Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Explained

Funny Girl
(Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Type:Cast
Artist:Barbra Streisand / various artists
Cover:Funny_Girl_(Original_Broadway_Cast_Recording).jpg
Released:April 1964
Recorded:April 5, 1964
Genre:Pop
Length:50:14
Label:Capitol
Producer:Dick Jones
Chronology:Barbra Streisand
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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,[1] selling 250,000 copies by the following month.[2] 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.

Charts

Year-end charts

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://barbra-archives.com/record/albums/funny_girl_obc.html"Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)"
  2. Book: 'Girl' caster goes up, up . 11 July 1964 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. . October 5, 2021 . en.
  3. Web site: The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1964. https://web.archive.org/web/20120826090912/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1964YEAP.html. August 26, 2012. dead. August 29, 2017. . Cash Box magazine.