In September 1998, Bette’s next album was released. It was called BATHHOUSE BETTY. This was the promo postcard sent out to record people, radio stations, and record stores. I love what it says, “IT’S HER WORLD. YOU’RE JUST SOAKING IN IT”.
In January 1999, VH1, aired it’s series BEHIND THE MUSIC that focused on Bette’s career and it was a huge success for the both VH1 and Bette.
Bette’s album, BATHHOUSE BETTY was doing very well in sales also.
Bette always loved having club dance hits from some of her albums. It kept her name in the clubs and with the gay club crowd.
Record labels would hire a D.J. remixer to go into the recording studio to take a short album version of a song and make it into a long dance version, 12″ singles (DJ’s used 12″ singles for years to play and mix in the clubs) were remixes of club dance music.
Over the years Bette has had many dance club 12″ singles released. Again, she knew that they would get played in the Gay Dance Clubs for sure.
Just to name a few 12″ singles released, 1976, STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT, 1979, BIG NOISE FROM WINNETKA, MY KNIGHT IN BLACK LEATHER, MARRIED MEN (but Bonnie Tyler had the best selling version of Married Men), 1990, MOONLIGHT DANCING, 1995, (my favorite) TO DESERVE YOU, 1998/99, I’M BEAUTIFUL, 2000 and IN THESE SHOES. This is the cover of the re-mixed CD for IN THESE SHOES.
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