| Just Hits | ||||
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| Released | 1987 | |||
| Recorded | 1972–1983 | |||
| Genre | Vocal | |||
| Length | 62:20 | |||
| Label | K-Tel | |||
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Just Hits is a compilation album by American singerBette Midler, released on theAtlantic Records label in Australia and New Zealand in 1987. The album was the third greatest hits compilation with Midler to be released in Australia, following 1978'sThe Best of Bette and a second release with thesame title on theK-tel label in 1981.
The eighteen trackJust Hits includes two titles from Midler's then most recent studio albumNo Frills (1983), theRolling Stones cover "Beast of Burden" and "Is It Love", but mainly focuses on material from her 1972 debutThe Divine Miss M and repertoire standards like "Friends", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Do You Wanna Dance", "Leader of The Pack" and "Delta Dawn" and the 1980 soundtrackThe Rose and songs like "When A Man Loves A Woman", "Stay With Me" and the title track "The Rose". The compilation also, somewhat unusually, includes the last sixty seconds of thePhil Spector medley ""Uptown"/"Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)"/"Da Doo Ron Ron" from the 1973 albumBette Midler and consequently only "Da Doo Ron Ron". The rare single version of the 1977 track "You're Moving Out Today" also makes its third appearance on this compilation.
The picture used for the cover ofJust Hits is in fact the very same as theK-Tel version ofThe Best of Bette which shows Midler in concert, taken from the movieThe Rose.
The first Bette Midlergreatest hits compilation to be released worldwide, including the US and Canada, was 1993'sExperience the Divine.
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