Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Guilty
Type = Album
Artist = Barbra Streisand


Caption =
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
Reviews = *Allmusic (4.5/5) [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6kd6vwmva9ek~T1 link]

*Robert Christgau (C+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=3835&name=Barbra+Streisand link]

*"Rolling Stone" (Favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/barbrastreisand/albums/album/155331/review/5940953/guilty Dec 1980]
Last album = "Wet"
(1979)
This album = "Guilty"
(1980)
Next album = "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. [Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, 500 nr.1 hits uit de Top 40, 9023009444 (Book in Dutch)] It was her best-selling album to date with sales over 20 million copies [ [http://barbrastreisand.com/bio_bio.html Official Barbra Streisand biography] (Accessed: Aug 9, 2006)] 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, and was a #3 Billboard Hot 100 hit. 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. "What Kind of Fool", another duet with Gibb, reached #10. The fourth single, "Promises", a more disco-oriented track released in May 1981, reached as high as #48. This song was also released on Streisand's first commercially released 12" disco single as a solo artist.

Streisand released a sequel to this album, "Guilty Pleasures", in 2005, also produced and largely written by Gibb.

Track listing

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

*Duet between Streisand and Barry Gibb.

Chart positions

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.

References

External links

* [http://www.bjsmusic.com/guilty.html The Barbra Streisand Music Guide – Guilty]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/80.guilty.html Gibb Songs: Guilty (1980)]

succession box
before = "The Game" by Queen
"The River" by Bruce Springsteen
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = October 25 – November 7, 1980
December 6 – December 12, 1980
after = "The River" by Bruce Springsteen
"Greatest Hits" by Kenny Rogerssuccession box
before = "Zenyatta Mondatta" by The Police
title = UK Albums Chart number one album
years = November 8, 1980 – November 21, 1980
after = "Super Trouper"
by ABBAsuccession box
before = "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)"
by David Bowie
title = Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
years = November 10 – December 21, 1980
after = "Double Fantasy"
by John Lennon and Yoko Ono