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Bette Davis Eyes
"Bette Davis Eyes" is a song written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974. It was recorded by DeShannon that year but made popular by Kim Carnes in 1981 when it spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It won the 1982 Grammy Awards for Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The music video was directed by Australian film director Russell Mulcahy. On the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, the song was No. 1 for five weeks, interrupted for just one week by "Stars on 45 (song), Stars on 45" before it returned to the top spot for another four weeks, becoming Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'''s biggest hit of the year. The single also reached No. 5 on ''Billboard''s Mainstream Rock (chart), Top Tracks charts and No. 26 on the Dance charts. It reached No. 2 in Canada for twelve consecutive weeks, and was 1981's No. 2 hit in that country, after "Stars on 45". It peak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes (; born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles. A veteran writer of many of her own hits, as well as those for numerous other artists, she began her career in 1966 as a member of folk group the New Christy Minstrels, before embarking on a solo career as a songwriter and performer in the early 1970s, playing in local clubs. She also worked for several years as a session background singer with the famed Waters Sisters, Maxine Waters Willard and Julia Waters Tillman, who were later featured in the acclaimed 2013 documentary ''20 Feet from Stardom''. In 1971, after she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen, Carnes released her debut album ''Rest on Me''. Released in 1975, Carnes' Kim Carnes (album), self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs, including her first charting single "You're a Part of Me", which reached No. 32 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Adult Contem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry in the United States, and thus the show is frequently called "music's biggest night". The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone, and the original idea was to call them the "Gramophone Awards". The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards with the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 67th Annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mix (magazine)
''Mix'' magazine is a periodical, billing itself as "the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry". The magazine is headquartered in New York City and distributed in 94 countries. "It was co-founded in 1977 under the title of "the Mix" in San Francisco, originally as a tabloid style directory of recording services, by David Schwartz, Penny Riker-Jacob and Bill Laski with Hillel Resner as the first ad sales representative, and later publisher, and producer of the TEC Awards. The magazine became "MiX" without "the" ahead of it in April of 1980. It then skipped a month and then returned as a slick color magazine." In January 1989, Mix Publications, which included ''Mix'' magazine and Electronic Musician, was sold to Act II Publishing, a company owned by Norman Lear. In the 1990s, ''Mix'' magazine, had offices in the former Jelly Belly building on Hollis Street in Emeryville, California. In 1994, Mix Publications, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sequential Circuits Prophet-5
The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential. It was designed by Dave Smith and John Bowen in 1977. It was the first polyphonic synthesizer with fully programmable memory. Before the Prophet-5, synthesizers required users to adjust controls to change sounds, with no guarantee of exactly recreating a sound. Sequential used microprocessors to allow users to recall sounds instantly rather than having to recreate them manually. The Prophet-5 facilitated a move from synthesizers creating unpredictable sounds to producing "a standard package of familiar sounds". The Prophet-5 became a market leader and was widely used in popular music and film soundtracks. In 1981, Sequential released a 10-voice, double-keyboard version, the Prophet-10. Sequential introduced new versions in 2020, and it has been emulated in software synthesizers and hardware. Sequential also released several further Prophet synthesizers, such as the Prophet '08. Develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM Cloud Video
IBM Watson Media (formerly Ustream and IBM Cloud Video) is an American virtual events platform company which is a division of IBM. Prior to the IBM acquisition, it had more than 180 employees across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Budapest offices. Ustream had received $11.1 million in Series A funding for new product development from Doll Capital Management (DCM) and investors Labrador Ventures and Band of Angels. Since 2016, it has been a division of IBM. On April 1, 2018, two years after its purchase, Ustream changed its name to IBM Cloud Video to reflect its new ownership, but rapidly changed that name to IBM Watson Media to reflect the embedded artificial intelligence capabilities of IBM's Watson. History Ustream was launched when the founders (John Ham, Brad Hunstable and Gyula Fehér) wanted a way for their friends in the US Army, who were deployed overseas in the Iraq War, to be able to communicate with their families. A product like Ustream would provide them with a way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Russell
Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, blues rock, folk, surf and the Tulsa sound. His recordings earned six gold records and he received two Grammy Awards from seven nominations. In 1973 ''Billboard'' named Russell the "Top Concert Attraction in the World." In 2011, he was inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Russell collaborated with many notable artists and recorded 33 albums and 430 songs. He wrote "Delta Lady," recorded by Joe Cocker, and organized and performed with Cocker's '' Mad Dogs & Englishmen'' tour in 1970. His " A Song for You," which was named to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, has been recorded by more than 200 artists, and his song " This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Arrangement
''New Arrangement'' is an album by Jackie DeShannon, released by Columbia Records (PC 33500) in 1975. It contains the first recording of "Bette Davis Eyes", written by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974 and later turned into a massive hit by Kim Carnes on the album ''Mistaken Identity'' (1981). Another song, "Boat to Sail," that features Brian Wilson and then-wife Marilyn singing backing vocals, was covered by The Carpenters in their 1976 album '' A Kind of Hush''. Robert Christgau wrote about ''New Arrangement'': "As an American songwriter who has escaped the confessional mode, and as a woman who can sing about subjects other than men, DeShannon exemplifies several healthy trends. The main thing this well-made record reveals, however, is an intelligent professionalism that matters about as much as a surge in enrollment in creative writing classes or women's liberation for female executives." Track listing Source: # "Let the Sailors Dance" (Randy Edelman, DeShannon) – 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bette may refer to: People and fictional characters * Bette (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Jean-Christophe Bette, French competitive rower * The noble House of Bette: the Marquess of Lede: ** Guillaum de Bette, 1st Marquess of Lede ** Ambroise de Bette, 2nd Marquess of Lede ** Jean François de Bette, 3rd Marquess of Lede ** Emannuel de Bette, 4th Marquess of Lede ** Françoise de Bette * Bette people, a Bantu people in Nigeria Other uses * ''Bette'' (album), by Bette Midler * ''Bette'' (TV series), starring Bette Midler * Bikku Bitti, formerly Bette Peak, the highest point in Libya See also * Bete (other) * Bet (other) Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting Black American audiences. It is the flagship channel of the BET Media Group, a subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group. Originally launched a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Rock (chart)
Mainstream Rock is a music chart published by '' Billboard'' magazine that ranks the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations in the United States. It is an administrative category that combines the " active rock" and " heritage rock" formats. The chart was launched in March 1981 as Rock Albums & Top Tracks. The name changed multiple times afterwards: first to Top Rock Tracks, then to Album Rock Tracks, and finally to its current Mainstream Rock in 1996. The first number-one song on this chart was " I Can't Stand It" by Eric Clapton on March 21, 1981. History The "Rock Albums & Top Tracks" charts were introduced in the issue of ''Billboard'' that the parent company published on March 21, 1981.Joel Whitburn. ''Joel Whitburn Presents Rock Tracks 1981–2008.'' Hal Leonard Corporation, 2008p. 6. The 50-slot based and 60-slot based positional charts ranked airplay on album rock type radio stations in the United States. Because album-oriented rock stations often focused on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stars On 45 (song)
"Stars on 45" is a song medley issued in January 1981 by Dutch studio group Stars on 45. In some countries, including the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, the band was credited as 'Starsound' and only the medley itself was named "Stars on 45". The song's origin comes from an underground 12" that was big in clubs in the late 1970s. It used the actual songs, rather than the re-recorded cover versions, with a drum backing. At the end of the underground 12", was the track " Doing It to Death" by the J.B.'s featuring James Brown. Its official title in the US and Canada (as on the record and in ''Billboard'' and ''RPM'') is "Medley: Intro 'Venus' / Sugar, Sugar / No Reply / I'll Be Back / Drive My Car / Do You Wanna Know a Secret / We Can Work It Out / I Should Have Known Better / Nowhere Man / You're Going to Lose That Girl / Stars on 45" and was credited to Stars on 45. It is to date the longest titled song to ever chart on ''Billboard'' and was conveniently shortened to "Stars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Mulcahy
Russell Mulcahy ( ; born 23 June 1953) is an Australian director of film, television, and music videos. He began his career directing music videos for artists like Elton John and Duran Duran, before making his feature directorial debut with the horror film ''Razorback (film), Razorback'' (1984). He achieved international prominence by directing the fantasy action film ''Highlander (film), Highlander'' (1986), which spawned a Highlander (franchise), multimedia franchise. Mulcahy's subsequent work includes ''Highlander''s first sequel ''Highlander II: The Quickening'' (1991), the superhero film ''The Shadow (1994 film), The Shadow'', the action-horror film ''Resident Evil: Extinction'' (2007), and the Errol Flynn biopic ''In Like Flynn (film), In Like Flynn''. He was also a director and executive producer of the television series ''Teen Wolf (2011 TV series), Teen Wolf'' (2011–17), and directed the film's Teen Wolf: The Movie, 2023 feature film spin-off. Stylistically, Mulcahy' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
