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"Bette Davis Eyes" is a song written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974. It was recorded by DeShannon that year but made popular by Kim Carnes in 1981 when it spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It won the 1982 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. [6]
Songwriter Jackie DeShannon sits down with NSAI's Bart Herbison to discuss her massive hit "Bette Davis Eyes" recorded by Kim Carnes in 1981.
The album's lead single "Bette Davis Eyes" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for nine non-consecutive weeks and topped the Hot 100 year-end chart of 1981. Follow-up singles "Draw of the Cards" and "Mistaken Identity" reached numbers 28 and 60 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.
Kim Carnes (/ k ɑːr n z /; born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles.A veteran writer of many of her own hits, as well as those for numerous other artists, she began her career in 1966 as a member of folk group the New Christy Minstrels, before embarking on a solo career as a songwriter and performer in the early 1970s, playing in local clubs.
Right before each song, subtitles on the screen would list the title, spelled phonetically exactly as Buckwheat would say it (example: "Lookin' for Love" became "Wookin' Pa Nub" and "Three Times a Lady" became "Fee Tines a Mady"). One song, "Bette Davis Eyes" is so poorly pronounced that the superimposed title is "???". Those who wanted to ...
Singer-songwriter-producer Betty Davis, an icon of future-funk, fashion and bold sexuality in the 1970s, died Wednesday at age 76 in her longtime home of Homestead, Pennsylvania. Davis, who was ...
Half a century after he threw a small music-industry soirée to toast Barry Manilow’s first Grammy nomination for record of the year, 92-year-old Clive Davis on Saturday night celebrated the ...
"Bette Davis Eyes" (1974) with Jackie DeShannon - In 1982, Weiss won a Grammy Award for co-writing this song. [2] "The Heart Won't Lie" (1993) - recorded by Reba McEntire and Vince Gill The song debuted at number 51 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart dated February 20, 1993. It charted for 20 weeks on that chart, and reached Number One ...