mr. mittens (akmed) wrote,
mr. mittens
akmed

ladies of the canyon

a huge huge slab of ghey history- here's bette midler at the continental baths with barry manilow on the piano doing a joni mitchell song, ' for free'. happy birthday bette.



one of her best songs a cover of often covered leon russell song ' superstar':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XkTfOMDINQ

and despite her brother's syrupy " i wanna be burt bacharach but am not quite there" arrangements karen carpenter's version because she had an amazing voice:



she did play the drums, for real.

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