The song "Islands in the Stream" was written by the Bee Gees and recorded by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. It was released in August 1983 as the first single from Rogers's fifteenth studio album "Eyes That See in the Dark". The Bee Gees released a live version in 1998 and a studio version in 2001.

The song reached No. 1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in the US, giving both Rogers and Parton their second pop No. 1 hit (after Rogers's "Lady" in 1980 and Parton's "9 to 5" in 1981). It also topped the Country and Adult Contemporary charts. It has been double certified Platinum and was also gold certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for two million and half a million digital sales in US. In 2005 the song topped Country Music Television's (CMT) poll of the best country duets of all time; Parton and Rogers reunited to perform the song on the CMT special.

Also Rogers and Parton took it to the top 10 in several countries including a No. 7 peak in the UK. The Bee Gees had originally written the song for Marvin Gaye as an R&B song; they later recorded it themselves in that style. In 1998, ex-Fugee member Pras Michel interpolated this song into “Ghetto Superstar (That Is What You Are)” and took it to No. 15 in the US.

It can also be noted that the song was named after Ernest Hemingway's novel titled “Islands in the Stream” (c1951, 1970); this novel was published posthumously after being expurgated by Hemingway’s wife.

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