In this very special My Mixtape, San Francisco resident (since 1996) and native New Yorker Gary Glassman tells us how "Don't Rain on My Parade" became a permanent part of his heart and light. Barbra Streisand sang "Don't Rain on My Parade," a musical cry of self-assertion in the film Funny Girl, for which she won a Best Actress Academy Award in 1969. Little did she know that it would become an anthem for little Funny Girls all over the world.
Stafford Hemmer
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The son of a professional furrier and his wife, Gary's family enjoyed a unique place in Manhattan society at a time when leopard skin fashion was still available, and all the Glassman family could always be seen in public donned in their finest pelt couture.
