Mud Will Be Flung Tonight

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
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Mud Will Be Flung Tonight is an album by the American singer and comedienne 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

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

Side B

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

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