Aretha

Aretha is a feminine given name that is probably derived from the Greek arete, "virtue",. Notable people with the name include:

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Aretha (disambiguation)

Aretha is a feminine given name.

Aretha may also refer to:

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Aretha (1986 album)

Aretha is an Aretha Franklin album, originally released in 1986, on Arista Records. This is the third album with this title to be released by the artist. Other Franklin albums titled Aretha were also released in 1980 and 1961.

The album, again produced mainly by Narada Michael Walden, included Aretha's first #1 Pop single since "Respect" in 1967 with the vibrant "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", a duet with George Michael. Aretha also yielded three other hit singles: "Jimmy Lee", "Rock-A-Lott" and a hard rock cover of The Rolling Stones' classic, "Jumpin' Jack Flash". All music videos were extremely popular on MTV, BET and other video outlets.

Following Aretha's first-ever Platinum record, Who's Zoomin' Who?, Aretha was quickly certified Gold after only several weeks. Before going out of print, the album had sold approximately 900,000 copies in the United States alone.

Franklin's vocal from "Rock-A-Lott" was sampled extensively in the 49ers' 1990 hit "Touch Me", while her version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" was the title song for the film comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg. All four of the singles were shot as music videos that received extensive play.

Bernard

The masculine given name Bernard and its variations are of West Germanic origin.

The meaning of the name is from a Germanic compound Bern-hard meaning "bear-hardy/brave/strong", or "hardy/brave/strong as a bear".Bern- is the old form of bear, from West Germanic *beran-.

The name was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers, where the most common spelling was Bernhard.

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The following people and items share the name Bernard.

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Bernard (bishop of Carlisle)

Bernard (died 1214) was a medieval English Bishop of Carlisle.

Bernard was the custodian of vacant see of Carlisle from about 1200. He was translated from the bishopric of Ragusa to the bishopric of Carlisle on 15 May 1203 by Pope Innocent III. He died about 8 July 1214.

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Bernard's Watch

Bernard's Watch was a British children's drama series about a young boy who could stop time with a magical pocket watch. The show was created by Andrew Norriss and was produced for seven series that aired on CITV from 14 November 1997 to 31 March 2005.

History

The concept of the show was originally thought up by Alexander John Howard in 1991, but it took six years to get funding. The show eventually began as a single 15-minute episode, which in fact lasted four hours, however it was suggested it could work as a series. Four more stories were written by creator Andrew Norriss, who thought, in his own words, "that would be it". However he ended up writing six entire series.

The first five series aired from 14 November 1997 to 7 December 2001 and were produced by Central Television. It was written by Andrew Norris, who wrote the book Bernard's Watch in 1999, published by Puffin. It was primarily filmed at South Wilford CofE Primary School, Nottingham. These series were produced by Lewis Rudd and directed by David Cobham.

Song (disambiguation)

A song is a musical composition for voice or voices.

Song or songs or The Song may also refer to:

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