It's the Girls!

Studio album by Bette Midler

Released

November 4, 2014

Recorded

2014

Genre

Traditional pop, vocal music

Length

47:32 (standard edition)

Label

Warner

Producer

Marc Shaiman, Scott Riesett

Bette Midler chronology

Memories of You
(2010)

It's the Girls!
(2014)

A Gift of Love
(2015)

Singles from It's the Girls!

"Be My Baby" / "It's the Girl"
Released: November 24, 2014

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Cuepoint	A–^[2]

It's the Girls! is the fourteenth studio album, and twenty-fifth album overall, by Bette Midler, released on November 4, 2014. It is a collection representing the music of the great girl groups of the past.^[3]

The album sold 40,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States thus allowing it to reach number three on the Billboard 200. This made Midler only the second female singer after Barbra Streisand to have top 10 albums in five consecutive decades.^[4] It's the Girls! also marked Midler's highest debut week sales ever, and her second-highest position in the US after the Beaches soundtrack. Another 27,000 copies of the album were sold in its second week.

Track listing

Standard edition^[5]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
1.	"Be My Baby"	Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector	The Ronettes	3:10
2.	"One Fine Day"	Gerry Goffin, Carole King	The Chiffons	2:54
3.	"Bei Mir Bist du Schön"	Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Sholom Secunda	The Andrews Sisters	2:23
4.	"Baby It's You"	Burt Bacharach, Mack David, Barney Williams	The Shirelles	3:18
5.	"Tell Him"	Bert Russell	The Exciters	2:57
6.	"He's Sure the Boy I Love" (duet with Darlene Love)	Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil	The Crystals	2:54
7.	"Mr. Sandman"	Pat Ballard	The Chordettes	2:25
8.	"Come and Get These Memories"	Holland–Dozier–Holland	Martha and the Vandellas	4:14
9.	"Too Many Fish in the Sea"	Eddie Holland, Norman Whitfield	The Marvelettes	3:05
10.	"Teach Me Tonight"	Sammy Cahn, Gene de Paul	The DeCastro Sisters	3:30
11.	"Waterfalls"	Marqueze Etheridge, Lisa Lopes, Rico Wade, Ray Murray, Sleepy Brown	TLC	4:14
12.	"You Can't Hurry Love"	Holland–Dozier–Holland	The Supremes	3:07
13.	"Give Him a Great Big Kiss"	George "Shadow" Morton	The Shangri-Las	3:01
14.	"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"	Gerry Goffin, Carole King	The Shirelles	3:35
15.	"It's the Girl"	Abel Baer, David Oppenheimer	The Boswell Sisters	2:38

Target deluxe edition bonus tracks^[6]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
16.	"The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game"	Smokey Robinson	The Marvelettes	3:36
17.	"(Talk to Me of) Mendocino"	Kate McGarrigle	Kate and Anna McGarrigle	3:03
Total length:				54:11

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2014–15)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[7]	10
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[8]	38
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[9]	161
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[10]	24
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[11]	62
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)^[12]	26
Irish Albums (IRMA)	17
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)^[13]	64
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[14]	62
UK Albums (OCC)^[15]	6
US Billboard 200^[16]	3
US Digital Albums (Billboard)^[17]	5

Year-end charts

Chart (2014)	Position
UK Albums (OCC)^[18]	38

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[19]	Gold	100,000^{^}
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone

References

↑ AllMusic review
↑ Christgau, Robert (December 5, 2014). "Robert Christgau: Expert Witness". Cuepoint. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
↑ Hampp, Andrew. "Bette Midler Announces It's the Girls!, Her First Album Since 2006" Billboard.com, September 23, 2014.
↑ Caulfield, Keith (November 14, 2014). "Bette Midler Scores Fifth Straight Decade of Top 10 Albums". Billboard. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
↑ Gans, Andrew. "New Bette Midler Recording, It's the Girls!, Due in November; Track List Announced" Playbill.com, September 23, 2014.
↑ "Target – It's the Girls! (Deluxe Edition) by Bette Midler." Target.com, September 23, 2014.
↑ "Australiancharts.com – Bette Midler – It's the Girls!". Hung Medien. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
↑ "Austriancharts.at – Bette Midler – It's the Girls!" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
↑ "Ultratop.be – Bette Midler – It's the Girls!" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
↑ "Bette Midler – Chart history" Billboard Canadian Albums Chart for Bette Midler. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
↑ "Officialcharts.de – Bette Midler – It's the Girls!". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
↑ "Top 40 album DVD és válogatáslemez-lista – 2014. 47. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Bette Midler – It's the Girls!" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
↑ "Swisscharts.com – Bette Midler – It's the Girls!". Hung Medien. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
↑ "Bette Midler | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart Retrieved November 25, 2014.
↑ "Bette Midler – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Bette Midler. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
↑ "Bette Midler – Chart history" Billboard Digital Albums for Bette Midler. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
↑ Moss, Liv (January 1, 2015). "The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Artist Albums of 2014". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
↑ "British album certifications – Bette Midler – It's The Girls!". British Phonographic Industry. Enter It's The Girls! in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search

External links

It's the Girls! at Bette Midler's website

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)

Tours

Books

The Saga of Baby Divine (1983)

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