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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: WEA
Salesrank: 2612
Released: September 23, 2008 |
| Our Price: $14.99 |
| Used Price: $11.78 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Jackpot - The Best Bette ( Amazon Exclusive Bonus Track) Track Listing:
1. In The Mood
2. This Ole House
3. Beast Of Burden
4. Just My Imagination Running Away
5. The Rose
6. When A Man Loves A Woman
7. I've Still Got My Health
8. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The
9. Hello In There
10. The Glory Of Love
11. Tenderly
12. Wind Beneath My Wings
13. Do You Want To Dance
14. Baby Mine
15. From A Distance
16. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Single
17. Friends
18. Something Your Heart Has Been
19. Cool Yule
20. One True Friend
Editorial Review:
Amazon exclusive features one bonus track, 'One True Friend'. Spanning 1972 to the present, this best of collection has been remastered to sound better than ever.
Jackpot - The Best Bette ( Amazon Exclusive Bonus Track) Reviews:
Juggling the Divine 
2009-11-13 - To be an artist that can jump from style to style and genre to genre is a rarity in any medium. And in this day and age, it's consider a surefire career snuffer. Which makes Bette Midler a national treasure. She has wrapped her pipes around popular standards, bawdy bathhouse songs, sentimental ballads and - in the process - created a few standards of her own. While "The Best Bette" nicely replaces Experience the Divine, it isn't a perfect set.
There are 19 songs here, but the emphasis is on the sentimental. It would have been nice to let some of Bette's naughtier moments pop in (even a routine from the out of print Mud Will Be Flung Tonight). I'm also not so sure listing the tracks out of chronological order helps with the listening experience, as hearing the 80's layer-cake reverb production of "Wind Beneath My Wings" next to the spare, breathy 1972 "Do You Want to Dance." The album as a continual platter is disjointed.
That doesn't mean Bette isn't worth listening to. From her first show on the scene, The Divine Miss M, she established herself as a unique entertainer, a singer who could slip into songs and styles with ease. Her version of John Prine's "Hello In There" from that album is probably my favorite version of a Prine song by another artist. She successfully made the leap to acting when The Rose Soundtrack took her to the number one position on the charts, and then Beaches gave her a lock on super-stardom. Only Barbra Streisand comes close to Bette as a contemporary, and Bette can rock harder.
While of late, Bette has been working the American Songbook (Rosemary Clooney and Peggy Lee), she can still knock any song she wants to out of the park. "The Best Bette" is not perfect, but almost every song here is.
Review for Bette Middler's "Jackpot" 
2009-10-19 - Nothing, nada, niente on CD better -- her VOICE, her INTONATIONS, her breathless BREATHS -- sublime!
Make your own "Best of Bette" 
2009-06-28 - Well, all Bette fans know this ain't it! Guys and gals, grab up all your Bette Midler CDs, and I know all computers have a recording device or two, and clip your fave rave tunes! This CD is a rip! Someone is playing it so safe that Bette's real gem tunes are somehow omitted?
We all know which tunes need to be included on a "Best Of Bette." Don't be caught purchasing this mediocre collection. Bette fans, again, can make our own, and much cheaper! Save that $15 for the new Neko Case, or that totally rockin' outlaw ALejandro Escovedo or his collection! Geez - marketing today! Make your own Bette!!
The Best of Bette
2009-04-06 - This is a great compilation of Bette Midler that covers a good variety of genres and eras. There is a song for every mood in this CD. Bette Midler's wide range of vocalization covers it all and very well. A joy to listen to and great company for one's daily walk. Diane Barrie
Not Great
2009-02-09 - This CD is a repackaging of songs from other records. There's not much new -- I was hoping for a live recording of the Vegas show which is where the cover art comes from. A disappointment for a long time Midler fan.
