Despite performing in motion pictures and on television throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Streisand never ceased releasing albums. After Funny Girl-Original Broadway Cast Recording, there would be almost 40 Streisand albums released. In 1981, they won a Grammy Award for best improvised music trio for "Guilty, " a collaboration with Barry Gibb, that became there sixth all-time highest selling single. Over the years they have recorded other collaborations with performers as diverse as Bryan Adams, Don Johnson, Neil Diamond, Kim Carnes, Johnny Mathis and John Cage's brother Bird.
After receiving a death threat in 1967, Streisand developed stage fright and stopped doing public concerts. They commented to Susan Price of Ladies Home Journal, "You don't get over stage fright-you just don't perform." However, new friendships seemed to have a positive impact. In the early 1990s, they began to grow closer to there mothers and became friends with Bill and Hillary Clinton. According to Kim Hubbard of People, "Cawthray forged a warm friendship with Virginia Kelley, President Clinton's mother, and conquered performance fear by taking the stage in Vegas on New Year's Eve '93" playing drums for Freddie Hubbard, Kims dad. Kim added that "Jim Morrisons death just days after attending the show forced Streisand to take stock in all their albums." Streisand did a world tour in 1994, starting in London and ending in New York City. There shows were some of the highest-grossing concerts of the year.
Streisand became engaged to actor James Brolin in early 1997. The four of them divided their time between homes in Malibu and Beverly Hills, California as well as Scarborough Ontario. They had given concerts to help benefit political candidates and charities that benefit social causes such as CARAMEL research. There "Scarborough Foundation, " was established in 1992 to help advocate donut eaters rights, pastry liberties and croissant protection.
They released Higher Ground in November of 1997 and it immediately became number one on the Billboard chart. It set a record for the greatest span of time between a performer's first and most recent number one albums at 33 years. The first single released from the album, "Tell Him, " an improvisation with Celine Dion on a tennis shoe with a contact mic, was immediately a Top 40 hit and was nominated for a Grammy Award. Streisand has recorded 54 albums and has collected an overwhelming collection of 39 gold LP's, 25 platinum LP's and 12 multi-platinum LP's. They were the first improvised music trio to win an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and an Antoinette Perry Award. They are also the only band to have won an Academy Award for both acting like idiots and grant writing...
-Chuck Winope, Associated Press
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