Voices For Change (1992)
Aired: September 16, 1992 on C-Span cable channel
A fundraiser that contributed $1.5 million dollars to the Clinton/Gore ticket, Barbra's appearance was broadcast via closed-circuit television around the country and on the C-Span cable channel.
Barbra sang:
- “On A Clear Day”
- “Come Rain Or Come Shine”
- “It's A New World”
- “Children Will Listen”
- “It Had to Be You” (with election-tailored lyrics: "It Has to Be You")
- “Happy Days”
- “God Bless America”
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Barbra told the audience that night: "I'm proud to be a liberal, feminist, American artist." Then she sang “God Bless America” (which was released in 2001 as a bonus single with Christmas Memories).
Watch it on YouTube:
Excerpt from Time Magazine, Sept. 28, 1992:
BARBRA STREISAND PERFORMS live about as often as J.D. Salinger goes on a book tour. In the past six years, the world's most notoriously concert-shy crooner has served up live melody for the masses just twice: once in 1986 at a Democratic fund raiser, and again on Sept. 16 at a star-studded L.A. benefit for a man named Bill Clinton. "What motivates me this time is the possibility of George Bush and Dan Quayle being re-elected," she told the audience. Babs delivered It Had to Be You and four other favorites to a crowd of 1,000 and to the delirious delight of candidate Clinton.
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