“Bright Eyes” by Art Garfunkel

Mike Batt wrote "Bright Eyes" for Watership Down, a British animated film from 1978, and Art Garfunkel sang it, with Batt arranging and producing as well. The film got a re-orchestrated backing; the original pop version is the one on British and European pressings of Garfunkel's 1979 album Fate for Breakfast, and it resurfaced on American copies of Scissors Cut in 1981.

Britain went soft for it in a big way. The single sat on top of the UK chart for six weeks and sold more than a million copies, the biggest seller in the country that year. Not everyone was charmed: Richard Adams, who wrote the novel the film came from, is said to have hated it.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.