Timeless: Live in Concert

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Timeless: Live in Concert
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Length123:17
LabelColumbia
ProducerBarbra Streisand, Jay Landers
Barbra Streisand chronology
A Love Like Ours
(1999) 		Timeless: Live in Concert
(2000) 		Christmas Memories
(2001)
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Timeless: Live in Concert is a

platinum certification
.

Content

Timeless is a double album which includes moments from Streisand's New Year's Eve, 1999 and New Year's Day, 2000 shows at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on the Las Vegas Strip, which were part of her Timeless concert tour.[1] The release is set up like a play in two acts and even has a two-minute entr'acte featuring conductor, Marvin Hamlisch, who is also present throughout the performance. It opens with a dramatization of her first, amateur recording session, in which Lauren Frost plays a part described in the credits as "Young Girl" though Streisand later refers to her as "my little-girl self" and "mini me". The rest of Act One traces Streisand's career from her club days to Broadway and her movie performances.

Act two opens with several of Barbra's

Cry Me a River" and "Happy Days Are Here Again", from her debut album, and "At the Same Time" from her 1997 album Higher Ground
.

The 24-page CD insert includes photographs, portraits and concert shots as well as an account of the dress rehearsal written by producer, Jay Landers. The 2-CD set includes over two hours of performance divided into 37 tracks. The album debuted at No. 21 on the

Nielsen Soundscan, the albums sold over 477,000 copies as of 2007.[2]

Come Rain Or Come Shine
" recorded live during one of Barbra's Australian performances.

Track listing

Disc one – Act one

  1. "Opening/You'll Never Know" (with Lauren Frost, Alec Ledd, and Randee Heller) (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 2:31
  2. "Something's Coming" (with Lauren Frost) (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 3:41
  3. "
    Marilyn Bergman
    ) – 4:18
  4. "Shirley MacLaine Y1K" (dialogue) – 4:41
  6. "
    Cry Me a River
    " (Arthur Hamilton) – 3:14
  8. "Lover, Come Back To Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 2:54
  9. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) – 3:43
  11. "Miss Marmelstein" (Harold Rome) – 2:27
  12. "I'm the Greatest Star/Second Hand Rose/Don't Rain on My Parade" (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill / Grant Clarke, J.F. Hanly / Styne, Merrill) – 5:21
  13. "Something Wonderful/Being Alive" (Rodgers and Hammerstein / Sondheim) – 4:35
  15. "As Time Goes By"/"Speak Low" (Herman Hupfeld / Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 2:10
  16. "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 4:02
  17. "Evergreen" (Streisand, Paul Williams) – 4:04
  18. "Dialogue" (Father, Part #1) – 1:18
  19. "Papa, Can You Hear Me?/You'll Never Know" (with Lauren Frost) (Michel Legrand, A. Bergman, M. Bergman / Warren, Gordon) – 3:20
  20. "A Piece of Sky" (with Lauren Frost) (Legrand, A. Bergman, M. Bergman) – 3:13

Disc two – Act two

  1. "Entr'acte" (Hamlisch) – 2:21
  2. "Putting It Together" (Sondheim) – 3:35
  3. "On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane) – 2:27
  4. "
    Send in the Clowns
    " (Sondheim) – 3:06
  6. "Happy Days Are Here Again/
    Robert Lange / Linda Thompson, Walter Afanasieff, David Foster
    / Diamond, A. Bergman, M. Bergman) – 2:07
  7. "
    Sing" (with Jason Gould)/"I've Got a Crush on You" (with Frank Sinatra) (Joe Raposo / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
    ) – 3:22
  9. "Technology" (Dialogue) – 2:03
  10. "The Clicker Blues" (Hamlisch, A. Bergman, M. Bergman) – 0:58
  11. "Simple Pleasures" (Hamlisch, A. Bergman, M. Bergman) – 3:02
  12. "The Main Event/Fight" (Paul Jabara, Bruce Roberts / Jabara, Bob Esty) – 4:07
  13. "Dialogue" (Father, Part #2) – 1:35
  14. "I've Dreamed of You" (Rolf Løvland, Ann Hampton Callaway) – 3:24
  15. "At the Same Time" (Callaway) – 4:53
  16. "Auld Lang Syne (Ballad)" (adapted by Robert Burns) – 1:49
  17. "Dialogue" (Barbra and Brother Time) – 0:51
  18. "
    People
    " (Styne, Merrill) – 3:46
  19. "New Year's Eve/Auld Lang Syne" (Celebration) – 6:00
  20. "Everytime You Hear Auld Lang Syne" (Barbra/Audience) (Hamlisch, A. Bergman, M. Bergman) – 4:22
  21. "Happy Days Are Here Again" (Ager, Yellen) – 3:33
  22. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Arlen, Capote) – 1:42
  23. "
    I Believe/Somewhere" (with Lauren Frost) (Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman
    / Bernstein, Sondheim) – 8:42

Personnel

Charts

Weekly chart performance for Timeless: Live in Concert
Chart (2000) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] 66
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[4] 48
UK Albums (OCC)[5] 54
US Billboard 200[6] 21

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Album
United States (RIAA)[7] Platinum 500,000^
Video
Australia (ARIA)[8] Platinum 15,000^
United States (RIAA)[9] Platinum 100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ Mike Weatherford (August 5, 2016). "The way we were (when Barbra Streisand came to town)". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  2. ^ Keith Caulfield (22 June 2007). "Keith discusses top debuts, Barbra Streisand, Tiffany and more". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  3. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 270.
  4. ISBN 978-1094705002
    .
  5. ^ "Barbra Streisand | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  6. ^ "Barbra Streisand Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  7. ^ "American album certifications – Barbra Streisand – Timeless". Recording Industry Association of America.
  8. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2004 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.
  9. ^ "American video certifications – Barbra Streisand – Timeless". Recording Industry Association of America.

Works cited

  • Timeless: Live in Concert album liner notes. Columbia Records.
  • "Timeless: Live in Concert". All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
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