This was a compilation album of various artists who had left lasting impressions at the infamous New York night club, "The Bitter End." Bette Midler's version of "Daytime Hustler" from her album "The Divine Miss M" was included.
In 1975, Bette began recording several tracks with Motown producer Hal Davis (Jackson 5, Aretha Franklin) for her third album, originally to to be titled "Miss M Goes Motown." It's been said that Bette didn't like the songs that she had done with Hal and didn't want to release then.
The album was originally intended to be a concept album, which was going to feature many songs that Bette herself penned.
For every Broadwaylullaby that hit the right notes as a Hollywood melody - like Grease, which segued from stage to screen in 1978 and scored double successes - there was a chorus of very off-key failures.
The theatre world heaped 12 Tonys on them in 2002 and Broadway enthusiasts paid as much as $300 a seat to see them in a brief return run a year later.
Broadway fave Bebe Neuwirth, for example, was at least as obvious a contender for her role, Velma Kelly, as Lane and Broderick would be as Bialystock and Bloom in the stage-to-screen transition of their show a couple of years later.
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