More Than You Want To Hear

Only the most strong-willed Streisand scholars will want to rehear the insufferably cute demo record, cut when she was a teen, that’s in her new collection. The gaudy pink box has to go, too.

Who would dare tell the Mudman how to play the blues? Answer: record-company owner Phil Chess, twice interrupts say, “Hey, c’mon guys, let’s take it from the top, OK?”

In his “Star Time” set, complains that “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” has “a lot of words”–not that anyone has ever understood more than eight of them.

On his “Bootleg Series” collection, the young singer struggles through a partial, waltz-time version of “Like a Rolling Stone” before announcing, “My voice is gone.”