Amazon exclusive features one bonus track, 'One True Friend'. Spanning 1972 to the present, this best of collection has been remastered to sound better than ever.
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Summary: It Really Is the Best of Bette!
Comment: This album represents compilation with one new song, but it's her best work
and you don't have to pop in 20 CD's to get the ultimate sample. Highly praise her vocal talents
that span four decades. She's a national treasure and an entertainer for the ages.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Bette Sings
Comment: If you like Bette Midler - this is a good cd. I would have liked to have had her sing more of the older songs.
Customer Rating: Summary: NOT A Greatest Hits , and Too Many Ballads
Comment: If this is THE BEST BETTE, you should hear some of the great songs they left off this CD. This CD is basically a companion souvenir for her new Vegas extravaganza. It contains some of the songs she does in the show, and the artwork, which is great, ties into the Vegas motif. The sound IS great, it's really quite elevated from all the other Bette CD's. Out of 19 songs, only 9 are her greatest hits. You do get the single versions of THE ROSE and BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY. The biggest plus is the unissued song SOMETHING YOUR HEART HAS BEEN TELLING ME. Bette co-wrote this mid-tempo pecussive song in 1984 that is a keeper. But besides the hit singles and the one unreleased track, picking 10 album cuts for a best of brings this compilation down in every sense of hearing Bette Midler. It's saddled with ballads and Bette's foray into 50's easy listening slow songs. It has 3 songs from BEACHES [ her biggest album ], which are all old nostagia type songs. The other songs are even more ballads from the Rosemary Clooney album, and the one upbeat song they included is a Christmas song - COOL YULE! Maybe they should have pulled a track off her comedy album, MUD WILL BE FLUNG TONIGHT! With 19 Billboard chart hits, they included only 9 of them. And you wouldn't know much from Bette's multi-faceted catalog of rock, blues & contemporay pop songs listening to what they chose to represent " The Best of Bette " on this CD. It's a snoozer listening to all the many adult contemporary ballads and standards on this collection. They are sequenced one after another on here. The only real rocker is BEAST OF BURDEN, and that comes quickly as Track 3. It also would have been a big incentive to have recorded the new opening theme to her Las Vegas spectacular to include as a new song on this album.
After hearing this, I pulled out many of the other Midler CD's, and heard how many great songs they could have included for a more balanced , diversified collection. One day, a box set should be done. Bette's had a career spanning nearly 40 years. Maybe then, we will hear all the live concert songs she did , like PINK CADILLAC, for instance, or the THEME FROM JINXED [ never released ], and the non-album singles like YOU'RE MOVING OUT TODAY. I was more content making my own Bette Midler best of than hearing what they chose for this. Buy the EXPERIENCE THE DIVINE CD, which is more of a greatest hits CD [ which has now been deleted ] if you want a more rewarding listening experience of a single CD of Bette Midler's best.
Customer Rating: Summary: Not the Best Bet for Bette
Comment: I was just a little disappointed in this CD - while I knew I was going to get a selection of her past works, I thought they might have been recorded recently rather than the original tracks they seemed to be. It's nice to have this selection of Bette's work all in one place, but it wasn't quite what I was hoping for. That being said, it is a great sample of the work that she's done and a testament to her career.
Customer Rating: Summary: LOVED IT
Comment: LOVE THE CD.I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED BETTE.HER VOICE IS SO GOOD ON EVERYTHING SHE SINGS.
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