Was Bette Midler playing on the title of Dinah Washington's The Swingin' Miss D when she named her 1972 debut? Washington would've been proud of this album's tune stack, which makes a sensuous slow-jam classic of Do You Want to Dance? by Bobby Freeman, salutes the Andrews Sisters' Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, and produces signature pieces of John Prine's Hello in There and Buzzy Linhart's Friends. Midler might not have set out to reinvent the wheel, but on her first try, she outdid Barbra Streisand in taste, wit, and yes, sophistication.