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Bette Midler - Bette Midler (1973) [1995, Digitally Remastered]

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Bette Midler - Bette Midler (1973) [1995, Digitally Remastered]

Bette Midler - Bette Midler (1973) [1995, Digitally Remastered]
Pop/Rock, Blues, Vocal | EAC Rip | APE, Img+CUE+LOG+Partial Scans (JPEG) | 47:35 Min | 202,53 Mb
Label: Atlantic/WEA International Inc. (Germany) | Cat.# 7567-82779-2 | Released: 1995-08-29 (1973-11-16)

"Bette Midler" is the eponymous second studio album by American female vocalist Bette Midler, released in 1973 on the Atlantic Records label. The album, produced by Arif Mardin and Barry Manilow, includes Midler's interpretations of Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael's "Skylark", Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Surabaya Johnny", Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" as well as a Phil Spector medley. Bette Midler reached #6 on the US albums chart and was later awarded a Gold Disc by the RIAA. The album was released on CD for the first time in 1989. A remastered version of the album was released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1995.
~Wikipedia
"An earthy mix of blues, R&B, and '40s boogie-woogie" is how Bill Carpenter describes Bette Midler's second album, a strangely elaborate transition containing some of the elements which made The Divine Miss M so divine. The album features superb production from her former piano player, Barry Manilow, and the man who would help craft 1979's disco effort, Thighs and Whispers, Arif Mardin. The result is a solid album without the Top 40 fascinations of "Do You Wanna Dance?," Buzzy Linhart /Mark "Moogy" Klingman's "Friends," or "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Rather than focus on a hit the way Clive Davis helped Manilow go to number one with "Mandy" in 1974, this big cast concentrates on being artistic, and on that level, Bette Midler works. No, she isn't Shirley Bassey or Eartha Kitt, but material from Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht, along with a dash of Bob Dylan, really covers the gamut. Where Midler could excel is with the girl group stuff, touched upon on The Divine Miss M. The medley of "Uptown" and "Da Doo Run Run" is fun, but lacking the satisfying elements Phil Spector jammed into his 45s. Midler really needed to go for it here, an explosive remake of "He's a Rebel" or "Da Doo Run Run" would have been appropriate for 1973, not something that sounds like it was recorded during a live performance at the Continental Baths. It's literally a cast of thousands; Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Steve Gadd, and Luther Rix are just some of the drummers and guitarists Cornell Dupree and Hugh McCracken are onboard, as are Kenny Ascher, Don Grolnick, and Barry Manilow on keys, just to name a few. The talent was all lined up, and the music is immaculate, but there is no concentration on returning to the singles charts. "I Shall Be Released" as recorded here is just perfect for an album with a whisper of gospel, but still holds something back. A choir of voices and a production like Melanie Safka's "Lay Down" would have broken this wide open on radio. It wasn't until Mardin produced "Married Men" six years later on the Thighs and Whispers album that Midler would return to contemporary radio, and like "Friends," her hit from 1973, "Married Men" only lingered at the bottom rung of the Top 40 charts. Great vocals, great musicianship, but no focus for radio action. Rita Coolidge took Jackie Wilson's "Higher & Higher" Top Three in 1977, and Bette Midler ends the album with a marvelous version of that four years before Coolidge. The trouble is, it's all so artsy. It's a beautiful record ignoring the need to match the success of her first two singles, and in a world driven by radio, where timing is everything, the question to this day remains why? There's an excellent version of Johnny Mercer's "Drinking Again" which Rod Stewart had cut with the Jeff Beck Group; it's a song that should have dominated '70s radio which says, perhaps, the producers were being too careful for this record's own good.
~Review by Joe Viglione

Bette Midler - Bette Midler (1973) [1995, Digitally Remastered]

Bette Midler - Bette Midler (1973) [1995, Digitally Remastered]


Release of the album: 1973, November, 16 [LP Atlantic Records, Cat.# SD 7270, USA]
Release of this CD: 1995, August, 29 [CD Atlantic/WEA International Inc. (Germany), Cat.# 7567-82779-2, UPC: 075678277924]
℗© 1973 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Made in Germany by Warner Music Manufacturing Europe

Notes: Digitally remastered from the original master tapes

Credits:

Backing Vocals – Ann S. Clark, Charlotte Crosley, Gale Kantor, Merle Miller, Myrna Smith, Robin Grean, Sharon Redd, Shirley Brewer, Sylvia Shemwell, Tasha Thomas
Bass – Chuck Rainey, Milt Hinton, Stu Woods, Will Lee, Bill Salter
Concertmaster – Gene Orloff
Cover – Richard Amsel
Design – Loring Eutemey
Drums – Bernard Purdie, Grady Tate, Rick Morotta, Steven Gadd
Drums, Percussion – Luther Rix
Guitar – Cornell Dupree, David Spinozza, Frank Vento, Hugh McCracken
Keyboards – Don Grolnick, Ken Ascher, Pat Rebillot
Mastered By – Dennis King, George Piros
Percussion – Ralph MacDonald
Photography By [Back Cover] – Lee Gurst
Producer, Percussion, Piano, Arranged By, Conductor, Backing Vocals – Barry Manilow
Producer, Percussion, Remix – Arif Mardin
Recorded By – Buzz Richmond, Elliott Sheiner, Gene Paul, Jimmy Douglass, Robert Warner, Scott Schreckengost
Recorded By, Remix – Lew Hahn
Synthesizer – Kenneth Bichel


Tracklist:

01. Skylark (03:03)
02. Drinking Again (02:49)
03. Breaking Up Somebody's Home (03:50)
04. Surabaya Johnny (04:55)
05. I Shall Be Released (04:57)
06. Optimistic Voices / Lullaby Of Broadway (02:27)
07. In The Mood (02:40)
08. Uptown / Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run (03:24)
09. Twisted (02:26)
10. Higher And Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) (04:06)

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Analyzed: Bette Midler / Bette Midler
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -3.76 dB -20.50 dB 3:03 01-Skylark
DR11 -4.90 dB -21.55 dB 2:49 02-Drinking Again
DR11 0.00 dB -14.40 dB 3:50 03-Breaking Up Somebody's Home
DR12 -5.08 dB -21.87 dB 4:55 04-Surabaya Johnny
DR11 -1.21 dB -16.84 dB 4:57 05-I Shall be Released
DR11 -0.23 dB -15.77 dB 2:27 06-a) Optimistic Voices b)Lullaby of Broadway
DR11 -0.19 dB -14.60 dB 2:40 07-In The Mood
DR11 -0.21 dB -14.25 dB 3:24 08-a)Uptown b)Don't Say Nothin' Bad c)Da Doo Run Run
DR12 -0.17 dB -16.52 dB 2:26 09-Twisted
DR11 -0.14 dB -14.63 dB 4:06 10-Higher & Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 783 kbps
Codec: Monkey's Audio
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See also:
Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M (1972) [1990, Japan]
Bette Midler - Broken Blossom (1977) [1995, Remastered Reissue]
Bette Midler - Thighs And Whispers (1979) [1995, Digitally Remastered]
Bette Midler - No Frills (1983) [1998, Japan]
Bette Midler - Bette (2000) [Japan]

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