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Barbra Streisand - Christmas Memories (2001) [Japan]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 18 Dec 2021 19:32:32

"Christmas Memories" is the second Christmas album and 57th album by singer Barbra Streisand, released in 2001. The album reached #15 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has been certified as Platinum, her 28th platinum disc in America. Sales have now reached 1 million copies in the USA.

~Wikipedia

Barbra Streisand makes a point of noting that she completed this, her second Christmas album, before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, even going so far as to list the recording dates (July 19 - September 7, 2001). And listening to the disc, you can see why. If great artists sometimes demonstrate an uncanny ability to take the temperature of the times with their work, this one can be said to have anticipated the dramatic change in mood that the terrorist attacks occasioned. Christmas music always mixes the celebratory with the nostalgic, some of its classic songs dating from the World War II era when families were separated and feared they might not be reunited. But Streisand's Christmas Memories accentuates that tone well into melancholy. The 59-year-old singer has assembled a group of songs that look back on Christmases past from a mature perspective that very much takes loss into consideration, beginning with one of those war songs, "I'll Be Home for Christmas." On two occasions, she has prompted lyricists to rewrite their songs, having Dean Pitchford alter the words to "Closer," a new song submitted to her, to reflect the death of her friend Stephan Weiss (husband of fashion designer Donna Karan) and even getting the amazingly pliable Stephen Sondheim to revise "I Remember" from his 1966 TV musical Evening Primrose. As remade, "I Remember" remains an extremely sad song, however. When she isn't mourning, Streisand is trying for grand statements such as the politically oriented "Grown-Up Christmas List" and the ecumenical "One God," songs in keeping with Christmas's sentimentality that seem perfectly chosen for the inevitably sober-tinged holiday season of 2001. In coming years, Christmas Memories may come to seem like a remarkably dour holiday collection, but for the year of its release, it could hardly be improved upon.

~Review by William Ruhlmann

Release of the album: 2001, October, 30 [CD Columbia Records, Cat.# CK 85920, USA]
Release of this CD: 2001, November, 14 [CD Sony Music Japan international Inc. (Japan), Cat.# SICP 26 / EAN: 4547366001129]
©&℗ 2001 Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
Manufactured by Sony Music Japan international Inc.
Made in Japan

Credits:

Art Direction – Gabrielle Baumberger
Backing Vocals – Sue Ann Carwell (tracks: 6)
Bass [Jazz] – Chuck Domanico, Dave Carpenter
Concertmaster – Bruce Dukov, Ralph Morrison
Contractor – Debbi Datz-Pyle
Contractor [Choir] – Bobbi Page
Coordinator [Album Project] – Allan Stein
Coordinator [Project] – Marsha Burns, Shari Sutcliffe
Design – Chad M. Goodson
Drums – John Robinson, Peter Erskine, Vinnie Colaiuta
Electric Bass – Neil Stubenhaus
Engineer [Additional Assistant] – Alex Rodriguez, Bill Smith, Chris Brooke, Jason Lloyd, Justin Smith, Koji Egawa, Mark Eshelman, Patrick Weber, Peter Doell, Sue McLean
Engineer [Assistant] – Nick Marshall
Executive-Producer – Barbra Streisand, Jay Landers
Guitar – Dean Parks, George Doering, John Chiodini, Michael Landau, Michael Thompson
Harp – Gayle Levant
Horn – Gary Grant
Keyboards – David Foster, Mike Lang, Randy Waldman, Robbie Buchanan, Tom Ranier
Liner Notes – Barbra Streisand, Jay Landers
Mastered By – Stephen Marcussen, Stewart Whitmore
Mixed By – David Reitzas
Photography By – Firooz Zahedi, Ian Logan
Programmed By [Synthesizer] – Felipe Elgueta (tracks: 1, 9), Matt Della Polla (tracks: 2 to 8, 10 to 12)

Tracklist:

01. I'll Be Home for Christmas (04:12)
(Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram)
02. A Christmas Love Song (03:57)
(Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mandel)
03. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (03:54)
(Frank Loesser)
04. I Remember (04:57)
(Stephen Sondheim)
05. Snowbound (02:59)
(Russell Faith, Clarence Kehner)
06. It Must Have Been the Mistletoe (03:10)
(Douglas Konecky, Justin Wilde)
07. Christmas Lullaby (03:30)
(Ann Hampton Callaway)
08. Christmas Mem'ries (04:45)
(Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Don Costa)
09. Grown-Up Christmas List (03:29)
(David Foster, Linda Thompson)
10. Ave Maria (04:42)
(Franz Schubert)
11. Closer (03:58)
(Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow)
12. One God (03:39)
(Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl)

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