The Very Thought Of You by lorrdarlin

lorrdarlin - The Very Thought Of You

lorrdarlin

Aug 17, 2025 04:52pm

Duet with BLTN67, Thank you very much............<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Barbra-Streisand-Bob-Dylan-Duet.jpg?crop=8px%2C0px%2C1183px%2C675px&resize=1280%2C730&ssl=1&quality=86&strip=all" alt="The Story of Barbra Streisand & Bob Dylan's Duet—50 Years ...">.............Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">/ˈstraɪsænd/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">STRY-sand</a>; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Streisand has achieved success in various areas of the entertainment industry, including the attainment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGOT" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards</a>.Streisand's career began in the early 1960s, performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters, leading to guest appearances on various television shows. Signing onto <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Columbia Records</a>, Streisand retained full artistic control in exchange for accepting lower pay—an arrangement that continued throughout her career.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand#cite_note-control-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a> Her studio debut <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barbra_Streisand_Album" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Barbra Streisand Album</a> (1963) won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Album_of_the_Year" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Grammy Award for Album of the Year</a>. Throughout her recording career, Streisand has amassed a total of 31 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_certification" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">RIAA platinum-certified</a> albums, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_(Barbra_Streisand_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">People</a> (1964), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Were_(Barbra_Streisand_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Way We Were</a> (1974), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_(Barbra_Streisand_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Guilty</a> (1980), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broadway_Album" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Broadway Album</a> (1985), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Ground_(Barbra_Streisand_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Higher Ground</a> (1997). She was the first woman to score 11 number-one albums on the US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Billboard 200</a>—from People to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encore:_Movie_Partners_Sing_Broadway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway</a> (2016)—and remains the only artist to top the chart in six decades.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[3]</a> Streisand also topped the US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Billboard Hot 100</a> with five singles: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Were_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Way We Were</a>", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_(Love_Theme_from_A_Star_Is_Born)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Evergreen</a>", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Bring_Me_Flowers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">You Don't Bring Me Flowers</a>", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Tears_(Enough_Is_Enough)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)</a>", and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in_Love" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Woman in Love</a>". Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[3]</a> born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-EncBr-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[6]</a> Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 68-year career. With an estimated 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">best-selling musicians</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[7]</a> Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">folk music</a> of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-EncBr-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[6]</a> His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">pop music</a> conventions and appealing to the burgeoning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">counterculture</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[8]</a>Dylan was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_County,_Minnesota" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">St. Louis County, Minnesota</a>. He moved to New York City in 1961 to pursue a career in music. Following his 1962 debut album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Bob Dylan</a>, featuring traditional folk and blues material, he released his breakthrough album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin%27_Bob_Dylan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan</a> (1963), which included "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_from_the_North_Country" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Girl from the North Country</a>" and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Rain%27s_a-Gonna_Fall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall</a>", adapting older folk songs. His songs "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_in_the_Wind" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Blowin' in the Wind</a>" (1963) and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_They_Are_a-Changin%27_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Times They Are a-Changin'</a>" (1964) became anthems for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">civil rights</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_United_States_involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">antiwar</a> movements. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dylan_controversy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">created controversy</a> when he used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplifier" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">electrically amplified</a> rock instrumentation for his albums <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_It_All_Back_Home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Bringing It All Back Home</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_61_Revisited" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Highway 61 Revisited</a> (both 1965), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_on_Blonde" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Blonde on Blonde</a> (1966). His six-minute single "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Rolling_Stone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Like a Rolling Stone</a>" (1965) expanded commercial and creative boundaries in popular music.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-LARS-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[10]</a>Following a motorcycle crash in 1966, Dylan ceased touring for seven years. During this period, he recorded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Basement_Tapes_songs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">a large body of songs</a> with members of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">the Band</a>, which produced the album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basement_Tapes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Basement Tapes</a> (1975). Dylan explored <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">country music</a> and rural themes on the albums <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Harding" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">John Wesley Harding</a> (1967), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Skyline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Nashville Skyline</a> (1969) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Morning" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">New Morning</a> (1970). He gained acclaim for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_on_the_Tracks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Blood on the Tracks</a> (1975) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_of_Mind_(Bob_Dylan_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Time Out of Mind</a> (1997), the latter of which earned him the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Album_of_the_Year" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Grammy Award for Album of the Year</a>. Dylan still releases music and has toured continually since the late 1980s on what has become known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Ending_Tour" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Never Ending Tour</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan#cite_note-11" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[11]</a> Since 1994, Dylan has published <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan_bibliography#Art_books_by_Bob_Dylan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">ten books of paintings and drawings</a>, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. His life has been profiled in several films, including the biopic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Complete_Unknown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">A Complete Unknown</a> (2024).