Bette
File:Bette.jpg
Studio album by Bette Midler
Released October 10, 2000
Genre Pop
Length 47:40
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Don Was, Rick Nowels, Marc Shaiman
Bette Midler chronology
Bathhouse Betty
(1998)
Bette
(2000)
Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars link
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars link
Robert Christgau (choice cut) link

Bette is a self-titled album by Bette Midler, released in 2000 by Warner Bros. Records (see 2000 in music). This album only peaked #69 on Billboard 200, and Warner Bros. dropped Bette from its roster in 2001 because of the declining record sales. As of October 2003, the album has sold 226,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[1]

Track listing [link]

  1. "That's How The Heartaches Are Made" (Ben Raleigh, Bob Halley) - 3:08
  2. "In These Shoes" (Kirsty MacColl, Pete Glenister) - 3:41
  3. "God Give Me Strength" (Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach) - 6:31
  4. "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) - 3:54
  5. "Love T.K.O." (Cecil Womack, Gip Noble, Jr., Linda Womack) - 4:47
  6. "Moses" (Patty Griffin) - 4:31
  7. "Nobody Else But You" (From the Columbia Tristar television Series Bette) (Bette Midler, Marc Shaiman) - 2:53
  8. "Color Of Roses" (Beth Nielsen Chapman, Matt Rollings) - 4:41
  9. "Bless You Child" (Billy Steinberg, Rick Nowels, Marie Claire Cremers) - 4:35
  10. "When Your Life Was Low" (Will Jennings, Joe Sample) - 3:55
  11. "Shining Star" (Leo Graham, Jr., Paul Richmond) - 4:49

Personnel [link]

Additional Musicians:

  • Drums - James Gadson
  • Bass - Abraham Laboriel
  • Guitar - Mark Goldenberg, Paul Jackson Jr., Prince Eyango, Tim Pierce, Dean Parks
  • Keyboards - Jamie Muhoberac, Rick Nowles, Greg Kursten, Mark Shaiman
  • Trumpet - Mark Isham, Darrell Leonard, Jerry Hey, Gary Grant
  • Tenor Saxophone - Plas Johnson, Joe Sublett, Dan Higgins, Jeey Vivino
  • Baritone Saxophone - Gary Herbig
  • Trombone - Eric M. Jorgensen
  • "Bless You Child" Programming - Charles Judge, Wayne Rodrigues
  • Background Singers: Hilard "Sweet Pea" Atkinson, Cynthia Bass, Harry Bowen, Carlos Cuevas, Donna De Lory, Cleto Escobedo II, David Lasley, Mirley Espinoza, Nikki Harris, Don McCrary, Howard McCrary, Leon McCrary, Arnold McCuller, Esther Nicholson, Martin Padilla, Melanie Taylor, Maria Vidal
  • "Nobody Else But You" Arranged by - Marc Shaiman and Jimmy Vivno
  • Project Coordinator and Contractor - Shari Sutcliffe
  • Assistant to Don Was - Jane Oppenhemier
  • Recorded at Cello Studios - Hollywood CA; Chung King - New York, NY; Record Plant -Hollywood CA and Sony Music Studios - New York, NY
  • Mixed at - Record Plant - Hollywood CA
  • "Nobody Else But You" Mixed at Sony Music Studios - New York, NY
  • Assistant Engineers - Alan Sanderson, Eliott Blakey, Dave Ashton, Alex Olsson, Katie Teasdale, Tulio Torrinello Jr. and Andy Manganello
  • Mastered by - Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab - Hollywood, CA
  • Mark Isham appears countesy of Columbia Records.
  • Art Direction + Design - Linda Cobb
  • Photography - Greg Gorman (cover) and Norman Jean Roy
  • Hair - Robert Ramos
  • Make-up - Eugenia Weston
  • Stylists - Michael Elsenhower, Bob Sparkman

References [link]


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In These Shoes?

by: Bette Midler

"Gentlemen, gentlemen please! Senors, por favor!"
I once met a man with a sense of adventure.
He was dressed to thrill wherever he went.
He said, "Let's make love on a mountaintop,
under the stars on a big hard rock."
I said, "In these shoes? What is this, the Peace Corps?"
I said, "Honey, let's do it here."
So we're sittin' at a bar in Guadalajara,
in walks a guy with a faraway look in his eyes.
He says, "I've got a powerful horse outside.
Climb on the back, I'll take you for a ride.
I know a little place we can get before the break of day."
I said, "In these shoes? No way, Jose!"
I said, "Honey, let's stay right here."
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
Es un escandalo!
Then I met an Englishman.
"Oh," he said, "Are you American?
Won't you walk up and down on my spine?
It makes me feel strangely alive."
I said, "In these shoes? Oh, I doubt you'd survive."
I said, "Honey . . . let's do it . . . hehehehe"
"Let's stay right here."
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
Es un escandalo!
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
Es un escandalo!
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
Es un escandalo!
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.




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