The Concert (Barbra Streisand album)

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The Concert
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Live album by
Barbra Streisand
ReleasedSeptember 1994
Recorded1994
Venue Madison Square Garden, New York City
Length48:36 (disc 1)
54:51 (disc 2)
103:27 (total)
Label Columbia
Producer Barbra Streisand, Jay Landers
Barbra Streisand chronology
Back to Broadway
(1993)		The Concert
(1994)		 Higher Ground
(1997)

The Concert is a live album by Barbra Streisand, released in September 1994 through Columbia Records. [1] The album reached a peak position of number ten on the Billboard 200. [2] The Concert was certified platinum in Australia, [3] Canada [4] and the United States. [5] The song "Ordinary Miracles" was released as a CD-single by Columbia Records including a studio version of the track produced by Walter Afanasieff. [6] It was arranged and conducted by Marvin Hamlisch. An abbreviated version of the album titled The Concert: Highlights was also released with a different cover art and was certified gold by the RIAA, while the double album received a triple-platinum certification. [7]

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1/Act I

  1. "Overture" – 5:47
  2. "As If We Never Said Goodbye" – 4:20 (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, Christopher Hampton, A. Powers)
  3. Opening Remarks – 1:13
  4. "I'm Still Here/Everybody Says Don't/Don't Rain on My Parade" (Stephen Sondheim) – 4:25
  5. "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" – 4:29 (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
  6. "I'll Know" (with Marlon Brando) – 2:48 (Frank Loesser)
  7. "People" – 4:18 (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill)
  8. "Lover Man" – 1:17 (Jimmy Davis, Roger J. Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman)
  9. Therapist Dialogue #1 – 1:24
  10. "Will He Like Me?" – 1:59 (Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock)
  11. Therapist Dialogue #2 – 1:00
  12. "He Touched Me" – 2:51 (Milton Schafer, Ira Levin)
  13. "Evergreen" – 3:17 (Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams)
  14. Therapist Dialogue #3 – 1:54
  15. "The Man That Got Away" – 4:05 (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin)
  16. "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" – 3:29 (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner)

Disc 2/Act II

  1. "Entr'acte" – 3:02
  2. "The Way We Were" – 3:15 (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman)
  3. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" – 4:44 (Neil Diamond, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman)
  4. "Lazy Afternoon" – 4:30 (John LaTouche, Jerome Moross)
  5. Disney Medley: "Once Upon a Dream/When You Wish Upon a Star/Someday My Prince Will Come" – 5:07
  6. "Not While I'm Around" (Sondheim) – 3:03
  7. "Ordinary Miracles" – 4:35 (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman)
  8. Yentl Medley: "Where Is It Written/Papa, Can You Hear Me/Will Someone Ever Look at Me That Way/A Piece of Sky" – 9:18 (Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman)
  9. "Happy Days Are Here Again" – 3:40 (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen)
  10. "My Man" – 3:18 (Maurice Yvain, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Jacques Charles)
  11. "For All We Know" – 5:04 (John Frederick Coots, Sam M. Lewis)
  12. "Somewhere" – 5:15 (Leonard Bernstein, Sondheim)

Charts and certifications

Certifications and sales

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RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [18] Platinum70,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [19] 3× Platinum300,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [20] Gold50,000^
United States (RIAA) [21] 3× Platinum1,100,000 [22]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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