Barbra Streisand’s ex to auction tapes of her earliest performances

New York: Singer Barbra Streisand’s ex-boyfriend will soon have three recordings of her earliest performances auctioned.Barry Dennen, who claims to have convinced her to become a singer, had made the tapes almost 50 years ago.

It includes the actress singing "A Taste of Honey" and "Two Brothers" in Dennen`s apartment, with him accompanying on guitar. There`s also a Sept. 17, 1960, rehearsal at the Bon Soir nightclub, where Streisand sang "Keepin`` Out of Mischief Now," "A Sleepin`` Bee," "I Want To Be Bad," "When Sunny Gets Blue," "Lover Come Back to Me," "Nobody`s Heart" and "Who`s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" He will now be selling it, with bids starting at 1 million dollars. "I`m a little trepidatious. I don`t know what the fallout will be. I don`t like upsetting Barbra, and I don`t want her fans angry at me," the New York Post quoted him as saying. Dennen revealed that he first met Streisand in 1959 as castmates in a Broadway play, "The Insect Comedy." Soon they began dating and started living together at Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue in California. Barry mentioned that Barbra had asked him for the tapes in 1965 as they had broken up but he had refused to give it to her. He recollected: "I said ``No. They are the only thing I have left of our collaboration.`` " The auction will happen on Web site, MomentsInTime.com Meanwhile, Streisand reps said: "Our lawyers are dealing with this." ANI