I included a link at the bolded "
this" in my original message. I'm not an authority on either artist but I remember hearing the falling off the stool story, and it's mentioned in the link as happening while both Streisand and Summer were in the studio recording the duet.
The link also mentions that Summer initially recorded Barbra's part to play to Streisand so she could hear the track's hit potential. That may have been played at the lunch they had with Paul Jabara, who seems to have been the driving force behind the collab, before Streisand agreed to record the track.
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