Rolling Stone Menu Flashback: That Time Bob Dylan Duetted With … Bette Midler? Forty-five years ago this month, the two teamed up for a loose, charming take on “Buckets of Rain” By AP; Bobby Bank/WireImage In the Seventies — or any other decade, in fact — it would have been hard to imagine less-likely duet partners than Bob Dylan and Bette Midler. In the fall of 1975, Dylan was newly invigorated, coming off Blood on the Tracks, and Midler was the midst of her first flush of pop fame, which had begun with her 1973 hit “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” From their voices to their personas, they didn’t just seem to exist on separate planets but in different galaxies.