Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)
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"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" is the well known theme song from the 1976 film A Star Is Born. It was composed and performed by Barbra Streisand with lyrics by Paul Williams. The song was released on the soundtrack to A Star Is Born. Streisand earned an Academy Award for Best Original Song, her second overall, as composer of the song. With "Evergreen", Streisand earned a Grammy Award for Song of the Year as well. She and Williams also won Golden Globes in the category of Best Original Song for the song. The single was a worldwide success, spending three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and six weeks atop the adult contemporary chart. This was Streisand's second Hot 100 #1 song (following "The Way We Were" in 1974), and her third chart-topper on the adult contemporary chart ("The Way We Were" and 1964's "People").[1] Streisand also recorded versions of the song in Spanish ("Tema de Amor de Nace Una Estrella"), French ( "De Reve en Reverie"), and Italian ("Sempreverde"). Of these versions, only the Spanish version of the song has been released commercially as a track on the CD single, "I Finally Found Someone", a duet with Bryan Adams and on the import CD version of the "A Star is Born" remastered soundtrack. The song is mentioned in Julie Brown's 1984 song "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" with the lyrics "The band was playing Evergreen/All of a sudden somebody screamed/'Look out! The homecoming queen's got a gun!'"
Barbra Streisand
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbra Streisand (pronounced /ˈstraɪsænd/ STRY-sand; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, film maker and actress. She has won two Academy Awards,[1] eight Grammy Awards,[2] four Emmy Awards,[3] a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award,[4] and a Peabody Award.[4] She is one of the most commercially and critically successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and one of the best-selling solo recording artists with more than 71 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide.[5][6] She is the best selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list and the only female recording artist in the top ten.[7] According to the RIAA, Streisand has a total of 31 top ten albums to her credit since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (46 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became the only artist to achieve number 1 albums in five consecutive decades.[8] Streisand also holds the record for the most top 10 albums of any female recording artist.[9] Her RIAA tally shows she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.[2]
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