The Second Barbra Streisand Album

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The Second Barbra Streisand Album
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ReleasedAugust 1963
RecordedFebruary 8, 1963, June 3, 6, 7, 1963
Studio Columbia 7th Ave, New York City
Genre Pop
Length37:05
Label Columbia
Producer Mike Berniker
Barbra Streisand chronology
The Barbra Streisand Album
(1963)
The Second Barbra Streisand Album
(1963)
The Third Album
(1964)
Singles from The Second Barbra Streisand Album
  1. "When the Sun Comes Out"
    Released: November 1962
  2. "My Coloring Book/Lover, Come Back to Me"
    Released: November 1962
  3. "My Coloring Book (Re-release)"
    Released: March 1965
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The Second Barbra Streisand Album is the title of Barbra Streisand's second solo studio album. It was released in August 1963, just six months after the release of her debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album , and was recorded in four days in June 1963. [2]

Contents

In 1963, Streisand told a reporter: "My new album is called The Second Barbra Streisand Album, because that's just what it is. Why should I give it some fancy name that no one remembers anyway?" [3]

Radio stations received mono and stereo blue vinyl promo albums, making this Columbia's first Streisand colored vinyl. [2]

By 1966 the album sold over one million copies worldwide. The album made its digital debut on CD in 1987 and was re-released in a remastered CD edition on October 19, 1993.

Song information

Unreleased songs

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home"2:45
2."Right as the Rain"
3:25
3."Down With Love"
  • Harold Arlen
  • E. Y. Harburg
3:42
4."Who Will Buy?" Lionel Bart 3:32
5."When the Sun Comes Out"
3:23
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Gotta Move" Peter Matz 2:01
2."My Coloring Book"4:11
3."I Don't Care Much"
  • Fred Ebb
  • John Kander
2:52
4."Lover, Come Back to Me"2:18
5."I Stayed Too Long at the Fair" Billy Barnes 4:21
6."Like a Straw in the Wind"Harold Arlen4:46

Non-album tracks

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [6] Gold500,000^
Summaries
Worldwide1,000,000 [7]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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