Bette Midler (64 page)

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Authors: Mark Bego

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

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