{"id":11862,"date":"2011-04-26T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11862"},"modified":"2011-04-26T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:49:27","slug":"bettis-to-be-inducted-into-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/04\/bettis-to-be-inducted-into-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettis To Be Inducted Into Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Bettis<\/strong>, best-known to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans for a song in <em>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<\/em>, will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Responsible for writing hundreds of songs, including several for <em>The Carpenters,<\/em> as well as <em>Promise Me You&#8217;ll Remember<\/em> from <em>The Godfather- Part III<\/em>, Bettis will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 16.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/FanDance042611.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11863\" title=\"FanDance042611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/FanDance042611.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a>The Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1969 and counts amongst its four hundred plus members well-known songwriters <strong>Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Sir Elton John, Loretta Lynn, Bruce Springsteen, James Brown<\/strong> and<strong> Isaac Hayes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very overwhelming,&#8221; said Bettis. &#8220;Alphabetically, my name will go right under Chuck Berry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bettis wrote the lyrics for <em>The Moon&#8217;s a Window to Heaven<\/em>, the song which Uhura sang as she performed a fan dance to lure guards of Paradise City into a trap in <em>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bettis, best-known to Star Trek fans for a song in Star Trek V: The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2972],"tags":[3613,3614,3448,2411],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","tag-bettis","tag-songwriters-hall-of-fame","tag-star-trek-v-the-final-frontier","tag-uhura"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-movies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Movies<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Movies","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11864,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions\/11864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}