BENEFICIAL

Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr., Dionne Warwick, Mel Torme, Jack Jones, Marilyn McCoo, Patti LaBelle and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are among many celebrities featured on a recording of a new song called “Forgotten Eyes.” The record is the new campaign anthem of Retinitis Pigmentosa International. It will be released in September on the Motown label, and proceeds from the record will fund research into the causes of retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease.