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Years of acting in comedies and performing Las Vegas revues have clouded public perception of Bette Midler; people tend to forget now just how completely weird she was in 1972, how she skirted on the edges of taboo. Absurdly sexy, defiantly trashy, and unafraid of crossing musical boundaries whenever she felt like it, the Bette Midler of her debut, THE DIVINE MISS M, is someone truly remarkable. That this sense of adventurousness was eventually replaced by more mainstream aspirations is somewhat of a shame, but at least for this album, something truly new was happening.
The record starts with a sultry, sexy re-imagination of Bobby Freeman`s `Do You Want to Dance?` as a more carnal invitation than the dance-party original, and moves through similar re-workings of Leon Russell`s groupie anthem `Superstar,` John Prine`s stark `Hello in There` and, most famously, `Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.` The album`s emotional center, however, is the bittersweet, Buzzy Linhart-penned `Friends,` which opens and closes what was Side Two of the original LP, and became Midler`s signature tune.

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Includes WIND BENEATH MY WINGS. Very light scuff on disc will not affect play.

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!

Stickered: "Bette Midler teams up with Barry Manilow for a loving musical tribute to ROAEMARY CLOONEY". Disc has light scuffs but plays OK.

Japanese edition of the actress/ vocalist's 1998 album with album with 'Heaven' added as a hidden bonus track. 13 trackstotal, also including 'My One True Friend' from the hit 1998film 'One True Thing' starring Meryl Streep, William Hurt & Renee Zellweger. A Warner Brothers release.