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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]
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.
Songwriter Jackie DeShannon sits down with NSAI's Bart Herbison to discuss her massive hit "Bette Davis Eyes" recorded by Kim Carnes in 1981. Learn the story behind the Grammy Award-winning song ...
(Sonia Davis) (Bette Davis Eyes) (Paradise Project records) 1992, Italy (The Chipmunks) (Bette Davis Eyes)/Heartbreaker 1982, RCA (Rogue Wave) (Cover Me) (Bette Davis Eyes) Easy Sound Recording Company, ES023, 2017 "I Want You" (1965) - artist, produced by Shelby Singleton; written by Weiss in 1965 when she was a teenager living in Nashville [3]
Singer, songwriter, producer and style icon Betty Davis, whose unfiltered, in-your-face 1970s funk songs including “He Was a Big Freak,” "Game Is My Middle Name" and “Nasty Gal” conveyed a ...
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 ...
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