Barbra Streisand - A Happening In Central Park (1968) [1994] CD-Rip

Recorded at a one-off free concert in front of 135,000 people in New York's Central Park in June 1967, Barbra Streisand's first live album was something of a throwback to her early days, and not only because it waited in the can 15 months before release. (Also filmed, the performance was used as a TV special.) Songs like "Happy Days Are Here Again" and "Cry Me a River" dated from Streisand's 1963 debut album, while the comic "Value" was a previously unrecorded song from her first Off-Broadway show, Another Evening With Harry Stoones, which ran for one night in October 1961. Streisand was dangerously close to being a musical anachronism in the pop music scene of 1968, even as her Hollywood stardom was confirmed by the release of the Funny Girl movie. This album did nothing to change that, though Streisand proved a charming and funny live performer and, as ever, a great singer. It was amazing that she could pull off what remained essentially a nightclub act in front of such a large audience.

Tracks:

1 I Can't See It (From The Musical Production "The Fantastiks") 3:00
2 Love Is Like A New Born Child 2:52
3 Folk Monologue / Value 4:50
4 Cry Me A River 2:56
5 People 4:40
6 He Touched Me 3:14
7 Marty The Martian / The Sound Of Music / Mississippi Mud / Santa Claus Is Comin' To The Town 2:43
8 Natural Sounds (From "The Juggler") 3:08
9 Second Hand Rose 3:08
10 Sleep In Heavenly Peace (Silent Night) 3:29
11 Happy Days Are Here Again 3:23