The Way She Was
Barbra Streisand had been an established star for a full decade before attaining her first #1 hit with the title song from the film The Way We Were. The song's conveyance of lost opportunities, and...
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  In 1927, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, ushered in a new era in entertainment: for the first time, the movies talked and sang. Overnight, the studios began to make "talkies," with MGM already clearly ahead of the pack. Spearheaded by the creations of songwriters Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, the studio began to release primitive musicals, marked by the fact that they had no plot to speak of and an abundance of musical numbers. The most popular was The Hollywood Revue Of 1929, in which Cliff Edwards, the future voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio, performed the hit "Singin' In The Rain."

(A. Freed/N.H. Brown); Rec. May 28, 1929. (mx. W148563); Originally Released 1929