109. Barbra Streisand - A Sleepin' Bee (Live at the Bon Soir, Greenwich Village, NYC - Nov. 6, 1962)

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the first performer awarded Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards.

Awards: Ten Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, Nine Golden Globe Awards, Five Emmy Awards; Four Peabody Awards, Two Academy Awards, The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the 4th Recipient of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award in 2023.

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Lyrics

When a bee lies sleeping in the palm of your hand
You're bewitched, and deep in love's long looked-after land
Where you'll see a sun-up sky with a morning moon
And where the days go laughing by, as love comes a calling on you
Sleep on, bee, don't waken
Can't believe what just passed
He's mine for the taking, I am happy at last
Maybe I dreams, but he seems
Sweet golden as a crown
A sleeping bee done told me
"I will walk with my feet off the ground"
When my one true love, I has found
Sleep on, bee, don't waken
Cannot believe what just passed
He's mine for the taking, I am happy at last
Maybe I dreams, but he seems
Golden as a crown
A sleeping bee told me
"I will walk with my feet off the ground"
When my one true love, I has found

"Her name is Barbra Streisand. She is 20 years old, she has a three-octave promiscuity of range, she packs more personal dynamic power than anybody I can recall since Libby Holman or Helen Morgan. She can sing as loud as Ethel Merman and as persuasively as Lena or Ella, or as brassy as a Sophie Tucker ... and only Barbra Streisand can turn 'Cry Me a River' into something comparable to Enrico Caruso having his first bash at Pagliacci. When Streisand cries you a river, you got a river, Sam ... and she will be around 50 years from now if good songs are still written to be sung by good singers." — Syndicated columnist Robert Ruark, on her 1963 performances at the Blue Angel.

 

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