| Miss Bette Davis | 
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Sales Rank: 81591
Category: Music
Artist: Bette Davis
Publisher: Drg
Studio: Drg
Manufacturer: Drg
Label: Drg
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 19058
UPC: 021471905823
EAN: 0021471905823
ASIN: B0000C0FC6
Release Date: October 7, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Overture/They're Either Too Young or Too Old | | • | Life is a Lonely Thing | | • | Until It's Time For You To Go | | • | Growing Older, Feeling Younger | | • | It Can't Be Wrong | | • | I've Written A Letter to Daddy | | • | Loneliness | | • | Mother of the Bride | | • | Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | | • | As Mago Channing (Dialogue from the Car Scene) from 20th Century-Fox | | • | I Wish You Love |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Bette Davis off key March 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a must have if you love Bette. This woman did everything in her power to please everyone and even if it didn't please everyone, she did it anyway. Miss Davis has a voice you will never forget.
Not bad at all! November 28, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This CD is a must have for anyone who proudly sticks on their bumper a "Why be normal?" sticker. No one with average tastes or interests would give this record the time of day and would no doubt ridicule it to death. That's their loss. For the iconoclastic and weirdos (meant as a compliment, mind you), out there, rejoice! Bette is no Bing Crosby in the vocal department, but who is? Accept her limitations behind the microphone and enjoy her undeniably good phrasing and the personality she brings to each song. The highlight is "Wrong," the haunting Max Steiner theme from Now, Voyager. This one song is worth the price of admission, I promise you. Bette brings a breathless, mesmerizing quality to the song, almost Dietrichesque in its pathos. In addition, the arrangements are excellent. Gord Jenkins or Nelson Riddle would be suitably proud of the string section.
Other reviewers claim the CD is so bad it's good, but I humbly disagree. If you're just looking for a campy, laugh-out-loud experience, look elsewhere. The comedic element here is minimal. Bette doesn't butcher the songs all that much. If you adore this legend, then you have excellent taste and this will allow you to embrace this oddity in all its many facets. And I will go to my grave that her interpretation of Wrong is beautiful in its own pathetic way.
 Depends on who you are August 7, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are a 'normal' member of the CD buying public, you will not enjoy this CD. If you are someone who enjoys something so bad it's fascinating, this is the car wreck for you. If Ed Wood had recorded an LP, it would have sounded like this. Bette Davis tried her hand at musical works rather often for someone who had no talent in the area. Further evidence is the hilarious "Two's Company" cast CD (which she literally tried to buy up and destroy when it was issued as a vinyl LP, once she realized people were laughing at it). The topper is the bonus clip of Bette singing a rock single based on the title of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" on the Andy Williams show, issued on the recent double DVD (though there she seemed to be in on the joke, doing the twist sort of as it fades out). There was always a streak of the amateur in her, even in the best performances, which is a very wide streak when she sings. It always made her more interesting than her totally professional rival Joan Crawford. Oh, if Franchot Tone had succumbed to Bette, we might have lost the greatest feud since Elizabeth and Mary. Too bad they never played that; though Bette did play Elizabeth twice and Joan played Mary for the Lux Radio Theater.
 LOVED IT July 13, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I thought the cd was great. I had no idea that Bette Davis sang or that this CD existed. If you love Bette Davis, its a must have.
Betty Davis Signed a lot of contracts and got stuck May 25, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
with this one for columbia records. the grueling joyful noises made are in part her real singing voice and the fact she had been duped to begin with. A friend of mine has this original album and i must have it as it is a record of a fine lady unacoustomed to her time period or the way in which SHE handled everyone else. Mostly i gotta have it to prove betty did sing. boy what a find.
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