Live in Concert 2006

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Live in Concert 2006
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Live album by
ReleasedMay 8, 2007
RecordedOctober 9–30, 2006
Venue Madison Square Garden, New York City
Verizon Center, Washington, D.C.
BB&T Center, Sunrise
Genre Concert
Length90:01 (Standard)
Label Columbia
Producer
  • Barbra Streisand
  • Jay Landers
Barbra Streisand chronology
Guilty Pleasures
(2005)
Live in Concert 2006
(2007)
Love Is the Answer
(2009)

Live in Concert 2006 is a live album by American singer Barbra Streisand which was recorded during her record setting 2006 US tour known as Streisand: The Tour. The double album contains songs recorded at different shows and venues including New York City's Madison Square Garden and Washington, D.C.'s Verizon Center. Three songs Streisand performed live on the tour with Il Divo are featured on the album. [1]

Contents

The album peaked at number 7 on the Billboard 200 on May 26, 2007 (62,000 copies), [2] and sold 106,000 after 4 weeks on charts. [3]

Track listing

Disc 1: Act I

  1. "Funny Girl Broadway Overture" (Jule Styne) – 4:47
  2. "Starting Here, Starting Now" (music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr.) – 2:57
  3. "Opening Remarks" – 1:33
  4. "Down With Love" (music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg) – 3:57
  5. "The Way We Were" (music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman) – 3:48
  6. "Songwriting (Dialogue)" – 1:53
  7. "Ma Première Chanson" (music by Barbra Streisand, lyrics by Eddy Marnay) – 2:37
  8. "Evergreen" (with Il Divo) (music by Streisand, lyrics by Paul Williams) – 4:05
  9. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (music by Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer) – 3:09
  10. "Funny Girl (Dialogue)" – 0:52
  11. "Funny Girl" (music by Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill) – 2:32
  12. "The Music That Makes Me Dance" (Styne, Merrill) – 1:37
  13. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 3:28
  14. "People (Dialogue)" – 0:29
  15. "People" (Styne, Merrill) – 5:08

Disc 2: Act II

  1. "Entr'acte" – 3:37
  2. "The Music of the Night" (with Il Divo) (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart) – 4:16
  3. "Jason's Theme" (Jason Gould) – 1:14
  4. "Carefully Taught / Children Will Listen" (music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II / Stephen Sondheim) – 3:29
  5. "Unusual Way" (Maury Yeston) – 3:33
  6. "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (music by Michel LeGrand, lyrics by Bergman & Bergman) – 3:58
  7. "Happy Days Are Here Again" (music by Milton Ager, lyrics by Jack Yellen) – 2:31
  8. "(Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair?" (Billy Barnes) – 4:45
  9. "William Saroyan (Dialogue)" – 1:40
  10. "The Time of Your Life" (William Saroyan) – 1:00
  11. "A Cockeyed Optimist" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 2:28
  12. "Somewhere (Dialogue)" – 1:13
  13. "Somewhere" (with Il Divo) (music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) – 3:34
  14. "My Shining Hour" (Arlen, Mercer) – 4:31
  15. "Don't Rain on My Parade (Reprise)" (Styne, Merrill) – 3:30
  16. "Smile" (music by Charlie Chaplin, lyrics by John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons) – 4:26

Bonus tracks

Charts

Weekly

Chart (2007)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [4] 7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [5] 100
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [6] 5
French Albums (SNEP) [7] 83
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] 54
Irish Albums (IRMA) [9] 26
Italian Albums (FIMI) [10] 48
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [11] 8
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [12] 23
UK Albums (OCC) [13] 48
US Billboard 200 [14] 7

Year-end chart

Chart (2007)Position
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts) [15] 100

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