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 enlarge | Artist: Bette Midler
Label: WEA
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $13.99
You Save: $4.99 (26%)
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 286
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 081227319625
EAN: 0081227989255
ASIN: B00139B394
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 go bette, go October 30, 2008
This girl always gets me going. Great compilation and some stuff you hardly ever hear. We love you Miss Divine.
She's Divine! October 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful cd. I fell in love with the Divine Miss M years ago and she is more entrancing and glorious than ever! Thank you Miss Divine!
Superb Collection - Best so far October 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bette Midler has had a 3 decade career and is still going strong. It is very sad that a multiple disc greatest hits collection has not yet been released. It is well deserved and well earned. Also, Bette Midler is very eclectic and has performed many different styles of music over the years. She started out as a bawdy, big mouthed broad with a voice to die for. She was original and unique. Her strong personality matched her strong talent. She then did THE ROSE and won an Oscar while delivering diva rock and roll. Amazing. Then she added some schmaltzy hit ballads undfer her belt like WIND BENEATH MY WINGS. She did a rare thing though and would have recordings with these ballads but the entire album would still work for she never stopped being inventive and being Bette.
This collection does the difficult task of taking songs from her entire career and making a cohesive sounding set. The songs aren't in chronological order but they all mix perfectly for they truly are some of Bette Midler's best performances and the quality and vocal prowess she has always had unites everything. We have the amazing tracks from her early career - FRIENDS, BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY and IN THE MOOD to name a few. BEAST OF BURDEN and JUST MY IMAGINATION flow effortlessly together and they are from different decades of her career. The tracks from THE ROSE - WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN and THE ROSE are standouts of the entire collection. And the ballads WIND BENEATH MY WINGS and FROM A DISTANCE work here and are not over the top. Even the Christmas COOL YULE is in place with its jazzy approach. It fits in fine.
Again, Bette Midler deserves a larger hits collection but we will have to settle for this one for the time being. This one does work and manages to represent her whole career. Enough to probably make you want to buy each cd that the songs are from. Bette Midler is a legend and a rarity. She can sing a novelty number or a heartfelt ballad with the same emotive delivery. This collection is a must have.
 ? the best of Bette October 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A nice selection, but hardly Bette Midler's finest performances. Really a mix of her best known songs such as 'the Rose' mixed with some lesser known pieces which arguably don't suit her voice as well. Good to complete your Bette collection, but not if you just want her best performances so only 4 out of 5.
Absolutly The Best BETTE October 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What more can I say that has not been said about the Wonderful Bette Midler! This is the first lady of music. From the fun highs to the sad songs, this truly remarkable lady delivers. There is only one Bette Midler a lady of pure talent.
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