Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)

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Guilty
Guilty cover
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released September 1980
Recorded February 1980
(Middle Ear, Miami Beach)
March 1980
(Sound Labs Studio, Hollywood)
Genre Pop
Length 41:41
Label Columbia Records
Producer Albhy Galuten
Barry Gibb
Karl Richardson
Professional reviews
Barbra Streisand chronology
Wet
(1979)		 Guilty
(1980)		 Memories
(1981)

Guilty is an album released by Barbra Streisand in 1980. After the success of the Bee Gees in 1977/1978 there was some time to perform songwriting for other artists and Barbra Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her.[1] It was her best-selling album to date with sales over 20 million copies[2] and was produced by the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees' regular production team of Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.

The title track, a duet between Streisand and Gibb, won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1981. The second single "Woman in Love" became one of the most successful songs of Streisand's music career and spend a total of three weeks at the #1 position in the Billboard chart. Along with this song, there were two other Top 10 hits released from the album, "Guilty" (#3), and "What Kind of Fool" (#10), both duets with Barry Gibb. The fourth single, "Promises",a more disco-oriented track released in May 1981, reached as high as number 48 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. This song was also released on Streisand's first commercially released 12" disco single as a solo artist. The first being a promotional 12" single for "The Main Event/Fight" and the second being a commercially released 12" single for "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", a duet with Donna Summer. The 12" single of "Promises" runs longer than the lp version at 5:55 and contains a more bass-driven drumbeat.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Guilty"* (Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb) – 4:23
  2. "Woman in Love" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb) – 3:49
  3. "Run Wild" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb) – 4:06
  4. "Promises" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb) – 4:20
  5. "The Love Inside" (Andy Gibb, B. Gibb, M. Gibb, R. Gibb) – 5:08
  6. "What Kind of Fool"* (Albhy Galuten, B. Gibb) – 4:06
  7. "Life Story" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb) – 4:37
  8. "Never Give Up" (Galuten, B. Gibb) – 3:44
  9. "Make It Like A Memory" (Galuten, B. Gibb) – 7:28

 *Duet between Streisand and Barry Gibb.

[edit] Re-release

Guilty was re-released on DualDisc on 30 August 2005 in advance of its sequel project, Guilty Pleasures. The re-release featured remastered audio, new interviews with Streisand and Gibb, two live performances from 1986 and a photo gallery of the original photo session for Guilty by Mario Casilli.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, 500 nr.1 hits uit de Top 40, 9023009444 (Book in Dutch)
  2. ^ Official Barbra Streisand biography (Accessed: Aug 9, 2006)

[edit] External links

Preceded by
The Game by Queen		 Billboard 200 number-one album
October 25 - November 7, 1980
December 6 - December 12, 1980		 Succeeded by
The River by Bruce Springsteen