Just Hits


Just Hits is a compilation album by American singer Bette Midler, released on the Atlantic 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's The [Best of Bette (1978 album)|The Best of Bette] and a second release with the same title on the K-tel label in 1981.
The eighteen track Just Hits includes two titles from Midler's then most recent studio album No Frills, the Rolling Stones cover "Beast of Burden" and "Is It Love", but mainly focuses on material from her 1972 debut The 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 soundtrack The [Rose (soundtrack)|The 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 the Phil Spector medley ""Uptown"/"Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)"/"Da Doo Ron Ron" from the 1973 album Bette 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 of Just Hits is in fact the very same as the K-Tel version of The Best of Bette which shows Midler in concert, taken from the movie The Rose.
The first Bette Midler greatest hits compilation to be released worldwide, including the US and Canada, was 1993's Experience the Divine.

Track listings

Side A
  1. "Beast of Burden" - 3:48
  2. * From 1983 album No Frills
  3. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" - 2:26
  4. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  5. "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" - 3:02
  6. * From 1977 album Broken Blossom
  7. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" - 1:30
  8. * From 1980 album The Rose
  9. "The Rose" - 3:40
  10. * From 1980 album The Rose
  11. "When a Man Loves a Woman" - 4:42
  12. * From 1980 album The Rose
  13. "Do You Wanna Dance?" - 2:56
  14. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  15. "In the Mood" - 2:37
  16. * From 1973 album Bette Midler
  17. "Da Doo Ron Ron" - 1:00
  18. * Note: one minute excerpt from the medley "Uptown"/"Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)"/"Da Doo Ron Ron" from 1973 album Bette Midler
  19. "Is It Love" - 4:43
  20. * From 1983 album No Frills
Side B
  1. "You're Moving Out Today" - 3:18
  2. * Original version appears on 1977 album Live at Last
  3. "Friends" - 2:49
  4. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  5. "Delta Dawn" - 5:16
  6. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  7. "Chapel of Love" - 2:25
  8. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  9. "Superstar" - 5:09
  10. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  11. "Stay with Me" - 5:00
  12. * From 1980 album The Rose
  13. "Leader of the Pack" - 3:41
  14. * From 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  15. "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" - 4:08
  16. * From 1973 album ''Bette Midler''

Production

  • Produced by J&B Records