Bette Davis Eyes was recorded several times and didn’t go anywhere… Then 5 years later it was re recorded with a completely different arrangment with a voice so raspy everyone mistook the singer for Rod Stewart…With Kim Carnes distinct voice, the song spread like wildfire. Bette Davis Eyes had become a quintessential 80s synth classic. It got so big its success was impossible to duplicate. It eventually took home the record of the year grammy. It went to #1 on the billboard Hot 100 for 9 weeks and it outsold almost every other single in the decade. A true bottled lightning classic. The Writers of the song patterned it after the revered movie star Bette Davis who didn’t listen to the radio. The only way She only found out when her grandchildren finally thought she was cool and told her about it.
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It’s time for another edition of our show Bottled Lightning
where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day. Here honor artists and bands and that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown weren’t able to sustain that success. Called by some as ‘one hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightening in a bottle. Today’s artist was NOT a one hit wonder. She had 6 top 40 hits but really only one that is still celebrated today. She had a very cool raspy voice and should’ve been a bigger success. She ruled the early 80s with a Nine week #1 hit. One of the biggest of the neon decade.
I’m talking about Kim Carnes and her ultra catchy classic Bette Davis Eyes. Although, initially written by the songwriting team of Jackie DeShannon and Weiss in 1974, Kim took the song to a whole new level thanks to an 80s synth-inspired arrangement and her raspy, cigarettes for breakfast voice. For many it seemed like she came out of nowhere. But it would actually be a long time coming before Carnes would captivate the world with her rendition.
Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Carnes penned her first song at the age of four. By the 1960s began she writing songs for other artists, performing at local clubs, and working as a session vocalist. In 1966, she joined the popular folk group the New Christy Minstrels that included a young Kenny Rogers , but later left with her husband and songwriting partner Dave Ellingson. In 1972, Kim recorded her first album, Rest On Me, but it went nowhere. Her 1975 self-titled record yielded her first chart hit, a duet with Gene Cotton, "You're a Part of Me." That scored a #34 ranking on the Billboard AC chart.
Her next album Sailin', produced by the legendary Jerry Wexler, failed to chart break the Billboard 200 altogether. As did her 1979 EMI LP, St. Vincent's Court. It wouldn’t be until 1980 that Carnes’ got her big break. And it came in the form a duet with former-New Christy Minstrel bandmate Kenny Rogers.
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