BETTE MIDLER

Jackpot - The Best Bette

$18.98 CD

 Rhino's new career-spanning compilation from the “Divine Miss M” features nineteen tracks including hits and favorites culled from her Atlantic, Warner Bros. and Columbia Records years. The disc also serves up one previously unreleased track, “Something Your Heart Has Been Telling Me.” As the legendary Midler is delighting countless fans with her recently premiered Las Vegas revue, “The Showgirl Must Go On” (at Caesar's Palace), JACKPOT - THE BEST BETTE is the ideal way to explore the bonanza of great songs that have helped make her one of the world's best-loved entertainers. 

 The retrospective set opens with “In The Mood,” a hit from her 1973 self-titled second album, and it perfectly sets the scene. Several tracks reach all the way back to Midler's 1972 Top 10 debut LP, The Divine Miss M, including “Do You Want To Dance?,” a cover of John Prine's “Hello In There” and “Friends,” one of her signature songs. The disc's most recent cuts include “This Ole House” from her '03 album saluting the Rosemary Clooney songbook and the 2006 holiday number “Cool Yule.” Other highlights include her rendition of the Rolling Stones' “Beast Of Burden,” the Top 10 singles “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “From A Distance,” plus the GRAMMY® winning songs “The Rose” and “Wind Beneath My Wings,” which hit #3 and #1, respectively.  

 Bette Midler first rose to fame at the dawn of the '70s when her first two albums for Atlantic Records reached the Top 10 in Billboard®, and she remains enduringly popular. In a 2008 review of her acclaimed Vegas show, the New York Times wrote, “Like all great showgirls, she may wear sequins like a second skin, but the woman underneath is all flesh and blood, humor and heart.” 

*Previously unreleased

Selection # 414908