The singer revealed that she was so shy at first that she went downstairs to play with the children, waiting until the last moment to sit at the table, where she expected to see a “mountain” man with long, wavy brown hair and a beard.

I am neither too sweet nor too saucy.”įallon congratulated Streisand for her 25th anniversary with husband, actor Brolin, whom she met after they were set up on a blind date. “For my first record, they wanted me to call it Sweet and Saucy Streisand. I don’t want to change it,” she told the late-night host. I thought, ‘What? No.’ Streisand is my name. “And it wasn’t right for Kermit until now.”įallon also noted that her new Release Me 2 rarities collection has only her last name on the cover, which made him wonder if Babs ever considered using a stage name. “People wanted me to be called Barbra Sands. 1 Donna Summer duet “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),” and “Kiss Me In the Rain.”īut the album was “more romantic songs, more sexy,” she said. Truth be told, the track - finally included on the recently released Release Me 2 - was originally cut for her 1979 Wet Album, a disco-ish collection that included the No. “My A&R said, ‘You recorded with Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra and all these people and modern people, too … Jamie Foxx, John Mayer.’ He said, ‘But you’ve never sang with a frog!'”

The 79 year-old stage, screen and studio legend tucked into a comfy high-backed chair to talk meeting her husband James Brolin and explain why it’s taken this long to get her iconic duet “Rainbow Connection” with Kermit the Frog onto an album. After a long pandemic lockdown Barbra Streisand had a lot of things on her mind when she Zoomed in for a chat with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show on Tuesday night (Aug.

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