{"id":2215773,"date":"2025-12-29T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2215773"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:17:07","slug":"we-cant-wait-for-barbra-streisands-new-album-of-duets-kveller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/we-cant-wait-for-barbra-streisands-new-album-of-duets-kveller\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can\u2019t Wait for Barbra Streisand\u2019s New Album of Duets \u2013 Kveller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"type--slug large\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/tag\/music\/\">Music<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\">Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, Josh Groban and legend Bob Dylan are just a few of the artists collaborating with Babs on &#8220;The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/babs_duets.jpg\" alt=\"via Gilbert Carrasquillo\/FilmMagic\" class=\"img-responsive full-width\"\/>\n\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"img-credit\">via Gilbert Carrasquillo\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body-wrapper\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Barbra Streisand\u2019s music is always epic, but her duets? They are even more extra. Last week, I found myself belting out her cover of \u201cTell Him\u201d with Celine Dion and wow, it healed my soul.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m delighted that Babs is giving us yet another<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/barbra-streisand-duets-bob-dylan-paul-mccartney-ariana-grande-mariah-carey-and-other-stars-on-new-duets-album-1236382344\/\"> album of fabulous collaborations<\/a>. \u201cThe Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two\u201d is coming out on June 27 this year, and will feature some really incredible stars, including one Jewish legend we\u2019ve all been talking about. Streisand released the first track from the new album last week; it\u2019s a duet with Hozier of the 1957 folk song \u201cFirst Time Ever I Saw Your Face,\u201d written by Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, recorded by the likes of Peter, Paul and Mary and made extra iconic by Roberta Flack in 1972 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d8_fLu2yrP4\">with such tenderness and feeling<\/a>. Streisand and Hozier\u2019s cover is incredibly moving and powerful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barbra Streisand - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (with Hozier) (Official Lyric Video) ft. Hozier\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lL92z_YKCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Aside from the Hozier track, the album will feature duets with Seal, Sting, Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey, Sam Smith, Laufey, Tim McGraw, Josh Groban, and the subject of the recent biopic \u201cComplete Unknown\u201d \u2014 Bob Dylan. Dylan and Streisand will be recording \u201cThe Very Thought of You,\u201d a 1930\u2019s pop tune full of pining and romance, recorded by the likes of Nat King Cole and Billie Holiday. Dylan has quite rarely recorded duets with other artists, though he does seem to make occasional exceptions for larger than life Jewish ladies of the screen and stage \u2014 he recorded <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mZD_PmB3v2M\">this cover of his \u201cBuckets of Rain\u201d with Bette Midler back in 1976<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like Midler did with Dylan back then, Babs is recording quite a few covers of legendary songs penned by her collaborators. Paul McCartney recorded a cover of one of his own songs, \u201cMy Valentine,\u201d with the EGOT winner. Streisand and Icelandic singer Laufey will sing together the young artist\u2019s famous <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=80Gf35I7n1w\">\u201cLetters to My 13 Year Old Self.\u201d<\/a> With Sting, she\u2019ll release a cover of his unforgettable ballad <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lB6a-iD6ZOY\">\u201cFragile.\u201d<\/a> With James Taylor, she\u2019ll be singing his classic \u201cSecret O\u2019 Life.\u201d Streisand will also release a rendition of her newest original song, \u201cLove Will Survive,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/barbra-streisand-new-original-song-for-the-tattooist-of-auschwitz-soundtrack\/\">created for the Peacock show \u201cThe Tattooist of Auschwitz,\u201d<\/a> as a duet with Seal. Her songs with some of the other artists appear to be brand new, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited for that.<\/p>\n<p>This is Streisand\u2019s second album of duets, a sequel or partner of sorts to her 2015 \u201cDuets.\u201d That album featured her co-recordings with other artists through the years and decades, and included that infectious Celine cover I sang in the car. It also featured collaborations with Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, Ray Charles, Neil Diamond, Donna Summer and of course, the unforgettable collaboration of hers with Judy Garland, on a medley of \u201cGet Happy\u201d and \u201cHappy Days.\u201d (Groban has the incredible honor of being featured on both of these albums).<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to belt these future \u201cDuets\u201d on road trips this summer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"donate-cta\">\n<div class=\"donate-cta__inner\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tCan we ask?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt&#8217;s important to us to keep the warm, joyfully Jewish community on Kveller accessible for all. Reader donations help us do just that. Can you spare a few to keep Kveller free? (We&#8217;ll love you forever.)\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author\">\n<div class=\"article-author__description\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liorzaltzman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lior Zaltzman<\/a> is the deputy managing editor of Kveller.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t(function() {\n\t\t\tvar _fbq = window._fbq || (window._fbq = []);\n\t\t\tif (!_fbq.loaded) {\n\t\t\tvar fbds = document.createElement('script');\n\t\t\tfbds.async = true;\n\t\t\tfbds.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbds.js\";\n\t\t\tvar s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];\n\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(fbds, s);\n\t\t\t_fbq.loaded = true;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t})();\n\t\twindow._fbq = window._fbq || [];\n\t\twindow._fbq.push(['track', '6025404685424', {'value':'0.00','currency':'USD'}]);\n\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kveller.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, Josh Groban and legend Bob Dylan are just a few of the artists collaborating with Babs on &#8220;The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two.&#8221; via Gilbert Carrasquillo\/FilmMagic Barbra Streisand\u2019s music is always epic, but her duets? 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