| Show - - ENTEIITAINAIENT The Sall I Ake Tribtinv C4 - Niontio l'ibniary 2 2004 Bette on it: Midler will be remembered for her music BY WAYNE LEE (JAY kneghl Rader SrtntoSerrtrr i covers Sometimes the no up the music Stich is the case with Bette Midler The IHawaii-borperforiner now 58 was named for Bette Davis by an ambitious stage mother And to much of the public Nlid ler is best known for her film career her failed TV sitcom and the outrageously hy humor oilher live concerts Sell styled as "the Divine Miss NI" from her earliest (lays Midler will never Ibe Bette Davis But soinewhere along the toy she became something else pist as good° Sometimes unnoticed under the onslaught of outrageous patter manic multiple onstage pervinal ides and uneven skills as a film actress Midler has become all the greatest interpreter time for American popular song Yes you read that right 01 A4 ' t ' 7s' i' ' I - 'Y ''''''' A 4 4 '' V 4 ' IlliX141-1M- - i ' F '41 4 -- :1' !'t '''a efly‘oir d ' -- — ' 4 1 3 1 '11 1 't ' ' 4 i ' 'NtsA 1't t ill t 1 4 : il 1 re ' 1 7I C tI' lere's why I make this claim: First Ithere's the instrument ie the voice No amount of training can maim a voice happen where one hasn't been born you might just as well try to grow a redwood in a pat lo planter Midler has a voice as sturdy as a redwood with true upper notes when she wants them great low range a Mermanesque ability to blast and a sure sense of pitch Lots of singers on the popt I metalcountry rockheavy Broadvvay side of the musical spectrum (by which I mean the 99 percent of the music industry hat's not (lassical) have or had gloriously gorgeous native vocal quality tut popetc singers most of whom support multimill a year and lifestyles equally ravenous egos tend to search desperately for what audienceS want to hear and give I ion-doll- I - t ' r Anwhi Rader NetecSmver Bette Midler performs at Madison Square Garden In New York In again and again One the hest examples of this is Barbra Streisand who having discovered about five good vocal mannerisms has repeated them ad nauseam !Midler however has constantly explored variety of tone and color and style Early on NI idler melted the speakers on many a '70s stereo) system with feminine sexiness I can distinctly remember driving okiwn a dirt road in backcountry Oklahoma when a voice oozed through the radio on a Top 40 station with the phrase "Do) you want to dance?" 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We hope so instead of sweeping So celluthrough Bette Davis-likloid melodramas as her mother must have intended Midler points a musical spotlight for a brief moment creating a character painting a scene telling a story — then lets it all disappear with the closing chord Bette Midler is not Bette Davis but she can bring out the hankies as surely as Davis seduced tears or awe from bygone moviegoers Yes you can believe It: Fans will be listening scholars will be studying and singers will be imitating Midler decades after most of today's commercial music stars are forgotten And it's all in the service of another nearly forgotten aspect of the pop singer's art: the ability to interpret to spin a mood or tell N - All4- -i-- vrzeitaittommtams7amolv:: Eft —4 I ik N 6t o lot t 4 -: i"- 1 ii! 1 471 ) f 07 r 374e-'71- tr MitamotoiN 4 -6t -- I |
