Jackpot! The Best Bette


Jackpot! The Best Bette is a compilation album of recordings by American singer Bette Midler released on September 23, 2008. The album release was originally set to coincide with Midler's current Las Vegas show, Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On which debuted on February 20, 2008 at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, but was postponed to April, then August 26, and later to the actual September release.
After some thirty-five years in showbusiness and having recorded some twenty albums for Atlantic Records/Warner Music and three for Columbia Records/Sony BMG, this is the second single-disc compilation of Midler's best-known recordings, following 1993/1996's Experience the Divine, and this time released by Warner Music Group's reissue subsidiary Rhino Entertainment. Jackpot! The Best Bette includes three titles from Midler's more recent albums for Columbia, "This Ole House", "Tenderly" and "Cool Yule", and also sees the debut of one previously unreleased track, "Something Your Heart's Been Telling Me", co-written by Midler, Robert Kraft and Barry Reynolds and originally cut as a demo by the singer herself in 1984 but first released by Roberta Flack who recorded the song for her 1991 album Set the Night to Music.
"My One True Friend" and "The Gift of Love" were added to a later version of the CD. A 2009 reissue included three additional tracks – "Miss Otis Regrets", "To Deserve You " and "In My Life", as well as the DVD of her 1997 HBO special Diva Las Vegas.
As of November 2014, the album has sold 667,666 copies in the UK.

Track listing

  1. "In the Mood" – 2:39
  2. * From 1973 album Bette Midler
  3. "This Ole House" – 3:02
  4. * From 2003 album Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
  5. "Beast of Burden" – 3:48
  6. * From 1983 album No Frills
  7. "Just My Imagination " – 3:54
  8. * From 2000 album Bette
  9. "The Rose" – 3:40
  10. * From 1980 album The Rose
  11. "When a Man Loves a Woman" – 4:42
  12. * From 1980 album The Rose
  13. "I've Still Got My Health" – 1:32
  14. * From 1988 album Beaches
  15. "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" – 5:30
  16. * From 1990 album Some People's Lives
  17. "Hello in There" – 4:17
  18. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  19. "The Glory of Love" – 3:16
  20. * From 1988 album Beaches
  21. "Tenderly" – 3:11
  22. * From 2003 album Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
  23. "Wind Beneath My Wings" – 4:52
  24. * From 1988 album Beaches
  25. "Do You Want to Dance?" – 2:44
  26. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  27. "Baby Mine" – 2:27
  28. * From 1988 album Beaches
  29. "From a Distance" – 4:37
  30. * From 1990 album Some People's Lives
  31. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" – 2:25
  32. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  33. "Friends" – 2:50
  34. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  35. "Something Your Heart Has Been Telling Me" – 5:10
  36. * 1984 demo, previously unreleased
  37. "Cool Yule" – 2:28
  38. * From 2006 album Cool Yule
  39. "My One True Friend* – 3:50
  40. * From 1998 album Bathhouse Betty Amazon MP3 Store bonus track
  41. "The Gift of Love*" – 4:01
  42. * From 1990 album Some People's Lives iTunes UK bonus track

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