The tune is a jazz standard that has been widely recorded, both by vocal artists from Billie Holiday and Tony Bennett to the Miracles and Dee Dee Bridgewater, and such instrumentalists as James Moody,[1] Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Bill Evans, Sonny Clark with Donald Byrd and John Coltrane, Roy Hargrove, Coleman Hawkins, Woody Shaw, Bobby Shew, Eumir Deodato and Brian Bromberg.
In 1993, American singer, songwriter, actress and director Barbra Streisand released a cover of "Speak Low", taken from her twenty-sixth studio album, Back to Broadway (1993).
Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Tune from One Touch of Venus has a seductive, shuffling rhythm that blends well with Johnny Mandel's lush orchestration.
"[2] Sam Wood from Philadelphia Inquirer complimented it as a "lusciously arranged ballad", and "a sinuous rhythm-and-blues reinterpretation" that's "probably Streisand's best chance for a radio hit" since "Memory".
[3] Richard Harrington from The Washington Post felt that with Streisand singing low over Mandell's "supple orchestrations, it feels more like a pop song than a show standard.