107. Barbra Streisand - Come To The Supermarket (In Old Peking) (Live at the Bon Soir, Greenwich Village, NYC - Nov. 5, Nov. 5, 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

If you want a fancy fan, or a turkey born in Turkestan
Or a slave that's awfully African, or a teapot early ming
Come to the supermarket in Old Peking
If you want to buy a kite, or a pup to keep you up at night
Or a dwarf who used to know Snow White, or a frog who loves to sing
Come to the supermarket in Old Peking
They have, sunflower cakes, moonbeam cakes
Gizzard cakes, lizard cakes
Pickled eels, pickle snakes fit for any king
If you want a bust of jade, or an egg that's more or less decayed
Or in case, you care to meet a maid for a nice but naughty fling
Come to the supermarket
If you come on an ostrich, you can park it
So come to the supermarket and see Peking
If you want a gong to beat or a rickshaw with a sassy seat
Or a painting slightly indiscreet that is simply riveting
Come to the supermarket and see Peking
Well, if you want some calico, or a gentle water buffalo
Glowworm guaranteed to glow, or a cloak inclined to cling
Come to the supermarket in Old Peking
They have birds-nest soup, seaweed soup
Noodle soup, poodle soup
Talking crows with the croup
Almost anything!
If you want to buy a saw, or a fish delicious when it's raw
Or a pill to kill your mother-in-law, or a bee without a sting
Come to the supermarket
If you come on a turtle, you can park it
So come to the supermarket
If you come on a goose, you can park it
So come to the supermarket
And see Peking!

"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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