Bette Midler

Released: November 23, 1993

Featuring: Peter Riegert Jennifer Beck Jeffrey Broadhurst Peter Lockyer Michael Moore Patrick Boyd

Songwriter: Jule Styne Stephen Sondheim

Producer: Arif Mardin Curt Sobel Michael Rafter

Rose: Have an eggroll, Mr. Goldstone
Have a napkin, have a chopstick, have a chair
Have a spare rib, Mr. Goldstone
Any spare that I can spare I'll be glad to share!

Have a dish, have a fork, have a fish, have a pork
Put your feet up. Feel at home
Have a smoke, have a Coke
Would you like to hear a joke?
I'll have June recite a poem!

Have a leechie, Mr. Goldstone
Tell me any little thing that I can do
Ginger peachy, Mr. Goldstone
Have a kumquat, have two!
Everybody give a cheer
Santa Claus is sitting here
Mr. Goldstone I love you!

Have a Goldstone, Mr. Eggroll
Tell me any little thing that I can do
Have some fried rice, Mr. Soy Sauce
Have a cookie, have a few!
What's the matter, Mr. G?
Have another pot of tea
Mr. Goldstone I love you!

Herbie: There are good stones and bad stones
And curbstones and gladstones
And touchstones and such stones as them
Rose: There are big stones and small stones
And grind stones and gall stones
All: but Goldstone is a gem!

There are milestones, there are mill stones
There's a cherry, there's a yellow, there's a blue
But we don't want any old stone
Only Goldstone will do!
Moon stones, sun stones
We all scream for one stone
Mr. Goldstone we love you!
Goldstone!

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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