" You Are My Everything" and " You'll Never Know" , great melodies from THE HARRY WARREN SONGBOOK. , as sung here by Diana Rosen and her daughter Barbra Streisand.
Barbra Streisand recorded the song at The Nolan Studios in 1955, when she was a young girl 13 years old.
When they mention THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK , they usually include the songs by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. It puzzles me that they seldom include HARRY WARREN, in view of the many standards composed over the decades.
Diana Rosen ( born Ida Rosen ) is Barbra Streisand's mother. She is also known as Diana Streisand, Diana Kind, or Diana Streisand Kind. She is also the mother of female vocalist Roslyn Kind.
There are many anecdotes why she changed her name from Ida to Diana. IDA was a very popular name at the beginning of the 20th century. Many recall the famous actress IDA LUPINO, and the famous song IDA, SWEET AS APPLE CIDER, recorded by EDDIE CANTOR, BING CROSBY, and even BILL HALEY AND THE COMETS. The song that refused to go away. !!!
Whenever IDA uttered her name, people would add " sweet as apple cider".
Some people say that when she married she changed her name legally to DIANA IDA.
Since IDA wanted to be a singer in the style of Jeanette MacDonald, the name Diana sounded better. " Call me Diana "
Diana never became a professional vocalist, but her daughters did.
How much of the story is true, I don't know.
Concerning Barbra's vocal arrangement of YOU'LL NEVER KNOW , one wonders who inspired her to sing in such a mature style at that young age. Some say she was inspired by the way JONI JAMES sang that song. But JONI JAMES recorded the song in 1957, two years after Barbras demo.
Diana Rosen's vocal style and selection of songs was more in the style of operetta, and the music of the films of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald.