Sold Date: February 27, 2016
Start Date: February 11, 2016
Final Price: $50.00 (USD)
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THIS AUCTION IS FOR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ALBUMS, BRAND NEW, STILL FACTORY SEALED:

Memories Are Made of This — Kismet 1001
Lookin' Back — Kismet 1002
Moments to Remember — Kismet 1003
Flashback — Kismet 1004
S-R-O — Kismet 1005
Memory Lane — Kismet 1007
Magic Moments — Kismet 1008
Beginnings — Kismet 1010
After Hours — Kismet 1012
Good Times — Kismet 1013
On Broadway — Kismet 1016

professionally packed and shipped anywhere in the world. All records have been stored by a collector in a climate controlled environment. This is the Ultimate find for any Barbra Collector.A series of bootleg Barbra Streisand albums were released in 1984 and 1985 called “The Kismet Albums.”

Only 1000 of these records were ever produced and only half of those ever made it into the public purview before the unsold albums were destroyed per court orders resulting from legal actions. This is your chance to own a precious piece of collectible Barbra Streisand history.

Slickly packaged and produced these records, the sound quality on these albums tended to be less than perfect as many of the master recordings were from television sources or severely duped studio tapes. There records contain rare and unreleased Streisand songs, recording sessions, interviews, live appearances, TV shows, and more. They were produced by Karma Productions in Denver, Colorado. (Karma also published Barbra Now & Then magazine.)

The Kismet records were probably the first time most Streisand fans could hear some of the shows that Barbra had appeared on early in her career (like Judy Garland and Ed Sullivan).

The first four album covers featured gorgeous full-color Streisand pictures. All the albums were stamped in gold: “For promotional use only. Not for sale.” This didn’t stop Columbia Records, of course, from pursuing legal action against Karma Productions.
In a backwards way the Kismet albums were a template for Columbia’s official release, Just For the Record (JFTR) in 1991. Some of the tracks that appeared as bootlegs on the Kismet albums ended up on Columbia’s official release. Without the Kismet records, Columbia would have never guessed there would be such a market for Streisand’s unreleased material.