My Father's Song

"My Father's Song"
The Spain record sleeve appears displaying a cartoon-version of Streisand sitting in front of a brown tree along with the song's title.
Spain release cover art
Single by Barbra Streisand
from the album Lazy Afternoon
B-side
  • "By the Way"
  • "Da Paso"
ReleasedAugust 1975 (1975-08)
Length3:33
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Rupert Holmes
Producer(s)
Barbra Streisand singles chronology
"How Lucky Can You Get"
(1975) 		"My Father's Song"
(1975) 		"Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)"
(1975)

"My Father's Song" is a song recorded by American singer Barbra Streisand for her seventeenth studio album, Lazy Afternoon (1975). It was released as a 7" single in August 1975 through Columbia Records. Rupert Holmes wrote the song in collaboration with its producer Jeffrey Lesser. A sentimental ballad, "My Father's Song" was about Streisand's childhood with her father; Holmes' lyrics involve a protagonist, presumably a daughter, asking for her father's approval in life and love.

Streisand released "My Father's Song" and its B-side track "By the Way" in Spain retitled "La Canción de Mi Padre" and "Da Paso", respectively. Simon Price, a writer for The Quietus, liked "My Father's Song" and the other Holmes-written tracks on Lazy Afternoon because he felt they demonstrated Streisand's strengths and abilities on the album. Commercially, it entered the Adult Contemporary charts in both the United States and Canada, peaking at numbers 11 and 15, respectively.