One Voice (Barbra Streisand album)

{{Infobox album

| name = One Voice

| type = Live

| artist = Barbra Streisand

| cover = Uploadonevoice.jpg

| alt =

| released = April 20, 1987

| recorded = September 6, 1986

| venue = Streisand's Malibu, California home

| studio =

| genre = Pop

| length = 49:48

| label = Columbia

| producer = Richard Baskin

| prev_title = The Broadway Album

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = Nuts

| next_year = 1987

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r26550|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

One Voice is the third live album released by Barbra Streisand. Her first full-length concert in twenty years, One Voice began as a benefit performance at Streisand's Malibu, California home on September 6, 1986. The concert was broadcast on HBO in December that year, followed by the album's release in April 1987.[http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?grpId=3659174697239846&articleId=281474976802101 Streisand Sends a Message with One Voice] (September 26, 2006). Retrieved on August 15, 2009.

The album contains Streisand's only recordings of two Harold Arlen classics "Over the Rainbow" and "It's a New World" as well as her version of "America the Beautiful".

The concert and album raised millions for Democratic candidates and for charities committed to anti-nuclear activities and the preservation of our environment, civil liberties, and human rights.{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/albums/1987-10-16| title = NZ Top 40 Albums Chart | access-date = 1 March 2016 | publisher = Recorded Music NZ|archive-date=1 March 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301201523/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/albums?chart=3272}}

Track listing

"Somewhere" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 3:19
"Evergreen" (Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams) – 3:01
"Something's Coming" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 4:12
"People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) – 4:49
"Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim) – 4:38
"Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 3:41
"Guilty" (Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb) Duet with Barry Gibb – 5:25
"What Kind of Fool" (Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten) Duet with Barry Gibb – 4:31
"Papa, Can You Hear Me? (Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman) – 4:32
"The Way We Were (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch) – 3:48
"It's a New World" (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) – 3:03
"Happy Days Are Here Again" (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen) – 4:42
"America the Beautiful" (Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward) – 5:02

Video release

The concert was produced as an HBO television special, broadcast December 27, 1986. The One Voice album, VHS home video and NTSC Laserdisc of the concert were released in April 1987. A DVD release of One Voice appeared in 2006. The concert footage includes some of the many celebrities in attendance, as well as bits of Robin Williams performing an ad-libbed monologue to open the show.

Personnel

Barbra Streisand – vocals
Barry Gibb - vocals (Tracks 7–8)
Randy Kerber – keyboards, piano, conductor, musical director
Jim Cox – synthesizers
Dan Sawyer – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Randy Waldman – synthesizers
Chad Wackerman – drums
Michael G. Fisher – percussion and sound effects
Nyle Steiner - Steinerphone (EWI)
John Pierce – bass guitar, Moog bass
Richard Marx – backing vocals
Richard Baskin - producer

Charts

=Weekly charts=

Chart (1987) !Peak position
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scope="row"\|Australian Albums ChartRyan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. \| style="text-align:center;"\| 15
{{album chart\|Canada\|28\|artist=Barbra Streisand\|album=One Voice\|access-date=July 28, 2013\|chartid=0819\|rowheader=true}}
{{album chart\|Netherlands\|2\|artist=Barbra Streisand\|album=One Voice\|rowheader=true\|access-date=8 October 2016}}
scope="row" \| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista){{cite book\|url=https://musiikkiarkisto.fi/oa/_tiedostot/julkaisut/sisaltaa-hitin.pdf#page=248\|first=Timo\|last=Pennanen\|year=2021\|title=Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021\|section=Barbra Streisand\|page=248\|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava\|location=Helsinki\|access-date=August 24, 2022\|language=fi}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| 30
{{album chart\|Germany4\|32\|artist=Barbra Streisand\|album=One Voice\|rowheader=true\|id=32503\|access-date=8 October 2016}}
scope="row"\|Japanese Albums (Oricon){{cite book\|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005\|publisher=Oricon Entertainment\|location=Roppongi, Tokyo\|year=2006\|isbn=4-87131-077-9}} \| style="text-align:center;"\|93
{{album chart\|New Zealand\|7\|artist=Barbra Streisand\|album=One Voice\|rowheader=true\|access-date=8 October 2016}}
scope="row"\|Spanish Albums (Promusicae){{cite book\|author=Fernando Salaverri\|title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002\|edition=1st\|date=September 2005\|publisher=Fundación Autor-SGAE\|location=Spain\|isbn=84-8048-639-2}} \|align="center"\|18
{{album chart\|Sweden\|33\|artist=Barbra Streisand\|album=One Voice\|rowheader=true\|access-date=8 October 2016}}
{{album chart\|UK\|27\|rowheader=true\|artist=Barbra Streisand\|access-date=May 21, 2016}}
{{album chart\|Billboard200\|9\|artist=Barbra Streisand\|rowheader=true\|access-date=8 October 2016}}

=Year-end charts=

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!Chart (1987)

!Position

New Zealand Albums (RMNZ){{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/annual-albums/1987-12-31|title=Top Selling Albums of 1987 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart|publisher=Recorded Music New Zealand|access-date=5 February 2022}}

| align="center" | 31

US Cash Box{{cite web|url= http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1987YEAP.html |title= The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1987 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120918035133/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1987YEAP.html |archive-date= September 18, 2012|url-status=dead}}. Cash Box magazine.

|align="center"|41

Certifications and sales

One Voice has been certified Platinum in the United States and New Zealand for sales of 1,000,000 and 15,000 copies.{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/albums/1987-10-16| title = NZ Top 40 Albums Chart | access-date = 1 March 2016 | publisher = Recorded Music NZ|archive-date=1 March 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301201523/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/albums?chart=3272}} According to the liner notes of Barbra's retrospective box set: Just for the Record, the album also received a record certification in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.Liner notes, C4K 44111. Columbia Records, 1991

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|title=One Voice|artist=Barbra Streisand|type=album|award=Gold|certyear=2000|relyear=1987}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|title=One Voice|artist=Barbra Streisand|type=album|award=Gold|certyear=1987|relyear=1987}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Netherlands|title=One Voice|artist=Barbra Streisand|type=album|award=Platinum|certyear=1987|relyear=1987}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|title=One Voice|artist=Barbra Streisand|type=album|award=Platinum|relyear=1987|id=1987-10-16|source=newchart|access-date=2024-11-20|certyear=1987}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|title=One Voice|artist=Barbra Streisand|type=album|award=Silver|certyear=1987|relyear=1987|id=4894-2710-2}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|title=One Voice|artist=Barbra Streisand|type=album|award=Platinum|refname=US Plat}}

References

External links

[https://www.barbra-archives.info/one-voice-1986 One Voice concert video (1986)]
[https://www.barbra-archives.info/one-voice-1987-live-album One Voice live album (1987)]

Category:1987 live albums

Category:Barbra Streisand live albums

Category:Columbia Records live albums