Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)

For other songs with the same name, see Evergreen.
"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
Single by Barbra Streisand
from the album A Star Is Born: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
B-side "I Believe in Love"
Released December 1976
Format 7"
Recorded 1976
Genre Vocal pop, adult contemporary
Length 3:04
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams[1]
Producer(s) Barbra Streisand, Phil Ramone
Certification Platinum
Barbra Streisand singles chronology
"All in Love Is Fair"
(1974)		 "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
(1976)		 "My Heart Belongs to Me"
(1977)

"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" is the theme song from the 1976 film A Star Is Born. It was composed and performed by Barbra Streisand with lyrics by Paul Williams,[1] and arranged by Ian Freebairn-Smith.[2] The song was released on the soundtrack album to A Star Is Born.

As composers, Streisand and Williams earned an Academy Award for Best Original Song. the first woman to be honored as a composer.[1] Streisand also earned a Grammy Award for Song of the Year. She and Williams also won Golden Globes for Best Original Song.

The song's opening couplet, "Love, soft as an easy chair, love fresh as the morning air," almost did not appear that way. Williams wrote the morning air line first, but told Streisand to "flip those two first lines, because it sings better."[3]

In 1997, the track appeared on the tribute album Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute.

Chart performance

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. 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").[4] It was the 4th Biggest selling song of 1977 according to Billboard, selling more than 2 million copies and certified Platinum. In the UK Singles Chart, the song peaked at #3 in 1977.[1]

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1976–77) Peak
position
Australia KMR [5] 5
Canadian RPM Top Singles[6] 1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary [7] 1
New Zealand Top 40 Singles [8] 3
Spain Top 40 Radio[9] 38
UK 3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [10] 1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks 1
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [11] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1977) Rank
Australia [12] 34
Canada RPM Top Singles [13] 2
New Zealand [14] 14
UK [15] 16
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[16] 4
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary [17] 2
U.S. Cash Box [18] 6

Awards

At 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". The song was also nominated for Record of the Year.

Other versions

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 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. The French and Italian versions have not yet been released commercially.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 136. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ↑ Brief summary of Ian Freebairn-Smith's career
  3. ↑ "Songwriter Interview: Paul Williams by Carl Wiser".
  4. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  5. ↑ http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092
  6. ↑ https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.5267a&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=mohamn4f2b69l49o2m12jud2m4
  7. ↑ https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.5164&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=mohamn4f2b69l49o2m12jud2m4
  8. ↑ http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/singles?chart=2739
  9. ↑ Fernando Salaverri (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  10. ↑ [Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002]
  11. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100". Cashbox. 19 March 1977. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  12. ↑ http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092
  13. ↑ https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.5502a&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=mohamn4f2b69l49o2m12jud2m4
  14. ↑ http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=3866
  15. ↑ http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1977.shtml
  16. ↑ http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1977.php
  17. ↑ "Billboard Easy Listening Charts Singles". Billboard Magazine. 24 December 1977. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  18. ↑ "The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1977". Cashbox. 31 December 1977. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  19. ↑ List of songs recorded by Frank Sinatra

External links

Preceded by
"Weekend in New England" by Barry Manilow		 Billboard Easy Listening Singles number-one single
January 15, 1977 – February 19, 1977 (six weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Southern Nights" by Glen Campbell
Preceded by
"New Kid in Town" by Eagles		 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
March 5, 1977 – March 19, 1977 (three weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates
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