C/D : Bette Midler

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Millions of gay men can't all be wrong, right? I have no idea because I've never heard her, except for "Wind Beneath my Wings," which I sort of dislike. But maybe that's her 'commercial' song, and few people but the Bette Midler stalwarts have heard all the weird, insular experimental shit on her hundreds of albums. Maybe?

― richard wood johnson (rwj), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

classic!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

Millions of gay men can't all be wrong, right?

Wrong!

― Richj (Rich), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:43 (eighteen years ago)

her seinfeld appearance is the only thing i ever liked. ROCHELLE, ROCHELLE!

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

didn't arthur (was it arthur?) start a thread about her a really long time ago?

― tuesdays with maury povich (get bent), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 06:22 (eighteen years ago)

my boss quotes her comedy routines a LOT

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

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

i remember bette saying on the actor's studio that she despised "wind beneath my wings" when the beaches music coordinator (or whoever) first brought it to her, but she gritted her teeth and agreed to do it as a favor to the guy, who was a friend of hers. now she hates it less and doesn't mind performing it anymore, because "it makes people happy," but more to the point, it's made her an extremely wealthy woman.

― tuesdays with maury povich (get bent), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 06:59 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

Her duet with Tom Waits = classic!

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

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

― Friendly Tree (688), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

xpost

What was tonight?

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

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 (eight years ago)

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

― Οὖτις, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:26 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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

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

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

― nomar, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:31 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

They're going for the awkward staging?

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

Je regrette tout.

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

headdresses, wigs, diva worship, you name it

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 June 2017 20:38 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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