''Guilty Pleasures'' is the thirty-first studio album by American singer

Barbra Streisand Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand ( ; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the ...

. It was released in September 2005 in conjunction with

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, who co-wrote all of the tracks. In Ireland and the UK, 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 number 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, and in second place in general behind

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. The album also hit the

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, peaking at number 3 and 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.

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".

Track listing

#"Come Tomorrow" with

(Ashley Gibb, Barry Gibb, Stephen Gibb) – 5:01 #" Stranger in a Strange Land" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb, S. Gibb) – 4:50 #"Hideaway" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb) – 4:14 #"It's Up to You" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb) – 3:32 #" Night of My Life" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb) – 4:01 #"Above the Law" with Barry Gibb (A. Gibb, Streisand, B. Gibb, S. Gibb) – 4:27 #"Without Your Love" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb) – 3:48 #"All the Children" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb, S. Gibb) – 5:14 #"Golden Dawn" (A. Gibb, B. Gibb, S. Gibb) – 4:40 #" (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" (B. Gibb,

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) – 4:01 #"Letting Go" (George Bitzer, B. Gibb) – 3:53

Personnel

–

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

– vocals,

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*Dan Warner – guitar *Doug Emery – keyboard, programming, string arrangement *Eero Turunen – keyboard *Julio Hernandez –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

*Lee Levin –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Richard Bravo –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

* Tom Scott –

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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 *Barry Gibb – producer *John Merchant – producer, recording, engineering, mixing *Javier Carrion – additional engineering *Patrick Magee – assistant engineering *Ethan Carlson – assistant engineering *Bob Ludwig – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guilty Pleasures (Barbra Streisand Album) Barbra Streisand albums 2005 albums Columbia Records albums Sequel albums