Notes From Bette

As I tumble back down to earth, I would like to thank everyone who made this one of the happiest musical experiences of my life, especially my band: Bobby Lyle, Larry Cohn, Reggie Hamilton, Sonny Emory, Lenny Castro, Dwight Sills, and Mike Miller, who brought this music to life so beautifully and made me so proud.

Thank you to Martin and Sophie for allowing me to fly away and always welcoming me home.

I'm very grateful to Rose Mann and Amy Burr at The Record Plant; David Debow at Signet Soundelux; Candace Stewart at Cello; Brian McKenna at Sony Music Studios and Tom Irre at Chung King for making us so comfortable.

Additional thanks to Shari Sutcliffe, whose tenacity kept this train on the tracks; to Bill Coleman and Sue Drew, for their A&R assistance, to Keith Andes for his post graduate course in stacking; to Issey Monk for her 11th hour save, to Rick Nowles, for remembering me; and of course, my heartfelt thanks to the usual suspects: Gerry Edelstein, Yvette Taylor, Jill Hattersley, Charles Sussman and Louanne Carter, for their tireless efforts; and to Bonnie Bruckheimer and Cara D'Antoni for their wisdom and unflagging devotion despite the insanity of the circumstances.

Above all, I would like to thank Dan Was and Ed Cherney, the Ed and Don Show, for their friendship, their musicianship, their spirits, and more than anything else, MAJOR, MAJOR laughs. Yobs, I had a blast...

Love,

Bette