Pins and Needles, CD / Album Cd

Pins and Needles CD / Album

by Barbra Streisand

CD / Album

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Harold Rome wrote the music and lyrics for 'Pins and Needles', a musical review produced in 1936 by The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and later transferred to Broadway. It had the distinction of being the only hit Broadway show to be produced by a labour union. In 1962, Columbia Records wanted Rome to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his show by personally supervising a new recording of it. Rome recruited Jack Carroll, Elise Bretton, Stan Freeman, Rose Marie Jun and Barbra Streisand for the record. 'She's nineteen years old, for heaven's sake!' Rome exclaimed about Streisand and her grasp of the 25-year-old material. 'She's not a history student. She doesn't know about the period, and yet she gets into the songs as if she'd been born to them. I don't know where it's coming from.' In Barry Dennen's book, 'My Life with Barbra', he wrote that Streisand called and asked him for assistance with the Rome songs once she found out she'd be recording the album. Dennen maintains he and Streisand met at Sardi's and he gave her direction on how to tackle the five songs she sang on 'Pins and Needles'.

Track Listing

  1. Sing Me a Song With Social Significance
  2. Doing the Reactionary
  3. One Big Union for Two
  4. It's Better With a Union Man
  5. Nobody Makes a Pass at Me
  6. I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love
  7. Not Cricket to Picket
  8. Back to Work
  9. Status Quo
  10. When I Grow Up (The G-man Song)
  11. Chain Store Daisy
  12. Four Little Angels of Peace
  13. Sunday in the Park
  14. What Good Is Love
  15. Men, Men, Tekel

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£10.60

Track Listing

  1. Sing Me a Song With Social Significance
  2. Doing the Reactionary
  3. One Big Union for Two
  4. It's Better With a Union Man
  5. Nobody Makes a Pass at Me
  6. I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love
  7. Not Cricket to Picket
  8. Back to Work
  9. Status Quo
  10. When I Grow Up (The G-man Song)
  11. Chain Store Daisy
  12. Four Little Angels of Peace
  13. Sunday in the Park
  14. What Good Is Love
  15. Men, Men, Tekel

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