Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

For the 2022 Broadway revival cast recording, see Funny Girl (New Broadway Cast Recording).
Funny Girl
(Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Cast recording by
Barbra Streisand / various artists
ReleasedApril 1964
RecordedApril 5, 1964
GenrePop
Length50:14
LabelCapitol
ProducerDick Jones
Barbra Streisand chronology
The Third Album
(1964) 		Funny Girl
(Original Broadway Cast Recording)
(1964) 		People
(1964)
Singles from Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
  1. "People"
    Released: January 1964
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Record Mirror[2]

Funny Girl is the original Broadway cast recording of the musical of the same name, starring Barbra Streisand. The Funny Girl cast album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in June 1964,[3] selling 250,000 copies by the following month.[4] The recording went on to beat Fiddler on the Roof and Hello, Dolly! to win the Grammy for Best Original Cast Show Album.

Production

The Broadway show opened on March 26, 1964, at the Winter Garden Theater, and the cast album was recorded in a one-day session in early April, then released one week later by Capitol Records. Streisand performs twelve of the album's seventeen tracks, and the album marked the first time a Streisand recording was not released through Columbia. Streisand was already a successful singer at the time, with her prior three studio albums charting in the Billboard top 10.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Bob Merrill; all music is composed by Jule Styne

Act One
No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."Overture"Orchestra4:03
2."If a Girl Isn't Pretty"
2:16
3."I'm the Greatest Star"Barbra Streisand4:00
4."Cornet Man" (Trumpet soloist: Dick Perry)Streisand3:52
5."Who Taught Her Everything?"
  • Medford
  • Meehan
3:05
6."His Love Makes Me Beautiful"
3:20
7."I Want to Be Seen With You Tonight"
1:55
8."Henry Street"Cast1:53
9."People"Streisand3:25
10."You Are Woman, I Am Man"
  • Chaplin
  • Streisand
3:48
11."Don't Rain on My Parade"Streisand2:44
Total length:34:21
Act Two
No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."Sadie, Sadie"
  • Streisand
  • Cast
3:32
2."Find Yourself a Man"
  • Meehan
  • Stapleton
  • Medford
2:00
3."Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat"
  • Meehan
  • Streisand
  • Cast
3:22
4."Who Are You Now?"Streisand2:49
5."The Music That Makes Me Dance"Streisand3:52
6."Don't Rain on My Parade (Reprise)"Streisand2:05
Total length:17:40

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[7] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

References

  1. ^ Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) – Review AllMusic. Retrieved July 22, 2017
  2. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (14 May 1966). "Barbra Streisand, Sydney Chaplin: Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast)" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 270. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)", retrieved July 22, 2017
  4. ^ 'Girl' caster goes up, up. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 11 July 1964. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  5. ^ "Barbra Streisand Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  6. ^ "The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1964". Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2017.. Cash Box magazine.
  7. ^ "American album certifications – Barbra Streisand – FUNNY GIRL (ORIGINAL CAST)". Recording Industry Association of America.