Bette Midler

Released: August 1, 1983

Songwriter: James McCulloch Nick Gilder

Producer: Chuck Plotkin

Don't ask me why
You feel the need to cry
Stop. We don't need your sad, sad eyes

I've been up, I've been down
I've been wandering all around
But it's all right
I found out the hard way

Is it love that makes
Your world go 'round and 'round?
Is it love that brings
You to my lost and found?
Around, around, around
Around, around, around
Around, around

Is it you? Is it me?
I'm my own worst enemy
Got a start on the road
To self-destruction. Oooh, Whoa

Don't stop, but don't go
'cause I really need to know
What it takes just to make
Th, this world go. Ooooooh

Is it love that makes
The world go 'round and 'round?
Is it love that brings
You to my lost and found?
Around, around, around
Around, around, around
Around, around, around, around

Ohhhhh, is it love that makes
Your world go 'round and 'round?
Is it love that brings
You to my lost and found?
Around, around, around
Around, around, around
Around, around, around, around

Is it love that makes
The world go 'round and around?
Is it love that brings
You to my lost and found?
Around, around, around
Around, around, around
Around, around, around, around

Come around, come around
Come around, around
Come around, come around
Come around, around
Come around, come around
Aome around, around . .

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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