Funny Lady (soundtrack) Lucky Can You Get" being a bonus track. Due to her contract with Ray Stark, Streisand was required to reprise her role as Fanny Brice in the sequel to "Funny Girl" (1968), which became "Funny Lady". Accompanying the 1975 film was the official soundtrack and one of the first records to be released by Arista Records, a new label created by record producer Clive Davis. Davis later revealed in his autobiographical book, "The Soundtrack of My Life", that Streisand was the perfect singer for the soundtrack as she was "the top female singer-actress in the world" and would likely be
Funny Girl (film) arrangements," he recalled. "They dropped eight songs from the Broadway show and we were asked to write some new ones. They didn’t want to go with success. It was the old-fashioned MGM Hollywood way of doing a musical. They always change things to their way of vision, and they always do it wrong. But, of all my musicals they screwed up, "Funny Girl" came out the best." Because the songs "My Man", "Second Hand Rose", and "I’d Rather Be Blue" frequently were performed by the real Brice during her career, they were interpolated into the Styne-Merrill score. The soundtrack album