What is "bernadette"

"Bernadette" is a 1967 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written, composed, and produced by Motown's main production team, the Brian Holland-Lamont Dozier-Eddie Holland partnership.

The song's lyrics depict a man's excessive desire for and jealousy over his girlfriend.

The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was The Four Tops's final Top 10 hit of the 1960s. On the soul chart, "Bernadette" went to number three. It also reached #8 in the UK on its first release and was a hit again in 1972, reaching #23.

The song is notable for its false ending, where the instruments drop out and the background singers hold a chord. The lead singer then shouts "Bernadette" and the song resumes, ending in a fade-out. Critic Maury Dean described the effectiveness of Stubb's shout of "BERNADETTE!!!" as being the key ingredient in getting listeners to buy the record, even if Bernadette herself may not have heard him.

Allmusic critic John Bush calls it "dramatic" and "impassioned."

Bernadette may refer to:

• Bernadette, a first name, the female form of Bernard
• St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879), Marian visionary of Lourdes
• Bernadette Bowyer (born 1966), Canadian field hockey player
• Bernadette Chirac (born 1933), wife of former French President Jacques Chirac
• Bernadette Lafont (1938–2013), French actress
• Bernadette Nolan (1960 - 2013), Irish singer and actress
• Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born 1947), Irish political activist
• Bernadette Peters (born 1948), American actress and singer
• Bernadette Rostenkowski, fictional character on the TV show The Big Bang Theory
• Bernadette Thompson, fictional character in the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Bernadette Sembrano (born 1976), Filipino television reporter, newscaster and host
• Bernadette Szőcs (born 1995), Romanian table tennis player
• Bern Nadette Stanis (born 1953), American actress and writer
• "Bernadette" (Four Tops song), a 1967 hit recording by the Four Tops
• "Bernadette" (IAMX song), a single by IAMX from his 2011 album Volatile Times

Bernadette (born Bernadette Kraakman, 1 March 1959, Volendam) is a Dutch singer, best known for her participation in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest.

Bernadette was not a well-known name when she took part with two songs in the 1983 Dutch Eurovision selection, but she emerged the narrow victor (by just one point) with " Sing Me a Song", which despite the title was sung in Dutch. She went forward to the 28th Eurovision Song Contest, held in Munich on 23 April, where "Sing Me a Song" finished a solid seventh of the 20 entries.

Following her unsuccessful partnership with Ingrid Simons in duo Double Trouble in 1986, Bernadette became a voiceover and backing singer, having worked with artists such as Harry Slinger and Rob de Nijs.

"Bernadette" is a song by IAMX, taken as the second single from his studio album Volatile Times, and released on July 28, 2011. It is available as a digital download from iTunes and IAMX.eu.