John Bettis

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1946-10-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

264

Total plays

981

John Bettis (born 24 October 1946) is an American lyricist who has co-written many famous popular songs over the years. He was originally part of the band Spectrum, which also featured Richard and Karen Carpenter. He would provide the lyrics for many hit songs for The Carpenters' ("Top of the World", "Only Yesterday", "Goodbye to Love"), and later for other famous artists such as Madonna (""Crazy for You" (song)"), Michael Jackson ("Human Nature") <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Bettis">

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,647x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,720x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,356x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,339x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Wikidata facts

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