| The Third Album | ||||
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| Released | February 1964 | |||
| Recorded | January 29, 1963; October 30, 1963; November 20, 1963; January 6, 1964 | |||
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| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 30:49 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Mike Berniker | |||
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The Third Album is the third solo studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released in February 1964. By 1966, the album sold over one million copies worldwide.
The photograph on the album cover was taken by actor Roddy McDowall when Streisand was performing on The Judy Garland Show in October 1963.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Record Mirror | [1] |
| Tom Hull – on the Web | B− (  ) [2] |
AllMusic gave the album a retrospective three (out of five) stars, and called it "another demonstration of the beauty of Barbra Streisand's voice, also suggested that her interpretive abilities remained limited."
After the success of Streisand's previous two albums, The Barbra Streisand Album and The Second Barbra Streisand Album , it was expected that The Third Album would do as well. The album turned out to be very successful; it reached #5 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart and was certified Gold by the RIAA. It stayed on the Billboard 200 for 74 weeks.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "My Melancholy Baby" | Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle E. Watson | 3:02 |
| 2. | "Just in Time" | lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green; music: Jule Styne | 2:16 |
| 3. | "Taking a Chance on Love" | Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche | 2:34 |
| 4. | "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" | Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers | 2:54 |
| 5. | "Never Will I Marry" | Frank Loesser | 2:27 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "As Time Goes By" | Herman Hupfeld | 3:46 |
| 2. | "Draw Me a Circle" | Cy Young | 2:15 |
| 3. | "It Had to Be You" | music: Isham Jones; lyrics: Gus Kahn | 3:46 |
| 4. | "Make Believe" | Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern | 2:41 |
| 5. | "I Had Myself a True Love" | Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer | 4:23 |
| Chart | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200 [3] | 5 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA) [4] | Gold | 500,000^ |
| Summaries | ||
| Worldwide | — | 1,000,000 [5] |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
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