ButterFly is a studio album by Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...

, recorded and released in 1974. The credited producer is Streisand's then-boyfriend Jon Peters

Jon Peters

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, with arrangements by Tom Scott

Tom Scott (musician)

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. The album contains contemporary material from a diverse selection of writers, as well as interpretations of standards. In a 1992 interview with Larry King

Larry King

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, Streisand cited Butterfly as the least favorite of her albums.

Track listing

1. "Love in the Afternoon" (Ben Geminaro, Evie Sands, Richard Wiseman) – 4:07
2. "Guava Jelly" (Bob Marley
   Bob Marley
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   ) – 3:17
3. "Grandma's Hands
   Grandma's Hands
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   " (Bill Withers
   Bill Withers
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   ) – 3:27
4. "I Won't Last a Day Without You
   I Won't Last a Day Without You
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   " (Paul Williams
   Paul Williams (songwriter)
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   , Roger Nichols
   Roger Nichols (songwriter)
   Roger Nichols Roger Nichols Roger Nichols (born in Missoula, Montana, is an American composer and songwriter. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays violin, guitar, bass, and piano.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 4:19
5. "Jubilation" (Paul Anka
   Paul Anka
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   , Johnny Harris) – 3:55
6. "Simple Man" (Graham Nash
   Graham Nash
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   ) – 3:03
7. "Life on Mars?
   Life on Mars?
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   " (David Bowie
   David Bowie
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   ) – 3:11
8. "Since I Don't Have You
   Since I Don't Have You
   "Since I Don't Have You" is a song by the doo-wop group The Skyliners. Released in 1958, the single reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also the top five of the R&B chart...
   
   " (Joseph Rock
   Joseph Rock
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   , James Beaumont
   James Beaumont
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   , Lenny Martin) – 2:52
9. "Crying Time
   Crying Time
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   " (Buck Owens
   Buck Owens
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   ) – 2:52
10. "Let The Good Times Roll" (Shirley Goodman, Leonard Lee) – 4:54

Personnel

• John Bahler – vocal arrangement, horn arrangements
• Ben Benay – guitar
• Max Bennett
  Max Bennett (musician)
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   – bass
• Larry Carlton
  Larry Carlton
  Larry Carlton is an American jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist and singer. He has divided his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands...
  
   – guitar
• Hank Cicalo – engineer, remixing
• Gary Coleman – percussion
• Carl Furuta – photography
• John Guerin
  John Guerin
  John Payne Guerin worked as a drummer, percussionist, and recording artist worldwide.Guerin was born in Hawaii and raised in San Diego. As a young drummer he began performing with Buddy DeFranco in 1960...
  
   – drums
• Lee Holdridge
  Lee Holdridge
  Lee Holdridge is a Haitian-born American television composer and orchestrator.-Biography:He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto-Rican mother and an American father, the botanist an climatologist Leslie Holdridge...
  
   – arranger
• King Errisson – conga
• Michael Lietz – engineer
• Clarence McDonald – keyboards
• Jon Peters – producer, art direction, design
• Steve Schapiro – photography
• Tom Scott
  Tom Scott (musician)
  Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...
  
   – flute, arranger, tenor saxophone, woodwind, soloist
• Bill Shirley – paintings
• Barbra Streisand – vocals (background)

Sales/chart performance

Chart	Peak position
Canadian Album Chart	11
US Billboard Top 200 Album Chart	13
Australian Album Chart	49

In the United States the album has been certified Gold for sales of 800,000 copies.