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.
