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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]
New Arrangement is an album by Jackie DeShannon, released by Columbia Records (PC 33500) in 1975. It contains the first recording of "Bette Davis Eyes", written by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974 and later turned into a massive hit by Kim Carnes on the album Mistaken Identity (1981).
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 ...
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.
She is the writer of "When You Walk in the Room" and "Bette Davis Eyes", which became hits for The Searchers and Kim Carnes, respectively. Since 2009, DeShannon has been an entertainment broadcast correspondent reporting Beatles band members' news for the radio program Breakfast with the Beatles. [6]
Bette Midler tells Hoda Kotb's "Making Space" podcast that Bette Davis was "not pleased" that she was named after her, recalling an encounter at Elizabeth Taylor's birthday party.
(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]