Product Description: 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.
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Rating: - A Name I Did Not Know
This 20-track collection is the second "Best of Bette" collection & is a good overview of Bette's career. Early hits like "Do You Want to Dance?," "In the Mood," & her signature song "Friends" are balanced with newer recordings like "Cool Yule," which went to #1 on my personal top ten last Christmas. Always, fans will have favorites songs like "In These Shoes," "Shining Star" or "Mambo Italiano" that were not included. However, this volume is well-engineered. The booklet is informative. Several tracks from films are included like the Carole King-David Foster-Carole Bayer Sager tune "My One True Friend" & "Baby Mine" from "Beaches." The previously unreleased demo from 1984, "Something Your Heart Has Been Telling Me," is a delightful track co-penned by Bette, "Last night I heard you calling, I heard you calling out a name I did not know." Two tracks shine here in replay, the Rolling Stones' "Beast ... Read More
Rating: - BEST REMASTERING JOB I'VE EVER HEARD !!
I initially wasn't going to buy this CD due to the fact that I have most of these songs already, but I am so glad I did. Every song is impeccably remastered and sounds fantastic. Rhino is keeping up their good reputation.
Rating: - Truthfully Devine
When it comes down to classic singers and actresses, you today have a very rare combination of artists that really deliver from the heart. Now, you have artists like Ashanti and Jessica Simpson who are known for trying to have it both ways, but sadly, they fall completely flat from the heart, and weak on the voice. But, it is so hard to find that rare combination, the way classics like Bette Midler have always been known for. Since the 70's, Bette not only made a staple on her own, but with great acting abilities too, performing in movies like The Rose, Beaches, and appearing in Broadway in musicals and plays like Clams On The Half-Baked Shell in 1975, and as a extra in Fiddler On The Roof. But, for anyone who has not yet heard the true voice of The Divine Miss M, they now can with this album.
2008's Jackpot: The Best Bette is the latest Bette Midler greatest hits album, reflecting her near 35 year career ... Read More
Rating: - A missed opportunity but still good....
I agree with the other reviewer this is a lovely collection and there are many wonderful songs that feature on it but Bette has done so much in her career and it could have gone a little further to truly fly the flag as THE BEST BETTE.
The biggest glaring oversight for me is the DANCE MIX of Bette's massive US club hit TO DESERVE YOU. Why did they have to overlook this gem as anyone who comes across it usually is dead impressed. In fact Bette had a series of American hits on the club scene that could have easily been added to this CD which go further to show her diversity as a singer.
We love you Bette but Rhino/Warner you could have done better (this is coming from a guy who compiles collections for record labels as a living).
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