Bette Middler: You Made Me Love You

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Marc Shaiman, Someone In A Tree: My View of Johnny Carson`s Last Night

Bette Midler was Johnny Carson's last guest on "The Tonight Show."
With the help of her musical director Marc Shaiman and joke writer Bruce Vilanch, Bette serenaded her oft-married host with a novel rendition of Judy Garland's "You Made Me Love You." Their new lyrics?
You made me watch you.
I didn't wanna do it.
Jack Paar had put me through it.
You made me watch you.
I love the jokes you're floggin'
when you are monologue-in'.
I watched your hair turn slowly
from dark to white,
and when I can't sleep
I count your wives at night
I'd drop my drawers for
the kind of bucks you're making
for simple double-taking...

[On another occasion, Johnny told Elizabeth Taylor that he had once been married to a Pisces. Her reply? "I'm sure you were!"]

Date:
01/01/2008
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