Barbra Streisand

thumb|300px|"I Love a Puree" sung by Barbra Streisandwich
Barbra Streisand (b. 1942) is a singer and actor working in Hollywood since the 1960s.
She regularly performed the Sesame Street original song "Somebody Come and Play" during live concerts in 1970.Madison Square Garden, November 1, 1970The Archive of American Television interview with Joan Ganz Cooney, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, November 27–December 10, 1970 
Her 1972 album Live Concert at the Forum pairs the Sesame Street song "Sing" in two different medleys: the first with "Make Your Own Kind of Music" by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil,Sing/Make Your Own Kind of Music and the second with "Happy Days Are Here Again".Sing/Happy Days Are Here Again 
She wrote "Evergreen" with Paul Williams for A Star Is Born in 1977, which earned them an Academy Award for Best Original Song. 
In 1979 she recorded vocals for "Rainbow Connection" for her album Wet, but the track was not included in the final release. In 2021, she reworked the track as a duet with Kermit the Frog (using archival audio of a performance by Jim Henson) for her 2021 compilation album Release Me 2.
==References==
* Streisand's version of "Minute Waltz" from her album Color Me Barbara was lip-synced to in a season one insert on Sesame Street.
* In The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show, Miss Piggy tasks George Hamilton and John Ritter with introducing her following number by reading some cue cards she'd prepared. Amongst the accolades attributed her include alleged comments from Streisand.
* The "Food" episode of The Jim Henson Hour features a fake commercial for an album of food-themed songs. One of them is "I Love a Puree" sung by Barbra Streisandwich.
* Prince Charming paraphrases Streisand's song "People" in Sesame Street Episode 3342, claiming that "People - people bothered by people are the unluckiest people!"
* In episode 109 of Muppets Tonight, Whoopi Goldberg jokingly tells Piggy that she's always wanted to perform with "the world's greatest female performer...Streisand."
* During a February 24, 1997 appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Elmo says to Rosie O'Donnell as they're about to drive away, "Let's hear some tunes, Rosie. And no Streisand this time."
* During for The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Bug claims that Mandy Patinkin was more nervous working with Elmo than he was with Streisand. Additionally, Bug points out that you never see any Tickle Me Barbra dolls.
* On Elmo's last visit to The Rosie O'Donnell Show in May 2002, he sings a modified version of Streisand's "People" as a farewell song to O'Donnell, rewritten as "Monsters Who Love Rosie." In a pre-taped segment that same month, the Sesame Muppets deliver a musical goodbye to Rosie. At one point, Zoe shows off an image of Streisand.
* The Boss mentions getting Streisand for the Armageddon post-party in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie.
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