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How Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan’s duet came to be
Over 50 years after Dylan first said that Streisand inspired “Lay Lady Lay,” the musicians hit the recording studio to duet on “The Very Thought of You.” Covering the 1934 standard was a fitting choice for the pair, as they’ve both released albums of songs from this era, and she told The New Yorker, “Bob loved that song. He’s very shy, like I am. But he was wonderful to work with. I was told that he didn’t want any direction. But when I talked to him about things that I suggested, he was so pliable—he was so open to suggestions. Everything I heard about him just went out the window. He stood on his feet for three hours with me . . . It was just an extraordinary three hours.”
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