The Spanish version was released as a track on the 1996 CD single, ' I Finally Found Someone', a Streisand duet with Bryan Adams, and on the import CD version of the A Star is Born remastered soundtrack. Streisand also recorded versions of the song in Spanish ('Tema de Amor de Nace Una Estrella'), French ( 'De Reve en Reverie') with lyrics by Eddy Marnay, and Italian ('Sempreverde') with lyrics by Luigi Albertelli. The song was also nominated for Record of the Year. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.Īt the 49th Academy Awards the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Barbra Streisand became the only woman in history to win the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.Īt the 34th Golden Globe Awards the song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.Īt the 20th Annual Grammy Awards the song was nominated in three categories, winning in two for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female and Song of the Year tying with ' You Light Up My Life'. In the UK Singles Chart, the song peaked at #3 in 1977. In its year-end chart for 1977, Billboard ranked the platinum- certified single, which sold more than 2 million copies, the fourth-biggest single of the year. This was Streisand's second number-one song on the Hot 100 (following ' The Way We Were' in 1974), and her third on the adult contemporary chart ('The Way We Were' and 1964's ' People').

In the US, the single became Streisand's second number 1 single and spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and six weeks atop the easy listening chart. In 1997, the track appeared on the tribute album Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute. Williams wrote the 'morning air' line first, but told Streisand to 'flip those two first lines, because it sings better'. The song's opening couplet, 'Love, soft as an easy chair love, fresh as the morning air', almost did not appear that way. Streisand and Williams also won Golden Globes for Best Original Song. She also earned a Grammy Award for Song of the Year. As composers, Streisand and Williams earned an Academy Award for Best Original Song, making Streisand the first woman to be so honored as a composer.

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