The above set list is based on a specific performance of "The Cross Country Tour" and does not necessarily represent all shows performed during this tour. 

Laura Deni: Sahara Hotel - May 20, 1972
A capacity group was in the Congo Room because Johnny Carson was the star.  Opening the act was Bette Midler newly signed to Atlantic Records making her major nightclub debut.  In her outlandish make-up and campy outfit outfits cause people to notice her and thereby hear her voice then the gimmicks served their purpose.  Unfortunately, Miss Midler doesn’t realize that she has enough genuine singing talent to eliminate the put-ons.  With the lights down and playing it straight with a pleasant piano backing her Miss Midler sounded and even looked good during the Carpenters’ hit “Superstar.”  But she ruined the effect when midway through the song she started flopping her legs and her bosom bounded out of her bodice.  She has a voice.  She has comedy timing.  There is a part for her someday in a Broadway musical.  She showed that she could act brash, loud and dramatic, but she never let on that she could act like a lady.