Barbra Streisand The Main Event 1979- Folk Rock, Rock & Roll, Disco, Soundtrack, Soft Rock (Mint Vinyl)

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“The Main Event/Fight” is a 1979 medley recorded byBarbra Streisand. The song is the title track and only single issued from the LP,The Main Event. The album is the soundtrack for the movie,The Main Eventstarring Streisand andRyan O’Neal. The song became the first of two major disco-styled hits for Streisand, the other being “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),” a duet withDonna Summerlater the same year. Both songs were written byPaul JabaraandBruce Roberts.

Record Worldsaid that it “exhibits Barbra’s stylish vocals adorning a punchy disco beat.”

“The Main Event/Fight” spent four weeks at number three on the U.S.BillboardHot 100. In Canada it reached number fiveIt was also a major Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number two and number one in those nations, respectively. The song did not chart outside North America and was largely left out ofrecurrent rotation, having among the highest amount of drop-off in radioairplayof the hits of 1979 (Streisand’s other singles of that year also fared poorly in maintaining airplay).

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