This week in 1964: Barbra Streisand started a five-week run at #1 on the US albums chart with her 4th solo studio release, People, on Columbia Records; the title track of her first chart-topping LP was written by Jule Styne (composer) & Bob Merrill (lyricist) for the Broadway musical Funny Girl (1964), starring Barbra; it is remembered for a line from its chorus, People who need people... & has been recorded by Dionne Warwick, Steve Lawrence, Jack Jones, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, The Supremes & many others, but is most closely associated with Streisand as her signature song…
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:13:45 +0000
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