Hollywood Bowl 1967

Streisand / LIVE 

An Evening With Barbra Streisand (1967)

Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, California

July 9, 1967
Newspaper ad for Streisand's 1967 concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles

About one month after Barbra's historic free concert in New York's Central Park (June 17, 1967), she played the Hollywood Bowl again.


Hollywood columnist Florabel Muir wrote about Barbra's show:


Barbra Streisand packed the Hollywood Bowl to capacity when she sang under the stars and to many stars. She looked more like pictures of Nefertiti than ever with her hair piled high, wearing a long flowing pink dress. She changed only once into a long red and brown tent and charmed her fans with songs like "Cry Me a River", "More Than You Know"', "Funny Valentine", "Belle of Fourteenth Street" and many, many others. For her first encore, she surprised the crowd with "Silent Night". Applauding Barbra from garden boxes were Mike Nichols, Alan King, Marge Champion, Frankie Randall, Debbie Reynolds and Carol Channing.


Barbra also broke a Hollywood Bowl record at the time—There were 17,256 persons at the concert which grossed more than $125,000.


The concert was conducted by Mort Lindsay, who also did her Central Park show.  The crowd at the Bowl was considerably smaller, though, at about 17, 500 people.


Although the Hollywood Bowl set list is similar to what she sang in Central Park, it should be noted that Barbra added songs from her upcoming CBS television special, The Belle of 14th Street , to this concert. It's also the only time she performed the movie song “Funny Girl” live .... until 2006.

“[...] She can spin out long, fluid lines, she can sustain ravishing, dusky pianissimos—and she can make both feats seem natural as well as easy. How many colleagues on either side of the musical fence do that?

[...] She also has stamina (what a long, varied program!), and plucky self- confidence. At one memorable point Sunday, a plane buzzed overhead, flashing an illuminated sign. Streisand made no attempt to disguise her curiosity. She simply stopped singing, gazed upward, and studied the flying message: ‘Will the Green Phantom Get You?’”

... L.A Times review by Martin Bernheimer, July 11, 1967
Cover of the 1967 Hollywood Bowl concert series program.
ACT ONE

  • Overture
  • I Don't Care
  • My Honey's Lovin Arms
  • I'll Tell the Man in the Street
  • Cry Me A River
  • Folk Monologue / Value *
  • Gotta Move
  • More Than You Know
  • My Funny Valentine
  • Down With Love
  • Love is Like A Newborn Child
  • Everybody Loves My Baby
  • My Buddy/How About Me?

ACT TWO

  • Entr'acte
  • I Can See It
  • He Touched Me
  • Natural Sounds
  • Marty the Martian
  • Love is a Bore
  • All the Things You Are
  • Stout-Hearted Men
  • Where Am I Going?
  • Funny Girl (movie version)
  • Second Hand Rose
  • People
  • Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night)
  • Happy Days Are Here Again

* Note: Yes, for brevity, the monologue from this performance was inserted into Barbra's “Happening in Central Park” album because it was shorter than the one she gave in Central Park. This was the only audio substituted on that album, despite the biographers who assert that the Central Park album is made up of songs from this concert. That's simply not true.
Photo of Streisand in first act gown at the Hollywood Bowl
Barbra Streisand at the Hollywood Bowl in her second act
Below: An excerpt of “Natural Sounds” from the July 9th Hollywood Bowl concert. Note that Barbra sings the correct lyric at the top of the song—“My heart makes natural sounds...” 

In the introduction to her Central Park DVD, Streisand pointed out that she sang the wrong lyrics. In Central Park she began the song, “My heart would make natural sounds...” The only difference was an extra word, but Barbra Streisand is a stickler for lyrics!

End / 1967 Hollywood Bowl Concert / MORE LIVE

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