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Just for the Record...

1991 compilation album by Barbra Streisand


Just for the Record... is a box set by American singer Barbra Streisand. It was released by Columbia Records on September 24, 1991. Streisand and her manager, Martin Erlichman, were credited as the album's executive producers. Just for the Record... includes a variety of performances throughout Streisand's career, including a song taken from her first studio recording session in 1955: a cover of "You'll Never Know". Other tracks were compiled from various live performances, TV specials, and previous albums from her back catalog.

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Just for the Record... received positive reviews regarding its comprehensiveness of Streisand's overall career. Commercially, the album was equally successful, becoming the second best-selling box set in the United States by 1994, when it had sold over 404,000 units. It entered the Billboard 200 in the United States and peaked at number 38; it has also been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In the Netherlands, Highlights from Just for the Record, a condensed version of the album, peaked at number 72.

Background and release

Just for the Record... was released on September 24, 1991, by Columbia Records.[2] It includes four discs, with each disc focusing on a different decade ("The 60s Part I", "The 60s Part II", "The 70s", and "The 80s"). It was initially priced at $79.98 USD and by 1994 was the second best-selling box set collection in the United States (behind only Led Zeppelin's 1990 self-titled box set) with approximately 404,000 copies sold.[3] Serving as a retrospective of Streisand's three decade-spanning career, it features several songs from her catalogue in addition to previously unreleased tracks. Her first studio-recorded track ever, a cover of Mack Gordon and Harry Warren's "You'll Never Know" (1943), was featured as the album's opener track and was recorded in 1955.[4] Howard Reich from PopMatters claimed that Streisand's cover proved that she already had had plenty of talent to become a recording artist, despite her young age.[5] Despite the wide array of producers who contributed to the various tracks included in the collection, Streisand and her manager, Martin Erlichman, were credited as the album's two executive producers.[6] In addition to the four discs of material, Just for the Record... includes a 92-page color booklet featuring a variety of photos and artwork created throughout her career.[1]

Among the previously unreleased material of Just for the Record... are live performances on The Jack Paar Show, P.M. East, The Garry Moore Show, The Tonight Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Judy Garland Show. Duets with Judy Garland, Harold Arlen, Don Rickles, and Ryan O'Neal are also featured. As a whole, the performances featured on the collection range in year recorded from 1955 to 1988.[6] A condensed version of the box set titled Highlights from Just for the Record was released sometime in 1992. It includes 24 of the songs from Just for the Record... and was priced significantly lower than the original collection.[7]

Reception

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Just for the Record... received high ratings and praise from music critics. William Ruhlmann from AllMusic enjoyed the unique nature of the record and commented that because "she had complete creative control over th[e] retrospective", she was able to release a box set consisting of nearly only "rare [and] previously unreleased material". He also labelled the duets with Garland and "Las Vegas Medley" as some of the album's best tracks.[2] In the publication's review of Highlights from Just for the Record, Ruhlmann was equally appreciative and noted that it serves as a "fine overview of Bab's career" and provides for a "great listening".[8] Describing the large size of the collection, Entertainment Weekly's David Browne compared it to the two installments of Use Your Illusion (volumes I and II) by Guns N' Roses and claimed that it "is impossible to digest in one sitting". Browne ultimately awarded the collection a grade of A− and called it a good representation of the singer's ability to "chang[e the] definition of pop" and "make mainstream adult pop that was strong, elegant, [and] even passionate".[1] Joe Brown from The Washington Post was more mixed towards the effort: "All four discs are dotted with oddities that even the most devoted Barbraphiles will program their CD players to skip after the first listen or two"; however, Brown appreciated some of the rarities on the album, including her duets with Garland and her melody of "My Man" and "Auld Lang Syne".[9]

The box set entered and peaked on the Billboard 200 at number 38 on October 12, 1991, and was the week's fifth highest-peaking debut.[10] It dropped to number 63 the following week and spent a combined total of 16 weeks on the chart.[11] On November 19, 1991, it was certified Gold as a multi-disk package by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for physical shipments of 125,000 copies; its certification was then upgraded to Platinum, signifying shipments of 250,000 copies, on July 8, 1992.[12] As of June 2007, Just for the Record... had sold 454,000 box sets in the United States.[13] The Highlights from Just for the Record version entered the album charts in the Netherlands, where it spent three weeks in total and peaked at number 72.[14]

Track listings

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Notes

Highlights from Just for the Record

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Personnel

Information is based on AllMusic[2] and the album's liner notes[6]

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References

Citations

  1. Browne, David (October 18, 1991). "Article: Just for the Record..." Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  2. Ruhlmann, William. "Barbra Streisand – Just for the Record...". AllMusic. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  3. Bronson, Fred (April 23, 1994). "Box Score: Top 50 Boxed-Set Reissues". Billboard. Vol. 106, no. 17. p. 58. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  4. Reich, Howard (November 14, 2006). "Barbra Streisand takes time out from a rare tour to give a rarer interview". PopMatters. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  5. Just for the Record... (Liner notes). Barbra Streisand (CD ed.). Columbia. 1991. CK 48648.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. Highlights from Just for the Record (Liner notes). Barbra Streisand (CD ed.). Columbia. 1992. CK 52849.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. "Barbra Streisand – Highlights from Just for the Record". AllMusic. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  8. Brown, Joe (October 6, 1991). "Pop Recordings; Barbra Streisand's Big Box of Gems and Ego". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  9. "Billboard 200: The Week Of October 12, 1991". Billboard. October 12, 1991. Archived from the original on July 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  10. "Billboard 200: The Week Of October 19, 1991". Billboard. October 19, 1991. Archived from the original on July 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  11. Caulfield, Keith (June 22, 2007). "Ask Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
  12. Streisand, Barbra (2003). "You Wanna Bet". Second Hand Songs.
  13. "The Burt Bacharach Special (1971)". TCM. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  14. Howe, Matt (2017). "Singer Presents Burt Bacharach". Barbra-Streisand Archives.
  15. Howe, Matt (2017). "A Tribute to Alan and Marilyn Bergman..." Barbra-Streisand Archives.
  16. Howe, Matthew. "Barbra Streisand - Just for the Record (1991, Box Set)". Barbra Archives. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  17. Howe, Matthew. "'The Singer' (1970 Unfinished Album)". Barbra Archives. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  18. Howe, Matthew. "Barbra Joan Streisand (1971): About the Album". Barbra Archives. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  19. Howe, Matthew. "'Life Cycle of a Woman' (1973 Unfinished Album)". Barbra Archives. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  20. Howe, Matthew. "Butterfly (1974): About the Album". Barbra Archives. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  21. "Freddie Salem". Los Angeles Music Awards. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  22. "Mitzie Welch". Television Academy: Emmys. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  23. "Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing February 3, 1992". Bubbling Down Under. Retrieved February 5, 2023.

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