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Genre:
Vocal Music
Release Date: 10/25/1990
Run Time: 42:08
The biggest selling album of
Barbra Streisand's career is also one of her least characteristic. The album was written and produced by
Barry Gibb in association with his brothers and the producers of
the Bee Gees, and in essence it sounds like a post-
Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees album with vocals by
Streisand.
Gibb adapted his usual style somewhat, especially in slowing the tempos and leaving more room for the vocal, but his melodic style and the backup vocals, even when they are not sung by
the Bee Gees, are typical of them. Still, the record was more hybrid than compromise, and the chart-topping single
"Woman in Love" has a sinuous feel that is both right for
Streisand and new for her. Other hits were the title song and
"What Kind of Fool," both duets with
Gibb. (The song
"Guilty" won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal by Duo or Group.)
~William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
;)
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