Bette Midler

Songwriter: Bette Midler Jerry Blatt

Producer: Bette Midler Bob Kaminsky Jerry Blatt

I'm singing Broadway and I love it!
I'm singing Broadway and I'm proud!
You can keep your Springsteen
Shove your Chaka
I really don't care for that kind of kaka
Ethel, Liza, Chita, that's my crowd, my crowd!

Yes-sah, I'm singing Broadway and it's heaven!
'Cause "Heaven" is a song from a Broadway show!
Ah, just give me a part that's got laughter and tears
And I'll beat it like Yul Brenner for the next thousand years!
Ah, Broadway, Broadway, Broadway! Bravo!

Ah, who needs a girl who's got fluorescent hair
Or an ugly boy singing off key?
Give me a broad who's got tits out to there
Belching it out to the balcony!

AhhhAHHHHHHHH!!!!
Yes, sir! I'm singing Broadway and it's heaven!
I'll be singing Broadway, yes, 'til I die!
Just tell me what could be better
Than shaking your buns
In front of a chorus
Of thirty-five nuns?
I'll climb every mountain
And ford every river I see
A Lady and her muszack
Ha-that's ha-me! Yeah!

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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