Everybody's gotta start somewhere. For the 19-year-old Streisand, that somewhere was Bon Soir, an intimate nightclub in New York's Greenwich Village, and a series of awarding-winning TV specials, where her performances heralded the arrival of a major new artist.
Everybody's gotta start somewhere. For nineteen-year-old Barbra Streisand, that somewhere was New York's Bon Soir nightclub. In her memoir, 'My Name Is Barbra,' Streisand writes: 'The Bon Soir was a typical Greenwich Village nightclub ... small, dark, and you had to walk down a flight of stairs to get in. In fact, it was so dark that the waiters carried little flashlights.
'Barbra Streisand sings 'Second Hand Rose' in her 1965 TV special 'My Name Is Barbra': These specials bucked convention, and not just because in one of them Streisand soft-shoes with penguins. Rocca said, 'To be 23 years old and have an hour-long special on network television in those days, and to not have any guests, no one to kind of buffer you – she could have called in, I don't know, Bob Hope or somebody to come in there, someone she could lean on.
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