Bette Midler

Released: November 12, 1991

Featuring: James Caan

Songwriter: Johnny Mercer Victor Schertzinger Marc Shaiman

Producer: Arif Mardin Dave Grusin Joe Mardin Marc Shaiman

[Announcer:] "The stars of our show, and America's "shiekest" couple
Eddie Sparks and Dixie Leonard!"
[J:] I remember you
[B:] I'd like to say that you're in my dreams
[J:] You're the one who made my dreams come true
[B:] You're usually dead
[J:] a few
[B:] without a head
[J:] kisses ago
[B:] and lots of natives are picking their teeth with your bones
[J:] I remember, too
[B:] Oh, what a dream!
[J:] a distant bell
[B:] It comes at night and taunts me
[J:] and stars that fell
[B:] and, like your jokes, it haunts me until
[J:] like rain out of the blue
[B:] I'm blue as your face as the last breath leaves you
[J:] When my life is through
[B:] I'll jump for joy
[J:] and the angels ask me to recall
[B:] and when Winchell asks me to recall
Who's a chump and a heel
[J:] the thrill of it all
[B:] Who's the biggest schlemeil?
[Both:] Then I will tell them I remember . .
[J:] "So, uh, it's my birthday comin' up."
[B:] "Yeah, I know, Eddie."
[J:] "But, what do you give a guy that's got everything?"
[B:] "Uh, penicillin?"
[J:] "Hmmm, hey Dix? You ever been married?"
[B:] "Oh, yeah, Eddie, twice!"
[J:] "Children?"
[B:] "No, silly! Grown men!
Tell me, Eddie, what's the most romantic thing a woman ever said to you?"
[J:] "Are you sure you're not a cop?"
Then I will tell them I remember . . . you
[B:] You
[J:] and you

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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