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===1980β1983: producer for other artists=== In September 1980, Gibb produced the three new songs on Andy Gibb's first compilation album, ''[[Andy Gibb's Greatest Hits]]''. In October 1980, [[Barbra Streisand]]'s ''[[Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)|Guilty]]'' was released, produced by the [[Gibb-Galuten-Richardson]] team. the lead off single, Woman In Love was released in August and within 5 weeks was #1 on the US charts. The two songs of which were vocal duets between Streisand and Gibb are "[[Guilty (Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb song)|Guilty]]" a U.S. Top 5, and "[[What Kind of Fool]]" also reached the Top 10 in the U.S. and reached No. 1 on the [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|US Adult contemporary chart]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/80.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1980 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=31 December 2013}}</ref> In 1981, the Bee Gees released ''[[Living Eyes (Bee Gees album)|Living Eyes]]''. Songs from the album were not [[disco]] and the album was not a commercial success. In 1982, [[Clive Davis]] asked Gibb to write for [[Dionne Warwick]], who was on his [[Arista Records|Arista]] label. Barry produced Warwick's ''[[Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick album)|Heartbreaker]]''. The songs were all written by Gibb except "[[Our Day Will Come]]". In August 1983, after Gibb met [[Kenny Rogers]] who asked for some songs, Gibb recorded his first demo for Rogers entitled "[[Eyes That See in the Dark (song)#Barry Gibb version|Eyes That See in the Dark]]". At that time, Robin was working on his ''[[How Old Are You? (album)|How Old Are You?]]'' album with Maurice playing instruments. The other songs intended for Kenny Rogers were written in late 1982,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/82.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1982 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=31 December 2013}}</ref> then at the start of 1983, Barry continued to record the demos until April 1983, while also recording songs with the Bee Gees for the film ''[[Staying Alive (1983 film)|Staying Alive]]''. In August 1983, he produced Rogers' new album ''[[Eyes That See in the Dark]]'', which includes the song "[[Islands in the Stream (song)|Islands in the Stream]]" by Rogers and [[Dolly Parton]] which became one of the best-selling singles in [[country music]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVqsWsJyAWIC&q=kenny+rogers+barry+gibb&pg=PA102 |title=The Words and Music of Dolly Parton |last=Cardwell |first=Nancy |date=22 July 2011|publisher=Abc-Clio |isbn=9780313378041}}</ref>
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