“Memories, there are too many to count,” Barbra Streisand said on video at an all-star concert celebrating the life of lyricist Alan Bergman on Thursday (Sept. 11) at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, Calif. You can see what she did there, opening her personal tribute to two of her closest colleagues and friends with the opening word of “The Way We Were,” their most famous song (and her first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100).

Streisand said she first met Alan and his wife Marilyn Bergman in 1960 when she was just 18, performing at a tiny club, the Bon Soir, in Greenwich Village. She was just starting out. They had already achieved success, co-writing “Nice ’N’ Easy,” a hit that year for Frank Sinatra.

“We had been close friends for 62 years when (Marilyn) passed three years ago.” Strei

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