Guilty Pleasures (Barbra Streisand album)

Guilty Pleasures
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released	September 20, 2005
Recorded	April and May , Hit Factory Criteria, Miami • May and June 2005, Sony, Los Angeles
Genre	Pop • soul • adult contemporary
Length	47:43
Label	Columbia
Producer	Barry Gibb • John Merchant
Barbra Streisand chronology
The Movie Album (2003) Guilty Pleasures (2005) Live in Concert 2006 (2007)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Guilty Pleasures is an album by Barbra Streisand in conjunction with Barry Gibb released in September 2005. In Ireland and the United Kingdom, the album is titled Guilty Too. It is the follow-up to Streisand's 1980 album, Guilty, which also featured Barry Gibb. The album features a cover of Gibb's late brother Andy's song "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away". In the United States the album peaked at no. 5 and has been certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) continuing Streisand's record of achieving the most gold and platinum records for a female artist,^[2] and in second place in general behind Elvis Presley. The album was also top 3 in the UK, where it has been certified Platinum (over 300,000 copies sold). Both albums can also be considered partial-collaboration albums, since Streisand not only did two duets with Gibb, but Gibb could also be heard as a background vocalist in a few other songs solely by the artist herself, along with the fact that both singers were on the cover for both albums issued.

Track listing

• All Songs Published By Crompton Songs (BMI) & Warner-Tamlerlane Publishing Corp., except where noted.

1. "Come Tomorrow" with Barry Gibb (Ashley Gibb, Barry Gibb, Stephen Gibb) – 5:01
2. "Stranger in a Strange Land" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb, Stephen Gibb) – 4:50
3. "Hideaway" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb) – 4:14
4. "It's Up to You" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb) – 3:32
5. "Night of My Life" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb) – 4:01
6. "Above the Law" with Barry Gibb (A. Gibb, B. Gibb, S. Gibb, Streisand; Crompton Songs/Warner-Tamlerlane Publishing Corp./Emanuel Music-Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./WB Music) – 4:27
7. "Without Your Love" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb) – 3:48
8. "All the Children" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb, S. Gibb) – 5:14
9. "Golden Dawn" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb, S. Gibb) – 4:40
10. "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" (B. Gibb, Blue Weaver) – 4:01
11. "Letting Go" (George Bitzer, B. Gibb) – 3:53

Personnel

• Barbra Streisand - vocals
• Barry Gibb - vocals, guitar, string arrangement
• Dan Warner - guitar
• Doug Emery - keyboard, programming, string arrangement
• Eero Turunen - keyboard
• Julio Hernandez - bass
• Lee Levin - drums
• Richard Bravo - percussion
• Tom Scott - saxophone on "Come Tomorrow" and "Hideaway"
• Beth Cohen - vocals on "Night of My Life"
• Leesa Richards - vocals on "Night of My Life"
• Peter Graves - string arrangement, conductor
• Larry Warrilow - string arrangement

Production

• Produced by Barry Gibb & John Merchant
• Recorded, Engineered & Mixed by John Merchant
• Additional Engineering by Javier Carrion
• Assistant Engineers: Ethan Carlson, Brett Thorngren, Adam Michalak, Greg Loskorn, Patrick Magee
• Mastered by Bob Ludwig

Remixes

On 20 September 2005, four dance remixes of "Night Of My Life" were released on 12-inch vinyl. They helped it reach number 2 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play Chart.

• John Luongo 7" Mix – 3:48
• John Luongo 12" Mix – 9:05
• Junior's Roxy Anthem – 7:54
• L.E.X. Club Mix – 8:50

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts Chart (2005) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] 22 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[4] 20 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[5] 12 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[6] 23 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[7] 9 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[8] 30 Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[9] 6 French Albums (SNEP)[10] 59 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[11] 31 Greece Albums Chart[12] 15 Irish Albums Chart[13] 13 Italian Albums (FIMI)[14] 34 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[15] 12 Norway 29 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[16] 21 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[17] 13 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[18] 51 UK Albums (OCC)[19] 3 US Billboard 200[20] 5

Certifications and sales Region Certification Certified units/Sales Canada (Music Canada)[21] Gold 50,000^^ New Zealand (RMNZ)[22] Gold 7,500^^ United Kingdom (BPI)[23] Platinum 300,000^^ United States (RIAA)[24] Gold 509,000[25] ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

DualDisc edition

A DualDisc edition of the album was released which contained the entire album in PCM Stereo, behind the scenes footage of the making of the album, interviews with Streisand and Gibb and 4 video performances, including an alternate piano version of "Letting Go".

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Columbia Records (2005-08-29). "New Barbra Streisand-Barry Gibb Collaborative Album, 'Guilty Pleasures,' to be Released as CD and DualDisc on Tuesday, September 20". PR Newswire. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
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19. "Barbra Streisand | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart Retrieved October 26, 2013.
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22. "NZ Top 40 Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
23. "British album certifications – Barbra Streisand – Guilty Pleasures". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Guilty Pleasures in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search
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25. Keith Caulfield (22 June 2007). "Keith discusses top debuts, Barbra Streisand, Tiffany and more.". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2014.