Songbird was a competent, professional effort from Barbra Streisand, typical of the soft rock style of her ´70s work, but unexceptional. Gary Klein, who had produced Streisand Superman, guided a middle course between bombast and balladry, resulting in, for example, perhaps the least objectionable version possible of the frankly awful "Tomorrow" from the Broadway musical Annie and a good reading of Neil Diamond´s "You Don´t Bring Me Flowers" that would help inspire the hit duet version a year later. But though Streisand now seemed to have access to the efforts of a raft of good songwriters, most of the material here was not memorable. The intended hit, obviously, was the title song, which was patterned after Streisand´s recent string of hit ballads. But it was not as effective as its predecessors and didn´t perform as well as they had in the charts, only breaking into the Top 40.