What Kind of Fool

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"What Kind of Fool"
Single by Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb
from the album Guilty
B-side	"The Love Inside" (US) "Make It Like A Memory" (UK)
Released	January 1981
Recorded	February 1980
Studio	Middle Ear (Miami)
Genre	R&B
Length	4:06
Label	Columbia Records (US) CBS Records (UK)
Songwriter(s)	Barry Gibb Albhy Galuten[1]
Producer(s)	Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Barbra Streisand singles chronology
"Guilty" (1980) "What Kind of Fool" (1981) "Promises" (1981)
Barry Gibb singles chronology
"Guilty" (1980) "What Kind of Fool" (1981) "Shine, Shine" (1984)
Audio
"What Kind of Fool" on YouTube

"What Kind of Fool" is a 1981 vocal duet by singers Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb. The song was written by Gibb and Albhy Galuten. Released as the third single from Streisand's album Guilty (1980), "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.