My Father's Song

About My Father's Song

"My Father's Song" is a song recorded by American singer Barbra Streisand for her seventeenth studio album, Lazy Afternoon (1975). It was released as a 7" single in August 1975 through Columbia Records. Rupert Holmes wrote the song in collaboration with its producer Jeffrey Lesser. A sentimental ballad, "My Father's Song" was about Streisand's childhood with her father; Holmes' lyrics involve a protagonist, presumably a daughter, asking for her father's approval in life and love. Streisand released "My Father's Song" and its B-side track "By the Way" in Spain retitled "La Canción de Mi Padre" and "Da Paso", respectively. Simon Price, a writer for The Quietus, liked "My Father's Song" and the other Holmes-written tracks on Lazy Afternoon because he felt they demonstrated Streisand's strengths and abilities on the album. Commercially, it entered the Adult Contemporary charts in both the United States and Canada, peaking at numbers 11 and 15, respectively. more »

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1975

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?Whatever you are, you're going to be
Whatever you are is all right with me
You're going to be what you want anyway?
These are the words I heard my father say

When I was a young girl and shy of men
He said, ?When you're ready, you'll know just when?
And when I was taken and thrown away
There wasn't a reason to face the day

And he said, ?Whatever you are, you're going to be
Whatever you are is all right with me
You're going to be what you want anyway?
These are the words I heard my father say

My father's soul is clear and easy
And though he's gone, he lives in my heart
When I go wrong I swear he sees me
And he smiles for a start and he says

?Wherever you are, I'm here by your side
My life is a rope that won't come untied
Oh, I'm going to stand by you, right or wrong?
These are the words within my father's song

These are the words within my father's song

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Barbra Streisand

Barbra Joan Streisand (born Barbara Joan Streisand /ˈstraɪsænd/; April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who has won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award. more »

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