the original song writer for the song the rose?

Answer 1

Amanda McBroom

There was, as songwriter legend has it, a frantic rush to compose music for the soundtrack to Bette Midler's film character, heavily based on the life of Pearl, Janis Joplin. Reportedly Donnie Fritts (a musician on Barbara Streisand's 1977 soundtrack A Star Is Born )and other writers were holed up in a hotel room for a few months cranking out songs, Buzzy Linhart writing some as well, though much or all of that material doesn't appear to have been utilized on the final cut. This slow ballad by Amanda McBroom did get the nod and the composer's harmony vocal appears on the record with along with Bette's lead. The musicians in the film and on the soundtrack feature members from Lou Reed's Rock 'n' Roll Animal band, but it is this close to solo piano/vocal performance that would become the signature tune to the film and album. On the long player is a stripped down version - Bette's voice accompanied only by "The Rose Ensemble" of songwriter Amanda Bloom on harmony vocal and Lincoln Mayorga on piano. Much like the original "The Sounds Of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel which eventually got Joe South's electric guitar and other frills to

bring it to #1 in December of 1965, "The Rose" rose up the charts with additions to the performance that appeared on the album. Fifteen years after Clive Davis' visionary augmenting of folk music with rock on the aforementioned Simon & Garfunkel tune Atlantic Records seems to have borrowed the idea. As Bette Midler's third Top 40 hit, 1973's "Friends", had a mutated and elaborated mix, this Top 3 single finds itself completed with a beautifully subtle string arrangement by David Campbell on top of the vocal/piano version which appeared on the album. It sure sounds like the exact same performance on both, though the songwriter's harmony is way up there with Midler's voice as the song is reaching its zenith - "when the night has been too long..." McBroom's essay of logic in love, or to be more precise, trying to be logical when faced with the lack of love, is poignant to a fault, and Midler reads it with precision and mournful soul. The song begins with trying to define what love is. Is it a river drowning a tender reed? A Hunger? A need? Does it make your soul bleed? The conclusion Rose comes to is that it is a flower and you are its seed.

The 45 rpm is 3 minutes and 36 seconds, pretty much the same as the album, which clocks in at 3:40. Atlantic single 38228 comes with an electric black and white picture sleeve of Bette Midler in a Genya Ravan type pose (and not so coincidentally, proclaiming the flip side's "Stay With Me", Ravan's classic Ten Wheel Drive tune co-written by one of Joplin's main sources of material, Jerry Ragovoy. ) Produced and arranged by Paul A Rothchild with Bill Gazecki as associate producer the 45 sleeve smartly promoted the entire soundtrack album. The singer's first gold single set the stage for her to come back in 1989 and1990 with two platinum hits from two more of her films, even bigger than this watershed moment for the comedienne/actress/vocalist. "Wind Beneath My Wings" and "From A Distance" surpassed the #3 showing of "The Rose" (though all three reigned supreme on the Adult Contemporary charts), but those two titles owe much to the stage that was set by this classic.

Answer 2

Amanda McBroom

Answer 3

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