''People'' is

Barbra Streisand Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awar ...

's fourth solo studio

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, released in September 1964. The title track was a newly recorded version of the hit song from the

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musical '' Funny Girl'' in which Streisand starred. The album became the first of Streisand's albums to hit #1 on the '' Billboard'' album chart, spending five weeks in the top spot; it was also certified

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. After hitting #1 on the charts, Barbra received a commemorative plaque from Billboard magazine editor Mike Gross. The album was re-released in the UK on the CBS Hallmark Series label in 1966 with different artwork. In 2017, the album was selected for preservation in the

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by the

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as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant."

Artwork

The cover photo was taken by Don Bronstein at Chicago's

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in June 1963, when Streisand was in town for an engagement at

Mister Kelly's Mister Kelly’s was a nightclub on Rush Street in Chicago which existed from 1953 to 1975. From around 1956 until its demise, it was a springboard to fame for many entertainers, especially jazz singers and comedians. As reported in the ''Chicago ...

nightclub.

Accolades

Streisand won the Best Vocal Performance, Female

Grammy award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pr ...

for this album, her 2nd in this category and her 5th overall.

s were also won for Best Accompaniment/Arrangement for Vocalist or Instrumentalist (

Peter Matz Peter Matz (November 6, 1928 – August 9, 2002) was an American musician, composer, arranger and conductor. His musical career in film, theater, television and studio recording spanned fifty years, and he worked with a number of prominent ...

); and Best Album Cover (Robert Cato and Don Bronstein).

Track listing

Side One #"Absent Minded Me" (

Bob Merrill Henry Robert Merrill Levan (May 17, 1921 – February 17, 1998) was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1950s on the US and UK single charts. He wrote ...

, Jule Styne) – 3:07 #"When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do)" ( Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:57 #" Fine and Dandy" (

Kay Swift Katharine Faulkner "Kay" Swift (April 19, 1897 – January 28, 1993) was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a hit musical completely. Written in 1930, the Broadway musical '' Fine and Dandy'' includes s ...

, Paul James) – 2:49 #"

Supper Time "Supper Time" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1933 musical '' As Thousands Cheer'', where it was introduced by Ethel Waters. The song is about racial violence inspired by a newspaper headline about a lynching. History Berlin ...

" (

Irving Berlin Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; yi, ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-American composer, songwriter and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russ ...

) – 2:47 #" Will He Like Me?" (

Jerry Bock Jerrold Lewis Bock (November 23, 1928November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical ''Fiorello!'' and the Tony ...

Sheldon Harnick Sheldon Mayer Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as ''Fiorello!'' and '' Fiddler on the Roof''. Early life Sheldon Mayer Harnick was ...

) – 2:34 #"How Does the Wine Taste?" (Matt Dubey, Harold Karr) – 2:36 Side Two #

"I'm All Smiles" (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) – 2:09 #"Autumn" (

Richard Maltby, Jr. Richard Eldridge Maltby Jr. (born October 6, 1937) is an American theatre director and theatrical producer, producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He conceived and directed the only two musical revues to win the Tony Award for Best Musical: ''Ain ...

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) – 1:57 #" My Lord and Master" ( Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 2:59 #"Love Is a Bore" (

Sammy Cahn Samuel Cohen (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993), known professionally as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist, songwriter, and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premi ...

, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:08 #" Don't Like Goodbyes" ( Harold Arlen,

Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, ...

) – 3:14 #"

People A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of prope ...

" (Merrill, Styne) – 3:40 CD Bonus track #

I Am Woman "I Am Woman" is a song written by Australian musicians Helen Reddy and Ray Burton. Performed by Reddy, the first recording of "I Am Woman" appeared on her debut album ''I Don't Know How to Love Him'', released in May 1971, and was heard durin ...

" (Single Version) ''(Only issued on the European 2002 CD reissue)''

2002 Reissue

Reissued 29 January 2002 with original album art restored and remastered from original master tapes by Stephen Marcussen in 2001. CDs released outside of the US and Canada include the bonus track "

", previously issued on the B-side of the single "

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Song information

* " Fine and Dandy" was introduced in the musical ''Fine and Dandy'' (1930). * "

" was introduced in the musical ''

As Thousands Cheer ''As Thousands Cheer'' is a revue with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, first performed in 1933. The revue contained satirical sketches and witty or poignant musical numbers, several of which became standards, includin ...

'' by

Ethel Waters Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her no ...

. * "My Lord And Master" was first introduced in the musical ''

The King and I ''The King and I'' is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on Margaret Landon's novel '' Anna and the King of Siam'' (1944), which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the chil ...

''. * "

" is from the musical '' Funny Girl''. This recording was produced by

Mike Berniker Michael Berniker (June 30, 1935 – July 25, 2008) was an American record producer who was recognized with nine Grammy Awards over the course of his career for his work on albums with such performers as Perry Como, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Jo ...

and recorded on 20 December 1963 in New York. * "I'm All Smiles" was introduced in the musical ''The Yearling''. * " Absent-Minded Me" was written for '' Funny Girl'' but was cut during rehearsals.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

The Barbra Streisand Music Guide – People
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