BETTE OF ROSES

Sorry Bette. This album, produced by Arif Mardin, is not the best album she's ever recorded. Harsh? Yes. But I had such expectations after GYPSY. Not one song written before 1980. The selection seems like a blatant attempt to duplicate the success of her middle-of-the-road ballads. There is no passion in her voice and no life in the songs. Come back to the five and dime, Bette Midler, Bette Midler.

1. I Know This Town

2. In This Life

3. Bottomless

4. To Comfort You

5. To Deserve You

6. The Last Time

7. Bed Of Roses

8. The Perfect Kiss

9. As Dreams Go By

10. It's Too Late

11. I Believe In You

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