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(15,064 posts)elleng
(131,174 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)I can't imagine anyone else singing Memories.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)God, am I old.
WE, maybe, kwassa, but until my Dad passed on last April, I'd always say, NO, YOU're not old, DAD is! He was 98.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)UTUSN
(70,753 posts)I wondered how she would be presented/introduced. It was very smooth and moving as the tribute to HAMLISCH.
Kennah
(14,325 posts)Barbra at the Kennedy Center in 1975. She was 33 at the time. Particularly, watch 3:30 to 3:50. Video quality isn't HD, but the audio is amazing.
UTUSN
(70,753 posts)What I found odd in a recent interview, besides that she GRANTED interviews, was that she made a point of saying she is older and has had a much longer career than Judy GARLAND, which sounded a little irritating.
My point about the "passing the torch" thing was not to say that Adele or whoever is better/whatever, just that (one of my mother's original? insights) "Everything passes from fashion, people too." I can't even imagine I'm saying this about STREISAND. The early stuff was the max for me, the French album next. I tuned out with the standard Broadway remakes and the zany comedies, and continued the tune-out in the '70s, sort of wondered (not too much) about Yentl. But always just the voice, the composure, always an event. A very personal event (to me, not to her). But you know, celebrity - she's had so much of it, when she goes yeah-yeah-I-know-you-adore-me, I'm a little lost sheep.
Bottom line: I forgot to mention I'm *old*.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Adele is nowhere near The Barbra.
Kennah
(14,325 posts)It is amazing the stuff one finds on Wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGOT#Barbra_Streisand
Kennah
(14,325 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,546 posts)It caught me totally off-guard... didn't expect to cry. I think, for me, it was a combination of just hearing her voice, and really tuning in to the words of the song, which held a lot deeper meaning for me at my age then they did when I was younger.
BTennyson
(28 posts)The perfect voice.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)sheshe2
(83,940 posts)thank you for reminding us, elleng!
elleng
(131,174 posts)I recall wearing out the tape! (Remember tapes???)
sheshe2
(83,940 posts)elleng
(131,174 posts)sheshe2
(83,940 posts)I had a Shirley Temple Doll...she had a blue dress. I think that tells the story!
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elleng
(131,174 posts)"
Good to hear! Thanks elleng.
elleng
(131,174 posts)THANKS!
840high
(17,196 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,040 posts)A little loungey.
Botany
(70,594 posts).... she was the biggest star in the room. Class and style is what she bought
to the stage tonight.
glinda
(14,807 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)She brought Marvin Hamlisch back to life when she did his song, 'Memories"...
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)... even though he doesn't like to do gigs like this.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)in your mind's eye. I sure did. His image from The Way We Were and The Sting are what I see when I hear his name. Like Costner in Bull Durham & Field of Dreams, Cary Grant in North by Northwest. There are some images frozen for all time.
In mind's eye - it was at the end when she brushed his hair out of his eyes.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)"I just heard a song that reminded me of the way we were."
"What was it?"
"The way we were."
donheld
(21,311 posts)Not Memories. Memories is Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Streisand added, Ill always have those wonderful, wonderful memories, before launching into the Hamlisch-penned song Memories from the 1973 movie, The Way We Were.
http://kearth101.cbslocal.com/2013/02/24/barbra-streisand-honors-marvin-hamlisch-on-oscars/
orleans
(34,079 posts)Shannon Carlin, Radio.com
is wrong (the person who wrote the column on the link you gave)
if you look up the song on wiki it shows a pic of the 45 with the song title
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Were_(song)
(just the way i remember it on my turntable!)
"The Way We Were" is the title song to the 1973 movie The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.[1] The song was written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) and Marvin Hamlisch (music) and performed by Streisand. It won the Academy Award[1] and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and also made AFI's list of Top 100 Songs from Film; it was ranked number eight.
"The Way We Were" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in 1974
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Were_(song)
1973 Winner, Best Original Song "The Way We Were" from The Way We Were
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Hamlisch
kentuck
(111,110 posts)memories of the way we were??
donheld
(21,311 posts)Look at the soundtrack
http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Were-Barbra-Streisand/dp/B0012GN1TS
reformist2
(9,841 posts)I can remember years ago when you'd see the old timers like Gregory Peck and Jimmy Stewart at the Oscars, only time you'd see them. Now it's Barbra and Jack Nicholson and Jane Fonda that are in that role. You can't help but wonder about the passage of time, and what it all means.
Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)They had Peggy Lee sing it instead for some stupid reason. I was glad Barbra finally get her chance.