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"Bright Eyes" is a song written by British songwriter Mike Batt and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was written for the soundtrack of the 1978 British animated adventure drama film Watership Down . Rearranged as a pop song from its original form in the film, the track appears on British and European versions of Garfunkel's 1979 Fate for ...
Bookends was the last Simon & Garfunkel album to be mixed in separate mono and stereo mixes, as manufacturing of mono LP's alongside concurrent stereo issues was in the final stages of being discontinued in 1968. The mono mix was released as a promo issue to radio stations and given a very limited run for commercial sale.
Garfunkel charted with hits such as "All I Know" (1973) and the two UK number ones "I Only Have Eyes for You" (1975) and "Bright Eyes" (Britain's top single of 1979), and briefly pursued an acting career, with leading roles in the Mike Nichols films Catch-22 (1970) and Carnal Knowledge (1971) and in Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing (1980).
When Simon & Garfunkel originally split, and before his 1979 comeback with “Bright Eyes”, he even spent a period in 1971 teaching maths at Litchfield Preparatory School in Connecticut.
The European release includes "Bright Eyes", which was featured in the film version of the novel Watership Down, and reached the number-one spot in the United Kingdom, becoming the biggest-selling single of 1979 there. The album was issued in six different sleeves, each with a different shot of Art Garfunkel at the breakfast table.
Simon & Garfunkel performing in Dublin, 1982 American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel recorded songs for five studio albums. Consisting of guitarist/singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel, the duo first met as children in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1953, where they first learned to harmonize with one another and began writing original material. By 1957, the teenagers had ...
2. Bonnie Tyler. The original is a classic and should be treated as such. Thanks to her unique voice, Tyler really does a great job singing this.
Bright Eyes (song), a 1979 song performed by Art Garfunkel, featured on the soundtrack of Watership Down Bright Eyes , an album (and its title track) by Melissa Manchester "Bright Eyes", a song by Blind Guardian from their 1995 album Imaginations from the Other Side