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██ artist....: Bette Midler ██
██ album.....: Bette Midler ██
██ label.....: Atlantic ██
██ genre.....: Vocal ██
██ type......: Album ██
██ album year: 1975 ██
██ rip date..: Sept-04-2004 ██
██ streetdate: 000-00-0000 ██
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██ tracks....: 10 ██
██ size......: 43,7 MB ██
██ language..: English ██
██ bitrate...: VBR Kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo ██
██ source....: CDDA ██
██ ripper/sup: UTB /UTB ██
██ grabb/enco: EAC /Lame ██
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██ url.......: n/a ██
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██ "An earthy mix of blues, R&B, and '40s boogie-woogie" is how ██
██ Bill Carpenter describes Bette Midler's second album, a ██
██ strangely elaborate transition containing some of the ██
██ elements which made The Divine Miss M so divine. The album ██
██ features superb production from her former piano player, ██
██ Barry Manilow, and the man who would help craft 1979's disco ██
██ effort, Thighs and Whispers, Arif Mardin. The result is a ██
██ solid album without the Top 40 fascinations of "Do You Wanna ██
██ Dance?," Buzzy Linhart /Mark "Moogy" Klingman's "Friends," ██
██ or "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Rather than focus on a hit the ██
██ way Clive Davis helped Manilow go to number one with "Mandy" ██
██ in 1974, this big cast concentrates on being artistic, and ██
██ on that level, Bette Midler works. No, she isn't Shirley ██
██ Bassey or Eartha Kitt, but material from Hoagy Carmichael ██
██ and Johnny Mercer, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht, along ██
██ with a dash of Bob Dylan, really covers the gamut. Where ██
██ Midler could excel is with the girl group stuff, touched ██
██ upon on The Divine Miss M. The medley of "Uptown" and "Da ██
██ Doo Run Run" is fun, but lacking the satisfying elements ██
██ Phil Spector jammed into his 45s. Midler really needed to go ██
██ for it here, an explosive remake of "He's a Rebel" or "Da ██
██ Doo Run Run" would have been appropriate for 1973, not ██
██ something that sounds like it was recorded during a live ██
██ performance at the Continental Baths. It's literally a cast ██
██ of thousands; Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Steve Gadd, and ██
██ Luther Rix are just some of the drummers and guitarists ██
██ Cornell Dupree and Hugh McCracken are onboard, as are Kenny ██
██ Ascher, Don Grolnick, and Barry Manilow on keys, just to ██
██ name a few. The talent was all lined up, and the music is ██
██ immaculate, but there is no concentration on returning to ██
██ the singles charts. "I Shall Be Released" as recorded here ██
██ is just perfect for an album with a whisper of gospel, but ██
██ still holds something back. A choir of voices and a ██
██ production like Melanie Safka's "Lay Down" would have broken ██
██ this wide open on radio. It wasn't until Mardin produced ██
██ "Married Men" six years later on the Thighs and Whispers ██
██ album that Midler would return to contemporary radio, and ██
██ like "Friends," her hit from 1973, "Married Men" only ██
██ lingered at the bottom rung of the Top 40 charts. Great ██
██ vocals, great musicianship, but no focus for radio action. ██
██ Rita Coolidge took Jackie Wilson's "Higher & Higher" Top ██
██ Three in 1977, and Bette Midler ends the album with a ██
██ marvelous version of that four years before Coolidge. The ██
██ trouble is, it's all so artsy. It's a beautiful record ██
██ ignoring the need to match the success of her first two ██
██ singles, and in a world driven by radio, where timing is ██
██ everything, the question to this day remains ù why? There's ██
██ an excellent version of Johnny Mercer's "Drinking Again" ██
██ which Rod Stewart had cut with the Jeff Beck Group; it's a ██
██ song that should have dominated '70s radio which says, ██
██ perhaps, the producers were being too careful for this ██
██ record's own good. ██
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██ If you enjoyed this REC, BUY IT! otherwise delete it please ██
██ because the Artist deserves your support! ██
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██ 01.skylark 03:00 ██
██ 02.drinking again 02:46 ██
██ 03.breaking up somebody's home 03:47 ██
██ 04.surabaya johnny 04:52 ██
██ 05.i shall be released 04:54 ██
██ 06.optimistic voices _ lullaby of broadway 02:25 ██
██ 07.in the mood 02:38 ██
██ 08.uptown _ don't say nothin' bad _ da doo 03:22 ██
██ 09.twisted 02:23 ██
██ 10.higher & higher 04:05 ██
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██ - Talented Music Rippers (allyear, allgenre, promo, vinyl ██
██ and radio livesets) ██
██ - prefered 100Mbits affiliated sites (NO! 10mbit bbb!!) ██
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██ * We are currently looking for: ██
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██ don't hesitate, contact us! I hope you know how do that =) ██
██ since we are a closed group so... ██
██ - we DON'T have any contact detail here ██
██ - we DON'T have a public irc channel ██
██ - we DON'T offer releases ██
██ - we DON'T have a web page (try http://www.utb.de) ██
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██ One Year is over, and we are proud of our 1000+ rels we did the ██
██ past 12 months. We have grown to a big group with many nice ██
██ members, and we see us as part of the scene now. We never thought ██
██ it would be like this, but we managed it! Thx fly out to those ██
██ who helped us in the one or other way. Especially the siteops ██
██ who host us and all our friends from other groups who trust us ██
██ and belive in us, thank u very much. ██
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██ Check out UTBDVD for latest music DVDr releases. Our new section ██
██ founded after our B-day. Just for fun, we dont have DVD-only ██
██ ripper! But searching for nice DVDr only sites to affil! ██
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██ to all ppl and groups ██
██ that support the scene and us ██
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