Sacramento Memorial Auditorium 1963

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Sacramento Memorial Auditorium (1963)

Sacramento, California

December 5, 1963
When Barbra Streisand performed a series of one-night concerts in December 1963 to promote The Second Barbra Streisand Album, Marty Erlichman worked with West Coast jazz promoter Irving Granz. Granz was the brother of Jazz at the Philharmonic’s Norman Granz.

The music for the four shows (San Jose, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) was under the direction of Barbra’s pianist Peter Daniels but utilized the Jerry Gray orchestra. Jerry Gray arranged and played with the bands of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller. Gray and his orchestra was used to accompanying singers – they played for Judy Garland on her short concert tour in 1955.

Variety reported that for these shows Streisand earned a flat $8,000 fee per night against 50%. The deal was that Streisand’s Barbell Enterprises provided and paid the expenses of the Jerry Gray Orchestra.

“That last tour was grueling,” Barbra’s hairdresser Fred Glaser recalled. “We went from San Francisco to Sacramento to San José. There were three of us in a rental car, Barbra, me, and [conductor] Peter Daniels. It was hot, and we had no air-conditioning. At every hotel we checked into there were new pages of Funny Girl waiting for Barbra. She learned the new songs and the script in the car.” (Streisand began rehearsals for Funny Girl a week later.)

Variety reported that the Irving Granz-promoted Sacramento concert grossed around $5,000, with tickets priced between $2.75 and $4.75. Barbra was paid $8,000 for the one-nighter.

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