C/D : Bette Midler

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i did watch this on tv a few months ago (i think i also saw it in theaters when it first came out):

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006472M.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i love her version of "beast of burden" a lot! i keep wishing she'd release more rock music, but i guess she knows where her core audience is...

xpost -- she was lots of fun in stepford wives too.

tuesdays with maury povich (get bent), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i like bette midler, i think for her music hall sensiblity

pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link

search: lawnmower midler from the stepford wives deleted scenes
destroy her music

a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Her duet with Tom Waits = classic!

Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i never talk to strangers? indeed it is, it might be my favourite waits song

Friendly Tree (688), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I like her version of Don Williams' "I Believe In You" where she changes the lyric in the second verse to: "I don't believe that Left is wrong and Right is right."

"The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "From A Distance" are, however, dire even when Jack Duckworth sings them.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd like to hear her version of "surabaya johnny"

It's on this record: http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/5/5/p/d5513912mpa.jpg

available at a thrift store near you!

tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I liek that LP^^^and The Divine Miss M when the mood strikes every once in a blue moon. it's all downhill after The Rose

m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

six years pass...

i was just listening to one of the disco discharge comps while doing other stuff, thinking WHAT IS THIS AMAZING SONG, and well i was a bit surprised to check and see that it was bette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7uE3CGVZHA

Waluigi Nono (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 12 September 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link

three years pass...

did no one drop an anvil on her tonight?

hv no idea what the other gays hear in her

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 June 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link

I'm straight, and she made wonderful records in the 70s.

it's all downhill after The Rose

Yup.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 June 2017 02:33 (six years ago) link

xpost

What was tonight?

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 12 June 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link

She won a Tony Award for the revival of Hello, Dolly! and made a very long acceptance speech.

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link

I have no use for her generally but the Rose is a legit incredible song imo

Οὖτις, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link

Can't decide which between "From a Distance" and "Wind Beneath My Wings" I dislike more. And I've come around on a LOT of late '80s early '90s A/C pablum.

insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link

Also listened to the Dolly recording on Spotify and wasn't particularly taken.

insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link

those are a couple of the flattest vocal performances i've ever heard xp

nomar, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link

Can't decide which between "From a Distance" and "Wind Beneath My Wings" I dislike more. And I've come around on a LOT of late '80s early '90s A/C pablum.

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.

"Wings" is pigeon shit. I have some tolerance for "From a Distance," a sneaky agnostic's anthem beneath the goop.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link

I don't think ppl are going to this Dolly! for the singing

http://d2npu017ljjude.cloudfront.net/images/custom/w606/90015-17.jpg

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link

They're going for the awkward staging?

insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link

Je regrette tout.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link

headdresses, wigs, diva worship, you name it

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link

My mom (not a gay man) saw it last week and liked Bette a lot.

As far as I can remember, she's never owned the cast album of any "Hello Dolly" production, so I'm pretty sure Bette was the only reason she wanted to see it.

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link


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