A Love Like Ours
A Love Like Ours is the twenty-eighth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand. It was released in North America on September 21, 1999, and Europe on September 20, 1999. A concept album, this was Streisand's first commercial release since her marriage to actor James Brolin, with much of the album's material being inspired by the event; as such, the CD booklet contains images of her and Brolin. A Love Like Ours was Streisand's twenty-third top 10 album in the United States, though it did not achieve the success of her two previous albums, debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 145,000 copies in the first week. It was eventually certified Gold and Platinum.
The track "We Must Be Loving Right" was previously recorded by George Strait on his 1993 album Easy Come, Easy Go. Both Strait's original and Streisand's cover were produced by Tony Brown.
Singles
"If You Ever Leave Me", a duet with country star Vince Gill was released to country radio. It peaked at No. 62 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and stayed there for 6 weeks. In the UK the single peaked at No. 26."I've Dreamed of You" was also released and peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot Single Sales chart and No. 12 on the Hot Canadian Digital Singles chart.
Personnel
Adapted from the album's liner notes.Musicians
- Barbra Streisand – vocals
- Walter Afanasieff – keyboards, drum & rhythm programming, arranger
- Doug Besterman – additional orchestration & conductor
- Robbie Buchanan – synthesizer
- Jorge Calandrelli – orchestra arranger & conductor
- Jon Clarke – recorder
- Jim Cox – piano
- Paulinho da Costa – percussion
- George Doering – guitar
- Bruce Dukov – violin
- Stuart Duncan – fiddle
- Nathan East – bass guitar
- David Foster – keyboards, arranger
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar
- Vince Gill – featured vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Reggie Hamilton – bass guitar
- Marvin Hamlisch – intro & ending arranger
- Ralph Humphrey – drums
- John Jorgenson – electric guitar
- Jorg Keller – original arrangement
- Donald Kirkpatrick – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Kenny G – tenor saxophone solo, saxophone solo
- Michael Landau – electric guitar
- Michael Lang – piano
- Jeremy Lubbock – orchestra arranger & conductor
- Arif Mardin – arranger & orchestration
- Richard Marx – keyboards, arranger
- Tommy Morgan – harmonica solo
- Dean Parks – guitar, acoustic guitar
- Bruce Roberts – arranger
- John Robinson – drums
- William Ross – orchestra arranger & conductor, strings arranger & conductor
- Kamil Rustam – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Lee Sklar – bass guitar
- Randy Waldman – piano, keyboards, synthesizer
Technical
- Barbra Streisand – producer, executive producer, album liner notes
- Walter Afanasieff – producer
- Greg Bieck – programming
- Tony Brown – producer
- Felipe Elgueta – programming, engineer
- Frank Filipetti – mixing
- David Foster – producer
- Humberto Gatica – engineer, mixing
- David Gleeson – engineer
- Mick Guzauski – mixing
- Peter Hume – pre-production programming
- Jay Landers – executive producer
- Richard Marx – producer
- Arif Mardin – producer
- Vlado Meller – mastering
- David Reitzas – engineer, mixing, mastering supervision
- Al Schmitt – engineer, mixing
- Steve Skinner – pre-production programming
- Frank Wolf – engineer, mixing
- Patti Zimmitti, Debbi Datz-Pyle, Jules Chaiken – orchestra contractors
- Patrick Weber, Greg Dennen, Mark Eshelman, Peter Doell, Sue McLean, Nick Marshall, Rob Brill, Steve Genewick, Bill Smith, John Nelson, Chris Brooke, Adam Olmsted, Derek P. Bason, Pete Krawiec, Jeff Griffin, Aaron Lepley, Charlie Paakkari, Doug DeLong, Steve Mazur, Pete Karam, Scott Erickson – assistant engineers
- Shari Sutcliffe – project coordinator
- Kim Skalecki – assistant to Barbra Streisand
- Renata Buser – assistant to Barbra Streisand, booklet photography
- Peter Fletcher – product manager for Columbia Records, booklet photography
- Gloria Gabriel – production manager for Arif Mardin
- Barbara Stout – production manager for Walter Afanasieff
- Allan Stein – album project coordinator for Columbia Records
- Nancy Donald – art direction
- Gabrielle Raumberger & Clifford Singontiko – design
- Alberto Tolot – front cover & booklet photography
- James Brolin – booklet photography
- Donna Karan – booklet photography
- Deborah Wald – booklet photography
- Linda Foster – booklet photography
- Soonie from Bruno & Soonie hair salon – hair
- Martin Erlichman – Barbra Streisand's representative