie, Sadie"
  • Streisand
  • Cast
3:32
2."Find Yourself a Man"
  • Meehan
  • Stapleton
  • Medford
2:00
3."Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat"
  • Meehan
  • Streisand
  • Cast
3:22
4."Who Are You Now?"Streisand2:49
5."The Music That Makes Me Dance"Streisand3:52
6."Don't Rain on My Parade (Reprise)"Streisand2:05
Total length:17:40

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[7] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) – Review AllMusic. Retrieved July 22, 2017
  2. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (14 May 1966). "Barbra Streisand, Sydney Chaplin: Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast)" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 270. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)", retrieved July 22, 2017
  4. ^ 'Girl' caster goes up, up. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 11 July 1964. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  5. ^ "Barbra Streisand Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  6. ^ "The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1964". Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2017.. Cash Box magazine.
  7. ^ "American album certifications – Barbra Streisand – FUNNY GIRL (ORIGINAL CAST)". Recording Industry Association of America.