The Bette Midler Show - Up the ladder to the roof video free download

Jason Marcel

Bette Midler's trick is that she's the working class diva. When she does a cover like this, she carries on in the number the way a regular person would when they grab their remote control in their room and sing a song they like.Of course, she sings it better than us regular folk, but I think the people who think she's singing it "wrong" or "off" or "bad" are kind of missing the context of it. She's not just singing a song; she's paying tribute to it with that particular style in mind.

positiveposition

I just heard this song close the new HBO show Getting On and I had to find it. I like her cover of this song...great energy...been a Bette fan since the early 70's Divine Miss M...over and out.

Tom Duban

Brilliant Performance. Brilliant Performer.

jon609

this is from her Live at Last tour, back in the 70's....Fabulous!!!

Rafael Storm

Facsist pig!

Rafael Storm

No, it's not. Katey Sagal became a Harlette later on. This was Bette's best and most loyal group of Harlettes: the late Sharon Redd, Ula Hedwig, and Charlotte Crossley.

Malekai2000

BEST Bette EVER!!!

Kenneth Matthew Green

I do believe that is Katey Segal (Peg Bundy) in the middle of the Harlettes

Tom Yaz

jean terrell should kick her ass for this horrible soull-less performance.

Tom Yaz

@ScottJayNY2011 she can hardly breathe and she's so winded.. and prolly high. yeah the concept was fresh for the time,

P. Pijpers

When Bette sing 'Strangers in the Night' (which in my book is an awful, dreary and boring kind of song) SHE makes it sound like magic and making you cry on top of that. Must be a kind of genius, my sweet laughing and crying Bette...

etrax2000

@ScottPSProductions SCHMUCK AND TUCAS.. THAT SAYS IT ALL !..... OH..... HOW THOSE FROM HYMIE TOWN PROTECT THEIR OWN. HEIL HITLER !

etrax2000

@hallauthor To be honest Mary is very delusionall on so many levels and by the way this performance by bette is an insult to music, let's hope that someone has posted the version that the public didn't get to hear. on those old shows they had a "sweetner" who replaced the audio on disasters such as this

hallauthor

@etrax2000 Mary calling Jean difficult? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

dj martin

don't be so ugly mean people calling names saying nasty things, just don't watch it save yourself the torment you don't know a thing about a true pure natural entertainer- Bette is the best ever.

JULIUS

@PGinOZ you can buy it on ioffer.com

stevensondavid096

you who called her a pig...well it says more about YOU than it says about Bette...oh im sooo sorry--NOT

Aaron Owen Bailey

This video has confirmed for me what I already knew... Bette Midler is a closet African-American!! Although I prefer Sherie Renee Scott's smooth, sultry vocals on the 'Every Rapture' version, this performance could have rivaled James Brown and even Tina Turner in their hey days.

Tom Yaz

awful. should be puniable by law. she ruins this song it's not her style. you cant rush a slow soul classic. at 1:45 it get really bad. What an ugly set as well.

Paul Gasper

when oh when will they release these shows on DVD?

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