Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American singer Bette Midler, featuring many of her best-known songs. The fourteen track compilation was released on Atlantic Records in 1993. While several greatest hits albums with Midler had been released in the UK, Continental Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and Japan throughout the 1970s and 1980s, such as "The Best of Bette" (1978) and "The Best of Bette" (1981)—two different compilations with the same title—and "Just Hits" (1987), this was the first career overview to be released worldwide including the US and Canada, some
The World's Greatest Gospel Singer The World's Greatest Gospel Singer The World's Greatest Gospel Singer was Mahalia Jackson's debut album on the Columbia label, recorded in 1954. Original record sleeve, written by George Avakian: "The recordings in this collection were made in the course of two consecutive evenings at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City. For Mahalia's debut on the Columbia Label, Mitch Miller had asked her to prepare some new songs for single record release, and I had hoped to get a start toward making an album of spirituals and gospels songs of her own choice. Mahalia surprised and pleased us mightily.