I really enjoyed that and Stoney End was cool

but you were listening to wogan?

that, like Woody Allen she's an entertainer FROM but not OF the 60's.
She also, if my memory serves me correctly, wasn't too fond of "WUD" considering it a little beneath her.

Where, in the grip of insomnia, I could have sworn I was hallucinating. Alex Lester (the man who should be replacing Wogan) played a track from La Streisand's new album - a jazz version of The Clash's Should I Stay Or Should I Go? It was as unlovely as you'd expect. I turned it off & listened to an old Word podcast instead. Result? Despite Mark Ellen's best efforts, instant zzzz's

But i don't seem to remember Mark Ellen doing "Should I Stay Or Should I Go ? " Janie Jones ,Yes,but the other Clash covers,No.
Stuart Maconie does a great line about "Should I Stay Or Should I Go ?" in his Adventures on the High Teas book.
"If i go there will be trouble,If i stay there will be double"
Easy Choice Mick,Do the Math.
Excellent stuff

They both should be abasseystreisandassassinated. Can't think of ONE SINGLE SONG where either Shirley B or Barbara S doesn't start SCREECHING TO PROVE HOW LOUD SHE CAN SING. WELL I CAN SING LOUDER THAN YOU SHUT THE F@@@K UP

With Neil Diamond.

My folks had two versions when I was a kid. One on his 'greatest hits,' one on hers.
There was no escape from the schmaltz...

My ears! My ears!

I should point out that I wasn't there, and hardly a fan (like James above, "Stoney End" is all I really need), but it's useful to remember that she was a nightclub & Broadway sensation in the early 60's, singing with Miles Davis when she was 19, her debut album won 2 Grammies, she's still sold more albums in the USA than any other woman, and she was filling arenas even before getting into acting and winning an Oscar first-time out ("Funny Girl") and many other awards since.

Like her or not, it's hard to imagine anyone else (let alone a woman) who has so comprehensively conquered both the music and film worlds in her time. She can still fill any venue in the world with her music (when the money's enough for her to overlook her stagefright), and studios will bankroll any film she wants to make. She's hardly "relevant" these days, but she's certainly still got It.

The one potential saving grace is that Richard E Grant, of whom I'm a big fan, adores La Streisand.

There's a very funny passage in his memoirs With Nails, when he relates meeting her for the first time and is completely tongue-tied.

Good to see the Beeb, and particular the Light Programme, is once again in the pockets of the major labels re PR campaigns (cf those Liverpudlians).

I used to crash regularly at a friend's appartment in Bow (London). Next door lived an extremely camp gay couple who had the Barbara Streisand/Celine Dion duet 'Tell Him' as their alarm clock "wake up" song. Unfortunately the bed in my mate's guest bedroom was headboard to headboard with their bed, separated only by a very thin plaster wall.

Thus at 5.45 every morning I'd be woken by either Babs and Ruud Van Nistelroy screaching their mammaries off or - if I was really lucky - the sound of the wailing banshees intermingled with the sound and vibration of the neighbours' headboard banging away against the wall.

"Touch him with the gentleness you feel inside....." is the line I'll always remember

I actually like this soundtrack. Silly film though, cos Babs doesn't look like a man. At all.

Is one of those films I always watch if it's on.

And, Babs in that film is ever so sexy. That came as some surprise when I got old enough. She was always the girl with the big nose before then.

I also was quite surprised by Bonnie Langford as an older woman. Who knew that the stroppy stage school brat would turn out like that....

..but I can't resist playing this at loud volume and being Babs, leg kicking and twirling arms outstretched - particularly when shes on the Ferry at the end

But then again I also love this, which is getting off topic

I'm not a fan honest..and any knowledge I have disappears post-70's..but there are some good AOR/torch songs on her 70's output

eg this tune, written by Mr Pina-Colada, Rupert Holmes

http://www.southparkstudios.no/episodes/112/

Very dispirited now.