Bette Midler - Hello in there

This was orginally a country number by John Prine. Country as we know is pretty mush the most meldramatic music there is. You don't get much more melodramatic than Bette Midler but somehow this doesn't seemed overplayed at all. Just sad. There is a sadness about Midler I think, a real jewish sadness. Funny as hell but in part as wall paper, to cover up old wounds. She really gets the song here and brings out all the fear of aging and lonliness in a wonderful way.