Barbra Streisand

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Throughout her career, Barbra Streisand's mother would send her bad reviews of her performances. The intention was to prevent her daughter from getting a "swelled head," but they also served as fuel for a woman who was determined to be a star — despite all the forces in her life telling her no. "I don't know if it was like, 'I'll prove you wrong,' because [my mother] kept telling me to get a job as a secretary," Streisand says. "I just somehow always saw my future." The EGOT icon spoke with Terry Gross about her career and her memoir, My Name is Barbra.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Jasmine Garst from NPR's The Last Cop.
0:04.1	I'm one of thousands of NPR network voices coming to you from over 200 local newsrooms
0:10.2	across the country.
0:11.5	We bring all Americans closer together through free
0:14.4	and independent journalism, music, politics, culture, and so much more. The
0:20.0	NPR Network, what you hear changes everything. This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross.
0:25.8	Before the Broadway musical Funny Girl turned my guest Barbara Striseand into a star,
0:31.2	she was getting a lot of attention in 1962 for her nightclub act and for her
0:36.0	show-stopping comedic number in the then new Broadway musical, I can get it for you wholesale. That led to her being booked on the Gary Moore show, which at the time
0:46.2	was a popular TV variety show. Here's how she was introduced by Gary Moore in 1962.
0:53.0	You know, one of the biggest thrills for a guy who's been around this business as long as I have is the advent of a bright new young star.
1:00.0	Several weeks ago, a very talented 19 year old newcomer named Barbara Streisand
1:05.0	did a comedy song in the Broadway musical I can get it for your wholesale and she stopped the show cold.
1:11.0	Also in addition to that she appears nightly at the Bonsuire and kills the people there.
1:15.6	But I was delighted to learn during rehearsals this week that she is equally effective in
1:20.2	straight numbers as she is when she's being zaney. Here then is Miss Barbara Strissant.
1:25.6	After that introduction, Strissant performed what became one of her signature songs. Happy days are here again.
1:37.0	The skies above.
1:40.0	Are clear again.
1:42.0	Are clear again. Let us sing a song of cheer again. Happy days are here again.
1:55.0	Barbara Striseand has a new memoir called My Name is Barbara.
2:00.0	Her career got off to a rocketing start. In 1964, she won two Grammys for her first album,
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