Bette Midler. A recent photo by Kevin Winter from Getty Images. ©

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger

My father swore to me that we were related to Bette Midler and that she spent time with some New York cousins when her family returned to the mainland from Hawaii. I guess I believed that, but  I never saw any proof.  At any rate, Bette Midler has been one of my favorites for so many years  and my favorite album has been The Divine Miss M.

Bette is now 68 years old, but she will launch her new album on November 4, and it is a tribute to the girl groups who influenced her, going back to the Boswell Sisters (who we sometimes feature on BF)  to the ’90’s group TLC.  This album has so many great numbers, and Bette has rearranged some of them—- can’t wait to hear what she has done. I pre-ordered my digital copy of the album on Amazon.

However, for now,  Warner Brothers has given us a taste by making the opening cut available, and it is the Ronettes with “Be My Baby.”  I’m especially interested in hearing  the reworking of the Shirelle’s hit “Baby It’s You.”

Check out the song list for  It’s The Girls tracklist below:

01. “Be My Baby” (The Ronettes)

02. “One Fine Day” (The Chiffons)

03. “Bei Mir Bist Du Schon” (The Andrews Sisters)

04. “Baby It’s You” (The Shirelles)

05. “Tell Him” (The Exciters)

06. “He’s Sure The Boy I Love,” feat. Darlene Love (The Crystals)

07. “Mr. Sandman” (The Chordettes)

08. “Come And Get These Memories” (Martha & The Vandellas)

09. “Too Many Fish In The Sea” (The Marvelettes)

10. “Teach Me Tonight” (The DeCastro Sisters)

11. “Waterfalls” (TLC)

12. “You Can’t Hurry Love” (The Supremes)

13. “Give Him A Great Big Kiss” (The Shangri-Las)

14. “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” (The Shirelles)

15. “It’s The Girl” (The Boswell Sisters)

BETTE MIDLER  “Be My Baby”  from the album It’s the Girls