Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments es un álbum de Barbra Streisand, publicado en 1973. El disco incluye 15 canciones, entre ellas «Piano Practicing», «I Got Rhythm», «Johnny One Note/One Note Samba» y «Glad to Be Unhappy».
Sobre el álbum
El disco Barbra Streisand.and Other Musical Instruments es uno de los proyectos más eclécticos y experimentales de la carrera de la artista. Ligado a otro de sus especiales de televisión, en este álbum Streisand utiliza su voz para dialogar con instrumentos de diferentes culturas y épocas. La cantante fusiona su estilo con sonidos de la música india, japonesa o clásica, creando un tapiz sonoro de una originalidad y una ambición extraordinarias.
El álbum presenta nuevos y audaces arreglos de algunas de sus canciones más conocidas, así como piezas instrumentales donde su voz funciona como una textura más. El resultado es un trabajo vanguardista y poco convencional que se aleja de cualquier fórmula comercial. Aunque no es uno de sus discos más populares, es una fascinante demostración de la inagotable curiosidad y el genio musical de una artista que nunca dejó de explorar.
Listado de Canciones
- Piano Practicing
- I Got Rhythm
Letra
I got rhythm I got music I got my man [Speaking] You play real good! How old are you? Eight? ...I was eight once... For a whole year! Then I went on to the big time... Nine...Ten... [Singing] I got daisies in green pastures I got my man Who could ask for anything more All man trouble, I don't mind him You won't find him Round and round and round my door I got starlight I got sweet dream I got my man Who can ask for anything more I got rhythm I got music I got my man - Johnny One Note/One Note Samba
- Glad to Be Unhappy
Letra
Look at yourself... If you had sense of humor You would laugh to beat the band... Look at yourself Do you still believe the rumor That romance is simply grand? Since you took it right on the chin You have lost that bright toothpaste grin My mental state is all a-jumble I sit around in sadly mumble Fools rush in, so here I am! Very glad to be unhappy I can't win, but here I am More than glad to be unhappy Unrequited love's a bore and I've got it pretty bad But for someone you adore It's a pleasure to be sad... Like a straying baby lamb With no mammy and no pappy I'm so unhappy But, oh, so glad! - People
- Second Hand Rose
- Don't Rain on My Parade
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Monologue [Dialogue]
- By Myself
Letra
I'll go my way by myself It's how the comedy ends I'll have to deny myself Love and laughter and friend I'll try to apply myself And teach my heart how to sing I'll go my way by myself Like a bird on the wing I'll face the unknown I'll build the world of my own No one knows better than I myself I'm by myself I'm by myself I'm by myself Alone - Come Back to Me
Letra
Hear my voice where you are Take a train, steal a car Hop a freight, grab a star, come back to me Catch a plane, catch a breeze On your hands, on your knees Swim or fly, only please, come back to me On a mule, in a jet With your hair in a net In a towel when you're wet I don't care, this is where you should be From the hills, from the shore Ride the wind to my door Turn the high with the dust Break the law if you must Move the world, only just come back to me Blast you high, hear me call Must i fight city hall Here and now, damn it all, come back to me What on earth must i do Scream and yell till i'm blue Curse your soul when will you come back to me? Have you gone to the moon or the corner saloon At your rack, at your room Mademoiselle, where in hell can you be? Leave a sign on your door Out to lunch ever more In a royce or a van, wrapped in mink coats or rain Anyway that you can, come back to me Hear my voice through the dim Feel the waves on your skin Like a call from within, come back to me Leave behind all your own Tell your flowers you will phone Let your dog walk alone, come back to me Let your tub overflow If a date waits below Let him wait for godot By the rail, Come by mail, cod Par avion, par bateau Dans une vielle, deux chevaux Come by steam, come by gas Call for free on a pass On the drags and the glass, come back to me Leave your bills all unpaid Let your bed go unmade Your souffle unsouffled, come back to me Come by sail, come by freight In a box or a tray, keep your head on the plate I don't care this is where you should be Come in pain or in joy As a girl, as a boy In a bag or a trunk (shut up!) On a horse or a drunk In the flora or faun, come back to me Come back to me, come back... "daisy" "will you stop bothering me?" "why, daisy, you're a bloody miracle!" - I Never Has Seen Snow
Letra
I done lost my ugly spare I am cheerful now Got the warmth all over To smoother my worried brow Oh, the girl I use to be She ain't me no more I closed the door On the girl I was before, hmm Feelin' fine and full of bliss What I really wanna say is this I never has seen snow All the same I know Snow ain't so beautiful Can't be so beautiful Like my love is Like my love is Nothin' do compare Nothin' anywhere with my love A hundred things I see A twilight sky, that tree But none so beautiful Not one so beautiful Like my love is Like my love is Once you see his face None can take the place of my love A stone rolled of my heart When I laid my eyes on that Near to me boy with that far away look And right from the start I saw a new horizon And a road to take me where I wanted to be took Needed to be took Needed to be took Oh, oh I never have seen snow All the same I know Nothin' will ever be Nothin' can ever be Beautiful as my love is Like my love is to me Nothin' is as beautiful to me - Lied: Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen
- The World Is a Concerto/Make Your Own Kind of Music
- The Sweetest Sounds