Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)

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Guilty
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 (US)
CBS (UK)
Producer Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson
Barbra Streisand chronology
Wet
(1979)		 Guilty
(1980)		 Memories
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[1]
Robert Christgau C+[2]
Rolling Stone (Favorable)[3]

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.[4] It became her best-selling album to date with sales (according to Streisand's official website) of over 20 million copies[5] 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 first single "Woman in Love" became one of the most successful songs of Streisand's music career and spent 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 following her 1979 duet with Donna Summer and two "promotional" 12" singles released for "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" in 1975, and "The Main Event/Fight" in 1979.

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

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" (B. Gibb) – 5:08
  6. "What Kind of Fool"* (B. Gibb, Albhy Galuten) – 4:06
  7. "Life Story" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb) – 4:38
  8. "Never Give Up" (B. Gibb, A. Galuten) – 3:44
  9. "Make It Like A Memory" (B. Gibb, A. Galuten) – 7:28

 *Duet between Streisand and Barry Gibb.

[edit] Production

  • Executive Producer: Charles Koppelman
  • Produced By Albhy Galuten, Barry Gibb & Karl Richardson
  • Recorded & Engineered By Don Gehman, Steve Klein & Karl Richardson
  • Mixed By Don Gehman & Karl Richardson
  • Mastered By Bob Carbone

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Accolades

[edit] Grammy Awards

Year Nominated work Award Result
1981 Guilty Album of the Year[6] Nominated
"Woman in Love" (written by Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb) Song of the Year[6] Nominated
Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female[6] Nominated
"Guilty" (Duet with Barry Gibb) Best Pop Vocal Performance - Duo or Group[7] Won

[edit] Charts

[edit] Peak positions

Chart (1980) Position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart[8] 1
Austrian Albums Chart[9] 1
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[10] 1
French SNEP Albums Chart [11] 1
German Media Control Albums Chart [12] 4
New Zealand Albums Chart [13] 1
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[14] 1
Swedish Albums Chart[15] 1
UK Albums Chart [16] 1
United States Billboard 200[17] 1
Chart (1981) Position
Austrian Albums Chart[9] 1
Japanese Oricon LP Chart[18] 9
UK Albums Chart [16] 3
Chart (1982) Position
UK Albums Chart [16] 57
Chart (1991) Position
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[10] 38
Chart (1992) Position
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[10] 26
Chart (2005) Position
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[10] 91

[edit] Year-end charts

Chart (1980) Position
Australian Albums Chart[8] 22
UK Albums Chart[19] 9
Chart (1981) Position
Australian Albums Chart[8] 28
Austrian Albums Chart[20] 8
Japanese Oricon Chart[21] 52
UK Albums Chart[22] 26
U.S. Billboard Year-end[23] 12

[edit] Certifications and sales

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[24] 6× Platinum 420,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[25] 5× Platinum 500,000^
France (SNEP)[26] 2× Platinum 908,000[27]
Germany (BVMI)[28] Platinum 500,000^
Japan (Oricon Charts) 138,530[18][21]
United Kingdom (BPI)[29] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[30] 5× Platinum 5,000,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

[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 in popular culture

In October 2010, American DJ duo Duck Sauce released a single titled Barbra Streisand, whose album artwork is modeled directly after Guilty. Neither the song nor the artist are associated in any way with Barbra Streisand.

[edit] The Guilty Demos

The Guilty Demos
Demo album by Barry Gibb
Released November 2006
Recorded October 1979
Criteria Studios, Miami
Genre R&B
Label iTunes
Producer Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb chronology
"The Eaten Alive Demos"
(2006)		 "The Guilty Demos"
(2006)		 "The Eyes That See In The Dark Demos"
(2006)

The Guilty Demos is a demo version of the album by Barry Gibb. Not intended for release tapes of these had circulating among fans before bootleg CDs started emerging. In 2006 Barry made these available through iTunes. Recorded in 1979 all of the songs were written that same year except "The Love Inside" which was a written in 1978 during work on Spirits Having Flown. All songs features Barry Gibb's falsetto voice, except "What Kind Of Fool" where he used his natural voice. The songs "Carried Away" and "Secrets" was not used by Streisand but recorded by Elaine Page with only "Secrets" being issued on her 1981 self-titled album. Olivia Newton-John recorded and released "Carried Away" on her "Physical" album, also in 1981. The demo version of "Never Give Up" remains unreleased.[31]

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Barry and Robin Gibb except where noted.

  1. "Guilty" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb)
  2. "Woman In Love" - 3:53
  3. "Run Wild" - 4:22
  4. "Promises" - 4:14
  5. "The Love Inside" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Andy Gibb) - 4:47
  6. "What Kind Of Fool" (Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten) - 4:04
  7. "Life Story" - 4:56
  8. "Make It Like A Memory" (Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten) - 6:34
  9. "Carried Away" (Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten) - 3:51
  10. "Secrets" - 3:50

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Robert Christgau review
  3. ^ Rolling Stone review
  4. ^ Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, 500 nr.1 hits uit de Top 40, 9023009444 (Book in Dutch)
  5. ^ Official Barbra Streisand biography (Accessed: Aug 9, 2006)
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  17. ^ Allmusic Barbra Streisand > Guilty> Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums
  18. ^ a b Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4871310779. 
  19. ^ "1980s Albums Chart Archive". everyhit.com. The Official Charts Company. http://www.everyhit.com/chartalb4.html. Retrieved 2011-09-11. 
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  21. ^ a b "日本で売れた洋楽アルバムトップ20 (Top-20 international albums on the Japanese Oricon Year-End Charts 1981". Archived from the original on 2011-08-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20070217155533/http://www2.wbs.ne.jp/~ms-db/oricon/oricon%20album81.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-17. 
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  23. ^ "The Billboard 200 - Year-end: 1981". http://www.n-f-l.jp/1981%20album.html. Retrieved 2011-08-06. 
  24. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-2000.htm. 
  25. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Barbra Streisand – Guilty". Music Canada. http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Guilty&sa=Barbra+Streisand&smt=0. 
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  27. ^ "Les Albums Double Platine". infodisc.fr. SNEP. http://www.infodisc.fr/CDCertif_P2.php?debut=250. Retrieved 2011-08-31. 
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  30. ^ "American album certifications – Barbra Streisand – Guilty". Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Guilty%22.  If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
  31. ^ url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/79.html|title=Gibb Songs 1979|publisher=Joseph Brennan

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