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''Till I Loved You'' is a studio album by American artist Barbra Streisand, released on October 25, 1988 on Columbia Records. The album was particularly notable both for its thematic structure (its eleven songs chronicle a romance's beginning, middle and end) and its high-budget production, as many guest writers, producers and musicians participated during its making – Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager offered three brand new songs to the album, Quincy Jones produced "The Places You Find Love" and Luther Vandross and Dionne Warwick among others added backing vocals to the track. Also, the title track (a Top 40 hit in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100) was a duet between Streisand and her then-boyfriend, actor Don Johnson. ==History== After two successful projects with ''The Broadway Album'' – Streisand's 1985 return to her stage roots – and ''One Voice'' – her first full-length live concert recorded in September 1986, which was issued on both disc and video with benefit purposes, Barbra Streisand decided to make a return to the pop scene. ''Till I Loved You'' was conceived as a lushly romantic album, with a particular concept – it followed the stages of a relationship from the beginning (in songs like "The Places You Find Love") to the end ("Some Good Things Never Last"), and then wrapped up the theme with a positive song about the future ("One More Time Around").〔 Many writers, producers and musicians appeared on the album, making of the album a high-budget project as happened with Streisand's previous pop mainstream project, 1984's ''Emotion''. The opening song, "The Places You Find Love" was produced by Quincy Jones. Later, the song appeared on his own album ''Back on the Block'', which received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1991. Streisand's version featured an all-star backup group - background vocals were credited to Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, James Ingram, Howard Hewett, Jennifer Holliday, Peggi Blu, Clif Magness, Siedah Garrett and Edie Lehmann. On ''Back on the Blocks version, Siedah Garrett sang the first verse and chorus, followed by Chaka Khan singing the second verse. Jones utilized the same arrangement and background singers for his album, and also incorporated some African chanting during the bridge and climax of the song. "The Places You Find Love" was the only time Barbra and Quincy Jones have worked together (until "We Are The World 25 (For Haiti)" in 2010). Another highlight from the album was the title track, which was a duet with the ''Miami Vice'' superstar actor Don Johnson, whom Streisand was dating at the time of recording. The track was the love theme from ''Goya'', a project developed by CBS Records, Freddie Gershon and Allan Carr for opera singer Plácido Domingo playing artist Francisco Goya. In 2006, in an interview with TV host Jonathan Ross, Johnson recalled about the recording of the song: Burt Bacharach produced and wrote three tracks on ''Till I Loved You'' with his wife and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. According to his own words, "Barbra has great range. Nobody sounds like her when she's up that high, with that kind of clarity and purity. You can tell right away it's her. You can't say that about many singers." Phil Ramone produced the song "All I Ask of You", which was originally a duet in Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster musical ''The Phantom of the Opera''. Ramone commented: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Till I Loved You (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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