Jackpot! The Best Bette

Compilation album by Bette Midler released in 2008
Jackpot! The Best Bette
Greatest hits album by
Bette Midler
ReleasedSeptember 23, 2008
LabelRhino Entertainment
Bette Midler chronology
Cool Yule
(2006) 		Jackpot! The Best Bette
(2008) 		Memories of You
(2010)
Singles from Jackpot! The Best Bette
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Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

Jackpot! The Best Bette, released as The Best Bette in Europe, 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 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 (Arif's Dance Radio Mix)" 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.[2]

Track listing

  1. "In the Mood" (Joe Garland, Andy Razaf) – 2:39
    • From 1973 album Bette Midler
  2. "This Ole House" (Stuart Hamblen) – 3:02
  3. "Beast of Burden" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:48
    • From 1983 album No Frills
  4. "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 3:54
    • From 2000 album Bette
  5. "The Rose" (Amanda McBroom) – 3:40
    • From 1980 album The Rose
  6. "When a Man Loves a Woman" (Calvin Lewis, Andrew Wright) – 4:42
    • From 1980 album The Rose
  7. "I've Still Got My Health" (Cole Porter) – 1:32
    • From 1988 album Beaches
  8. "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 5:30
  9. "Hello in There" (John Prine) – 4:17
  10. "The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill) – 3:16
    • From 1988 album Beaches
  11. "Tenderly" (Walter Lloyd Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:11
  12. "Wind Beneath My Wings" (Larry Henley, Jeff Silbar) – 4:52
    • From 1988 album Beaches
  13. "Do You Want to Dance?" (Bobby Freeman) – 2:44
  14. "Baby Mine" (Ned Washington, Frank Churchill) – 2:27
    • From 1988 album Beaches
  15. "From a Distance" (Julie Gold) – 4:37
  16. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (Single Version) (Don Raye, Hughie Prince) – 2:25
  17. "Friends" (Mark Klingman, Buzzy Linhart) – 2:50
  18. "Something Your Heart Has Been Telling Me" (Robert Kraft, Bette Midler, Barry Reynolds) – 5:10
    • 1984 demo, previously unreleased
  19. "Cool Yule" (Steve Allen, Eric Kornfeld) – 2:28
  20. "My One True Friend* (From the Motion Picture "One True Thing") – 3:50
  21. "The Gift of Love*" – 4:01
  • Does not appear on earlier versions of this CD.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Irish Albums (IRMA)[3] 4
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[4] 36
Scottish Albums (OCC)[5] 4
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[6] 10
UK Albums (OCC)[7] 6
US Billboard 200[8] 66

Year-end charts

Chart (2008) Position
UK Albums (OCC)[9] 37
Chart (2009) Position
UK Albums (OCC)[10] 42

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[11] 2× Platinum 600,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Jackpot! The Best Bette Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  2. ^ Alan Jones (November 24, 2014). "Official Charts analysis: 1D land fourth consecutive No.1 LP as Four sells 141,780". Music Week. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  3. ^ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 13, 2009". Chart-Track. IRMA. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  4. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Bette Midler – The Best Bette". Hung Medien. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  5. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  6. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Bette Midler – The Best Bette". Hung Medien. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  7. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  8. ^ "Bette Midler Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  9. ^ "End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2008". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  10. ^ "End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2009". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  11. ^ "British album certifications – Bette Midler – The Best Bette". British Phonographic Industry.
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