Barbra Streisand – Promises (US 12″)
Posted by DjPaulT on 22nd July 2011
BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1980
After the success of the Bee Gees in 1977/1978 there was some time to perform songwriting for other artists and Barbra Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her. “Guilty” became her best-selling album to date with sales (according to Streisand’s official website) of over 20 million copies and was produced by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees’ regular production team of Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.
The fourth single from the, “Promises”, a more disco-oriented track released in May 1981, reached as high as #48. This song was also released on Streisand’s first commercially-released 12″ disco single as a solo artist following her 1979 duet with Donna Summer and a “promotional” 12″ single released for “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over) in 1975, and “The Main Event/Fight” in 1979.
This scarce 12″ contains a “Disco Mix” of “Promises” and an “Edited Version” of “Make It Like A Memory”
SIDE A:
Promises (Disco Mix) 5:55
SIDE B:
Make It Like A Memory (Edited Version) 3:39
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Mint (generic)
Picture Labels: Mint
CHARTS:
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Promises | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | #48 |
| 1981 | Promises | U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks | #1 |
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Columbia
Catalog#: 43 02089
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Pop
Style: Vocal, Disco
Credits: Executive Producer – Charles Koppelman
Producer – Albhy Galuten, Barry Gibb, Karl Richardson
Written-By – A. Galuten* (tracks: B), B. Gibb*, R. Gibb* (tracks: A)
NOTES:
Taken from The Columbia Lp: “GUILTY” FC 36750
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EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super 20
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner
SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator
RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 16bit 44kHz using Adobe batch processing
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi PNG format, resized to JPEG format for posting.
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