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Today's Morning Edition music is from "Sleepin' Bee" from Barbra Streisand's first album, which came out in 1963. 

When she was named, her parents chose the conventional spelling of Barbara, but when Streisand was 18, she dropped the middle "A." 

A 1967 biography reports that "the spelling of her first name is an instance of partial rebellion: she was advised to change her last name and retaliated by dropping an 'A' from the first instead."

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A 1967 biography reports that "the spelling of her first name is an instance of partial rebellion: she was advised to change her last name and retaliated by dropping an "a" from the first instead."

Today's Morning Edition music is from "Sleepin' Bee" from Barbra Streisand's first album which came out in 1963. Today is her 75th birthday. When she was named, her parents chose the conventional spelling of Barbara, but when Streisand was 18, she dropped the middle "a." A 1967 biography reports that "the spelling of her first name is an instance of partial rebellion: she was advised to change her last name and retaliated by dropping an "a" from the first instead."

Streisand rebelled by dropping an 'A' from her name

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