Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook is an album by Bette Midler. The album was produced by Barry Manilow as a follow-up to their grammy-nominated album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook". "...Peggy Lee Songbook" was Bette's first album released in the DualDisc format. The DVD features are limited, offering just a few short clips that could be described as videos. This album is known to have been affected by Extended Copy Protection technology. Fever was remixed by L.E.X and reached #4 on the "Billboard" Dance Club Play charts in 2006.
Bette Midler father, Fred Midler, worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter, and was also a housepainter. Both parents were born in New Jersey. She was named after actress Bette Davis, though Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one. She was raised in Aiea and attended Radford High School, in Honolulu. She was voted "Most Talkative" in the 1961 school Hoss Election, and "Most Dramatic" in her senior year (class of 1963). Midler majored in drama at the University of Hawaii at Manoa but left after three semesters. She earned money in the 1966