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Music : Jackpot - The Best Bette ( Amazon Exclusive Bonus Track)Browse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of Music and Jackpot - The Best Bette ( Amazon Exclusive Bonus Track). Rating:  - Bette SingsIf you like Bette Midler - this is a good cd. I would have liked to have had her sing more of the older songs. Rating:  - NOT A Greatest Hits , and Too Many BalladsIf this is THE BEST BETTE, you should hear some of the great songs they left off this CD. This CD is basically a companion souvenir for her new Vegas extravaganza. It contains some of the songs she does in the show, and the artwork, which is great, ties into the Vegas motif. The sound IS great, it's really quite elevated from all the other Bette CD's. Out of 19 songs, only 9 are her greatest hits. You do get the single versions of THE ROSE and BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY. The biggest plus is the unissued song SOMETHING YOUR HEART HAS BEEN TELLING ME. Bette co-wrote this mid-tempo percussive song in 1984 that is a keeper. But besides the hit singles and the one unreleased track, picking 10 album cuts for a best of brings this compilation down in every sense of hearing Bette Midler. It's saddled with ballads and Bette's foray into 50's easy listening slow songs. It has 3 songs from BEACHES [ her biggest album ], which are all old nostagia type songs. The other songs are even more ballads from the Rosemary Clooney album, and the one upbeat song they included is a Christmas song - COOL YULE! Maybe they should have pulled a track off her comedy album, MUD WILL BE FLUNG TONIGHT! With 19 Billboard chart hits, they included only 9 of them. And you wouldn't know much from Bette's multi-faceted catalog of rock, blues & contemporay pop songs listening to what they chose to represent " The Best of Bette " on this CD. It's a snoozer listening to all the many adult contemporary ballads and standards on this collection. They are sequenced one after another on here. The only real rocker is BEAST OF BURDEN, and that comes quickly as Track 3. The choices that made in the album tracks they put on this CD makes me wonder " they actually put that on a Best of Bette CD "? . Really, BABY MINE - a throwaway song from the BEACHES soundtrack is actually one of her best ? This CD is mostly toned down , politically correct middle of the road schmaltz that does not represent her energy & fire. Listen to 2 of Bette's all time classics THE DIVINE MISS M and BETTE MIDLER to fully capture the range of material Bette once did. Her LIVE AT LAST double live album from 1976 will also open up your ears with it's high intensity performance & wit. There are no songs from her early albums on here , except for the hits & the much anthologized ballad HELLO IN THERE. This CD has too much adult contemporary , old-fashioned ballads, neglecting the variety of Bette's wide ranging catalog that they could have culled songs from for this CD. It also would have been a big incentive to have recorded the new opening theme to her Las Vegas spectacular to include as a new song on this album. After hearing this, I pulled out many of the other Midler CD's, and heard how many great songs they could have included for a more balanced , diversified collection. One day, a box set should be done. Bette's had a career spanning nearly 40 years. Maybe then, we will hear all the live concert songs she did , like PINK CADILLAC, for instance, or the THEME FROM JINXED [ never released ], and the non-album singles like YOU'RE MOVING OUT TODAY. I was more content making my own Bette Midler best of than hearing what they chose for this. Buy the EXPERIENCE THE DIVINE CD, which is more of a greatest hits CD [ which has now been deleted ] if you want a more rewarding listening experience of a single CD of Bette Midler's best. Rating:  - Not the Best Bet for BetteI was just a little disappointed in this CD - while I knew I was going to get a selection of her past works, I thought they might have been recorded recently rather than the original tracks they seemed to be. It's nice to have this selection of Bette's work all in one place, but it wasn't quite what I was hoping for. That being said, it is a great sample of the work that she's done and a testament to her career. Rating:  - LOVED ITLOVE THE CD.I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED BETTE.HER VOICE IS SO GOOD ON EVERYTHING SHE SINGS. Rating: - go bette, goThis girl always gets me going. Great compilation and some stuff you hardly ever hear. We love you Miss Divine. |