Bette Midler counts singing as only one of her talents; at times, since 1972, when
she first came to national recognition, it has seemed to be the least of her talents.
Still, she has managed to score a number of major hits in a roller-coaster career as
a recording artist. Born in Paterson, NJ, and raised in Hawaii, Midler showed an
interest in singing and acting early on, and by the '60s, she had moved to New York
and gotten a role in the long-running Broadway hit Fiddler on the Roof. Midler developed
a nightclub act that included comedy and singing of a variety of kinds of material,
including show tunes, pop hits, and even a takeoff on the Andrews Sisters, and appeared
with increasing frequency in New York with her accompanist, Barry Manilow. She was signed
to Atlantic Records and released The Divine Miss M (1972), which went gold and included a
Top Ten single cover of the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Bette Midler
(1973) was similarly successful.
Midler's album sales fell off during the rest of the '70s, though her records always
reached the Top 100 in the album chart. But in 1979 she starred in the film The Rose, a
fictional account of the life of Janis Joplin, and the title track became a Top Ten hit.
1980 saw the release of Midler's concert film, Divine Madness, and her best-selling book,
A View from a Broad. Her next film, Jinxed (1982), however, was a major flop, and subsequent
records didn't fare well. Midler made a cinematic comeback with Down and Out in Beverly Hills
(1986), but it wasn't until 1989 that she had another pop hit, when her version of "Wind
Beneath My Wings" from her film Beaches became a number one hit. This rejuvenated her singing
career, and 1990's Some People's Lives became a Top Ten, million-selling album, with the song
"From a Distance" hitting number two. Midler's soundtrack album to her 1991 film For the Boys
was also a gold-selling hit.
Midler appeared in a television production of the Broadway musical Gypsy that produced a
charting soundtrack album in 1993 following the release of her million-selling hits collection
Experience the Divine. The gold-selling Bette of Roses (1995) was her first regular album
release in five years. Her 1996 film The First Wives Club was a major box office success. In
1998, she switched to Warner Bros. Records and released Bathhouse Betty, which went gold. With
film opportunities drying up, the 54-year-old singer/actress turned to television, developing
a half-hour network comedy series based on her own life. Though it didn't last long, Bette
premiered on CBS on October 11, 2000; six days later, she released a second Warner Bros.
album, also called Bette. During the next five years, Midler covered two seminal artists'
songbooks, Rosemary Clooney and Peggy Lee, coming out with her first-ever Christmas record,
which included a duet with Johnny Mathis, Cool Yule, in 2006.
This biography was provided by the artist or their representative.
DVD Sight
DVD-1 Viva Las Vegas
Act One
DVD-2 Opening Fanfare
DVD-3 Friends
DVD-4 I Look Good
DVD-5 Miss Otis Regrets
DVD-6 Las Vegas
DVD-7 Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
DVD-8 Bed Of Roses
DVD-9 The First Wives Club
DVD-10 You Don't Own Me
DVD-11 The 70's
DVD-12 The Rose
DVD-13 Burlesque - Pretty Legs (& Great Bit Knockers)
DVD-14 Burlesque - Rose's Turn
DVD-15 Las Vegas Interlude
Act Two
DVD-16 Drinking' Again / MacArthur Park / Infomercial / Call Me
DVD-17 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
DVD-18 Bigotry / Bridge Over Troubled Water / In The Navy / The Greatest Love Of All
DVD-19 New York, New York
DVD-20 Ukulele Lady
DVD-21 From A Distance
DVD-22 Do You Wanna Dance
DVD-23 To Comfort You
DVD-24 Stay With Me
DVD-25 Wind Beneath My Wings
DVD-26 Cast Introductions
DVD-27 The Story Of Us
CD Sound
CD-1 Wind Beneath My Wings
CD-2 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
CD-3 The Rose
CD-4 From A Distance
CD-5 The Story Of Us
CD-6 Friends
CD-7 Stay With Me
CD-8 Bridge Over Troubled Water / In The Navy / The Greatest Love Of All
CD-9 Do You Wanna Dance
CD-10 Bed Of Roses
CD-11 You Don't Own Me
CD-12 Miss Otis Regrets
CD-13 Ukulele Lady
CD-14 Drinking' Again / MacArthur Park / Infomercial / Call Me
CD-15 New York, New York
CD-16 The First Wives Club
CD-17 Burlesque - Rose's Turn
CD-18 Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
CD-19 To Comfort You
CD-20 I Look Good
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
File size : 26.9 MiB
Duration : 4mn 37s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 812 Kbps
Album : Diva Las Vegas Cd
Part : 1
Part/Total : 1
Track name : Wind Beneath My Wings
Track name/Position : 01
Track name/Total : 20
Performer : Bette Midler
Genre : Vocal
Recorded date : 1997
