The Way We Were (song)
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{{Infobox Single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name = The Way We Were
| Cover =
| Artist = [[Barbra Streisand]]
| Album = [[The Way We Were (album)|The Way We Were]]
| B-side = "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
| Released = November 1973
| Format = [[7"]]
| Recorded = 1973
| Genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]
| Length = 3:31
| Label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| Writer = [[Alan Bergman]], [[Marilyn Bergman]], [[Marvin Hamlisch]]
| Producer = [[Marty Paich]]
| Certification =
}}
{{otheruses|The Way We Were (disambiguation)}}
"'''The Way We Were'''" is the title song to the 1973 movie ''[[The Way We Were]]'', starring [[Barbra Streisand]] and [[Robert Redford]]. The song was written by [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]], scored by [[Marvin Hamlisch]] and performed by Streisand. It won the [[Academy Award for Best Song|Academy Award]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Golden Globe]] for Best Song and also made [[American Film Institute|AFI]]'s list of top 100 songs from film; it was ranked number eight.
"The Way We Were" topped the [[Billboard Hot 100]] chart for one week in 1974 and was replaced by "[[Love's Theme]]" by [[Barry White|Love Unlimited Orchestra]]. It then returned to number one for two additional weeks. The song also spent two weeks atop the [[Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks|adult contemporary chart]], Streisand's second single to reach the top of this chart (following 1964's "[[People (1964 song)|People]]").
The soundtrack version of the song appears on "Just For the Record", Streisand's 4-CD box set collection released in 1991.
A [[bootleg (music)|bootleg]] of the recording sessions exists featuring Streisand with composer Marvin Hamlisch in a recording studio as they perform various takes of the song. One possibility was changing the opening line of the song from "Memories, light the corners of my mind." to "Daydreams, light the corners of my mind".
A 1975 version by [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]] featured the intro to the song "[[Try to Remember]]", and was credited as "The Way We Were/Try to Remember". Released as a single, it reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on the [[Hot Soul Singles]] chart.
[[Donna Summer]] performed a cover on her 1978 live double album ''[[Live and More]]''.
In 1979 [[Gilda Radner]] recorded a somewhat humorous version of the song as character [[Lisa Lupner]] from her LP "Live From New York".
In April 2006, [[Paris Bennett]] performed a cover in the style of [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]]' 1975 version on ''[[American Idol]]'' [[American Idol (season 5)| Season 5]] while she was in the Top 6.
In 2007, [[Barry Manilow]] included the song on his album ''[[The Greatest Songs of the Seventies]]''.
In the movie ''[[The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear]]'', [[Priscilla Presley]]´s character sings this song in the shower, and an assailant out to kill her sings along with her for a long time before she realizes she's not alone.
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| before = "[[You're Sixteen]]" by [[Ringo Starr]]
| title = [[Billboard Hot 100]] [[List of number-one hits (United States)|number one single]]
| years = [[February 2]], [[1974]]
| after = "[[Love's Theme]]" by [[Barry White|Love Unlimited Orchestra]]
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| before = "Love's Theme" by Love Unlimited Orchestra
| title = [[Billboard Hot 100]] [[List of number-one hits (United States)|number one single]]
| years = [[February 16]] - [[February 23]], [[1974]]
| after = "[[Seasons in the Sun]]" by [[Terry Jacks]]
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| before = "[[Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree]]" by [[Tony Orlando and Dawn|Dawn featuring Tony Orlando]]
| title = [[Billboard Hot 100]] [[Billboard Year-End|Number one single of the year]]
| years = 1974
| after = "[[Love Will Keep Us Together]]" by [[Captain & Tennille]]
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| before = "[[The Morning After (Maureen McGovern song)|The Morning After]]" from [[The Poseidon Adventure (film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]
| title = [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]]
| years = 1973
| after = "[[We May Never Love Like This Again]]" from ''[[The Towering Inferno (movie)|The Towering Inferno]]''
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[[Category:1973 singles|Way We Were, The]]
[[Category:Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles|Way We Were, The]]
[[Category:Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks number-one singles]]
[[Category:Barbra Streisand songs]]
[[Category:Best Original Song Golden Globe winning songs]]
[[Category:Best Song Academy Award winning songs]]
[[Category:Gladys Knight & the Pips songs]]
[[ja:追憶 (バーブラ・ストライサンドの楽曲)]]
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