Barbra Streisand LP Moments to Remember Vinyl Rare Kismet Records LE 1000 1984
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Description
1984 Barbra Streisand LP Moments to Remember on vinyl. This is a rare Kismet Records promotional release with a limited edition of 1000.
Kismet #1003
Condition: Cover VG+ with some ring wear and thumb crease. Vinyl is Excellent with high gloss and only a couple of hairline scratches that are barely noticeable and don't effect play.
MOMENTS TO REMEMBER — KISMET 1003
SIDE ONE
- If I Close My Eyes *
- On A Clear Day You Can See Forever:
- Who Is There Among Us Who Knows? (J. Nicholson)
- Wait Till We're 65 (with L. Blyden)
- The Best Thing You've Ever Done (recording session)
- Funny Lady:
- Let's Hear It For Me (long introduction)
- Butterfly Rehearsals:
- Everything Must Change
- Funky Type Thang
- On Broadway
SIDE TWO
- Funny Girl 1968 N.Y. Movie Premiere (see here)
- Dinah Shore Show (1963):
- Cry Me A River
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- Brotherhood of Man
- AFI Salute to William Wyler (1976)
- Funny Girl 1968 L.A. Movie Premiere (from this show)
NOTES
* was officially released as a 45-rpm single. Appeared, too, on JFTR.
The “Best Thing” session included Barbra’s blow up in the recording booth when the sound on her earphones goes out (“Christ! These fucking phones! They’re off! Dead!”).
The longer intro from Funny Lady is also referred to as “All My Life on the Stage” and was actually filmed. Only the first verse (“Well, I’ll be damned…”) made it into the final movie. The Kismet folks reused this track on future albums (see below) as well.
On Side 2, Mayor Lindsay interviewed Barbra at the New York Funny Girl film premiere. Barbra’s short speech for the AFI Salute to Funny Girl director William Wyler.
There were 12 Kismet albums in total (which sold for around $20 each), all containing rare and unreleased Streisand songs, recording sessions, interviews, live appearances, TV shows, and more. They were produced by Karma Productions in Denver, Colorado. (Karma also published Barbra Now & Then, a fan magazine.)
In the mid-1980’s, before the advent of compact discs and VCRs, most Streisand fans did not have the ability to rent or trade video tapes of the rare television appearances — and YouTube was still 25 years away! The Kismet records were probably the first time most Streisand fans could hear some of the shows that Barbra had appeared on early in her career (like Judy Garland and Ed Sullivan).
The first four album covers featured gorgeous full-color Streisand pictures. All the albums were stamped in gold: “For promotional use only. Not for sale.” This didn’t stop Columbia Records, of course, from pursuing legal action against Karma Productions.
In a backwards way the Kismet albums were a template for Columbia’s official release, Just For the Record (JFTR) in 1991. Many of the tracks that appeared as bootlegs on the Kismet albums ended up on Columbia’s official release. Without the Kismet records, Columbia would have never guessed there would be such a market for Streisand’s unreleased material.
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