Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. In a career spanning almost half a century, Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 35 million records worldwide and along with that has also received four Gold, three Platinum and three Multiplatinum albums by RIAA.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays prior to her engagements in Fiddler on the Roof and Salvation on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse, where she managed to build up a core following. Since then, she has released 13 studio albums as a solo artist. Throughout her career, many of her songs became hits on the record charts, including her renditions of "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "Do You Want to Dance", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "From a Distance". In 2008, she signed a contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to perform a series of shows titled Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On, which ended in January 2010.
Bette Midler (album)
Bette Midler is the eponymous second studio album by American female vocalist Bette Midler, released in 1973 on the Atlantic Records label.
The album, produced by Arif Mardin and Barry Manilow, includes Midler's interpretations of Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael's "Skylark", Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Surabaya Johnny", Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" as well as a Phil Spector medley.
Bette Midler reached #6 on the US albums chart and was later awarded a Gold Disc by the RIAA.
The album was released on CD for the first time in 1989. A remastered version of the album was released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1995.
Track listing
Side A
Side B
Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American cabaret singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House", although she had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002.
Early life
Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney. She was one of five children. Her father was of Irish and German descent and her mother was of Irish and English ancestry. She was raised Catholic. When Clooney was 15, her mother and brother Nick moved to California. She and her sister Betty remained with their father. The family resided in the John Brett Richeson House in the late 1940s.
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Bette Midler
ALBUMS
- It's the Girls released: 2014
- Memories of You released: 2010
- The Best Bette released: 2009
- Cool Yule released: 2006
- Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook released: 2005
- Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook released: 2003
- Bette released: 2000
- Bathhouse Betty released: 1998
- Bette of Roses released: 1995
- Gypsy (television cast) released: 1993
- Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits released: 1993
- For the Boys released: 1991
- Some People's Lives released: 1990
- Beaches released: 1988
- Mud Will Be Flung Tonight released: 1985
- No Frills released: 1983
- Divine Madness released: 1980
- Thighs and Whispers released: 1979
- The Rose released: 1979
- The Best of Bette released: 1978
- Broken Blossom released: 1977
- Songs for the New Depression released: 1976
- Bette Midler released: 1973
- 'The Divine Miss M' Remixes Vol.01 released:
- Greatest Songs: A Collection released:
- In These Shoes released:
- To Deserve You released:
- I'm Beautiful released:
- The Divine Miss M released:
- Live at Last released:
Memories of You
Released 2010- For All We Know
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- I Remember You
- He Was Too Good to Me / Since You Stayed Here
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
- He Needs Me
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Mr. Wonderful
- Drinking Again
- Memories of You
- Dreamland
- P.S. I Love You
- Is That All There Is?
The Best Bette
Released 2009- In the Mood
- This Ole House
- Beast of Burden
- Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
- The Rose
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- I've Still Got My Health
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- Hello in There
- The Glory of Love
- Tenderly
- Wind Beneath My Wings
- Do You Want to Dance?
- Baby Mine
- From a Distance
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (single version)
- Friends
- Something Your Heart Has Been Telling Me
- Cool Yule
- Miss Otis Regrets (2009 remastered album version)
- To Deserve You (Arif's dance radio mix version)
- In My Life (2009 remastered album version)
Gypsy (television cast)
Released 1993- Overture
- May We Entertain You
- Some People
- Small World
- Baby June and Her Newsboys
- Mr. Goldstone
- Little Lamb
- You'll Never Get Away From Me
- Dainty June and Her Farmboys
- If Momma Was Married
- All I Need Is the Girl
- Everything's Coming Up Roses
- Together, Wherever We Go
- You Gotta Get a Gimmick
- Let Me Entertain You
- Rose's Turn
- End Credits
'The Divine Miss M' Remixes Vol.01
- The Rose (DJ Circuit Mix)
- Wind Beneath My Wings (Danny M Club Remix)
- To Deserve You (Arif's Club Mix)
- I'm Beautiful (Victor Calderone Vocal Mix)
- I'm Beautiful (Danny Tenaglia Club Mix)
- I'm Beautiful (Brinsley Mix)
- In These Shoes (Jonathan Peters SF Vocal Mix)
- In These Shoes (Jonathan Peters Vocal Mix)
- In These Shoes (Mark's Heels To Platforms Mix)
I'm Beautiful
- I'm Beautiful (Album Version)
- I'm Beautiful (Danny Tenaglia Continental Club Mix)
- I'm Beautiful (Victor Calderone Main Vocal Mix)
- I'm Beautiful (Brinsley Evans Back To The Scene Of The Crime Mix)
- I'm Beautiful (Danny's D-Tour Dub)
- I'm Beautiful (Victor Calderone Dub)
- I'm Beautiful (Lil' D-Tour Groove)
- I'm Beautiful (Victor Calderone Drum Dub)
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by Bette Midler
Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
by: Bette Midler"Hey, nice piano playin', Manilla."
"Thank you, Miss M."
"Whatcha doin' these days?"
"Makin' records."
"Really?"
"Yes, really."
"Do you still play piano for people?"
"Well, depends on who."
Hmmm, I'm gonna get you
on a slow boat to China,
all to myself alone;
Get you and keep you in my arms evermore;
Leave all the others
waitin' on a faraway shore.
Out on the briny
where the moon's big and shiny,
melting your heart of stone.
I'm gonna get you
on a slow boat to China,
all to myself alone.
"Bette, I didn't know you felt that way about me."
"I don't. I need a piano player."
"Ahh, just like the old days!"
"You're not gonna change keys on me, are ya?"
"Unh Huh."
"Ohhh!"
I'm gonna get you
You're never gonna get me.
on a slow boat to China
Not in a fast or slow boat to any crick.
all to myself alone;
I just get motion sick
I'm gonna make you mine.
Ha, you'll have to stand in line.
Get you and keep you in my band evermore;
Now there's a new attack.
Leave all the others on the shore.
For me they'd swim to China, to China and back.
Out on the briny
I wouldn't like the ocean,
where the moon's big and shiny,
not even in a rowboat.
melting your heart of stone.
Come on, what do you say?
Ha ha, you always get your way.
I'm gonna get you
on a slow boat to China,
all to myself alone, to-ge-ther.
All to myself alone.