Bette Midler

Songwriter: Bette Midler Jerry Blatt Marc Shaiman

Producer: Bette Midler Bob Kaminsky Jerry Blatt

Fat as I am
Who wants to see a diva fat as I am?
I get mistaken now for Lainie Kazan
How is it that I'm fat as I am?
Fat as I am
The camera's gonna add a ton to my can
This is the way they say Godzilla began
How did I get as fat as I am?

"Try it again."
All of my friends say I should diet again;
That all my fans are gonna riot again
"Look what happened to Liz"
All of my sins are not as numerous as... all of my chins!
I could audition for the double-mint twins
No one in the biz is as fat as I is

Ah, but what's a career
When you put it next to knockwurst and beer?
They could park a DC10 on my rear
God knows I got the gas!
There goes the chair
But to tell the truth, I'm too fat to care!
I ate a meatball off the floor right over there
Ah, you don't give a damn
When you're fat as I am!

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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