BETTE DAVIS Sings SINGLE On HOLLYWOOD PALACE 1965

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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three. Bette Davis, 1987

To celebrate 101 years since the year of her birth, to commemorate twenty years since her passing, and to formally launch a YouTube channel devoted to she and fellow New Englander-turned-film-legend Marilyn Chambers, here is a rare clip of Bette Davis singing one of her few but defining musical recordings, Single, on the February 21st, 1965 episode of the vaudeville-inspired 60s TV show Hollywood Palace. As she reveals in her bestselling 1987 memoir, This n That, the song was written in response to Richard Burtons The Married Life, but she reiterated the lyrics to her 80s readers as she felt even more so at that time than any other that many women would rather be single for all the reasons given in the lyrics of the song. See if you agree when you listen to the clever lyrics as only The First Lady of The American Screen could present them, and enjoy this enduring proof that Bettes electric theatricality had and has no end!

HAPPY 101st BIRTHDAY MISS DAVIS!!!!!!!