Track Listing
1. Song of Bernadette
2. I'm Beautiful
3. Lullaby in Blue
4. Ukelele Lady
5. I'm Hip
6. I Sold My Heart to the Junkman
7. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show - (featuring Royal Crown Revue)
8. Boxing
9. Big Socks
10. That's How Love Moves
11. My One True Friend - (from "One True Thing")
12. Laughing Matters
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Carole King, Cyrus Chestnut, David Foster, Jay Berliner, Lewis Nash, Randy Waldman, Ron Carter, Royal Crown Revue | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Bette Midler (vocals); Dean Parks, Dennis Budimir, Ira Siegel, Tim Pierce, Michael Thompson (guitar); Brock Walsh (banjo); Eric Weissberg, Moon, Jay Berliner (ukulele); Robbie Kondor (mandolin); Bob Efford, Richard Mitchell, Roger Neumann (saxophone); Warren Luening, Jack Sheldon (trumpet); Richard Todd (French horn); Leslie Benedict (trombone); James Self (tuba); Kim Bullard, David Foster, Carole King, Cyrus Chestnut, Randy Kerber, Randy Waldman, Steve Skinner, Phil Shenale, Greg Hilfman (keyboards); Matt Bissonette, Nathan East, Ron Carter, Jerry Barnes, Chuck Domanico, James Leonhard (bass); Gregg Bissonette, Rick Marotta, Steve Schaeffer, Emil Richards, Lewis Nash, John Robinson (drums); Royal Crown Revue.
Producers include: Ted Templeman, David Foster, Brock Walsh, Marc Shaiman, Chuckii Booker.
Bette Midler's got all the bases covered on this exuberant album, from swelling, big-voiced ballads ("That's How Love Moves") to quieter, soulful songs ("Song of Bernadette," "Lullaby in Blue"), the loud, hip-hop bitchfest "I'm Beautiful" and the peculiar and campy ("Ukulele Lady," "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show'"). For the uninitiated, BATHHOUSE BETTY is likely to be mystifying but oddly irresistible, while Midler's longtime fans will find this album to be a comeback of sorts, a return to the uninhibited energy of her 1972 debut in a way that none of her interim releases have even hinted at. We've known for some time that Midler has a big, ferocious voice which can go all soft and sweet or soar to meet the heights of "Wind Beneath My Wings," but what we might have forgotten (and she reminds us) is what being a diva is all about.
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