Memories is a compilation album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released in 1981. It mostly includes songs that were previously released, but it also features three new songs. The album was first released by Columbia Records and later re-released by CBS Records in 1981, with four additional tracks added.
Two new songs, "Memory" and "Comin' In and Out of Your Life," were included on the album and released as singles. "Comin' In and Out of Your Life" was the most successful of the new singles, reaching No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The album also includes a previously unreleased solo version of "Lost Inside of You," which had originally appeared on her 1976 soundtrack album A Star Is Born as a duet with Kris Kristofferson.
The album was certified 5× Platinum by the RIAA and reached number 10 on the US Billboard 200. In the UK, where it was released as Love Songs, it reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart for nine weeks, seven of which were consecutive. It became the best-selling album of 1982 in the UK, the first album by a female artist to achieve this. The album was certified Platinum in the UK before multi-platinum awards were introduced and 6× Platinum in Australia.
According to the liner notes of Streisand's retrospective box set, Just for the Record, the album also received record certifications in the Netherlands and Switzerland. The album won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year as Best Selling Album at the 1983 Brit Awards. It sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
Personnel
- Charles Calello – producer
- Nancy Donald – design
- Albhy Galuten – producer
- Bob Gaudio – producer
- Barry Gibb – producer
- Greg Gorman – photography
- Gary Klein – producer
- Charles Koppelman – executive producer
- Tony Lane – design
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – producer
- Marty Paich – arranger, producer
- Phil Ramone – producer
- Karl Richardson – producer
- Barbra Streisand – producer