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Jackpot! The Best Bette

Compilation album by Bette Midler released in 2008

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Jackpot! The Best Bette, released as The Best Bette in Europe, is a compilation album of recordings by American singer Bette Midler released on September 23, 2008. The album release was originally set to coincide with Midler's Las Vegas show, Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On which debuted on February 20, 2008, at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, but was postponed to April, then August 26, and later to the actual September release.

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“Jackpot! The Best Bette” enters the record as compilation album by Bette Midler released in 2008. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jackpot, Best and Bette can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jackpot, Best and Bette.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jackpot! The Best Bette” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.