Bette Midler (album) Bette Midler (album) 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
The Bette Midler Show help album sales of her latest album. The show, as with Clams, was very successful, and was turned into an HBO TV special called "The Bette Midler Show." The tour also spawned the album "Live at Last", which to this day encompasses every essence of what a live Bette Midler show is like. Bette Midler, accompanied by the staggering harlettes, jokes, sings, and dances.' "For further info see Live at Last (Bette Midler album)" The Bette Midler Show The Bette Midler Show is an HBO video special of one of Bette Midler's tours entitled "The Depression Tour". The video is