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Bodo
Oct-31-2010, 10:34 GMT
Austria

Bette Midler hosted her annuala gala to benefit the New York Restoration Project on October 29 this year at the Waldorf-Astoria in NY. Guests included John Kerry, John McEnroe & Patty Smyth.

Paul sang a small accoustic set including many S&G hits. He started with Loves Me Like A Rock which he dedicated to John Kerry. He changed the lyrics to: If I was the Senator of Massachusetts.
In the end Bette Midler joined him for singin The Boxer.

Behind this story is maybe more than what it might look like. Paul recorded the song ´Gone at last´ together with Bette Midler in 1975. But when the album was released, Bette´s vocals got replaced by Phoebe Snow´s. Bette said she never knew the reason why, Paul said it was an artistical decission. Some sources say that Paul and Bette had a very close relationship in 1975, and when the relationship went sour, Paul took Bette off the track out of spite.
(Read: http://www.betteontheboards.com/boards/album-15.ht
m)

So Paul and Bette might have overcome their problems after many years, and decided to do a duet on The Boxer this night.

Ans
Oct-31-2010, 11:54 GMT
Netherlands

These stories tend to change along the years, I heard that the problems started before the album was released, it took Paul a long time to finish the song and Bette Midler got tired of waiting, she said; come of your butt Paul and let´s do this song. Well we all know you can´t rush Paul with his songwriting :)
I´m glad the problems are resolved and they sang together.

Bette Midler´s organization NYRP is a marvellous project for New York City and I can truly understand why Paul wants to be involved in this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea-chalupa/john-
kerry-paul-simon-bet_b_776512.html

http://www.nyrp.org/

Ans
Oct-31-2010, 15:57 GMT
Netherlands

Paul performing ´Me And Julio´. Looks like fun :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSBvHs7jJ9c

Mimi
Oct-31-2010, 17:27 GMT
Austria

I always liked Bette Milders voice but she is a really crazy lady. So you can easily see, that the two of them weren´t really meant to work together.

They were both part of an event with Yoko Ono earlier this year. Bette was very excited about singing with Paul because she twittered about it after the event.

Paul A. Fournier
Nov-01-2010, 16:40 GMT
USA - United Staates America

Hopefully somebody will post a video of this interesting duet on The Boxer. I´m sure it must have been great.

Brenda
Nov-01-2010, 23:21 GMT
Australia

Thanks for the link Ans. Looked like a fun night. Agree Paul ,would Love to see The Boxer duet with Bette,it would be interesting!

Brenda
Nov-01-2010, 23:37 GMT
Australia

Bette´s post
Dream come true. I sang with Paul Simon tonight and I didn´t clam up.
7:56 PM Oct 29th via ßberTwitter

hopefully she has recorded it !

Forum guest  
Nov-03-2010, 11:42 GMT
Germany

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hxK9IQHpOc

I really like it!

Bodo
Nov-03-2010, 13:00 GMT
Austria

Thanks

Is that Marc playing a harmonica?

Brenda
Nov-03-2010, 22:54 GMT
Australia

Awesome! They sound great together. reckon they should record it! Thank you so much for posting. yes Bodo, it is Marc .

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