Becoming Barbra 

I’ll never forget having the opportunity to fly Barbra and her husband James as well as 3 others on a private jet from Camarillo, Ca. to France. It was the most beautiful and memorable experience as a private flight attendant. I loved that she spoke French to me when I mentioned that I was French and is very fluent with the language. She’s even written songs in French. It was such a joy to have met her up close and personal. I was the only flight attendant on that long flight. So, I made sure she was treated like a queen. She appreciated my first class service and hugged me and thanked me with her pup in her arms as she was about to deplane. Wow! I was so fortunate to have gotten a hug from such an icon!!

There will never be another Barbra. When she was made they broke the mold. My favorite singer , actor , composer , director in the world. Barbra is my platonic best friend her voice and music has been there during all mu trials and tribulations.

Simply the BEST singer of the 20th Century. My favorite, always......... ❤

Lord Snowdon once said that the two most beautiful women he ever had the pleasure of photographing were Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand.

Millennial fan over here! 😍

Since 1964 I wanted to see her live. Fast forward to June 1994, Madison Square Garden. Thank you God.

The original and still the best. The GOAT Barbara!

GOD gifted her. Period

She is smart and laughs at herself!! She is so beautiful and talented 💗

Wish she’d do some more films. I miss her! Can’t believe she’s 81…no way!💕

She’s a legend. I’ve always loved her.

You have brought so much joy into my life for over 60 years. Thank you so much.

BECAUSE OF BARBRA I’ve been watching the movie THE WAY WE WERE over and over again ❤❤❤❤❤

She was the greatest singer she was always my favorite

The greatest singer that ever lived, intergenerationally adored, an all time favorite!

Barbra Streisand knew what she wanted when she wanted and how she wanted it. People, particularly men, call that "difficult" when it's a woman doing that. But, she has outlasted most if not all her contemporaries from the 60s in popular music and outlasted everyone since. I remember being young and hearing her duet with Celine Dion and just being amazed that this person has sung duets with Judy Garland all the way to Celine Dion. Now, that has extended all the way to Ariana Grande. She's an icon, she's a legend, and she's earned all her titles, minus the sexist ones. Her voice will inspire for years to come.

Barbra Streisand knew at a very young age she had been given an innate talent through her voice. She has made the most of it. She nurtured it, she took care of it and she respected it. Most of all, she did not abuse her innate gift. Very few do so.

The greatest ... A real Star a real Icon ...

Barbra Streisand's talent is so stunning, those specials could be aired on television (or streamed, etc.) today and still be relevant and entertaining and ground breaking. She was and is, a true original.

The new generation has no idea how influential Streisand real Was and Is today. You may find her records at Goodwill but the impact is undeniable.

Great singers make me tear up so much emotion there

❤ Tuesday I get her audiobook!!!😮

ICON she is!!!!! Icon should not be used on anyone until they've be in the business for at least 3 decades.

Brava! A stunning and original force of nature. Pure talent.

I remember watching Color me Barbra with my Mom.

She’s so talented. I mean she not only sings incredible but she is also an actress and a director and a songwriter. Not many people today can do it like she did.

Got a voice like butter : >)

I remember watching her on the Mike Douglas show and being amazed at her voice. I was around 10 years old. I realized then that she was a phenomenon. Once in a lifetime.

Magnificent--thank you for this excellent "summation" of the early Barbra--and thank you, Barbra! :)😍

The Greenwich Village that was in those days over sixty years ago was the most magical of places. I am happy that I am old enough to have seen it.

I saw that CBS tv show when it was new. She was a revelation!

I'm glad this focused on her early career, which IMO is her very best stuff. She was so audacious, so innovative, and so unpredictable. I wasn't alive then, but when I hear her recordings from that period, I'm always struck by the risks she takes with her phrasing or the subtle ways she alters a melody. Her performance of "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" on the Judy Garland show is an absolute masterclass vocally and dramatically.

She should receive the sag life achievement award in 2024.

Omg, she is such a talent. I’m jealous of the people that got to see her in a small, intimate club in NYC in the 60s. What an experience to be in one of those jazz clubs drinking cocktails & listening to Barbra Streisand. Her voice brings tears to my eyes because it’s just so beautiful. She seemed like an old soul at 20 yrs old. Singing like someone with experience. She sings with such clarity, crisp voice. And then when she speaks, it’s totally different, still has her Brooklyn accent. I have a similar nasal voice

I’m glad she had her success and quit. She is her own person and I admire that. Thanks for all the memories and laughs and sharing your talent

Only discovered her specials in the last couple of years and didn't know what a spectacular start she had (grew up with her Broadway album and Yentl as my only reference). And then last year that Bon Soir album (can't believe it took that long to release) really sealed the deal -- she really is phenomenal. To help plant the seed now, I've been fortunate to see jazz singer Samara Joy at several concerts, including one venue featured in this segment, Village Vanguard. I think Samara will have a similar trajectory; even in this last year after her Grammy wins, she's taken leaps and bounds in her live performances, and is similar to Barbra in taking old songs and making them new, and in that "EKG" ups and downs, taking you on a fantastic journey. Now I gotta revisit Barbara's other albums.

Genius talent!!! She skyrocketed here and Wow!💥

I discovered her in my 18s through a cassette from my grandma. I was an instant fan. That voice is a miracle of nature. a gift. Later I discovered her movies and how talented she is as an actress. No One Like Her. Not Then not Now. A True Legend!

Such a treat! Thank you

Incomparable. ❤👏🏽

Yes she is... an icon!

I *love* Barbra! About the... Beatles those who liked them then had parents who did not and this was right up their alley.

We were not even teens, and my mom (a former Big Band era singer), let us stay up and watch Garry Moore. He wrote the liner notes for one of her early albums. She was as magnificent then...as now.

Fierce, forthright, funny…exacting, self-possessed, powerful and luminous. What a global treasure. Thank you forever for sharing your voice and helping form the remarkable soundtrack of my childhood. I am blessed.

I’ve been in awe of Barbra since I was a young teenager. I copied her singing (as best as I could) and learned her mannerisms. The way she closed her eyes and wore her makeup….I wanted to be her so bad! There is no singer like her and never will be.

In a world where most people under the age of 35, only know Barbra as the kooky Mom in MEET THE FOKERS (everyone I work with only knows her for this role), this is a much needed tribute to a groundbreaking, glass ceiling shattering artist, of OUR generation! If you're over 35 or under 35 she colored your life whether you recognize it or not.

Dear Barbra........As a member of Cantata, and an admirer of Cosimo V. DiPietto........thank you for all your years of breathtaking singing, heart tugging acting, and fearless directing. I can imagine that everyone who was in the music department of Erasmus (even those in heaven now) are SINGING your praises.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥰✨She is an ICON in capital letters. ✨❤️‍🔥✨THANK 🌷🌻🌹✨🙏🏽💞💕

Barbra is the best…singing perfect…acting everything you see is real…she has always been my favorite…one person you feel you know because she is really her…no deceptions…can’t help but love her❤

4:29- Makes sense she'd have danced around in that department store since she likely had peered into the door as a poor girl in a struggling family and dreamt of one day being able to shop there! So her getting the WHOLE store to herself was to sing and dance likely was a MAJOR dream come true (AKA bucket list item)!

Absolutely no one like her ❤

Listening to hear of her time at Gaslight Square in St Louis when the Brandt's nurtured her talent, dressed her from 'second hand' stores, featured her in their club & suggested she spell her name as Barbra ~ another Legendary figure with connection to the biggest small town in US 🎶🎤💜🌎

Wow-- 19 years old. Just the beginning...

The intro clip looks like Barbra's Hound-Dog moment. Always loved her, always will.

Love Barbara! This era is my fave of hers. OFTEN missing from these conversations is the influence black artists had on her. In particular Diahann Caroll who was already a star by the time Barbara hit. In fact Barbara’s debut tv performance she sang a song Carroll debuted on Broadway. Babs phrasing was very similar to Carroll’s.

That is SO true how the words "icon" and "iconic" are SO overused today.

I always admired her for being herself and not being some kind of cookie-cutter performer. I had the same vocal coach she had, and said coach had some priceless stories about Barbra outsmarting folks who tried to rein her in.

When I saw Barbara Streisand in Montreal it was a dream come true. It is also with the famous song, ''The Way we were'' that I I paid homage to my mother when she died on September 10th. Diva she was and will always be!

Barbara Streisand👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏

Streisand was, is a Force, truly a Creative Genius in every way! Young Barbra was a Shooting Comet of exquisite talents! A great actress using that magnificent voice to take you on a unique journey . She will always inspire me!

Barbra Streisand is the True Voice. The very best!!!

@ 54 seconds, I've never heard anyone pronounce "Soir" the way Mo does. Barbra pronounces it correctly at 59 seconds.

00", I used to massage at the Floridian Day Spa in the Palmetto Hospital in Hialeah, FL and they played odd interesting amazing non-massage beautiful music like Nat King Cole, which I later got a copy of from a colleague, Mark Anthony's English CD that I would look forward to hearing when I later worked AAA/FTX Arena 17"-22" and The Best of Barbara Streisand. I had never heard these CDs, but now a fan for life of the three amazing non-massage CDs.

She is the voice of the century! She is also very beautiful too.

Not only did Barbra create her unique singing style with her phenomenal voice but she also changed fashion styles in the 60s and 70s and even her hair styles were copied by the masses. Icon is too small a word to describe her.

BARBRA STREISAND is the greatest star of them all. Period!

Just purely gifted beyond anyone!!!!!!

Her voice is an unmatched, elastic instrument that endures .

No one like Barbra, there will never be anyone like Barbra, she is a gift from God! ❤

Chills! Now I need to find and watch all of these!

A genius. And my diva of lifetime. There is no one who can sing better than she does. Hands down, Barbra is the best singer of all time. It does not matter if you like her or not. You can’t neglect the fact.

Her hair, her face, her skin, her figure, What a beauty!!!! I remember when I was a kid.

There's nothin' like a Dame!

That's when you control Everything you do .....& That's what she did ......& Still does.......😊. Just my opinion..

Such beauty and such talent the beautiful Barbra Streisand

BARBRA IS UNFORGETTABLE.

Simply the best!

Incredible how she was guided by her own instincts from the very start. Even when she was all of 19 years old, she knew what worked, what didn't - for her. She made her own rules.

JUST AMAZING 🤩

Such a beautiful career and person❤

“The ekg of it is your spirit responding to someone else’s.” What an insightful comment about what intimacy with music and place and talent offers us as humans. Music is a life force I hold with reverence. This is to CBS Sunday Morning: growing up, your show, helmed by the incomparable and missed Roger Kuralt, was the cathedral of our Sunday Mornings. The unique cadence of his voice, his framing of stories, his talent, well it To truly a treasured touchpoint of my youth. And although my beloved and deceased mother was a remarkably gentle and kind human being, I somehow knew that when I heard that trumpet call early on Sunday’s, it was time to get my blanket and curl up next to my mama on the couch, and for the next 90 minutes, to not say a word, to just be quiet and listen and see. The gentleness of this show, the expansive, curious, humane, intelligent, wise, generous of spirit nature of this show, has for decades now been exemplary programming, right down to the sweet and quiet kiss of the natural world’s send off at the end. It’s that rare show where segment guests are afforded the unhurried silence to form and state their thoughts, without interruption and with abundant affection and grace. You’ve stayed true to the essence I grew up with, and CBS Sunday Morning is a treasure. I thank you for helping build intimacy with the less harsh nature of existence. It is a comfort, still.

Excellent commentary and testimony to her uniqueness and talent!

Incomperable ❤

4 years ago we attended at the last concert of #BarbraStreisand​ at an open space outside US. I asked her for #AnswerMe. She replied: "You're a #truecollector". #Evergreens She co-wrote it too.

exactly! before cyndi Lauper & bette midler there was Barbra!

The greatest entertainer on earth 🌎

Number One for me. Forever

How is it that Jane Pauley does not age?? It's incredible. I know there's such a thing as makeup, but aging eventually catches up with you. It's taking its sweet ol' time with Jane.

Once you discover her, you want to hear every recording, watch every TV special and movie…at least that’s the way it was for me.

Barbra Streisand is ultimately the most gifted and talented singer, actress, songwriter, concert and movie producer, concert and movie director and a filmmaker. She is truly a legendary DIVA😘

I think you guys should do this one next week

Amazing!!!

She said it-- her singing paid the bills, but she wanted most to be an actress.

❤🎉❤ that's what fans are for 🎉❤🎉

The Best. 💝

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳!!!

I slept in her brother Seymours bed when he was on vacation in Greece with his wife! 😂😂 true story. I never met him, but my friend had to watch their house while they were away. She was scared to sleep there alone. So, of course I said “yes”!! 😂😂👏👏 there were boxes of chocolates under the bed on his wife’s side. 😂 I didn’t touch them. Secret chocolate eaters. haha! That’s the closest I got to Barbra. 😂 I’ve met everyone. So, I’ll probably meet her one day. We have the same sun sign and moon sign, but backwards, and ppl tell me I look like her. I sing well too, but no one knows it. Too shy to let that out in front of others. It’s kinda, feeling like ur exposing a secret…easy to say, but not do. 🌝

I saw her at the Blue Angel in '63. Midnight show. Winter, pouring rain and snow. 18 people in the club. I counted. She did a full set. 40 minutes. Probably her smallest audience ever.

Amo barba👏👏👏💖🇧🇷

Love!