Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook at #14 on The "Billboard" 200 with 71,000 copies sold in its initial week of release, and been certified Gold by the RIAA. (As of August 2005, the album had sold 721,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan). It was followed up with "Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook", which was somewhat less successful. Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook is an album by the American singer Bette Midler. It was produced by Barry Manilow and marked the first time that Midler had worked with Manilow in more
Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits altered track list, then also including two of Midler's biggest hits which for some reason had been left off the 1993 edition; "My Favorite Waste of Time" and the Rolling Stones cover "Beast of Burden", both from the 1983 album "No Frills". The 1996 edition also included two versions of the US hit single "To Deserve You", taken from what became Midler's final studio album for Atlantic, 1995's "Bette of Roses". 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