Bette Midler

Released: November 23, 1993

Featuring: Peter Riegert

Songwriter: Jule Styne Stephen Sondheim

Producer: Arif Mardin Curt Sobel Michael Rafter

Rose: You'll never get away from me
You can climb the tallest tree
I'll be there somehow

True, you could say, "Hey, here's your hat."
But a little thing like that
Couldn't stop me now

I couldn't get away from you
Even if you told me to
So go on and try
Just try and you're gonna see
How you're gonna not at all
Get away from me

Herbie: Rose, I love you, but don't count your chickens
Rose: Come dance with me
Herbie: I warn you that I'm no Boy Scout
Rose: Relax awhile, come dance with me
Herbie: So don't think that I'm easy pickin'
Rose: The music's so nice
Herbie: Rose, 'cause I just may some day pick up and pack out
Rose: Oh, no you don't. No, not a chance
No arguments, shut up and dance

Rose: You'll never get away from me
You can climb the tallest tree
I'll be there somehow
True, you could say, "Hey, here's your hat."
Rose &Herbie: But a little
Herbie: thing like that
Couldn't stop me now

Rose &Herbie: I couldn't get away from you
Even if I wanted to
Rose: Well, go on and try
Just try
Herbie: Ah, Rose
Rose: and you're gonna see
Herbie: Ah, Rose
Rose: how you're gonna not at all
Rose &Herbie: get away from me

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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