Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook

Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook is an album by Bette Midler, produced by Barry Manilow as a follow-up to their Grammy-nominated Rosemary Clooney songbook. Released in 2005, the Peggy Lee tribute was Midler's first album produced in the DualDisc format, although the DVD features were limited to a few short video clips; the initial release was affected by Extended Copy Protection technology.[2]

Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
Studio album by
Bette Midler
ReleasedOctober 25, 2005
Recorded2005
GenreVocal
LabelColumbia
ProducerBarry Manilow & David Benson Executive Producers Jay Landers & Gary Kief
Bette Midler chronology
Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
(2003)		 Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
(2005)		 Cool Yule
(2006)
Singles from Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
  1. "Fever"
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Track listing
  1. "Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) – 3:38
  2. "Alright, Okay, You Win" (Mayme Watts, Sid Wyche) – 2:48
  3. "I Love Being Here With You" (Peggy Lee, Frank Loesser, Bill Schluger) – 2:46
    • Duet With Barry Manilow
  4. "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 4:54
  5. "Is That All There Is?" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 4:26
  6. "I'm a Woman" (Leiber, Stoller) – 2:28
  7. "He's a Tramp" (Sonny Burke, Lee) – 2:39
  8. "The Folks Who Live on the Hill" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:07
  9. "Big Spender" (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields) – 2:18
  10. "Mr. Wonderful" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) – 4:33
  11. "He Needs Me" (Arthur Hamilton) – 4:09 [Bonus Track on CDs sold at Barnes & Noble]

Fever was remixed by L.E.X and reached #4 on the Billboard Dance Club Play charts in 2006.

Charts
Chart (2005) Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC)[3] 41
US Billboard 200[4] 10

References
  1. AllMusic Review
  3. "Bette Midler | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  4. "Bette Midler Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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