Woman in Love

"Woman in Love" is a song performed by Barbra Streisand and taken from her 1980 album, Guilty. The song was written by Barry and Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, who received the 1980 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[2] It is her fourth of four Platinum records, and is considered her greatest international hit.[3]

Not to be confused with A Woman in Love, Woman in Love (It's Not Me), or Women in Love.

"Woman in Love"
Single by Barbra Streisand
from the album Guilty
B-side"Run Wild"
ReleasedAugust 16, 1980
RecordedFebruary 1980
StudioMiddle Ear (Miami Beach, Florida)[1]
GenreSoft rock
Length3:49
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Barbra Streisand singles chronology
"Kiss Me in the Rain"
(1980)		 "Woman in Love"
(1980)		 "Guilty"
(1980)

After the success enjoyed by the Bee Gees in the late 1970s, the band was asked to participate in musical endeavors for other artists, and Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her.[4] This album ultimately became Guilty. "Woman in Love", as the lead single, became one of the most successful songs of Streisand's music career. It reached the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Streisand's fifth (and last to date) number one hit on that chart. It replaced Queen's big-selling hit "Another One Bites the Dust", spent three weeks at number one, and was itself replaced by "Lady" by country singer Kenny Rogers. It also spent five weeks atop the adult contemporary chart, her sixth number one on that tally.[5] The song also proved very popular internationally, reaching number one in many countries, including in the UK Singles Chart. The song sold more than 2.5 million till December 1981, according to Billboard.[6]

Music video

The music video for the song included clips from A Star Is Born, starring Streisand and Kris Kristofferson and other movies she made in the 1970s.

Track listing
Side Title Length
A"Woman in Love"3:48
B"Run Wild"4:05

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
France (SNEP)[43] Platinum 1,298,000[44]
Germany (BVMI)[45] Gold 250,000^
Japan — 60,000[17]
United Kingdom (BPI)[46] Gold 500,000^
United States (RIAA)[47] Platinum 2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Liz McClarnon version
"Woman in Love"
Single by Liz McClarnon
A-side"I Get the Sweetest Feeling"
B-side"Woman in Love" remixes
ReleasedFebruary 13, 2006
GenrePop
Length3:35
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)

Atomic Kitten member Liz McClarnon covered "Woman in Love" after the band's split in 2005. Produced by original songwriter Robin Gibb—whom McClarnon accompanied on his 2005 tour—the cover was released in February 2006 as McClarnon's debut solo single. In the United Kingdom, the song was released as a double A-side with a cover of Jackie Wilson's 1968 hit "I Get the Sweetest Feeling". The double A-side peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart on February 19, 2006, staying in the top 100 for six weeks. Elsewhere, "Woman in Love" reached number 21 in Ireland and became a minor hit in Australia, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

McClarnon would go on to record another song entitled "Lately", but the track was not released as a single.

Track listings

UK CD single[48]

  1. "Woman in Love"
  2. "I Get the Sweetest Feeling"

Scandinavian CD single[49]

  1. "Woman in Love" (radio edit)
  2. "Woman in Love" (Dancing DJs Remix)
  3. "Woman in Love" (K-Klub Remix)
  4. "Woman in Love" (Soul Seekerz Dub)

Australian and New Zealand maxi-single[50]

  1. "Woman in Love" (radio edit)
  2. "Woman in Love" (K-Klass Klub Remix)
  3. "Woman in Love" (Soul Seekerz Dub)
  4. "Woman in Love" (Dancing DJs Remix)

Charts

Barry Gibb version
"Woman in Love"
Song by Barry Gibb
from the album The Guilty Demos
ReleasedNovember 2006
RecordedOctober 1979
StudioCriteria (Miami, Florida)
GenreR&B
Length3:53
LabeliTunes
Songwriter(s)Barry & Robin Gibb
Producer(s)Barry Gibb

"Woman in Love" is the first demo Barry Gibb recorded for Barbra Streisand's album Guilty. This composition by the Gibb brothers Barry and Robin would become the album's very successful first single.[58] And it was due to this demo that Barry Gibb became the first male artist to sing the song, though it was originally recorded for Streisand alone in order for her to sing the song for her album.

Personnel

Other versions

The French singer Mireille Mathieu did her own cover, but titled Une Femme Amoureuse. The argentinan singer Jairo did an italian cover titled Forte, piu forte di me[59] The Bulgarian singer Lili Ivanova recorded an original English version especially for a show program that aired on Channel One of Central Television in USSR in 1980. A Russian version of this song was also recorded by Soviet band "Здравствуй, песня!" ("Zdravstviy, pesnya!" - "Hello, song!") in 1982 by the name "Просто я такая женщина" ("Prosto ya takaya zhenshchina" - "I'm just such a woman").[60]

Danish siger Gitte Hænning recorded the german version Die Frau, die dich liebt in 1980 and it reached the German Hitlist for 13 weeks and peaked at number 12.

British vocalist Rebekah Ryan released a version of the track as a single in 1997, on MCA records.

British indie rock band The Bluetones released their cover as a B-side to the 2002 single After Hours.

"Woman in Love" was covered by CoCo Lee in 1995, Dana International in 1999,[61] S.H.E in 2002 and Young Divas in 2006.

In 2011, the Moroccan singer Sofia Marikh recorded an Arabic version of the song تهواك Tahwak (she adores you).

See also

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