BETTE MIDLER - Marahuana (Continental Bath)

Bette Midler at the Continental Bath New York 1971. Barry Manilow on the Piano.

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• Bette
• Midler
• Continental
• Bath
• Marahuana
• Barry
• Manilow

[beltingfordummies]

Videos like this are the reason youtube f-ing rocks. thats for this post. a performance i never thought i'd see. thank you.

[charterloungeparty]

Incredible historic significance in this video! Thanks for sharing such a fine rarity.

[TygerlillysTunes]

Loved this video! Love Bette and Barry! But learned lots from the comments. Thanks for the mental image of Bette and Geraldo. Eww.. Hope she's got better taste these days!

[margotdarby]

Ah yes. This would be the Sony Porta-Pak era. I knew someone who knew her from this venue, and sublet her apartment. Bette appeared on the Tonight Show and said "This AWful boy was living in my apartment and left it a TOTAL mess." Other times, other mores.

[lou2u]

@lf1234

I know she was upset that Geraldo wrote about having sex with her in his autobiography. She was quoted, "Oh, he was a slimeball! If I had known then that he was going to do this twenty years later, I never would have given him the time of day."

I was just making a joke at his expense.

[lf1234]

@lou2u , I don't think she was particuarly ashamed of her very outrageous, edgy persona. Just that the rest of the creampuff, tumbleweeds-for-brains world was not ready for it 100%.

[lou2u]

@lf1234

To be fair though, a LOT of people did things during the 1970s that they tried to forget. For example, poor Bette did Geraldo Rivera.

[dandbear]

great video - I remember it mostly well - just wish I remember who I was watching it with - oy!

[XLHomelite]

@beltingfordummies

This is also on bette's album, songs for the new depression. Have the vynyl somewhere, will

have to rip and post it.

[lf1234]

This is why underground rocks; when Bette when mainstream she was sanatized, especially once the 1970s were over.

[Alvin4NY]

@hardsmith52 - I can't imagine anything more fun....

[cobolsaurus]

Geez... THese videos are true documents. Of Bette Midler and Barry Manilow's start but also of what NY's gay social life was in the pre-aids era.