| "What Kind of Fool" | |||||||||||
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| Single by Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb | |||||||||||
| from the album Guilty | |||||||||||
| B-side | "The Love Inside" (US) "Make It Like A Memory" (UK) |
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| Released | January 1981 | ||||||||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||||||||
| Recorded | February 1980 Middle Ear, Miami Beach |
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| Genre | Adult contemporary | ||||||||||
| Length | 4:06 | ||||||||||
| Label | Columbia (US) CBS (UK) |
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| Writer(s) | Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten | ||||||||||
| Producer | Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson | ||||||||||
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"What Kind of Fool" is the title of a vocal duet from 1981 (see 1981 in music) by singers Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb. The songwriters for "What Kind of Fool" are Gibb and Albhy Galuten.
Released as the third single from Streisand's 1980 album Guilty, "What Kind of Fool" was the third consecutive top ten single from the album in the United States. "Woman in Love" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the album's title track (also a duet between the two singers) reached number three, both in late 1980. "What Kind of Fool" spent three weeks at number ten on the Hot 100 in March and April 1981. It also spent four weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart.
The songs on the Guilty album were a collaboration between Streisand and all the members of The Bee Gees, including Barry's brothers, Robin and Maurice Gibb. But Barry Gibb played the largest role of the brothers on the album, co-writing and co-producing most of the tracks and appearing on the album cover embracing Streisand. Co-producer Karl Richardson was quoted describing Barry Gibb's contribution to this song: "He did the demo first. Barbra sang to the demo, then he came back and replaced a couple of things after he had heard what she was doing."[1]