original performer of the Barbara Streisand cover Free Again

Please I need to know the name of the first artist who recorded this song: Free Again, some years after Barbara Streisand covered this song

Free Again

Refer to the preceeding link. Your question isn't clear. Are you asking for who recorded this originally or for who covered it not long after Streisand? Babs appears to be the first artist to have recorded it.

I am asking for who recorded this originally, maybe 1957. I think are a female chorus, the best version I have listened

After much research, it is apparent to me that Ms. Streisand was the first singer to record "Free Again". The tune was first performed (repeat - performed, not recorded) at the Rose d'Or talent contest in 1965 by Jacqueline Danno. The tune was originally written by Jo Basile, the pseudonym of Joss Baselli, accordionist and veteran of the French music scene in the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout the 1960s, Baselli also worked as a songwriter, and his best-known tune, "Free Again" (French title is "Non C'Est Rien"), was recorded by numerous Anglophone singers - most notably, Barbra Streisand, on her 1966 album, "My Name is Barbra". I suspect that whatever version you are searching for has maybe a retro sound and that's why you think it is from another era. I have provided the link to the Baselli web site as confirmation that the song was written in the 1960s. It could not have been recorded in 1957. Good luck with your continued search.

http://www.spaceagepop.com/basile.htm