Bette Midler - Bette Midler
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Artist: Bette MidlerEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-08-29
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Skylark
- Drinking Again
- Breaking Up Somebody's Home
- Surabaya Johnny
- I Shall Be Released
- Optimistic Voices/Lullaby of Broadway
- In the Mood
- Uptown/Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)/Da Doo Run Run
- Twisted
- Higher & Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)
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Free Music Review: An amazing, classic album of The Divine Miss M's
Hit: 5 Stars
"Bette Midler" is one of the most classic, entertaining albums I have ever owned. "Skylark" is a gorgeous ballad, which highlights Bette's sweeping, beautiful voice. "Drinking Again" continues this tone with a melancholic, bittersweet ballad; highly unusual for a drinking song. "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" is a sultry, absolute riot. Bette is allowed in this song to put on her vampiness and campiness in full force as she says "You girls had better hold onto your men, cause I've got a funny feeling...I feel like breaking up somebody's home." Her performance in this song is just hilarious. "Surbaya Johnny" I don't have much to say about, although it is a very sweet song. "I Shall Be Released" as sung by the Divine One is one of the most uplifting, soaring beautiful songs ever recorded. She fills the music with such an amazing amount of passion and longing. It is a wonderful reminder of the humanity in us all. From this point, the album moves into a wonderful suite of old Broadway-1940's-campy-showtune type music. This and "I Shall Be Released" is what truly makes this album one to remember for all the ages. It begins with the "Optimistic Voices" chorus from "The Wizard of Oz," which leads directly into "Lullabye of Broadway," with Bette hilariously performing both male and female characters. What is so amazing is how in this disk, she is not just singing the songs, but performing them in character. Next comes the greatest recording ever of the old classic "In the Mood," and with Bette's playful amazing delivery it would be impossible to not be in the mood to hear it. The next medley is of "Uptown" which is beautifully done and leads directly into a slow "Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby" which becomes increasingly faster and faster till it reaches breakneck speed then immediately stops for a rousing rendition of "Da Doo Run Run". Then come one of the funniest-written songs ever, "Twisted." Let's just say Bette plays a girl who "hated to ride on those double-decker buses because they had no driver on the top" and who "instead of one head, has two." "Higher and Higher" closes off the album perfectly with its beautiful uplifting lyrics. All in all an amazing record, a true classic from a truly brilliant performer, the Divine Miss M, Bette Midler.
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