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The Folks Who Live on the HillBette Midler

Released: October 25, 2005

Songwriter: Jerome Kern Oscar Hammerstein II

Producer: Barry Manilow

Many men with lofty aims strive for lofty goals
Others play at smaller games, being simpler souls
I am of the latter brand. All I want to do
Is to find a spot of land and live there with you

Someday we'll build a home
On a hilltop high, you and I
Shiny and new, a cottage that two can fill
And we'll be pleased to be called
"The folks who live on the hill."

Someday we may be adding
A thing or two, a wing or two
We will make changes as any family will
But we will always be called
"The folks who live on the hill."

Our veranda will command a view of meadows green
The sort of view that seems to want to be seen
And when the kids grow up and leave us
We'll sit and look at the same old view, just we two

Darby and Joan who, used to be Jack and Jill
The folks like to be called
What they have always been called
"The folks who live on the hill."

Bette Midler

Bette Midler is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, comedienne and actress. Named in honor of Bette Davis, Midler’s career began performing off-broadway until she developed the stage persona The Divine Miss M while singing at the world-famous Continental Baths gay bathhouse. A pre-fame Barry Manilow, the venue’s in-house piano player, produced her Grammy-nominated debut album which scored three US top 40 singles including the Grammy-nominated “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Midler took home the Best New Artist Grammy that year, her first of three career wins.

Throughout the 1970s, Midler found further success with music, Broadway, television and film. The Rose, Midler’s 1979 acting debut, earned her both Oscar and Academy Award nominations, and its namesake song won her a Golden Globe and another Grammy – also giving Midler her first success overseas.

The early 1980s proved less successful for Midler with four under-performing singles and a box office flop with the film Jinxed. However, the second half of the decade would prove far more fruitful with a handful of very successful films including Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Beaches, the latter featuring a chart-topping cover of “Wind Beneath My Wings” that won Midler her third Grammy and is considered one of the greatest songs in American film history.

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