"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" is a duet from 1979 by Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand. While Summer was famous for her disco material and Streisand for her more easy listening and soundtrack work (though both had crossed over into other genres before), this song fused both sounds with a slow beginning (lasting almost two minutes) which then evolved into a disco song. The song is an early example of girl power with two women taking action against their men and throwing them out.

The song was recorded for Streisand's Wet album and also as a new track for Summer's compilation double album entitled On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2. The full-length version was found on Streisand's album, while a longer 11 minute plus version (the 12" version) was featured on Summer's album. The single was released on both Casablanca Records (Summer's label) and Columbia Records (Streisand's label) and sales of the two were amalgamated. The versions on the two 7" singles differed slightly however, with different mixes and slightly different background vocal arrangements. The formats differed between nations - in the UK for example, only the Casablanca version was released as a 7" and Columbia released the 12".

Although the sales of the two labels' releases were amalgamated, both separately received gold certification. The single spent two weeks at Number One on the U.S. singles chart (making it Summer's fourth and final chart-topping single in her home country). It was also a big international hit, and made the Top 3 in the U.K.

During the recording of the song, Summer is said to have passed out and fallen off her chair having been out partying the night before. Streisand supposedly carried on singing her long note and waited until she had finished it before stopping and asking Summer if she was okay. Another rumour regarding the song is that Streisand's son, Jason Gould, is the one who talked his mother into recording the duet as he was a fan of Summer's work.

It has been said that "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" almost never made it on to the Wet album. The song was originally entitled, "Enough Is Enough", where the ballad introduction was never recorded between the two women. When the final song selections were being made, it was said by the producers that "Enough Is Enough" was not to be included, for it had nothing in common with the other songs, since the track did not interpret water of any kind (which was the theme of the Wet album). Barbra Streisand really wanted the song on the album and thus changed the title of the song to "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", upon which the ballad introduction was written, to give more of an explanation of water to the song..."It's raining, it's pouring, my love life is boring me to tears after all these years...", and so forth.

An alternate mix of the track ( - 8:19) appears on Streisand's album Wet, and an edited version of this mix was also included on her 1981 compilation Memories as well as Summer's 1993 Anthology and subsequent greatest hits packages.

The Swedish pressing of the Casablanca Records 7" single had a B-side called "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" (Special Disco Version) - a truth with modification since it was the exact same version as on the A-side, only without the ballad intro ( - 3:04).

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The song has been featured in many television shows, most notably in a 1980 episode of the soap opera The Guiding Light, in which a pregnant Rita Bauer (Lenore Kasdorf) was chased through a "hall of mirrors" attraction by the crazed Roger Thorpe (Michael Zaslow). The orchestrated sequence won The Guiding Light a Daytime Emmy in 1981.

The song was also featured in the Will & Grace episode "An Old-Fashioned Piano Party", in which Grace and Larry reach the climax of the song, playing the piano and repeating "Enough is enough is enough is enough is enough..." to which Karen yells, "That's enough!"

Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story also featured adult and baby Stewie singing a duet of this song.

Donna Summer performed a new version of the song with Tina Arena for a live concert which aired on VH-1 called Live & More Encore. The song was included on the album and was one of the concert's highlights, earning enthusiastic praise from the audience. Summer also performed another live version with Westlife on the British ITV's "Discomania" in 2004.

"Enough is Enough" was part of the medley of songs about men that Liza Minnelli and her back-up girls (The Demon Divas) sang in 1993's "Liza Minnelli: Live from Radio City Music Hall." In the same year, K. D. Lang and Erasure's Andy Bell recorded a cover of the song for the soundtrack of the movie 'Coneheads".

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Vocals: Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand
Acoustic and Electric Piano: Greg Mathieson
Bass: Neil Stubenhaus
Drums: James Gadson
Guitar: Jay Graydon and Jeff Baxter
Background Vocals: Julia Waters, Maxine Waters, Luther Waters
Produced By Gary Klein for The Entertainment Company
in association with Giorgio Moroder Productions
Arrenged and Conducted by Greg Mathieson
Vocals arrenged by Bruce Roberts, Paul Jabara and Luther Waters
Engineered by Juergen Koppers and John Arrias
Recorded at Village Recorders and Rusk Sound Studios, Los Angeles

Preceded by "Still" by Commodores	Billboard Hot 100 number one single November 24, 1979 (2 weeks)	Succeeded by "Babe" by Styx
Preceded by "Beat of the Night" / "Pump It Up" by Fever	Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number one single November 24, 1979 - December 15, 1979	Succeeded by "Deputy of Love" by Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band

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