Barbra Streisand´s first album of new studio material in four years, Till I Loved You was led by its title song, a duet with Streisand´s current paramour, actor Don Johnson, on a tune from a Columbia Records pet project, a studio musical called Goya, written by Maury Yeston (composer of the Broadway show Nine), that the label was encouraging its artists to promote. That embarrassing recording made the album as a whole seem worse than it was. But Till I Loved You, which was given over to newly written romantic ballads by people like Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, still wasn´t very good. Eighteen songwriters, six producers, nine recording studios: like Emotion, Till I Loved You was a big-budget effort. But it was like a movie with a great star, great production values, and a mediocre script, so how much you liked it depended on how much you liked Streisand, and it sold to her fans only.