| "If I Close My Eyes" | ||||
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| Single by Barbra Streisand | ||||
| from the album Up the Sandbox | ||||
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| Released | January 1973 | |||
| Length | 2:23 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Billy Goldenberg | |||
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"If I Close My Eyes" (also called "Theme from Up the Sandbox") is a song recorded by American vocalist Barbra Streisand for the 1972 American film Up the Sandbox. It was distributed for radio airplay in January 1973 through Columbia Records, while in later years it was made available as a 7" single. The single was written and produced by Billy Goldenberg, with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman also contributing to the lyrics. Streisand requested Goldenberg to take the film's score and create a song out of it. During a late night phone conversation, he developed a melody and then the song was created.
The singer has never performed "If I Close My Eyes" and remained absent from any of her compilation albums until 1991, when she included it on her first box set titled Just for the Record.... Michel Legrand, a longtime collaborator for Streisand, serves as a featured artist on this version.