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August 30th, 2009 at 4:43 am

Barbra Streisand Love Is the Answer Album Track-Listing, Cover Art, Video

Here is the Barbra Streisand Love Is The Answer album track-listing, cover art, along with photos and video. The highly anticipated album from the entertainment legend will be released on September 29, 2009. One of the tracks, Here’s to Life, has been made available, and can be heard via the video below, along with an additional behind the scenes video on the making of the new album.

The Grammy nominated song, Here’s to Life, lyrics by Phyllis Molinary and music by Artie Butler, and sung by Shirley Horn and others, is characteristic of the album, of jazz standards and classics. It is the first album of new material that Barbra Streisand has released since her 2005 album Guilty Pleasures. It features song arranging by Grammy Award winning Canadian jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall and Johnny Mandel. The album will feature performances from Krall and her jazz quartet.

In celebration of the release of the Barbra Streisand Love Is the Answer album, she will perform on Saturday September 26 at the iconic jazz club, The Village Vanguard in New York City. She last performed forty-eight years ago, as an opening act for Miles Davis in 1961.

In addition to being ranked by the R.I.A.A. as the best selling female music artist in history–with R.I.A.A. certified 13 multi-platinum, 30 platinum and 50 gold albums–Barbra Streisand is additionally a recipient of eight Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a special Tony Award, as well as induction as a Kennedy Center Honoree (in 2008).

She was recently profiled in Parade magazine, in an article by Janice Kaplan which featured an interview, photos, video. She discussed a range of topics, from her first movie role, in the 1968 screen adaptation of Funny Girl, to the movies she herself went on to direct, including the landmark film 1983 Yentyl, which she directed, wrote, co-produced and starred in. Regarding her achievements, she said:

“I never hear the good things about me,” she admits. “My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.”

She pauses for a moment to think about what has been meaningful.

“My early television specials were really good. I’m proud of the movies I’ve directed. I like those. And I like this house. But for all the public life—I get kind of embarrassed by it.”

The Barbra Streisand Parade magazine article in its entirety can be seen here: Welcome To Barbra’s World

The album’s cover art can be seen here: New Barbra Streisand tune

Here is the official Barbra Streisand Love Is the Answer Album Track-Listing. Videos are below.

Disc: 1
1. Here’s To Life
2. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
3. Gentle Rain
4. If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)
5. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
6. Make Someone Happy
7. Where Do You Start?
8. A Time For Love
9. Here’s That Rainy Day
10. Love Dance
11. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
12. Some Other Time
13. You Must Believe In Spring

Disc: 2
1. Here’s To Life
2. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
3. Gentle Rain
4. If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)
5. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
6. Make Someone Happy
7. Where Do You Start?
8. A Time For Love
9. Here’s That Rainy Day
10. Love Dance
11. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
12. Some Other Time