Mud Will Be Flung Tonight

Live album by Bette Midler

Released

1985

Recorded

April 30, 1985 - May 1, 1985

Genre

Pop, Comedy

Length

39:56

Label

Atlantic

Producer

Bette Midler, Bob Kaminsky, Jerry Blatt

Bette Midler chronology

No Frills
(1983)

Mud Will Be Flung Tonight
(1985)

Just Hits
(1987)

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Mud Will Be Flung Tonight is an album by the American singer and comedian Bette Midler. It is a live recording of one of Midler's stand-up comedy shows performed in 1985. Although primarily a spoken word album, Midler is accompanied onstage by her long-time musical collaborator Marc Shaiman on piano. The album captures Midler "throwing mud into the faces of some of your favorites", among them Madonna ("Like a virgin.....? Touched for the very first time....? For the very first time today!") Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen and Olivia Newton-John ("Let's get physical... let me hear your body talk..... My body said "Fuck you!!!") and it also includes the original version of the song "Otto Titsling", three years later re-recorded in the studio and prominently featured in the movie Beaches.

The album was released on CD for the first time in 1989. Unlike the rest of Midler's discography up to this point, this album was never reissued on CD and is currently out of print.

Track listing

Side A

"Taking Aim" (Bette Midler) - 5:09
"Fit Or Fat 'Fat As I Am'" (Bette Midler, Jerry Blatt, Marc Shaiman) - 3:10
"Marriage, Movies, Madonna And Mick" (Bette Midler) - 6:39
"Vickie Eydie" / "I'm Singing Broadway" (Bette Midler, Jerry Blatt) - 4:44

Side B

"Coping" (Bette Midler) - 1:40
"The Unfettered Boob" (Bette Midler) - 2:58
"Otto Titsling" (Bette Midler, Jerry Blatt, Charlebe Seeger) - 4:20
"Why Bother?" (Bette Midler) - 6:44
"Soph" (Bette Midler) - 4:32

Personnel

Bette Midler - vocals
Marc Shaiman - piano

Production

Bette Midler - record producer, writer
Bob Kaminsky - record producer
Jerry Blatt - record producer
Additional material by: Jerry Blatt, Frank Mula, Lenny Ripps, Marc Shaiman, Charlene Seeger, Bruce Vilanch
Marc Shaiman - musical arranger
Bonnie Bruckheimer-Martell - associate producer
Recorded at Budd Friedman's Improvisation, Los Angeles, California, April 30 - May 1, 1985
Recorded by Guy Charboneau & Cliff Bonnell, Le Mobile
Mixed and edited by John Alberts at Regent Sound Studio
Second engineer: Mark Partis
Assistant engineer: Ralph Kelsey

Bette Midler

Discography
Filmography

Albums

Studio albums:	The Divine Miss M (1972) Bette Midler (1973) Songs for the New Depression (1976) Broken Blossom (1977) Thighs and Whispers (1979) No Frills (1983) Some People's Lives (1990) Bette of Roses (1995) Bathhouse Betty (1998) Bette (2000) Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook (2003) Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook (2005) Cool Yule (2006) It's the Girls! (2014)

Soundtracks:	The Rose (1979) Beaches (1988) For the Boys (1991) Gypsy (1993)

Live albums:	Live at Last (1977) Divine Madness (1980) Mud Will Be Flung Tonight (1985)

Compilations:	The Best of Bette (1978) The Best of Bette (II) (1981) Just Hits (1987) Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits (1993) (Jackpot!) The Best Bette (2008) Memories of You (2010)

Video albums:	Divine Madness (1980) The Bette Midler Show (1984) Diva Las Vegas (1997) The Showgirl Must Go On (2011)

Other albums:	In Harmony (1980) Oliver & Company (1988) Tonin' (1995) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) The First Wives Club (1996) That Old Feeling (1997) Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III (2004)

Singles

"Do You Want to Dance?" (1972) "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (1973) "Friends" (1973) "In the Mood" (1974) "Strangers in the Night" (1976) "Old Cape Cod" (1976) "Buckets of Rain" (1978) "Hang on in There Baby" (1979) "Big Noise from Winnetka" (1979) "When a Man Loves a Woman" (1980) "The Rose" (1980) "Chapel of Love" (Live) (1980) "All I Need to Know" (1983) "Favorite Waste of Time" (1983) "Beast of Burden" (1984) "Under the Boardwalk" (1988) "Wind Beneath My Wings" (1989) "From a Distance" (1990) "Night and Day" (1991) "In My Life" (1992) "In This Life" (1995) "You Don't Own Me" w G.Hawn and D.Keaton (1997) "I'm Beautiful" (1999) "White Christmas" (2004) "Fever" (2006) "Be My Baby" (2014)

Other songs:	"We Are the World" (1985) "I Put a Spell on You" (1993) "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" (1995) "Somewhere Along the Way" (1997) "Manhattan" (2004) "The Greatest Ears in Town" (2010)

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