Live at Last
Live album by Bette Midler
Released	June 1977
Recorded	1976, 1977
Venue	Cleveland Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio
Genre	Vocal
Length	87:18
Label	Atlantic 2SD 9000
Producer	Lew Hahn
Bette Midler chronology
Songs for the New Depression (1976) Live at Last (1977) Broken Blossom (1977)
Singles from Live at Last
"You're Movin' Out Today"

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[2]

Live at Last is the first live album by American singerBette Midler, a two-disc set released in 1977, Midler's fourth album release on theAtlantic Records label. The album spawned from her live, recorded performance, "The Depression Tour" in Cleveland, entitled "The Bette Midler Show". The album was released on CD for the first time in 1993. A limited edition remastered version of the album was released byFriday Music in 2012.

Live at Last documents a full-length live performance at the Cleveland Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio on the 1976Depression Tour, and sees Midler, her backing groupThe Staggering Harlettes and her band Betsy and the Blowboys covering material from her three first albums as well asThe Supremes' "Up the Ladder to the Roof",Neil Young's "Birds",Ringo Starr's "Oh My My", the mock lounge actThe Vicky Eydie Show doing a "global revue" and the song cycleThe Story of Nanette. The album also captures Midler's rapport with - or loving heckling of - the Cleveland audience, a monologue about fried eggs and a part that since has become a staple of her live performances: the raunchySophie Tucker jokes.

Live at Last features two new studio recordings. "You're Moving Out Today", co-written by Midler andCarole Bayer Sager and produced byTom Dowd, was the only single release from the album (#42 Billboard's Single Chart, #11 Adult Contemporary). "Bang, You're Dead", which was also not performed during the Cleveland show, replaced "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman" on the album because writersNick Ashford andValerie Simpson - who wrote the song for Midler - laid down an ultimatum that if she did not release the song on her next album, they would give it to another singer. Therefore, the song was recorded in a studio and put onto the album.^{[citation needed]}

Live at Last reached #49 on Billboard's album chart in the autumn of 1977.

Side A:

1. Backstage - 0:18
2. "Friends"/"Oh My My" (Mark Klingman, Buzzy Linhart)/(Richard Starkey,Vincent Poncia) - 2:28
3. "Bang You're Dead" (Valerie Simpson,Nickolas Ashford) - 3:15
4. "Birds" (Neil Young) - 4:39
5. Comic Relief (monologue) - 2:38
6. "In the Mood" (Joe Garland, Andy Razaf) - 2:09
7. "Hurry On Down" (Nellie Lutcher) - 2:07

Side B:

1. "Shiver Me Timbers" (Tom Waits) - 4:00
2. The Vicki Eydie Show:
   • "Around the World" (Victor Young, Harold Adamson) - 0:23
   • "Istanbul" (Jimmy Kennedy, Nat Simon) - 0:55
   • "Fiesta In Rio" (Bette Midler, Jerry Blatt) - 1:52
   • "South Seas Scene" / "Hawaiian War Chant" (Rik Carlok)/(Ralph Freed,Prince Leleiohaku,Johnny Noble) - 5:13
   • "Lullaby of Broadway" (Al Dubin,Harry Warren) - 2:00

Intermission:

3. "You're Moving Out Today" (studio recording) (Bette Midler,Carole Bayer Sager, Bruce Roberts) - 2:56

Side C:

1. "Delta Dawn" (Alex Harvey,Larry Collins) - 5:54
2. "Long John Blues" (Tommy George) - 2:36
3. Sophie Tucker Jokes (monologue) - 2:38
4. The Story of Nanette:
   • "Nanette" (Howard Dietz) - 0:54
   • "Alabama Song" (Bertolt Brecht,Kurt Weill) - 1:34
   • "Drinking Again" (Doris Tauber,Johnny Mercer) - 4:25
   • "Mr. Rockefeller" (Bette Midler, Jerry Blatt) - 4:00

Side D:

1. The Story of Nanette (cont.):
   • "Ready to Begin Again"/"Do You Want to Dance?" (Jerry Leiber,Mike Stoller)/(Bobby Freeman) - 3:23
2. Fried Eggs (monologue) - 2:37
3. "Hello In There" (John Prine) - 3:16
4. Finale:
   • "Up the Ladder to the Roof" (Vincent DiMirco, Frank Wilson) - 2:45
   • "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (Don Raye, Hughie Prince) - 3:04
   • "Friends" (Mark Klingman,Buzzy Linhart) - 2:21

• Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M. -lead vocals
• The Staggering Harlettes -Sharon Redd,Ula Hedwig,Charlotte Crossley -backing vocals
• The Orchestra - Betsy and the Blowboys
• Don York -musical director,keyboards
• Lou Volpe -guitar
• Miles Krasner -trumpet
• Richard Trifan -keyboards
• Francisco Centeno -bass guitar
• Ira "Buddy" Williams -drums
• Joseph Mero -percussion,vibraphones
• Jaroslav Jakubovic -reed instruments
• Elizabeth Kane -harp

• Lew Hahn -record producer
• Recorded live at The Cleveland Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio.
• Mobile facilities provided by Fedco Audio Labs
• Jack Malken -recording engineer
• Remote recording produced byArif Mardin
• Lew Hahn - re-mixing
• Tom Dowd - producer on "You're Moving Out Today"
• Charlie Calello - arranger on "You're Moving Out Today"
• Jimmy Douglass - engineer on "You're Moving Out Today"
• Kenn Duncan - cover photograph
• Steinbicker / Houghton - performance photography
• Bob Defrin / Abie Sussman - art direction
• Jerry Blatt - special material
• Bruce Vilanch - special material
• Bette Midler - special material
• Produced for the stage byAaron Russo

• Bette Midler live albums
• 1977 live albums
• Atlantic Records live albums

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