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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 ...
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.
The lyric "Turn around, bright eyes" had originally appeared in Steinman's 1969 college musical The Dream Engine. [13] Steinman had originally written the song's verse melody for his score to the 1980 film A Small Circle of Friends .
A version of "Bright Eyes" also appeared in the movie Watership Down. Garfunkel's girlfriend since 1974, Laurie Bird, died by suicide in June 1979 at their Manhattan apartment, three months after the album's release in March. Garfunkel later admitted that the incident left him in a deep depression. [38]
Everything Waits to be Noticed is the ninth solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, a collaboration with singer-songwriters Maia Sharp and Buddy Mondlock. Credited to "Art Garfunkel With Maia Sharp & Buddy Mondlock", the album is Garfunkel's debut as a songwriter, co-writing six songs, and was produced by Billy Mann.
Rory Dodd (born Port Dover, Ontario, Canada) [2] is a Canadian rock vocalist [2] [3] who has performed many songs written by Jim Steinman.He is probably best known for singing [2] [4] as the duet voice (the "Turn around, bright eyes" lyrics) on Bonnie Tyler's version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart", a number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
1. Nikki French. Today, this is the one you're going to want to play. Probably the dance version. The other two rendtions of this song are quite somber, and that's probably how it should be sung ...
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