Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)

Guilty
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released September 23, 1980
Recorded February — March 1980 at Middle Ear Inc. in Miami Beach & Sound Labs Studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles
Genre
Length 41:41
Label Columbia
Producer Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Barbra Streisand chronology
Wet
(1979)		 Guilty
(1980)		 Memories
(1981)
Singles from Guilty
  1. "Woman in Love / Run Wild"
    Released: August 16, 1980
  2. "Guilty / Life Story"
    Released: October 1980
  3. "What Kind of Fool / The Love Inside"
    Released: January 1981
  4. "Promises / Make It Like A Memory"
    Released: May 1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert ChristgauC+[2]
Rolling Stone(Favorable)[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Guilty is the twenty-second studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand released on September 23, 1980 by Columbia Records. It was produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and his group's regular production team of Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.

After the success of the Bee Gees in the late 1970s, there was some time to write songs for other artists and Streisand, one of those artists, asked Gibb to write an album for her.[5] It became her best-selling album to date internationally, with sales between 15–20 million copies worldwide as well as spawning several hit singles.[6][7] According to the liner notes of Barbra's retrospective box set: Just for the Record, the album also received a record certification in Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain. Sweden, Switzerland, and Russia.[8]

The lead single "Woman in Love" became one of the most successful songs of Streisand's music career and spent a total of three weeks at number one in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Two other singles were released, which also peaked within the top ten on Billboard Hot 100: 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, released as a second single for the album, and became an instant hit, peaking at number three, and "What Kind of Fool", another duet with Gibb, reached number ten for three weeks. The fourth single, "Promises", a more disco-oriented track released in May 1981, reached as high as number 48 in both the U.S. and Canada. It was a much bigger Adult Contemporary hit in both nations, reaching number eight and number five, respectively.[9] This song was also released on Streisand's first commercially released 12" single as a solo artist following her 1979 duet with Donna Summer, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and two promotional 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. 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

Side one
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Guilty" (Duet with Barry 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
Side two
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
6. "What Kind of Fool" (Duet with Barry Gibb)
 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
Total length:
 41:41

Production

Personnel

Accolades

American Music Awards

Year Recipient Award (with notes) Result
1981 Herself Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist (for her album Guilty)[10][11] Won

Grammy Awards

Year Recipient (with notes) Award Result
1981 Guilty Album of the Year[12] Nominated
"Woman in Love" (written by Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb) Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female[12] Nominated
Record of the Year[12] Nominated
Song of the Year[12] Nominated
"Guilty" (Duet with Barry Gibb) Best Pop Vocal Performance - Duo or Group[13] Won

National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM)

Year Recipient Award Result
1981 Guilty Best Selling LP by a Female Vocalist[10] Honored

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1980) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[14] 1
Austrian Albums Chart[15] 1
Dutch Albums Chart[16] 1
French Albums Chart[17] 1
German Albums Chart[18] 4
New Zealand Albums Chart[19] 1
Norwegian Albums Chart[20] 1
Spain Albums (Promusicae)[21] 1
Swedish Albums Chart[22] 1
UK Albums Chart[23] 1
US Billboard 200[24] 1
Chart (1981) Position
Japanese Albums Chart[25] 9

Year-end charts

Chart (1980) Rank
Australian Albums Chart[14] 22
UK Albums Chart[26] 9
Chart (1981) Rank
Australian Albums Chart[14] 28
Austrian Albums Chart[27] 8
Japanese Albums Chart[28] 52
UK Albums Chart[29] 26
US Billboard 200[30] 12

Sales and certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[31] 6× Platinum 420,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[32] 5× Platinum 500,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[33] Platinum 57,106[33]
France (SNEP)[34] 2× Platinum 908,000[35]
Germany (BVMI)[36] Platinum 500,000^
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[37] Platinum 20,000*
Japan 138,530[25][28]
New Zealand (RMNZ)[38] Platinum 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[39] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[40] 5× Platinum 5,000,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Re-release

Guilty was re-released on DualDisc on 30 August 2005 by Sony Legacy Recordings in advance of its sequel project, Guilty Pleasures and also commemorated its 25th anniversary. 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 in popular culture

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

The Guilty Demos

The Guilty Demos
Demo album by Barry Gibb
Released 10 October 2006
Recorded October 1979
Criteria Studios, Miami
Length 44:39
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 been circulating among fans before bootleg CDs started emerging. In October 2006 Gibb made these available through iTunes.[41] Recorded in 1979 all of the songs were written that same year except "The Love Inside" which was written in 1978 during work on Spirits Having Flown. All songs feature Barry Gibb's falsetto voice, except "What Kind of Fool" where he used his natural voice. The songs "Carried Away" and "Secrets" were not used by Streisand but instead 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.[42]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Guilty"  
  • Barry Gibb
  • Maurice Gibb
  • Robin Gibb
 4:03
2. "Woman in Love"  
  • B. Gibb
  • R. Gibb
 3:53
3. "Run Wild"  
  • B. Gibb
  • R. Gibb
 4:23
4. "Promises"  
  • B. Gibb
  • R. Gibb
 4:15
5. "The Love Inside"  B. Gibb 4:47
6. "What Kind of Fool"  
  • B. Gibb
  • Albhy Galuten
 4:05
7. "Life Story"  
  • B. Gibb
  • R. Gibb
 4:57
8. "Make It Like a Memory"  
  • B. Gibb
  • A. Galuten
 6:34
9. "Carried Away"  
  • B. Gibb
  • A. Galuten
 3:52
10. "Secrets"  
  • B. Gibb
  • R. Gibb
 3:50

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ↑ AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Robert Christgau review
  3. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  4. ↑ http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rs5star_ed1.htm 5-Star-Albums from the Second Edition (Published in 1983) of "The Rolling Stone Record Guide"
  5. ↑ Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, 500 nr.1 hits uit de Top 40, 9023009444 (Book in Dutch)
  6. ↑ Charles in charge. Google Books (New York Magazine). May 18, 1992. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
  7. ↑ Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (5th ed.). Billboard Books. p. 980. ISBN 9780823076772. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Liner notes, C4K 44111. Columbia Records, 1991
  9. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=6078&
  10. 1 2 "Barbra Streisand: AWARDS".
  11. ↑ "Barbra Streisand: FAQs & Timeline".
  12. 1 2 3 4 "Rock On The Net: 23rd Annual Grammy Awards - 1981". Retrieved 2011-09-16.
  13. ↑ "Past Winners Search". grammy.com. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
  14. 1 2 3 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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  20. ↑ "norwegiancharts.com Barbra Streisand - Guilty". Retrieved 2011-09-16.
  21. ↑ Fernando Salaverri (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
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  25. 1 2 Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
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  30. ↑ "The Billboard 200 - Year-end: 1981". Retrieved 2011-08-06.
  31. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  32. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Barbra Streisand – Guilty". Music Canada.
  33. 1 2 "Barbara Streisand" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
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  35. ↑ "Les Albums Double Platine". infodisc.fr. SNEP. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
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  37. ↑ "IFPIHK Gold Disc Award − 1981". IFPI Hong Kong.
  38. ↑ "NZ Top 40 Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  39. ↑ "British album certifications – Barbra Streisand – Guilty". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Guilty 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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  41. ↑ "Barry Gibb - The Guilty Demos". iTunes Apple. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  42. ↑ "Gibb Songs 1979". Joseph Brennan.

External links

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