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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Sony
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Released: October 25, 1990 |
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Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Track Listing:
1. Evergreen (Love Theme From "A Star Is Born")
2. Prisoner (Love Theme from "Eyes of Laura Mars")
3. My Heart Belongs to Me
4. Songbird
5. You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand
6. Way We Were
7. Sweet Inspiration/Where You Lead
8. All in Love Is Fair
9. Superman
10. Stoney End
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: STREISAND,BARBRA
Title: GREATEST HITS VOL 2
Street Release Date: 07/06/1987
Domestic
Genre: VOCAL
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Reviews:
Magnificent! 
2009-10-04 - I will always consider this as Ms. Streisand's greatest album ever. I have listened to it over and over again and actually wore out my LP. To see it finally on CD made me shout, FINALLY!!! I love it and actually have a CD in my car and one for the house so I don't have to keep carting it back and forth! Now that has to mean something!
good--as far as it goes, that is (three and 1/2 stars) 
2008-04-28 - Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is a good CD that is just too short to be called any type of "greatest hits" album. Even when taken together with Volume 1 of Barbra Streisand's greatest hits this CD is still way too short. That disappoints me. However, what we do get is very good quality throughout; and the sound quality is excellent. I like that artwork, too!
The CD starts with the love theme from Barbra Streisand's remake of the classic movie entitled A Star Is Born. Barbra sings "Evergreen" with passion and she never sounded better. Her excellent diction and her uncanny sense of timing helps to make her singing all the better! Barbra also handles tempo and key modulations as if it were as natural as breathing. Of course, we know that it really isn't so easy to do this; Streisand had so much talent when she performed that she could make anything look easy! There's also the love theme from Eyes Of Laura Mars; Barbra sings this with great sensitivity and passion. Barbra's performance of the theme from Eyes Of Laura Mars truly is a great highlight of this album--even if the album is too short!
"My Heart Belongs To Me" stuns me with its beauty and this features Barbra squarely front and center--and that's all right by me! Barbra really opens up her ability to belt out a song as she sings "My Heart Belongs To Me;" and Streisand fans are bound to love this tune. In addition, Barbra does a wonderful job on "You Don't Bring Me Flowers;" this duet showcases Barbra's ability to handle a complicated duet with panache and sensitivity. I love it!
"The Way We Were" comes from the movie of the same name; this is perhaps my very favorite of Barbra's songs. "The Way We Were" has several sound effects that they used in the `70s but it still holds its own very well. "The Way We Were" is a classic ballad that is easily a major highlight of both this album and of Streisand's career.
"All In Love Is Fair" is a song I first heard when Stevie Wonder sang it; but Barbra's version is quite stunning. The strings are used to great advantage and Barbra belts this number out flawlessly. It's quite impressive. Listen also for Barbra on "Stoney End;" this great ballad ends the CD with a solid hit that still sounds fresh and new every time I hear it. Great!
Barbra Streisand is definitely one of the greatest female vocalists of the entire twentieth century. Her talents brought her much success and this CD proves just how wonderfully she could deliver a ballad. Unfortunately, I must take off one and ½ stars for this CD being just too short. Ouch!
Voice that forever fulfills
2007-12-18 - If there were three female vocalists that I would cherish meeting, they would be Laura Nyro, Joan Baez, and Barbra Streisand. Laura sadly is no longer with us. That leaves Baez with the socially significant and moving songs of the 60s and 70s and Streisand with that incredible voice that can sing anything. This particular release captures the widest breath of her talent. I think it is her best album. I wonder if she would ever come to Alaska to grace us with her presence.
Where's the 45?
2007-12-04 - I have no qualms with other reviewers, but wonder just what album they were reviewing when they complain about spotty sound and strange lyrics. This CD is beautifully remastered, and the songs are top notch. The only bad part is that it does not contain the original 45 version of "The Way We Were". My original vinyl from 1978 had the 45 version, but early in the CD revolution, I gave a bunch of LPs away. I have since bought 10 copies of the vinyl in search of this version, to no avail. They must have switched the versions on subsequent pressings, and on the CD, and that is the version always offered on all of Barbra's albums now, I don't know whether it is the version from her "The Way We Were" album or from the soundtrack, but it is NOT the original 45 version, and it is easy to tell the difference. But this CD has a few tracks that aren't available on any other Barbra CD, and it's a great listen. If you want ALL of Barbra's best, you've got to have this. It's on the cheap, so why not?
The way she is
2007-01-10 - There are two of my favorite Streisand songs here. One is 'The Way we were' and the other is called the theme from 'A Star is Born' but I believe is also called 'Evergreen'. Listening to them and being moved by them I try to understand why I find Streisand to be such a uniquely moving singer.
One element is certainly the way she can play with her own voice. It really is like a kind of jazz instrument which she can turn in every which way. Its quality its timbre its power and above all its piercing melodic beauty can bring chills to the spine and tears to the eyes.
What a great gift, what a tremendously beautiful singer.
