The Essential Barbra Streisand

Disc 1
1	A Sleepin' Bee
2	Cry Me A River
3	I Stayed Too Long At The Fair
4	Lover, Come Back To Me
5	People
6	My Man
7	Second Hand Rose
8	He Touched Me
9	Don't Rain On My Parade
10	Happy Days Are Here Again - Live From Central Park
11	On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
12	Stoney End
13	Since I Fell For You
14	What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
15	The Way We Were
16	All In Love Is Fair
17	Lazy Afternoon
18	Evergreen
19	My Heart Belongs To Me
20	You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Duet with Neil Diamond)
21	The Main Event/Fight
22	No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (Duet with Donna Summer)
Disc 2
1	Woman In Love
2	Guilty
3	Comin' In And Out Of Your Life
4	Memory
5	Papa, Can You Hear Me?
6	A Piece Of Sky
7	Putting It Together
8	Not While I'm Around
9	Send In The Clowns
10	Somewhere
11	All I Ask Of You
12	Children Will Listen
13	As If We Never Said Goodbye
14	I Finally Found Someone (Duet with Bryan Adams)
15	Tell Him (Duet with Celine Dion)
16	I've Dreamed Of You
17	Someday My Prince Will Come New 2001 Studio Version
18	You'll Never Walk Alone New 2001 Studio Version

Barnes & Noble

America’s finest vocalist deserves the royal treatment, and with this superbly realized collection she gets it. Barbra Streisand has set the standard for singers for more than five decades now, and this double-disc set traces her finest moments each step of the way, from the 1963 classic “A Sleeping Bee” to her stirring, previously unreleased 2001 version of “You'll Never Walk Alone.” Benchmark performances (“He Touched Me,” “Second Hand Rose,” “Happy Days Are Here Again,” “Send in the Clowns”) mingle with pop hits ( “People,” “The Way We Were,” “Evergreen,” “Guilty”) for a well-rounded take on a glorious career. This is the comprehensive recording Streisand fans -- and all lovers of great popular singing -- have been waiting for. Steve Futterman

All Music Guide

Although Barbra Streisand has recorded for the same company, Columbia Records, throughout her career, her work has not been particularly well represented on compilations. Four single-disc best-ofs dot her discography, but the listener who wanted to do something as simple as purchase an album containing the original studio recordings of both her first Top Ten hit, "People," and her first number one, "The Way We Were," without plumping for the four-CD box set Just for the Record , was out of luck. Complicating the compiling of her career highlights is her position as essentially an album artist, despite having scattered 11 Top Ten pop hits across 32 years. The ideal collection would have to do justice to her popular early albums of the '60s, her mid-career singles hits of the '70s, and her renewed album success in the '80s and '90s. Here it is. At a CD-busting length of over two and a half hours, this 40-track double-disc set encapsulates Streisand's recording career in chronological order from her 1963 debut album to 1999. (Two previously unreleased tracks sound like outtakes from her later album projects. "Someday My Prince Will Come" probably got left off of A Love Like Ours, while the gospel-tinged "You'll Never Walk Alone" must have been intended for Higher Ground.) Intelligently picking signature performances from her best and most popular albums, it largely eschews a raft of singles that got into the bottom half of the Top 40, but leaves out only one Top Ten hit, "What Kind of Fool." The singer's versatility and her ability to impose her immediately identifiable vocal style on a variety of material are emphasized in recordings that range from Broadway show tunes to disco. A collection like this has been needed for a long time as a gateway to Streisand's bountiful, indeed overwhelming, catalog. William Ruhlmann