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Barbra Streisand's Timeless -- Live in Concert Captures Singer's Historic Las Vegas Millennium Show On DVD & VHS; Singer's First-Ever Live Concert DVD In Stores February 20.


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NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001

FOX Television To Air Edited Version Of Concert On Valentine's Day

Columbia Records is releasing Barbra Streisand's Timeless -- Live In Concert, the singer's first-ever live concert DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 (a VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier.  edition is also available), to stores on February 20, six days after the FOX Television Network airs an edited two-hour version of the program on Valentine's Day, February 14, from 8pm - 10pm (EST EST electroshock therapy.

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). The DVD/VHS edition(s) of Timeless -- Live In Concert captures Ms. Streisand's historic new millennium performance at the MGM MGM
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U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925.
 Grand Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve 1999-2000. Tracks on the DVD/VHS version(s) of the concert which will not appear on the FOX broadcast include: "A Sleepin' Bee," "Miss Marmelstein," "As Time Goes By"/"Speak Low," "Auld Lang Syne Auld Lang Syne

closing song of New Year’s Eve. [Music: Leach, 91]

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," and "Everytime You Hear Auld Lang Syne." Other highlights available only on the home versions of Timeless -- Live In Concert include Ms. Streisand's stage-to-video comedic dialog with Shirley MacLaine on "Shirley MacLaine Y1K" and Savion Glover's dance solo on "Time After Time."

Timeless -- Live In Concert marks the first time a full-length live concert by Ms. Streisand has been made available on DVD and showcases the magic--musical and visual--of her performance, fully capturing one of the world's most celebrated turn-of-the-millennium events. The DVD edition has been digitally mastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and PCM Stereo and features interactive menus, instant chapter access to each song and a complete album discography dis·cog·ra·phy
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Examination of the intervertebral disk space using x-rays after injection of contrast media into the disk.
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A two-CD audio version of Timeless -- Live In Concert has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category. Grammy winners will be announced at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony to be broadcast live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 21, 2001, at 8pm ET/PT on CBS. The album was released on September 19, 2000, and was certified gold and platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system.  as of October 20, 2000, a month after its release.

Barbra Streisand online: http://www.barbrastreisand.com Columbia Records online: http://www.columbiarecords.com
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