“I hate ‘My Funny Valentine,” Streisand snapped.Īfter all the drama, the song was omitted from the original cut of the film. “So is ‘My Funny Valentine,’” Hamlisch countered. Some reports say that Streisand was the lone vote against having a song in the scene.Īccording to Anne Edwards’ biography on Streisand, she told Hamlisch the song was too sentimental. A vote was taken by director Sydney Pollack, the film’s stars and Columbia executives.
There was absolutely no way to rethink it.”īut rethink it they did, creating a second version that was “more complex, and less sentimental.” Streisand recorded both and they were auditioned in the picture. “I had poured my heart into what I had written and just didn’t think I had a better ‘The Way We Were’ in me. “It came as a shock, when on the way home, Alan suggested that maybe we could do even better,” he recalled. She liked it, making some small suggestions about the melody. The trio performed it for Streisand at her house. So I wrote a major key melody that was sad but also had a great deal of hope in it.” Hamlisch said he finally wrote a melody “that just got to me.” He added, “I’d been trying minor key melodies, but thought they might’ve told you too much in advance that Streisand and Redford were never going to get together. At night, my dreams were accompanied by a soundtrack, and it was always Streisand’s voice doing the singing.” I’d work for three hours then leave the piano, and try again the next day. To be honest, my first attempts were in that direction. I was determined not to write something drippingly sentimental. “No matter what I was doing, I could hear Barbra’s voice in my head and recall how wonderful she sounds when she holds certain notes. Knowing the song was for Streisand made him initially cautious.
“I wanted to reflect all of the sorrow and despondency and pain of the relationship, the star-crossed nature of it.” Hamlisch aimed to capture the entire script in a song. Then the capper-the picture starred Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. The basic set-up: A serious Jewish girl falls for the Wasp-y hunk on campus, beginning a decade-long, stormy affair.
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Ten years and a few movie soundtracks later, Hamlisch got a phone call from his friend Ray Stark about writing a song on spec for a film. Though he’d penned “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows,” a minor hit for Lesley Gore, his credentials were hardly enough to turn the head of the diva-to-be. The singer is now worth a whopping $60 million, and while hit track is responsible for a big chunk of that, it was starting his very own label, P Nation that has secured him his millions.“Every night I would say a prayer: ‘Please, God, one day, let Barbra Streisand sing one of my songs,’” Marvin Hamlisch told me in 1996.Īt the time of this prayer, in 1964, Hamlisch was a rehearsal pianist for Streisand’s Broadway debut Funny Girl. As for the top contender, Psy who wrote and recorded the K-Pop hit single, 'Gangnam Style', a song that has since amassed over 4 billion views on YouTube. The same thing occurred for Vanilla Ice's 'Ice Ice Baby', allowing him to amass a net worth of $12 million, which was made possible by the big numbers he racked in from royalties. Updated on September 5, 2021, by Michael Chaar: Having a one-hit-wonder can do wonders for many artists' careers, including Billy Ray Cyrus, who managed to secure a net worth of $20 million off the success of his 1992 track, 'Achy Breaky Heart'. Despite gaining immense success throughout their career, as seen in entertainers such as Psy, Billy Ray Cyrus, or Sinead O'Connor, their success ended faster than anticipated, but how much are they worth today? This was the case for a number of singers in the industry, whose one-hit wonders reigned throughout the 2000s. Related: 10 One Hit Wonders And The Meaning Behind Them And often allows the artists to make enough money to not have to worry about needing a second hit. In the case of the latter, their sudden, normally off the bat, rise to fame doesn't last very long, but that one song that earned them their short-lived popularity undoubtedly marks the lives of the people listening. When an artist starts to become successful, there are three ways it can go: they might spend years doing what they love and have a natural life until eventually, they retire, they might be one of those rare situations like the Rolling Stones that keep going for decades, or they might be a one-hit-wonder.
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