(New York) Recordings of shows given by a very young Barbra Streisand in a small Manhattan nightclub in 1962, before she became a megastar, have been re-mastered and will be released this fall.
Posted at 12:26 p.m.
The Scrapbook Barbra Streisand – Live at the Bon Soir will relate the passage, for three evenings, of the then 20-year-old singer at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village.
This series of shows had earned the young singer her first record contract. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings announced Friday that the re-mastered recordings will be available November 4.
The recordings of the shows at Bon Soir were destined to become the young singer’s first album. However, many songs were eventually remade in the studio for Barbra Streisand’s 1963 Grammy-winning debut album.
But the singer had always kept the Bon Soir recordings in her personal archives. She approved their release, after engineer Jochem van der Saag used technology to improve their quality, according to a statement.
The nightclub’s acoustics were not conducive to a professional recording, but modern techniques allowed the sound engineer to separate the singer’s voice from the instruments, it is said.
“I had never even been to a nightclub until I sang there,” Barbra Streisand said in a statement, noting that the album will be released 60 years after the shows at Bon Soir in 1962.