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Holding Out for a Hero

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"Holding Out for a Hero" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for the soundtrack to the 1984 film Footloose, and later included on her 1986 album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire. [1]

88 relations: A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love), Alan Rubin, Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series), Apple Inc., Arby's, Art Wood, Bad for Good, Bandits (2001 film), Bonnie on Tour, Bonnie Tyler, Bonnie Tyler (EP), Bonnie Tyler Live, Canada, CD single, Christina Grimmie, Cinematic, Cleopatra Records, Cold Case, Columbia Records, Country music, Cover Up (TV series), Dance-rock, Days of Our Lives, Dean Pitchford, Deniece Williams, Drawn Together, E.G. Daily, Extended play, Fearless Records, Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana, Footloose (1984 film), Footloose (2011 film), Footloose (musical), Footloose (soundtrack), Frou Frou (band), Future Man (TV series), Glee (TV series), Guitar, Here She Comes, Hiram Bullock, Holly Sherwood, Humane Society of the United States, Irish Singles Chart, ITunes Store, Jennifer Saunders, Jim Pugh, Jim Steinman, Just Dance 2015, Kent Music Report, Kia Niro, ..., Let's Hear It for the Boy, Lew Soloff, Live in Germany 1993, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Brecker, Nacho Libre, Paramount Pictures, Phonograph record, Post-hardcore, Punk Goes 80's, Regular Show, Rory Dodd, RuPaul's Drag Race, Saints Row: The Third, Scream Queens (2015 TV series), Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire, Short Circuit 2, Shrek 2, Simply Believe, Smallville, Springbok Radio, Super Bowl Ad Meter, Super Bowl LI, Tandi Iman Dupree, Television advertisement, Tenor saxophone, Tom Malone (musician), Torch song, Trombone, Trumpet, Types of trombone, UK Singles Chart, United States, Ving Rhames, Walmart, Who's Harry Crumb?, 2017 in television. Expand index (38 more) »

A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)

"A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" is a song first recorded in 1958 by Priscilla Bowman, on the Abner Records label (ABNER DJ 1018).

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Alan Rubin

Alan Rubin (February 11, 1943 – June 8, 2011), also known as Mr.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series)

Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated television series featuring The Chipmunks, produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with Ruby-Spears Enterprises from 1983 to 1987, Murakami-Wolf-Swenson in 1988 and DIC Entertainment from 1988 to 1990.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Arby's

Arby's is an American quick-service fast-food sandwich restaurant chain with more than 3,300 restaurants system wide and third in terms of revenue.

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Art Wood

Arthur "Art" Wood (7 July 1937 – 3 November 2006) was a British blues, pop and rock singer, who led The Artwoods in the 1960s and subsequently became a graphic artist.

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Bad for Good

Bad for Good is a 1981 album by American songwriter Jim Steinman.

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Bandits (2001 film)

Bandits is a 2001 American criminal comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson.

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Bonnie on Tour

Bonnie on Tour is a live DVD by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler.

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Bonnie Tyler

Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins; 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice.

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Bonnie Tyler (EP)

Bonnie Tyler is the first EP released by Bonnie Tyler since 1979 (with It's a Heartache), and her first digital EP release in her career.

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Bonnie Tyler Live

Bonnie Tyler Live (also known as Live) is the first live CD released by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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CD single

A CD single (sometimes abbreviated to CDS) is a music single in the form of a compact disc.

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Christina Grimmie

Christina Victoria Grimmie (March 12, 1994June 10, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, actress, and YouTuber known for her participation in the NBC singing competition The Voice and for her covers of hit songs by contemporary pop musicians.

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Cinematic

Cinematic describes anything related to cinema.

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Cleopatra Records

Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label founded in 1992 by entrepreneur and music fan Brian Perera.

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Cold Case

Cold Case is an American police procedural television series which ran on CBS from September 28, 2003 to May 2, 2010.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Cover Up (TV series)

Cover Up is an American action/adventure television series that aired for one season on CBS from September 22, 1984, to April 6, 1985.

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Dance-rock

Dance-rock is a post-disco genre connected with pop rock and post-punk with fewer rhythm and blues influences, originated in the early 1980s, following the mainstream death of punk and disco.

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Days of Our Lives

Days of Our Lives (also stylized as Days of our Lives; often abbreviated to DOOL or Days) is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network.

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Dean Pitchford

Dean Pitchford (born July 29, 1951) is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist.

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Deniece Williams

Deniece Williams (born June Deniece Chandler; June 3, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and producer.

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Drawn Together

Drawn Together is an American adult animated sitcom that ran on Comedy Central from October 27, 2004 to November 14, 2007.

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E.G. Daily

Elizabeth Ann Guttman (born September 11, 1961), known professionally as E.G. Daily (and sometimes credited as Elizabeth Daily), is an American actress, voice actress and singer known for her portrayal of voicing Tommy Pickles in the Nickelodeon series Rugrats, its spin-off All Grown Up! and in the Rugrats film series.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Fearless Records

Fearless Records is a record label that was founded in 1994.

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Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana

The Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.

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Footloose (1984 film)

Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross.

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Footloose (2011 film)

Footloose is a 2011 American musical drama dance film directed by Craig Brewer.

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Footloose (musical)

Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name.

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Footloose (soundtrack)

Footloose is the title of two soundtracks, the first, released in 1984, to the 1984 film Footloose and the second, released in 2011, to the 2011 remake.

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Frou Frou (band)

Frou Frou are a British electronic duo composed of Imogen Heap and Guy Sigsworth.

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Future Man (TV series)

Future Man is an American comedy web television series that premiered on November 14, 2017 on Hulu.

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Glee (TV series)

Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Here She Comes

For the Beach Boys' "Here She Comes" song see Carl and the Passions – "So Tough". "Here She Comes" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for the soundtrack to the 1984 restoration version of the 1927 German film Metropolis.

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Hiram Bullock

Hiram Law Bullock (September 11, 1955 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.

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Holly Sherwood

Holly Sherwood is an American rock vocalist, best known for her work with Jim Steinman, providing both lead and backing vocals.

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Humane Society of the United States

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), based in Washington, D.C., is an American nonprofit organization founded by journalist Fred Myers and Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser in 1954, to address what they saw as animal-related cruelties of national scope, and to resolve animal welfare problems by applying strategies beyond the resources or abilities of local organizations.

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Irish Singles Chart

The Irish Singles Chart (Irish: Cairt Singil na hÉireann) is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by The Official Charts Company.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

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Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress.

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Jim Pugh

Jim Pugh (born February 5, 1964 in Burbank, California) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

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Jim Steinman

James Richard Steinman (born November 1, 1947) is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for many hit songs.

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Just Dance 2015

Just Dance 2015 is a dance video game developed by Ubisoft Paris and Ubisoft Milan and published by Ubisoft.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Kia Niro

The Kia Niro is a hybrid subcompact crossover manufactured by Kia Motors since 2016.

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Let's Hear It for the Boy

"Let's Hear It for the Boy" was the second number-one song for Deniece Williams and appeared on the soundtrack to the feature film Footloose.

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Lew Soloff

Lewis Michael Soloff (February 20, 1944 – March 8, 2015) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and actor.

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Live in Germany 1993

Live in Germany 1993 is the second live album and DVD by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, recorded in Frankfurt in 1993 and released in 2011, with remastered audio.

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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

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Melissa McCarthy

Melissa Ann McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, fashion designer, and producer.

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Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre is a 2006 Mexican-American sports comedy film directed by Jared Hess and written by Jared and Jerusha Hess and Mike White.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression initially inspired by post-punk and noise rock.

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Punk Goes 80's

Punk Goes 80's is the fourth in album in the Punk Goes... series created by Fearless Records.

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Regular Show

Regular Show (also known as Regular Show in Space during its eighth season) is an American animated television sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network that aired from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017.

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Rory Dodd

Rory Dodd (born Port Dover, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian rock vocalist who has performed many songs written by Jim Steinman.

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RuPaul's Drag Race

RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality competition television series produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV and, beginning with the ninth season, VH1.

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Saints Row: The Third

Saints Row: The Third (originally Saints Row 3) is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Volition and published by THQ.

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Scream Queens (2015 TV series)

Scream Queens is an American comedy horror television series that aired on Fox from September 22, 2015 to December 20, 2016.

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Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire

Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire is the sixth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler.

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Short Circuit 2

Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 US science fiction comedy film, the sequel to the 1986 film Short Circuit.

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Shrek 2

Shrek 2 is a 2004 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon.

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Simply Believe

Simply Believe is the fourteenth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler.

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Smallville

Smallville is an American television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

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Springbok Radio

Springbok Radio was a South African radio station that operated from 1950 to 1985.

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Super Bowl Ad Meter

The USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter is an annual survey taken of television commercials by USA Today in a live poll during the telecast in the United States of the Super Bowl, the annual professional American football championship game of the National Football League.

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Super Bowl LI

Super Bowl LI was an American football game played at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, February 5, 2017, to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2016 season.

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Tandi Iman Dupree

Tandi Iman Dupree (August 13, 1978 – December 31, 2005) was an American drag queen best known for the "Wonder Woman" performance at the Miss Gay Black America pageant in 2001, the video of which went on to become an Internet viral hit on YouTube.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a television commercial, commercial or ad in American English, and known in British English as a TV advert or simply an advert) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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Tom Malone (musician)

Thomas (Tom) "Bones" Malone (born June 16, 1947) is an American jazz musician, arranger and producer.

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Torch song

A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Types of trombone

There are many different types of trombone.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Ving Rhames

Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor of screen and stage known for his roles as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series, as well as Pulp Fiction, Don King: Only in America, Rosewood, Con Air, Dawn of the Dead, and Bringing Out the Dead, as well as the voice of Cobra Bubbles in the 2002 film Lilo & Stitch.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly branded as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.

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Who's Harry Crumb?

Who's Harry Crumb? is a 1989 comedy-mystery film featuring John Candy as the title character.

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2017 in television

2017 in television may refer to.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding_Out_for_a_Hero

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