I'm Beautiful Dammitt!

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"I'm Beautiful Dammitt!"
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Single by Uncanny Alliance
from the album The Groove Won't Bite
Released1993
Genre Dance
Label A&M Records
Songwriter(s) Orville Brimsley Adams
Producer(s) Manny Lehman
Mark Mazzetti
Uncanny Alliance singles chronology
"I Got My Education"
(1992)
"I'm Beautiful Dammitt!"
(1993)
"Everybody Up"
(1994)

"I'm Beautiful Dammitt!" (sometimes printed without punctuation, sometimes simply titled "I'm Beautiful") was the second single released from the Uncanny Alliance LP, The Groove Won't Bite , released as a CD single and 12".

Contents

Versions and remixes

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
Position
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [1] 4
US Dance Singles Sales ( Billboard ) [2] 40

Bette Midler version

"I'm Beautiful"
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Single by Bette Midler
from the album Bathhouse Betty
Released1999
Genre Dance
Label Warner Bros. Records
Songwriter(s) Orville Brimsley Adams
Producer(s) Manny Lehman
Mark Mazzetti
Bette Midler
Bette Midler singles chronology
"My One True Friend"
(1998)
"I'm Beautiful"
(1999)
"In These Shoes"
(2001)

In 1998 singer Bette Midler covered the song, retitled simply "I'm Beautiful", for her album Bathhouse Betty . That album, the title of which references her time as a performer in gay bathhouses, was catered to the gay community. As such she revised the lyrics to the song to be more specifically directed towards the struggle of gay people to be accepted. In particular there is the new lyric: "'Go away little boy' all the kids say! Everybody on the block says they think you're gay!" The song was released as a single in 1999 with numerous dance remixes, one of which reached #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play Chart, [3] and #8 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi Singles Sales. [4] [5]

Track listing

12": USA (Warner Bros 0–44586)

  1. "I'm Beautiful" (Danny Tenaglia Continental Club Mix)
  2. "I'm Beautiful" (Brinsley Evans Back To The Scene Of The Crime Mix)
  3. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Main Vocal Mix)
  4. "I'm Beautiful" (Album Version)
  5. "I'm Beautiful" (Danny's D-Tour Dub)
  6. "I'm Beautiful" (Lil' D-Tour Groove)
  7. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Dub)
  8. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Drum Dub)

CDM: USA (Warner 2–44586)

  1. "I'm Beautiful" (Album Version)
  2. "I'm Beautiful" (Danny Tenaglia Continental Club Mix)
  3. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Main Vocal Mix)
  4. "I'm Beautiful" (Brinsley Evans Back To The Scene Of The Crime Mix)
  5. "I'm Beautiful" (Danny's D-Tour Dub)
  6. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Dub)
  7. "I'm Beautiful" (Lil' D-Tour Groove)
  8. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Drum Dub)

12": USA (Warner PRO-A-9587) Promo

  1. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Main Vocal Mix)
  2. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Dub)
  3. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Drum Dub)

12": USA (Warner PRO-A-9591) Promo

  1. "I'm Beautiful" (Danny Tenaglia Continental Club Mix)
  2. "I'm Beautiful" (Brinsley Evans Back To The Scene Of The Crime Mix)
  3. "I'm Beautiful" (Danny's D-Tour Dub)
  4. "I'm Beautiful" (Lil' D-Tour Groove)

12": USA (Warner) Promo

  1. "I'm Beautiful" (Danny Tenaglia Continental Club Mix)
  2. "I'm Beautiful" (Danny's D-Tour Dub)
  3. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Main Vocal Mix)
  4. "I'm Beautiful" (Victor Calderone Dub)
  5. "I'm Beautiful" (Brinsley Evans Back To The Scene Of The Crime Mix)

Charts

Chart (1999)Peak
position
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 1
US Dance Singles Sales ( Billboard ) [5] 8

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