Barbra Streisand Live, in Vegas: "As If We Never Said Goodbye" (New Year's Eve, 1993, Video)

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

This is the best version I know of, by anyone. Streisand had someone write some new lyrics, which is always a crap shoot. (She had to, because in this show, the song is one of triumph.) The result can be disastrous, as when this absentee mother lectured her listeners on how to raise their children! But this time, she rolled seven.

There's another live version from the same tour, of her New York City show, but it's much weaker. She'd been laid up, was less than 100%, and you heard it.

The moment she sings, "I've come home at last!," there's a pause for a standing O. It has to be there, because if thousands of weeping people don't stand up then, show's over.


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•Jul 30, 2019