In reply to Antonia.

Antonia...By 1000%, I couldn't agree more! People think because a singer can perform vocal calesthenics, piercing whistle notes and endless runs throughout a song that that makes them great artists, have no idea what it takes to finesse and deliver a song like a story told to touch your deepest emotions--Streisand is a master class at that. As the recently passed great lyricist, Marilyn Bergman, one said of Barbra..."The best singer that any lyric writer could ever have."
Amen to that, and no one comes close. Besides, if the ability to buy albums, especially in digital form, was available during the first 4 decades of Barbra's career, her sales to date would be unachievable by any other artist after her.