Bette Midler Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

From her 1972 The Divine Miss M album, Bette Midler performs Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. “For The Boys“ director Mark Rydell’s 1991 WWII-Korea-Vietnam USO show odyssey produced Bette Midler’s second Best Actress Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win. She revisited some of the original Divine Miss M roots that had yielded her first chart hit in 1973. Bette Midler’s cover version peaked at number one on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart and the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1973. The single was produced by Barry Manilow. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy was a major hit for The Andrews Sisters and an iconic World War II tune that was written for the Abbott & Costello comedy film, Buck Privates in 1941. The song is ranked No. 6 on Songs of the Century. “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy“ was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost out to “The Last Time I Saw Paris“. Bette Midler’s version introduced the song