"The Way He Makes Me Feel" is a popular song from 1983 performed by

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. The song is featured in the

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of the play '' Yentl'', in which Streisand starred and sang most of the music. The lyrics were written by

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and

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, with music by Michel Legrand.

Accolades

Along with another song from ''Yentl'' ("

Papa, Can You Hear Me? "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" is a 1983 song composed by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, for Barbra Streisand in the title role of '' Yentl''. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 56th Academy Awards ...

"), "The Way He Makes Me Feel" was nominated for an

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in the category Best Original Song. Both tunes lost the Oscar to " Flashdance...What a Feeling".

Weekly charts

"The Way He Makes Me Feel" was released as a single in a slightly different and more contemporary version than the one on the soundtrack to the film. It reached number 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and spent two weeks at number one on the

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.Hyatt, Wesley (1999). ''The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits'' (Billboard Publications) This was Streisand's eighth (and, to date, final) number-one song on the ''

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'' adult contemporary chart.

References

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Accolades

Weekly charts

See also

References