Barbra Streisand ＂The Way We Were＂ - Barbra Streisand ＂The Way We Were＂

What this video is

Released on September 27, 1973, on Columbia Records, 'The Way We Were' was written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, and Marvin Hamlisch as the love theme for Sydney Pollack's romantic drama starring Streisand and Robert Redford. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1974, becoming Streisand's first U.S. number-one single. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe…

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Landmark adult contemporary pop single that bridged Hollywood prestige cinema with mainstream chart success, establishing the template for the modern film-theme-as-pop-hit model. Its dominance demonstrated that a melancholic, orchestrated ballad lacking the era's rock or soul production could top…