Bette Midler - The Rose (HD music video 1979) First Time Reaction

[@jillk368]

Beautiful reaction. Thanks for posting this!! A few interesting things about this video and Bette Midler: The video: this is footage from a film called The Rose. Here is a paragraph from Wikipedia about the film: Loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin, the film follows a self-destructive rock star in the late 1960s, who struggles to cope with the pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager. The vocalist: Bette Midler is a singer/actress or actress/singer. Though her acting roles have mostly been comedic (she is a dynamic, funny, over the top/animated personality and just nails these roles) she is also an excellent dramatic actress. Some Bette Midler comedies: Ruthless People, Drowning Mona, Hocus Pocus, Big Business and The First Wives Club. Some Bette Midler dramas: The Rose, Beaches, For the Boys, Gypsy and Freak Show. "The Divine Miss M" (as she's sometimes known), at the beginning of her music career, performed in gay bathhouses (in the 1960s) at a time when being gay was equated with being a non-human. She stood by the gay community through the early years of the AIDS crisis when anti-gay discrimination was toxic and celebrities speaking out for the gay community would be ostracized. She helped raise countless money for AIDS research and has been charitable in many other causes as well. She remains a gay icon to this day, though she herself is straight. Her piano accompanist was Barry Manilow (another great rabbit hole). She's a great rabbit hole, for music and movies. I strongly suggest "From A Distance" a song she performed in the 1980s that is quite beautiful. That was a lot of typing. I guess I'm just a big, big fan of the Divine Miss M (I'm a 5-paragraph-size fan). Glad you enjoyed your intro to Bette. All the best.

[@Dannyboy.]

You should react to her song "Wind beneath my wings" which is her greatest success.

[@alicehenderson7983]

Jam Jam, her two other Grammy songs were, #2, Wind Beneath My Wings from the movie " Beaches" this song was her first # 1 song, it was the # 1 song of the year & record of the year for 1989, winning her the Grammy for 1990, her #3 Grammy was " From a Distance" for 1990, she got that Grammy 1991, also watch her tear jerker " Stella" an amazing movie, she is a great actor as well as singer, she has a lot of Albums & now they are all on CD's she traveled around the world singing in concerts on stage, she is fantastic on stage, too, you will enjoy watching her, her last big concert tour was in 2015, she was almost 70, with an amazing voice still, just released two new movies, so she has an amazing career

[@barbarasimmons5777]

Check out the movie, that this came from. The Rose. I've been a huge fan of Bette Midler since college in the 70s. ♥

[@alicehenderson7983]

Jam Jam watch the movie " The Rose" it was her first movie, she won 2 Golden Globe Awards & an Oscar nomination, & the song The Rose, her first Grammy song,

[@alicehenderson7983]

Jam Jam, look up One Night Only" a 50 minute stage performance in December 2014, she was 69, beautiful & sung songs from her new CD that had just been released, old songs of the girl bands from the old days, through the 1960's & the TLC hit " Waterfalls " it will blow you away.

[@alicehenderson7983]

Jam Jam, also look up this song of Bette's, To Deserve You" it is a very good song, it's on her " Bette of Roses " CD, from 1995, great songs on it

[@alicehenderson7983]

Her name is pronounced " Midler, Mid-Ler, she was born in Hawaii, she has an amazing life

[@alicehenderson7983]

Jam Jam, I want you to look up her songs & her live concerts they are on " youtube" she has always sung her Grammy songs live too,

[@alicehenderson7983]

@jillk368, I am a huge fan of Bette's, have all her CD's & all movies, all books written about her plus the books she wrote.

[@erllive1]

who doesn't know BETTE come on

[@jamiesexius7602]

I didn't..👍

[@allanjolley]

you have to watch the movie better than this trust me