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NEW YORK (AP) — A series of 1962 performances by Barbra Streisand at a Manhattan nightclub before she became a superstar have been remastered and will be released this fall.
“Barbra
Streisand — Live at the Bon Soir” features songs from a three night stint at
the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village. The singer-actor was and the
sessions led to her first record deal. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings
announced Friday that the remastered sessions would be released on Nov. 4.
The
performances were intended to become Streisand’s first album, but instead many
of the songs were redone as studio recordings and released as her
Grammy-winning self-titled debut album in 1963.
Streisand
kept the recordings in her personal collection and she approved the release
after engineer Jochem van der Saag used technology to improve their quality,
according to a news release. The nightclub’s acoustics were not meant for
professional recording, but modern techniques allowed van der Saag to separate
Streisand’s vocals from the instrument sounds.
The release
will allow listeners “to witness 20-year old Streisand at the dawn of her
unparalleled career,” Friday’s announcement said.
“I had never
even been in a nightclub until I sang in one,” Streisand said in a statement,
noting the release comes 60 years after the Bon Soir sessions.