The Rose: The Original Soundtrack Recording

The Rose: The Original Soundtrack Recording

The Rose: The Original Soundtrack Recording
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Composer: Bette Midler
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1995-08-29
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Whose Side Are You On
  2. Midnight In Memphis
  3. Concert Monologue
  4. When A Man Loves A Woman
  5. Sold My Soul To Rock 'N' Roll
  6. Keep On Rockin'
  7. Love Me With A Feeling
  8. Camellia
  9. Homecoming Monologue
  10. Stay With Me
  11. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
  12. The Rose

Free Music Notes for The Rose: The Original Soundtrack Recording

Free Music Review: Bette Midler sings herself to an Oscar nomination
Hit: 5 Stars

The soundtrack for this 1979 film is the most paradoxical album of Bette Midler's career. "The Rose," the album, is arguably the best of Midler's live albums, but the songs are all new and more in the mode of rock 'n' roll ala Janis Joplin than the 1940s boogie woogie and other song types that brought Midler to prominence. As if to underscore the point, "The Rose," the song, plays to Midler's strengths as a vocalist while running counter to all the other songs on the album. It is a beautiful song and there really is a sense in which it is the only true Bette Midler song on the album, because the rest are being sung by Mary Rose Foster, a.k.a. "The Rose," the singer. But overall, the soundtrack is basically the best parts of the film.

With "Midnight in Memphis" Midler proves she could be a pretty great blues signer and "Stay With Me" takes on almost epic proportions as the Rose self-destructs on stage before her hometown audience. The flaw of this album, if you want to call it that, is that these songs are performed in character. You have to pity the person who pickes up this soundtrack without having seen the film and does not understand why Midler's voice goes through some serious deterioration in the final set of tracks. Compare "Stay With Me" with her cover of "When a Man Loves a Woman" and you have a sense of what might have been (or the version on "Divine Madness"). Still, there is something to be said for staying faithful to the film in this regard, which is why it is a pity the concert monologue has been sanitized. Of course, if you have seen the movie then you have to wonder why the tour de force version of Bob Seger's "Fire Down Below," which the Rose does with a bevy of female impersonators, was ommitted from the soundtrack because there is no way it would be considered the least worthy song from the film.

This album was produced by Paul Rothchild, who also did "Pearl," Joplin's final studio album, which certainly explains how Midler manages to capture the Joplin sound during the concerts recorded in the summer of 1978. You have to wonder what sort of demons Rothchild exorcised in putting this album together. The album made it to #12 on the Billboard charts while the the cover of "When a Man Loves a Woman" made it to #35 and then the title song made it to #3 as a single after Midler got her Oscar nomination (how it avoided hitting the top I do not know). In retrospect it seems there was no place for Midler to go but down after her smash film debut, but while she has never had a cinematic success to rival "The Rose," this is the film that put her on the A list of performers, a spot that she still inhabits. Final Note: I always liked "Camellia," the instrumental piece that Steve Hunter wrote as the Rose's introduction music. Like most of the songs on this album, it is one when the images of the film and the music are entwined in my mind.

The Rose: The Original Soundtrack Recording Poster

This soundtrack to the film inspired by Janis Joplin was produced by Paul Rothschild-producer of Joplin's Pearl . This 1979 LP has Bette's smash The Rose ; hit take on When a Man Loves a Woman , plus Stay with Me; Midnight in Memphis , and more!

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