A new — but classic — Streisand album is coming soon!

Bar­bra Streis­and’s private music vault holds all the mas­ter tapes she’s recor­ded for five dec­ades. There are all the first takes, the pub­lished record­ings, and all the bon­bons which made up the 4 CD set Just for the Record in 2003.

Now, she’s shar­ing 11 pre­vi­ously unre­leased songs, span­ning a cross-section of her career from 1963 to the present. The col­lec­tion titled, Release Me will be avail­able on vinyl (yes, vinyl) on Septem­ber 25 and CD on Octo­ber 9.

Streis­and has released more than 60 albums, and many of the ses­sions for these albums yiel­ded extra record­ings, which weren’t included on the albums they were inten­ded for. They’ve all been stored in her vault until now. Over the past year, she has gone through the record­ings to come up with this collection.

High­lights include: Didn’t We writ­ten by Jimmy Webb — recor­ded in 1970 for an unre­leased album pro­ject titled The Singer; the stand­ard Wil­low Weep For Me - an unre­leased track recor­ded in 1967 for Simply Streis­and, arranged by Ray Ellis noted for his legendary work with Bil­lie Hol­i­day; a strik­ing ver­sion of Randy Newman’s I Think It’s Going Rain Today with New­man on piano — from the 1971 Stoney End ses­sions; an unre­leased stu­dio ver­sion of With One More Look At You from A Star Is Born; two tracks from the unre­leased sequel to the acclaimed The Broad­way Album, titled Back To Broad­way — Home (from The Wiz) and How Are Things In Glocca Morra?/Heather On The Hill (from Finian’s Rainbow/Brigadoon).

Streis­and says of the album,

The thing I’m hap­pi­est about is that I still have great affec­tion for all these songs. They appealed to me at the time… and still do. Listen­ing now, I actu­ally think to myself, ‘The girl wasn’t half bad.’

With the excep­tion of two songs where the ori­ginal mas­ters couldn’t be loc­ated, all the tracks on Release Me were trans­ferred from first gen­er­a­tion mas­ter tapes. Every atten­tion was paid to pre­serving the sonic per­spect­ive of the ses­sions as they were ori­gin­ally recor­ded and mixed.

Here’s the com­plete track listing:

1. Being Good Isn’t Good Enough (from Hal­le­lu­jah, Baby!)
2. Didn’t We
3. Wil­low Weep For Me
4. Try To Win A Friend
5. I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
6. With One More Look At You (from A Star Is Born)
7. Lost In Wonderland
8. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? / Heather On The Hill (from Finian’s Rain­bow/Bri­ga­doon)
9. Mother And Child
10. If It’s Meant To Be
11. Home (from The Wiz)

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