The Best Thing You've Ever Done / Summer Me, Winter Me
(#4-45147)
The Best Thing You've Ever Done (2:49) (M. Charnin)
- Arranged & Conducted by: Dave Grusin
- Produced by: Wally Gold
Summer Me, Winter Me (2:55) (M. Legrand, A. Bergman, M. Bergman)
- Arranged & Conducted by: Peter Matz
- Produced by: Wally Gold
Released April 1970
* Credit: Thank you Peter Curl for the scan of the labels
About the Single
Charnin told writer James Kimbrell how “The Best Thing” came to be written: “I was in New York and I ran into Herb Ross who was directing The Owl and the Pussycat at the time,” Charnin said. “He asked me if I'd be interested in writing a song for Barbra to sing in the film when the characters separate. I told him I'd like to see the roughcut of the film first, but that I was interested. I wrote the song, sent it to Barbra's people and that was it. Later, when the film was released, all the music was done by Blood, Sweat and Tears, so I though my song was just dropped. Barbra, though, liked the song and it ended up on one of her albums three years later.”
Of note about this Streisand single: “Best Thing” contains a different vocal section at the ending than what was subsequently released on The Way We Were album track. You can hear it below ...
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