Bette Midler Divine Miss M," on Atlantic Records in December 1972. The album was co-produced by Barry Manilow, who was Bette's arranger and music conductor at the time. It reached Billboard's Top 10 and became a million-selling Platinum-certified album, earning Midler the 1973 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. It featured three hit singles—"Do You Wanna Dance?", "Friends", and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"—the third of which became Midler's first No. 1 Adult Contemporary hit. "Bugle Boy" became a successful rock cover of the classic swing tune originally introduced and popularized in 1941 by the Andrews Sisters, to whom Midler has repeatedly referred
Do You Want to Dance master. The song was first released in 1965 in mono on the band's album "Today!" with a stereo remix of the song being released in 2012 on the stereo remaster of that same album. Sourced from Musician's Union AFM contract sheets and surviving session audio, documented by Craig Slowinski. A live version from March 1965 was released in 2015 for the archival "Live in Chicago 1965". Bette Midler included the song—with the original title restored, "Do You Want to Dance"—on her 1972 debut album "The Divine Miss M". In contrast to the Bobby Freeman, Cliff Richard, and Beach Boys versions,