Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook

Infobox Album
Name = Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Bette Midler


Released = September 30, 2003
Recorded = 2003
Genre =
Length = 30:51
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Barry Manilow
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wcfwxqualdae link]
Last album = "Bette"
(2000)
This album = "Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook"
(2003)
Next album = "Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook"
(2005)

Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook is an album by the American singer Bette Midler. It was produced by Barry Manilow and marked the first time that Midler had worked with Manilow in more than twenty years.

After the death of singer Rosemary Clooney, Manilow claims to have had a dream that he would produce a tribute album and Midler would be the singer on the album. In the liner notes, Midler writes, "When Barry approached me ("I had this dream!") about recording an album of Rosemary's standards, I was excited, but apprehensive. I wanted to be respectful, but I felt we had to find something new to say as well, and in these (mostly) new arrangements...I believe we have."

"Bette Midler Sings the Rosemay Clooney Songbook" was Midler's first album with Columbia Records after being dropped by Warner Brothers in 2001 for declining record sales. It was followed up with "Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook", which was somewhat less successful.

Track listing

# "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 1:44
# "This Ole House" (Stuart Hamblen) - 3:02
# "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) - 2:31
#* Duet with Barry Manilow
# "Hey There" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 3:30
# "Tenderly" (Walter Lloyd Gross, Jack Lawrence) - 3:11
# "Come On-A My House" (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., William Saroyan) - 1:50
# "Mambo Italiano" (Bob Merrill) - 2:50
# "Sisters" (Berlin) - 2:53
#* Duet with Linda Ronstadt
# "Memories Of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) - 3:20
# "In the Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) - 2:44
# "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:16

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