<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Didn't We" (1972) </Td> <Td> "If I Close My Eyes" (1973) </Td> <Td> "The Way We Were" (1973) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Didn't We" (1972) </Td> <Td> "If I Close My Eyes" (1973) </Td> <Td> "The Way We Were" (1973) </Td> </Tr> <P> "If I Close My Eyes" (also called "Theme from Up the Sandbox") is a song recorded by American vocalist Barbra Streisand for the 1972 American film Up the Sandbox . It was distributed for radio airplay in January 1973 through Columbia Records, while in later years it was made available as a 7" single . The single was written and produced by Billy Goldenberg, with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman also contributing to the lyrics . Streisand requested Goldenberg to take the film's score and create a song out of it . During a late night phone conversation, he developed a melody and then the song was created . </P> <P> The singer has never performed "If I Close My Eyes" and remained absent from any of her compilation albums until 1991, when she included it on her first box set titled Just for the Record...Michel Legrand, a longtime collaborator for Streisand, serves as a featured artist on this version . </P>

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