Songbird (Barbra Streisand song)

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"Songbird"

Single by Barbra Streisand

from the album Songbird

B-side

"Honey Can I Put on Your Clothes"

Released

1978

Genre

Pop

Length

3:46

Label

Columbia

Songwriter(s)

Dave Wolfert
Stephen Nelson

Producer(s)

Gary Klein

Barbra Streisand singles chronology

"My Heart Belongs to Me"
(1977)

"Songbird"
(1978)

"Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars)"
(1978)

"Songbird" is the title track and first single released from Barbra Streisand's 1978 album Songbird. It was written by Dave Wolfert and Steve Nelson and produced by Gary Klein.

On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at number 25.^[1] It spent two weeks atop the Billboard easy listening chart in July and August 1978, her fifth song to accomplish this feat.^[2]

One theory as to why "Songbird" was less successful on the U.S. pop chart is that Streisand recorded the theme to the 1978 film Eyes of Laura Mars, which was released as a single a few weeks after "Songbird" came out. "Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars)" reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and may have created competition with herself for pop radio airplay and single sales.^[2]

Charts

Chart (1978)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	92
Canada Top Singles (RPM)^[4]	33
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)^[5]	1
US Billboard Hot 100^[6]	25
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)^[7]	1
US (Cash Box Top 100)^[8]	33

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 609.
^ ^a ^b Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications), page 221.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). Sydney: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 6970a." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
^ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 4642." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
^ "Barbra Streisand Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
^ "Barbra Streisand Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles (Week ending AUGUST 5, 1978)". Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2020.

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Discography
1960s singles	"Miss Marmelstein" "Happy Days Are Here Again" "People" "I Am Woman" "My Man" "Second Hand Rose" "Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night)" "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" "Jingle Bells?" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" "I'd Rather Be Blue over You (Than Be Happy with Somebody Else)" "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" "Hello, Dolly!"
1970s singles	"On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" "Stoney End" "Flim Flam Man" "Where You Lead" "Mother" "Sweet Inspiration" / "Where You Lead" "Sing" / "Make Your Own Kind of Music" "Didn't We" "If I Close My Eyes" "The Way We Were" "All in Love Is Fair" "Guava Jelly" "Jubilation" "How Lucky Can You Get" "My Father's Song" "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" "My Heart Belongs to Me" "Songbird" "Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars)" "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" "The Main Event/Fight" "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"
1980s singles	"Woman in Love" "Guilty" "What Kind of Fool" "Promises" "Comin' In and Out of Your Life" "Memory" "The Way He Makes Me Feel" "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" "Left in the Dark" "Make No Mistake, He's Mine" "Somewhere" "Send In the Clowns" "Till I Loved You" "All I Ask of You" "What Were We Thinking Of" "We're Not Makin' Love Anymore" "Someone That I Used to Love"
1990s singles	"Speak Low" "The Music of the Night" "As If We Never Said Goodbye" "I've Got a Crush on You" "I Finally Found Someone" "Tell Him" "I've Dreamed of You" "If You Ever Leave Me"
2000s singles	"I Won't Be the One to Let Go" "Stranger in a Strange Land" "Night of My Life" "Come Tomorrow" "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"
2010s singles	"I'll Be Home for Christmas" "When You Wish Upon a Star" "It Had to Be You" "What Kind of Fool" "Enough Is Enough 2017" "Don't Lie to Me"
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