Kim Carnes is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles. She began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s,writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a session background singer with the famed Water Sisters. After she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen,she released her debut album Rest on Me in 1971. Carnes' self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs,including her first charting single "You're a Part of Me",which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1975. In the following year,Carnes released Sailin',which featured "Love Comes from Unexpected Places". The song won the American Song Festival and the award for Best Composition at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976.
Venetta Lee Fields is an American-born Australian singer and musical theater actress,and vocal coach.
Guilty is the twenty-second studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand released on September 23,1980,by Columbia Records. It was produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and his group's regular production team of Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.
Barbra Streisand is an American actress and singer. Her discography consists of 117 singles,36 studio albums,12 compilations,11 live albums,and 15 soundtracks. According to the Recording Industry Association of America,Streisand is the second-best-selling female album artist in the United States with 68.5 million certified albums in the country,and a career total of 150 million making her one of the best-selling music artists
"I Finally Found Someone" is a song by American singer Barbra Streisand and Canadian singer Bryan Adams. The power ballad was part of the soundtrack of Streisand's 1996 self-directed movie The Mirror Has Two Faces and was nominated for an Oscar. Several versions of a CD single were issued on its initial release. One contains a rare Spanish-language version of her 1976 song "Evergreen",as well as Adams' previous single "Let's Make a Night to Remember". Another version includes three solo recordings by Adams from his most recent album.
"Foolish Lullaby" is a song by Laura Branigan from her fourth studio album,Hold Me (1985). It was written by Jack White and Mark Spiro,and produced by White. It was later covered by Paul Anka and titled "It's Hard to Say Goodbye".
Timeless:Live in Concert is a live album released by Barbra Streisand on September 19,2000. It was her fifth live album and was released on Columbia Records. The album was issued a week before what were said to be her final concerts in September 2000 and would reach platinum certification.
"Tell Him" is a song written by Linda Thompson and producers Walter Afanasieff and David Foster. It was recorded as a duet between American singer Barbra Streisand and Canadian singer Celine Dion for their 1997 albums,Higher Ground and Let's Talk About Love,and released as the lead single from these albums on November 3,1997.
"Song Sung Blue" is a 1972 hit song written and recorded by Neil Diamond,inspired by the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto #21. It was released on Diamond's album Moods,and later appeared on many of Diamond's live and compilation albums. The song was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States for one week,the week of July 1,and it spent twelve weeks in the Top 40. It also reached #14 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Guilty" is a vocal duet between Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb. The song was written by all three Bee Gees:Barry,Robin &Maurice Gibb. Released as a single from Streisand's 1980 album of the same name. "Guilty" peaked at No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 5 on the adult contemporary chart. In the UK,the song reached No. 34 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was certified gold by the RIAA. In addition,"Guilty" won a Grammy Award in the category Best Pop Vocal Performance,Duo or Group. The song also appeared on the 2001 Bee Gees compilation,Their Greatest Hits:The Record.
"Somewhere",sometimes referred to as "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)" or simply "There's a Place for Us",is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story that was made into films in 1961 and 2021. The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight is the eleventh studio album by Neil Diamond,released on Columbia Records in 1977. It includes a solo version of the song "You Don't Bring Me Flowers". Diamond would score a #1 hit with a new version recorded as a duet with Barbra Streisand the following year.
The Greatest Hits:1966–1992 is a compilation album by Neil Diamond released in 1992. Songs from his years with Uni/MCA (1968–1972) are represented by live or studio re-recordings as noted below because MCA Records refused to license the masters to Columbia Records,something that would cause controversy.
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Volume 2 is the second greatest hits album recorded by American vocalist Barbra Streisand. It was released on November 15,1978 by Columbia Records. The album is a compilation consisting of ten commercially successful singles from the singer's releases in the 1970s,with a majority of them being cover songs. It also features a new version of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers",which was released as the collection's only single on October 7,1978. Originating on Streisand's previous album,Songbird,the new rendition is a duet with Neil Diamond who had also recorded the song for his 1978 album of the same name. The idea for the duet originated from DJ Gary Guthrie who sold the idea to the record label for $5 million.
You Don't Bring Me Flowers is Neil Diamond's twelfth studio album. It was released in 1978 to capitalize on the success of the title song of the same name,a duet with Barbra Streisand,which had originally appeared as a solo recording on Diamond's previous album,I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight.
Songbird is the twentieth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand,released in 1978. The title track reached number 25 on the Hot 100 and spent two weeks atop the adult contemporary chart. The album also includes Streisand's solo version of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers". She also subsequently re-recorded the song as a duet with Neil Diamond and this version topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two non-consecutive weeks in December 1978.
The Concert is a live album by Barbra Streisand,released in September 1994 through Columbia Records. The album reached a peak position of number ten on the Billboard 200. The Concert was certified platinum in Australia,Canada and the United States. The song "Ordinary Miracles" was released as a CD-single by Columbia Records including a studio version of the track produced by Walter Afanasieff. 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.
The Essential Neil Diamond is a two-disc compilation album by Neil Diamond. It was released by Sony Music in 2001.
William S. Schnee is an American musician,music producer,and audio engineer. Schnee has been nominated 11 times for the Best Engineered Album,Non-Classical Grammy Award and worked on a multitude of other Grammy nominated and awarded albums. He has won two Grammys,an Emmy for Outstanding Sound for a Television Special,and a Dove Award. In a 45+ year career of very diverse artists,Schnee has received over 135 gold and platinum records and has recorded/mixed over 50 top twenty singles.
"If You Ever Leave Me" is a vocal duet between American singers Barbra Streisand and Vince Gill. The song was written by Richard Marx,and produced by Marx and David Foster. It first appeared as a song on Streisand's twenty-eighth studio album,A Love Like Ours (1999),and was released as an international CD single that included three additional tracks,two of which were recorded during the A Love Like Ours sessions but were not included on the album. The song later was included on Streisand's Duets album,released in 2002.
