by Mark Bego
Producer: Arif Mardin
5. “I’m Hip” (David Frishberg and Bob Dorough) 2:44
Producer: Marc Shaiman
6. “I Sold My Heart to the Junkman” (Leon Rene and Otis Rene, Jr.) 3:10
Producer: Arif Mardin
7. “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show”
(Rose Marie McCoy and Charles Singleton) 2:46
Producer: Ted Templeman
8. “Boxing” (Ben Fields) 4:26
Producer: Ted Templeman
9. “Big Socks” (Chuclkii Booker) 3:51
Producer: Chuckii Booker
10. “That’s How Love Moves”
(Fitzgerald Scott, Ty Lacy, and Jennifer Kimball) 3:54
Producer: Arif Mardin
11. “My One True Friend”
(David Foster, Carole King, and Carole Bayer Sager) 3:49
Producer: David Foster
12. “Laughing Matters” (Mark Waldrop and Dick Gallagher) 3:54
Producer: Marc Shaiman
(NOTE: Japanese version of this album contains the bonus cut “Happiness.”)
18. “BETTE” (Warner Brothers Records) 2000
1. “That’s How Heartaches Are Made” (Ben Raleigh and Bob Haley) 3:07
Producer: Don Was
2. “In These Shoes” (Kristy MacColl and Pete Glenister) 3:41
Producer: Don Was
3. “God Give Me Strength” (Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach) 6:31
Producer: Don Was
4. “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)”
(Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong) 3:53
Producer: Don Was
5. “Love TKO” (Cecil Womack, Gil Noble, Jr., and Linda Womack) 4:47
Producer: Don Was
6. “Moses” (Patty Griffin) 4:30
Producer: Don Was
7. “Nobody Else but You” (Bette Midler and Marc Shaiman) 2:51
Producers: Marc Shaiman and Don Was
8. “Color of Roses” (Beth Nielsen Chapman and Matt Rollings) 4:40
Producer: Don Was
9. “Bless You, Child”
(Billy Steinberg, Rick Nowles, and Marie Claire Cremers) 4:33
Producer: Don Was and Rick Nowles
10. “When Your Life Was Low” (Will Jennings and Joe Sample) 3:54
Producer: Don Was
11. “Shining Star” (Leo Graham Jr. and Paul Richmond) 4:49
Producer: Don Was
Bette Midler—On Other Albums
1. “HERE’S JOHNNY: MAGIC MOMENTS FROM ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW’ ”
by Johnny Carson and Various Artists (Casablanca Records) 1974
—BETTE MIDLER
a. “Lullaby of Broadway” (Al Durbin and Harry Warren)
b. “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (Don Raye, Hughie Prince) 5:17 combined total
2. “RINGO THE 4TH” by Ringo Starr (Atlantic Records) 1977 —Ringo Starr, backgrounds by BETTE MIDLER
“Tango All Night” (Tom Seufert, Steve Hague) 2:55
Producer: Arif Mardin
3. “CAROLE BAYER SAGER” by Carole Bayer Sager (Elektra Records) 1977
—Carole Bayer Sager, “harmony” vocal and solo by BETTE MIDLER “Shy as a Violet” (Carole Bayer Sager, Peter Allen) 3:06
4. “IN HARMONY” by Various Artists (Sesame Street/Warner Brothers Records) 1980
—BETTE MIDLER
“Blueberry Pie” (Bette Midler, Bruce Roberts, and Carole Bayer Sager) 2:57
Producers: Lucy Simon and David Levine
5. “WE ARE THE WORLD” by Various Artists (Columbia Records) 1985—Dan Aykroyd, Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Sheila E., Bob Geldof, Hall and Oates, James Ingram, Jackie Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson, Tito Jackson, Al Jarreau, Waylon Jennings, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Huey Lewis and The News, Kenny Loggins, BETTE MIDLER, Willie Nelson, Jeffrey Osborne, Steve Perry, the Pointer Sisters, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, and Stevie Wonder (all performing under the name: USA for Africa)
“We Are the World” (Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie) 7:02
Producer: Quincy Jones
6. “HOME ALONE 2” Original Soundtrack (Arista Records) 1992
—BETTE MIDLER
“Somewhere in My Memory” (Bricusse/Williams) 3:58
Producer: Arif Mardin
7. “FOR YOUR CHILDREN” by Various Artists (Kid Rhino Records)
—BETTE MIDLER
“Blueberry Pie” (Bette Midler, Bruce Roberts, and Carole Bayer Sager) 2:57
Producers: Lucy Simon and David Levine
8. “FIRST WIVES CLUB” Original Soundtrack Album
—BETTE MIDLER, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton
“You Don’t Own Me” (Marara/White)
Producer: Marc Shaiman
9. “TONIN’ ” by the Manhattan Transfer (Atlantic Records) 1995)
—Manhattan Transfer and BETTE MIDLER
“It’s Gonna Take a Miracle”
(Teddy Randazzo, Lou Stallman, and Bobby Weinstein) 3:56
Producer: Arif Mardin
10. “THAT OLD FEELING” Original Soundtrack Album
—BETTE MIDLER and Tommy Flanagan
“Somewhere along the Way” (Adams/Gallop)
Producer: Marc Shaiman
11. “CARNIVAL! THE RAINFOREST FOUNDATION TRIBUTE” (RCA Records) 1997
—BETTE MIDLER
“Sweet and Low” (Barnaby)
Producer: Arif Mardin
12. “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME” Original Soundtrack (Disney Records) 1996
—BETTE MIDLER
“God Help the Outcasts” (Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz)
Producers: Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
13. “ATLANTIC RECORDS 50 YEARS” (Atlantic Records) 1998
—BETTE MIDLER
“Wind beneath My Wings” (Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar) 4:53
Producer: Arif Mardin
14. ‘BEATIN’ THE HEAT” by Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks (Surfdog Records) (2000)
—Dan Hicks with BETTE MIDLER
“Strike It while It’s Hot!” (Hicks) 4:10
Producer: David Darling
15. “SEX AND THE CITY” Television Soundtrack (London/Sire Records) 2000
—BETTE MIDLER
“Love TKO” (Cecil Womack) 4:56
Producer: Don Was
Bette Midler—Singles
1. “Friends”
b/w “Chapel of Love” (Atlantic Records) 1973
2. “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
b/w “Delta Dawn” (Atlantic Records) 1973
3. “Friends”
b/w “Chapel of Love” (Atlantic Records) 1973
4. “In the Mood”
b/w “Drinking Again” (Atlantic Records) 1974
5. “Strangers in the Night”
b/w “Samedi et Vendredi” (Atlantic Records) 1976
6. “Old Cape Cod”
b/w “Tragedy” (Atlantic Records) 1976
7. “You’re Movin’ Out Today”
b/w “Let Me Just Follow Behind” (Atlantic Records) 1977
8. “Storybook Children”
b/w “Empty Bed Blues” (Atlantic Records) 1977
9. “Married Men”
b/w “Bang, You’re Dead” (Atlantic Records) 1979
10. “When a Man Loves a Woman”
b/w “Love Me with a Feeling” (Atlantic Records) 1980
11. “The Rose”
b/w “Stay with Me” (Atlantic Records) 1980
12. “My Mother’s Eyes”
b/w “Chapel of Love” (Atlantic Records) 1980
13. “All I Need to Know”
b/w “My Eye on You” (Atlantic Records) 1983
14. “Favorite Waste of Time”
b/w “My Eye on You” (Atlantic Records) 1983
15. “Beast of Burden”
b/w “Come Back,
Jimmy Dean” (Atlantic Records) 1983
16. “All I Need To Know”
b/w “My Eye on You” (Atlantic Records) 1983
17. “Favorite Waste of Time”
b/w “My Eye on You” (Atlantic Records) 1983
18. “We Are the World” as part of USA for Africa (XXX Records) 1985
19. “Under the Boardwalk”
b/w “The Friendship Theme” (Atlantic Records) 1988
20. “Wind beneath My Wings”
b/w “Oh Industry” (Atlantic Records) 1988
21. “From a Distance”
b/w “One More Round” (Atlantic Records) 1990
22. “Night and Day”
b/w “The Girl Is On to You” (Atlantic Records) 1990
23. “Moonlight Dancing”
b/w “Some People’s Lives” (Atlantic Records) 1990
24. “The Gift of Love”
b/w “Some People’s Lives” (Atlantic Records) 1990
25. “The Gift of Love” (UK Only)
b/w “Moonlight Dancing” (Atlantic Records) 1991
26. “Every Road Leads Back to You”
b/w “I Remember You”/“Dixie’s Dream” (Atlantic Records) 1991
27. “In My Life”
b/w “Billie-a-Dick” (Atlantic Records) 1991
28. “Yakety Yak, Take It Back” as part of an all-star ensemble b/w Public Service Announcements
29. “To Deserve You”
b/w “Up, Up, Up” with the Manhattan Transfer (Atlantic Records) 1995
30. “In This Life”
b/w “Bottomless” (Atlantic Records) 1995
31. “My One True Friend”
Promotional and British commercial single (Warner Brothers Records) 1998
32. “I’m Beautiful” (Warner Brothers Records) 1999
33. “In These Shoes” (Warner Brothers Records) 2000
Bette Midler—12” Vinyl Promotional Singles
1. “Married Men” (Long Version) 7:58
b/w “Married Men” (Short Version) 5:32
(Atlantic Records) 1979
2. “Hang On in There Baby” 5:36
b/w “My Knight in Black Leather” 6:57
(Atlantic Records) 1979
3. “Big Noise from Winnetka” 6:56 b/w “Big Noise from Winnetka” 6:56
(Atlantic Records) 1979
4. “Beast of Burden” b/w “Beast of Burden”
(Atlantic Records) 1983
Bette Midler—CD Dance Remixed Singles
1. “I’m Beautiful” (Warner Brothers Records) 1999
1. “Album Version” 3:55
2. “Danny Tenaglia Continental Club Mix” 8:24
3. “Victor Calderone Main Vocal Mix” 7:59
4. “Brinsley Evans Back to the Scene of the Crime Mix” 4:20
5. “Danny’s D-Tour Dub” 9:33
6. “Victor Calderone Dub” 7:59
7. “Lil’ D-Tour Groove” 4:16
8. “Victor Calderone Drum Dub” 7:59
2. “In These Shoes” (Warner Brothers Records) 2001
1. “Radio Mix” 4:10
2. “Sound Factory Vox Mix” 9:07
3. “Mark’s Heels to Platforms Vocal Mix” 8:35
4. “Other Side Mix” 7:57
5. “Extended Radio Mix” 7:17
6. “Sound Factory Dub Mix” 8:50
7. “Mark’s Sole Dub” 8:23
Unreleased Bette Midler Songs
Produced by Joel Dorn
—“Blue”
Produced by Moogy Klingman
—“Blue Rondo Ala Turk”
—“Young Americans”
—“Oh Jerusalem”
—“Hey Bobby”
—“Vacation in Rio”
—“I Had to Resort to Beauty”
—“I Don’t Want the Night to End” (unedited version)
Produced by Brooks Arthur
—“Someone That I Used to Love”
Grammy Awards
—1974, Best New Artist
—1981, Best Pop Vocal Performance—Female, “The Rose”
—1982, Best Children’s Recording, “In Harmony” by Various Artists, including Bette Midler’s recording of “Blueberry Pie”
—1990, Record of the Year, “The Wind beneath My Wings”
Bette Midler’s “Gold” and “Platinum” Albums and Singles
Albums
(NOTE: In America, Gold = 500,000 album copies sold; Platinum = one million album copies sold; Double Platinum = two million album copies sold.)
The Divine Miss M (Gold, Platinum)
Bette Midler (Gold)
The Rose (Gold, Platinum, Double Platinum)
Some People’s Lives (Gold, Platinum, Double Platinum)
For the Boys (Gold)
Experience the Divine (Gold, Platinum)
Bette of Roses (Gold, Platinum)
Bathhouse Betty (Gold)
Singles
(NOTE: In America, Gold = one million single copies sold; Platinum = two million single copies sold.)
“The Rose” (Gold)
“From a Distance” (Gold, Platinum)
FILMOGRAPHY
1. Hawaii (1966)
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Carroll
O’Connor, Bette Midler (an unbilled extra)
2. The Thorn, also known as The Divine Mr. J (1974)
Director: Peter Alexander (McWilliams)
Cast: Bette Midler
3. The Rose (1979)
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus,
David Keith, Sandra McCabe
4. Divine Madness (1980)
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Bette Midler, Jocelyn Brown, Ula Hedwig, Diva Gray
5. Jinxed (1982)
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Jack Elam, Val Avery, Benson Fong
6. Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfus, Nick Nolte, Little Richard, Tracy
Nelson, Elizabeth
Pena
7. Ruthless People (1986)
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker
Cast: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bill
Pullman, Anita
Morris
8. Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Bette Midler, Shelley Long, Peter Coyote, Robert Perosky, John
Schuck, George
Carlin
9. Oliver and Company (1988)—Animated Feature
Director: George Scibner
Cast: Joey Lawrence, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Richard
Mulligan, Roscoe
Lee Brown, Sheryl Lee Ralph
10. Big Business (1988)
Director: Jim Abrahams
Cast: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Barry Primus, Michael Gross, Michele
Rlacido, John Vickery
11. Beaches (1989)
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lanie Kazan, Mayim
Baalik, Marcy Leeds
12. Stella (1990)
Director: John Erman
Cast: Bette Midler, Trini Alvarado, John Goodman, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason,
Eileen Brennen, Linda Hart, Ben Stiller
13. Scenes from a Mall (1991)
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Bette Midler, Woody Allen, Bill Irwin, Paul Mazursky
14. For the Boys (1991)
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O’Neal, Arye Gross, Norman Fell,
Melissa Manchester
15. Hocus Pocus (1993)
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Omri Katz, Thora Birch,
Amanda Shepherd, Vinessa Shaw, Penny Marshall, Garry Marshall
16. Gypsy (1993)
Director: Emilio Ardolino
Cast: Bette Midler, Cynthia Gibb, Peter Riegert, Ed Asner, Jennifer Beck, Lacey Chabert,
Elizabeth Moss, Linda Hart, Christine Ebersole, Andrea Martin, Michael Jeter
17. Get Shorty (1995)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Linda
Hart, Bette Midler (unbilled)
18. First Wives Club (1996)
Director: Hugh Wilson
Cast: Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Stephen Collins, Maggie Smith, Sarah
Jessica Parker, Elizabeth Berkley, Victor Gerber, Marcia Gay Hardin, Bronson Pinchot,
Stockard Channing, Ivana Trump
19. That Old Feeling (1997)
Director: Carl Reiner
Cast: Bette Midler, Dennis Farina, Danny Nucci, Gail O’Grady, David Rasche, Jamie
Denton, Paula Marshall
20. Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Directors: James Algar, Gaetan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Eric Goldberg, Pixote
Hunt, Francis Glebas, Hendel Butoy
Cast: Bette Midler, Steve Martin, Quincy Jones, Penn and Teller
21. Get Bruce (1999)
Director: Andrew Kuehn
Cast: Bruce Vilanch, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, Raquel Welch,
Billy Crystal
22. Jackie’s Back (1999)
Director: Robert Townsend
Cast: Jenifer Lewis, Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, TV Blake, Tangie Ambrose
Liza Minnelli, Taylor Dane, Dolly Parton, Diahann Carroll, Mary Wilson, Bette Midler
23. Drowning Mona (2000)
Director: Nick Gomez
Cast: Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Neve Campbell,
William Fichter, Marcus Thomas, Peter Dobson
24. Isn’t She Great? (2000)
Director: Andrew Bergman
Cast: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, David Hyde Pierce, John Cleese
25. What Women Want (2000)
Director: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Valerie Perrine, Bette Midler (unbilled)
Bette Midler’s Film Roles
Hawaii (1966)
A seasick missionary’s wife (extra)