The Belle Stars were an all female British pop / rock band, founded in London in 1980 by former members of the 2 Tone ska revival band, The Bodysnatchers.

" Iko Iko ", a cover of The Dixie Cups ' 1965 hit ( later featured in the 1988 movie Rain Man ), was The Belle Stars ' long-hoped-for UK Singles Chart debut, peaking at a modest number 35 in June 1982.

In January 1983 the Belle Stars released what would be their signature single, " Sign of the Times ", peaking at number three, and a chart success throughout Europe.

The song's music video, showing the Belle Stars in tuxedos, was also played frequently by MTV in the United States.

Under Horn's supervision, the three remaining members recorded a new Belle Stars album with the 4th & Broadway production team in New York City.

However, in 1989, the Belle Stars finally had a big U. S. chart hit, when " Iko Iko " reached number 14 on the Billboard Top 100 in March, after it was included on the soundtrack of the film Rain Man, starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.

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Cover versions of her hits have been recorded by Madeline Bell, The Belle Stars, Laura Branigan, Aaron Carter, Gary Glitter, Ricardo Ray, Pia Zadora, Southern Culture on the Skids, and Gladys Knight and the Pips ( a version of " The Nitty Gritty ", produced by Norman Whitfield ).

They eventually sang in 49 of the 50 United States, with acts like Roy Orbison, The Righteous Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, The Dick Clark Caravan of Stars, Murray the K ’ s Brooklyn Paramount Theatre review, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Kingsmen, Patti La Belle, The Crystals, The Drifters, Ben E. King, Jan and Dean, the Miracles, The Dovells, Johnny Tillotson, Jackie Wilson, Sonny and Cher and numerous other singers.

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The Belle Stars version would be released in the United States in 1988, where it would peak at 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1989, outcharting the Dixie Cups ' version.

* The Belle Stars ' version of " Iko Iko " is used in a trailer for 20th Century Fox Family Features and in the opening scene of the 1988 film Rain Man.

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* " Sign of the Times ", a 1983 single by British group The Belle Stars

The tune has been covered by ; Booker T and the MG's, The Boogie Kings on their self-titled album on the Montel Michelle label ( 1965 ), The Fabulous Flippers, a regional band out of Kansas ( 1966 ), The Traits, Roy Head's band ( Treat her Right ), ( 1967 ), by John Fred and his Playboy Band on their album Vigon ( 1967 ), by The Righteous Brothers on their album Sayin ' Somethin ( 1967 ), by Johnny and Edgar Winter on their album Together ( 1976 ), and by The Belle Stars on their 1983 self-titled album.

Large hotels were built during the Belle Époque ; cog-railways, built early in the 20th century, brought tourists to ever higher elevations, with the Jungfraubahn terminating at the Jungfraujoch after going through a tunnel in Eiger.

His transportation network moved smuggled liquor from the rum-runners of the East Coast, The Purple Gang in Detroit, who brought liquor in from Canada, with help from Belle River native Blaise Diesbourg, also known as " King Canada ," and local production which came from Midwestern moonshine operations and illegal breweries.

Belle and Sebastian are often compared with acts such as The Smiths, The members of the band see this as a landmark event, with Stevie Jackson saying, " This is the biggest thrill of my entire life ".

Veterans Dennis Martinez, Orel Hershiser and Eddie Murray combined with a young core of players including Albert Belle, Jim Thome, Manny Ramírez and Charles Nagy to lead the league in team batting average as well as team ERA.

Belle Isle, in the northern section of the river, is entirely used as a Detroit city park, and is open to the public via a bridge connection with the city.

Boston based architecture firm Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc, together with the New York architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle, designed the restoration and adaptive use of the Beaux-Arts Main Building, one of the most symbolically important structures in American history.

Rhett's demons are prostitutes and liquor as demonstrated by Rhett's intimacy with Belle Watling in whose brothel he often makes his own home, and his bouts of drunkenness.

The men are indebted to Rhett for saving them, and his Scallawag reputation among them improves a notch, but the men's wives, with the exception of Melanie, are livid at owing their husbands ' lives to Belle Watling.

This put both Belle & Sebastian and Jeepster firmly on the map, and enabled them to release several EPs with Belle & Sebastian throughout 1997, as well as signing their second act, Snow Patrol, later in the year.

1998 then saw a further increase of activity, with the signing of Salako, and the release of albums for all three of their signed bands-most notably Belle & Sebastian's ' The Boy With The Arab Strap ', which enjoyed similar approval from reviewers and fans to the band's previous release.

The label's strong relationship with Belle & Sebastian enabled them in 1999 to sign Stuart David's side-project Looper, and Isobel Campbell's solo project The Gentle Waves, releasing albums for each that same year, along with a string of EPs and singles for their entire roster.

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

Sites pertaining to the Battle of Nashville and the nearby Battle of Franklin and Battle of Stones River can be seen, along with several well-preserved antebellum plantation houses such as Belle Meade Plantation, Carnton plantation in Franklin, and Belmont Mansion.

Rankine is now a lecturer in music at Stow College in Glasgow, and worked with Belle & Sebastian on their debut album, Tigermilk in 1996.

Nespolo graduated at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin with Enrico Paulucci and obtained a degree in Modern Literature at the University of Turin, with a thesis on Semiology.

The latter half of the Victorian age roughly coincided with the first portion of the Belle Époque era of continental Europe and the Gilded Age of the United States.

On November 12, 2001, about 09: 16 eastern standard time, American Airlines flight 587, N14053, an Airbus A300B4-605R delivered in 1988 with a seating configuration for 267 passengers ( 16 first-class seats and 251 economy-class seats ) and powered by two General Electric CF6-80C2A5 engines, crashed into Belle Harbor, a New York City residential area, shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York.

This is the case in the City and County of San Francisco, CA, and in the City and County of Philadelphia, PA. A similar arrangement is found in the " Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County " where the metropolis of Nashville has merged into the county of Davidson ( but, other than Nashville, a few municipalities-such as Belle Meade-still exist with some administrative functions ).

* Odette Swann from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a courtesan of the French Belle Epoque, she gains a notorious reputation from cavorting with Aristocrats, artists, Bourgeois, and both sexes.

Ernst delivered songs about getting the cold shoulder ( Situatie ), sleeping with a 16-year-old ( Belle Helene, featuring a sax-solo from the man himself ) and dumping a girl for being overexperienced ( De Eerste Keer ).

" In Perrault's contemporaneous fairy tale of La Belle au bois dormant ( 1697 ), each of the fairies invited for the christening is presented with a splendid " Fork Holder.