Was in 100 Films but This 80s #1 Was WHAT CONVINCED Her Grandkids She was COOL! | Professor of Rock
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- 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. - Розваги
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest synth line or keyboard part of an 80s hit?
"Take On Me" by A-ha immediately comes to mind.
"The Final Countdown" by Europe has to be up there...also, the intro to "Eye In The Sky" by Alan Parsons Project...it is synonymous with the Chicago Bulls' "Jordan Era"...(EDIT) I looked it up, the APP song is called "Sirius." I used to listen to that album with my Mom a lot, and thought "Sirius" was the intro to "Eye In The Sky"...my bad...
@@mournblade1066 ....DAMMIT!! ...I was tryin' to 'write' the synth-line (ex. 'doo-DOO-doo-da, doo...'), and, ya BEAT me to it! ...ha-HAA!!
Axel F is the First one that popped in my head. That said it's far from my favorite. I really liked a song called WHY ME from a group named Planet P. Anyone else old enough to remember that song?
Van Halen - "Jump" (Eddie Van Halen)
Ozzy Osbourne - "Mr. Crowley" (Don Airey)
Adam is the new Casey Kasem, narrating the soundtracks of our lives. The music, the nostalgia, the research, the joy...from a fellow traveler, thank you.
I’m a Gen Z and never got to experience Casey Kasem. Adam is the closest thing to a time machine folks like myself have.
I’m the tail-end of Gen X (1978) and I totally remember growing up listening to Casey. I agree with your statement!
Totally! I loved listening to the short stories Casey told, but am so glad Adam can dedicate 15 or 20 minutes to the background of these songs.
I agree. He has previously said that Casey Kasem was his hero and idol, and that's clear from the way Adam does his show. He even has a similar voice to Casey Kasem and with a similar cadence. Being that I absolutely also loved Casey Kasem, I think that's pretty cool. 🙂
He really is and more. I love his interviews and genuine joy of recalling great music.
Am I the only one that teared up a bit at Bette Davis' reaction to the song and her letters of thanks? Such a cool story.
She was truly a class act.
I love older people. They are just so jolly. Bette was fantastic.
Yeah, that one got me too.
Nope
great show had tears lol
Bette Davis Eyes is one of those songs that is so firmly rooted in the 80's and such a perfect representation of the pop music at the time, that when listening to it today you can't help but be brought back to that time in life. Miss being a kid in that decade.
The minute you hear that synth hook you immediately know what comes after. So ahead of its time and an undeniable classic.
@Super Nostalgia Right.
@Super Nostalgia Yep. Totally agree. Miss the synth rock sound.
A much better song of hers is from 10 years before that was the closing song in the classic movie Vanishing Point called Nobody Knows.
It was her first recording and by all accounts it should have been a #1 hit, she was thoroughly heart broken when it wasn't, but she hung in there and 10 years later finally hit the big time.
Who else could sit here all day and listen to these awesome lectures from the Professor?? 👍 🤓
yup easy t do always great show learn some thing just about every time
I took a couple of visits but I finally got my granddaughter not only willing to sit thru the POR videos but actually ask me to play them.
Me me me me
I could!! I love his stories, I look up the profs videos all the time, just for fun! I may never catch up there are so many I haven’t seen!
Glad one can easily make up the missed classes and 'homework.'
Both "Bette Davis Eyes" and Kim Carnes are eternally cool. I have a few of her albums, and she is one of a kind. She deserves more success than she's had. She conveys so much emotion in her albums and singles. By The mid-1980s, she was (IMHO) one of the Queens Of Rock 'N' Roll. All of those other singles and albums she released after, Mistaken Identity, should be played on the radio. Her rendition of, "More Love", is sublime. She most definitely deserved her Grammy wins. I still hear that one on the radio, on occasion. Thanks, Adam.
She has such a distinct voice. Thanks for watching.
Love Kim's version of " More Love",. " I'll be beside you every step of the way" is my favorite lyric. ❤️☺️
@@lauriesolonka2477 IT's a great version for sure.
Her voice is wonderful. More Love is just perfection.
More Love!!!
It's funny that you said her voice was mistaken for that of Rod Stewart. I remember, when this was first released, I thought it was Bonnie Tyler. Great RASPY voice!
Good point! Nobody sings like that anymore.
The female Rod Stewart is what folks I knew used to call her for years.
Their voices are easy to tell apart.
We were just talking about *Kim Carnes* over the weekend. She had just the right voice for this song!
Thank you Adam, PoR, for having me as an honorary producer for this video!! Man, the memories are flooding back in from that time!!!
Thanks CharleyAnne!
@@ProfessorofRock I reported the troll
I was on TikTok this weekend watching one lady talk about Kim Carnes and this song and her memories of being a kid in 1981 hearing this song.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 my hubs & I try to stump each other with music & lyrics to songs & that started a conversation with Kim Carnes as he tried to stump me with this song & then a discussion ensued.
@@charleyanne I always like to make a joke every now and then about a song from popular culture that I think will make people laugh really hard. Oftentimes in the past I have used the Bette Davis Eyes joke to refer to someone who’s psycho. Usually it’s on TV and I never have to deal with that type of person in real life, thank god.
This song was everywhere my senior year!!! When I hear it I'm instantly transported back to that summer between 17 & 18 years old!!! Great memories!!! Thanks Adam!!!
One parent at my school told me the same thing!
I also love the line "All the boys think she's a spy" I always sing it like Bob Dylan the way they intended lol
A Secret Agent (Wo)man! 😂
Kim's version of "More Love" written by Smokey Robinson is the best version of the song. She is awesome, to many of her songs did not give her room to use her voice. When they tamped her voice down the song just is not as punchy, her voice is what makes the song. She is an awesome song writer also and just glad she stayed in music.
Such an elegant song, in her hands.
Smokey actually wrote a song that he intended to give to Kim but ended up recording himself which became a hit: "Being with you".
YES!!!
@@Thelonedisciple0 Smokey's own "Being with You" (which he originally intended for Kim Carnes) became his highest solo effort, peaking at #2 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. As for the song that kept his "Being with You" from the top spot? That would be "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes!
Check out her 1971 song Nobody Knows from the movie Vanishing Point, her best song ever and should have been a #1 hit, why it wasn't remains one of the great music mysteries of all time.
"She's Pure as New York Snow" was one of my favorite lines of the song that really make you know what this "lady" is like.
Jukebox poetry. What a great line.
This was the first song that popped in my head when I saw my wife. Her eyes drew me in and I knew I had to be with her! Rock on brother!
Awesome! Love it.
Was her name Bette or Kim? 😉
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 it would have been cooler if it was!
@@kraigpeterson3667 I know, right? Then you can dedicate this song to her because her name is Bette/Kim! 😝
That's a lovely story. Nice to know true love is still out there. Hugs and happiness to you and your lady.
I love this song, and the backstory behind it. It's hilarious that Bette won two Oscars and was nominated for eleven in her lifetime, yet this song was what made her cool in her grandchildren's eyes.
Right? Thanks Trina!
...isn't it ALWAYS the way with Kids!? ...me niece almost had a CONNIPTION FIT, when she heard me listening to Beyonce's latest Album! ....HAD to get it, they were out of Michael Buble! ...ha-HAAA!! ...I became cool, though....
@@RBS_ my kids are the same way because they watch that TV show stranger things are starting to get into Metallica and Kate Bush and they realize that was from my generation started playing songs for them needless to say I became the cool dad 🤣
@@eternallife9786 ....Oh, that Kate Bush thing drives me MAD!! .....I was pushin' that tune to EVERYONE in 1985, & now, to see it garner attention from the millennials, s'kinda a double-edged sword....but, Kate's BANK ACCOUNT is juuuuuuust fine with it! ...ha-HAA!!
@@RBS_ I know what you mean my daughter found that song running up that hill so I showed her Wuthering heights it blew her mind mainly cuz she's going through that goth phase lol
Loved this song. I also loved "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins. Another tribute a couple of Hollywood greats. Hope you do a video on it someday.
I need to interview Bertie, who had couple hits.
Great song. I just love me some yacht rock.
@Devil-Shark Recall that series that Adam mentioned a month or two ago with Pablo Cruise.
Funny how a little tweak like adding the synth to this tune made all the difference, but the timing was certainly right. Hats off to the cheap drum machines that helped craft all those hits in the 80s. Cool Laura Palmer t-shirt, Adam!
Thanks!
The drum machines are part of what made the 80s the 80s!
The follow up album Voyeur is a masterpiece, by far my favorite album to come out in the eighties. All of her 80’s records are excellent.
My favorite memory of this song/video was in 1983 at a high school dance. . . We were dancing in the basketball gym and this song came on. . . We ( the entire dance) recreated the whole video. . Acting like we were slapping each other pounding on the basketball court it was totally AWESOME!!!! Memories from my days of my careless youth. . . Thanks Adam you show is as awesome as that memory
Thanks for sharing!
Is there anyone of us 80s kids who doesn’t do the slap? I still do and so does my husband 😂😂😂
Clapping along to the song!
i was 7 and loved mtv. it was all i watched. it turned me into a music junkie! i recieved a vcr when i was 8 . i got my dad to rent me and buy me bette davis movies because of this song. i love her!
I love your Laura Palmer shirt, Adam. I see that your taste in TV shows is just as impressive as your one in music! 🎶
Wow, thank you! Love Twin Peaks. Except for the newest iteration. That was messed up.
@@ProfessorofRock I didn’t know there was a new iteration! I try and steer clear of remakes. I made an exception for the series remake of the film The Mosquito Coast and, well, wasted precious hours of life.
Twin Peaks!
@@littlecatfeet9064 it wasn't a remake. It was the sequel predicted in the show, about 25 years later. Mostly the same cast and director
@@jamesoneavatar8644 thanks 😊
Her voice had that raspy tone that really brought emotion to the song.
And it WORKED!!!
I always get her and Bonnie Tyler mixed up. I was sure it was her that did Jim Steinman's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"...my bad
OMG Professor. This is a true 80's classic. Thanks for covering it. I love Kim Karnes. That raspy voice. So good. She deserves a lot more attention than she got.
No doubt. A total powerhouse.
This is probably the first song to begin my awakening to what a girl was and could be. I’m 41 now, and the mystery in this song still holds its original allure.
My mom was boy crazy, so she had a similar experience. 😊
Music has its place in pop culture and entertainment. A truly versatile and timeless song!
I agree. Have great week RC32!
@@ProfessorofRock Likewise Adam!
@@RC32Smiths01 THanks!
@@ProfessorofRock Pleasure is all mine!
Such a classic!!!
My dad loved keyboard songs. I remember when he bought this single. My younger sister & I were in bed, and we heard this song playing downstairs. My dad had the 45, and he turned the switch that feeds it just to the downstairs speakers (the stereo system was upstairs). Our older sister & parents were listening to it. I said to my sister, "DAD bought 'Bette Davis Eyes'!" 😄 The song became the #2 song of the 80's. The TOP 3 songs of the 80's all came out in 1981. "Physical" (#1 for the decade) ended up in the 1982 year end survey, but it came out in the fall of 1981.
Isn't it nuts! The big song all came out within a year from each other.
@Devil-Shark He was! He REALLY loved "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League the following year. 🙂
It’s freaking CRAZY. I love the 80s especially because of new wave music but even I find this surprising.
One of those songs that transports you back to 1980. No other version of the song can match it.
When I think of all the great songs of 1981, "Bette Davis Eyes" is one of the many standouts. It was #1 for 9 weeks that year. It was the song that made Kim Carnes a household name in the music business although she already had 2 top 10 hits previously with "More Love" and her duet with Kenny Rogers "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer". I always enjoyed her music. This song also introduced legendary actress Bette Davis to a new generation.
Exactly right on all counts!
Song of the year.
The #1 song of 1981, period! You know, after I heard this song for the first time I ended up watching All About Eve.
You can not have an 80's greatest hits without this song !!! Loved this fantastic song and listened to the cassette tape many times !!! Lots of great songs on this Mistaken Identity album/tape !! She's fantastic !! Anyone who doesn't know Betty Davis, needs kicked off this planet !! This Davis certainly knows her, as the quintessential, the top of actresses of all time ❤!!!
She's a great singer. I loved her other song voyeur from 1982. Bette davis is one of the best actresses. Hush hush sweet charlotte is my favorite bette davis movie.
Wow! You know your Bette Davis movies!
I really liked whatever happened to baby Jane talk about a disturbing movie
Baby Jane!
It is an unforgettable song. Thank you Kim Carne's. ❤️
Truly!!!
Val Garay, there it is. I always knew there was something similar between Kim Carnes and The Motels. Such a cool time for music.
Thank you professor!
Now you’ve gone and done it! I never knew until this episode you spent some time as the lead singer of a band. So I had to search on UA-cam and sure enough found a video of you singing a really great rendition of “True”. You have some really great vocal chops that fit swing style really well! Kudos to you good sir!
OFc youve done it now we will all be looking for that clip hahah= wowwww prof of
ock is the love child of sinatra and the blues brothers
I need to buy Adam’s swing album!
There's no arguing with the fact Kim carnes version of Betty Davis eyes was the absolute best. But kudos to your swing version. Keep it up professor love the countdowns and loved by lightning
Thanks James.
Adam Sinatra??? 😜
The video of "Bette Davis Eyes" was absolutely hilarious, with folks smacking each other in the face to the rhythm of the track.
I loved that too.
...BA-BOP!! ...baaa-BOP!! ...we MTV'ers had to learn, SOMEHOW! ...ha-HAA!!
I smack myself in the face whenever I hear that part. 😂
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 😀
One of the best songs ever. So sweet of Bette Davis to write letters and send flowers!!!
Really dig your T shirt from the series Twin Peaks. When that show was on I couldn't stop watching it. It was so mind blowing!
"She's pure as New York snow", now that's the line that makes this song. Anyone who's grown up in a city like New York knows what snow looks like after about a day or so, nothing pure about it.
Exactly.
That's the line that does it for me, too. As a New Yorker, I picked up on that ironic line.
Hahahaha 😆. Exactly. And, I agree.
Embarrassingly, I have never been to New York. And I’m 16! I should open my eyes more, because this line is so descriptive.
Another of her songs from the Movie Flashdance I'll Be Here Where The Hart Is is brilliant.
You know your Flashdance!
Such a great song! Flashdance is awesome!
My favorite Kim Carnes album is Voyeur. What a great album! Singles like the title track and songs like Does It Make You Remember and Thrill of the Grill should have put her over the top.
She also did a great song with Barbra Streisand, Make No Mistake, He's Mine--which was later covered by Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap and went to #1 on the country charts.
Thanks for reminding us of this great artist!
I had never heard Voyeur until last year and was blown away by how good it was. Especially since I honestly never much cared for Bette Davis Eyes, haha.
Voyeur is a masterpiece, I must have listened to it a hundred times!
I've always loved the line "her hair is Harlow gold." A nod to another great actress.
Actually it was Bonnie Tyler who many people thought was Rod Stewart when Bonnie did the song, it’s a heartache in 1978
Great song.
I absolutely love this song. I was taking a drive with my elderly father a few years ago, a few days after my mom passed away. Emotions were really high, and this song came on the radio so I turned it up. My dad listened to it for a while and then shook his head and said he hated it lol. So my sister and I both sing along with overly exaggerated breathy voices whenever it comes on. Great video, Professor!
Haha! Did he think it was an insult to Bette?
Loved that song as a little kid !- especially the keyboard 🎹 synthesizer! Iconic signature sound for that song ! The music video was cool 😎 too
It's such a classic.
@@ProfessorofRock and I remember the duet song she did with Kenny Rogers that year (or was it in 1980?) - Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer
It just screams 80s.
You’re giving GenX the attention it deserves!! We will not be ignored!! Keep this up, you’re amazing!!
Wow, ...no way, Adam....an album, and singing the song...that was bad ass...i caught it.... awesome 👍
Kim Carnes and Tina Turner appeared on the Rod Stewart album "But Seriously, Live!". I loved their version of "Stay With Me."
I know, how ironic is that? She sounded just like Rod Stewart.
"Damn fine t-shirt." - Agent Cooper.
This song is one of those greats that I somehow managed to miss until many years after it charted. I always thought that line was "hollow gold" it seems I'll have to change it now as "Harlow gold" makes more sense.
Ha! Love it. Agent Cooper is the best!
I heard “Hollywood gold” a few times as well.
Around this time of year, the winter holidays, I still enjoy Kim Carnes' renditions of "Run, Run Rudolph" and "Have yourself a merry little Christmas". That raspy voice of hers still gives me little tingles.
There was something in the zeitgeist of the early 80s that brought forth interesting projects like Bette Davis Eyes. I remember very, very late evenings in the early 80s in high school hanging out in someone’s bedroom and listening to Kim and Friends of Mr Cairo by Jon and Vangelis. The combo of early electronica, prog rock, and a love affair with late-night black & white noir movies was something special. Love the channel. ✌️
Whenever I hear “Betty Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes I also think of “I Wear My Sunglasses At Night” by Corey Heart. Two uniquely catchy synth classics that completely stand out on their own from the early 80’s.
I love your voice! Perhaps I’ve missed other videos where you shared songs from your albums, but I hadn’t heard you sing before now! Bravo!
Thank you so much!!
I was surprised at how GOOD Prof. sounded.
Never heard you sing before. Wondered if you could even carry a tune. Now I, too, am blown away! Good job!
@@ProfessorofRock More, please!
I always loved that song!My uncle got to meet Betty Davis when he was at the Hollywood Canteen during ww2 and got to dance with her.He was then stationed in England as part of a B24 crew.
Betty Davis eyes is in my top 10 favorites.
The early 1980's was a time of transition both in music and for me. I remember this tune, never thought of it much (just another popular tune).
However, tunes like this have a tendency to be picked up and done many ways and by many artists, thereby having a long life. Kim Carnes was not the first to record the tune, but is the version everyone else covers, and that says a whole lot.
Very interesting since when Jackie DeShannon released the song first it didn’t go anywhere.
There are a few songs that when I hear them I think of my mom and Bette Davis Eyes is one of them. Sadly memories are all I have of my mom, but songs like this make me smile in remembrance. P.S. there was a parody "Marty Feldman eyes" and that was great!
Great song! Thanks for bringing it back!
Kim had a showing on the Flashdance movie soundtrack with "I'll Be Here Where The Heart Is" ... great song! The whole soundtrack is smothered in 80s greatness, with Laura Branigan, Donna Summer and others.
I’d forgotten that! It is a great soundtrack and a quintessential 80s movie.
My favorite Kim Carnes song is "Voyeur."
A good choice.
Mine too!
Omg ! I LOVE your version ! It’s awesome .
Buckweat ( Murphy ) cover is comedy gold.
It was so classic.
Had me dying.
I can remember hearing at one point, Bette Davis wanted to sue over Bette Davis Eyes, but her grandchildren talked her out of it. In addition to her movie career, another legendary thing about Bette Davis was her feud with Joan Crawford. The song Bette Davis Eyes is a stone cold 80s classic.
I love this song so much. I remember hearing it on the radio in the 80's and early 90's. Kim never seemed to get the accolades and awards that she so rightly deserved. I remember dancing to this song a few times in the 80's. This song is such a timeless classic. Thank you.
Adam. Another great one! Thanks for sharing your love of music with us. Rock on!
I watched Rick Beato's list of 80's one hit wonders a couple weeks ago, and was shocked to see "Bette Davis Eyes" was on the list! Kim was a lot more than that song; as you mentioned, she's done a few duets with Kenny Rogers, sang on "We Are the World", as well as contributing backup vocals on Tim McGraw's "A Place in the Sun" album, and co-writing Reba McEntire and Vince Gill's "The Heart Won't Lie", a #1 country hit in 1993.
She had a ton of hits. Def not a one hit wonder.
Exactly! She is NOT a one hit wonder. She hit the top 40 not twice, but multiple times. More Love, her take on the Motown standard from Smokey, hit the top 10 as well!
@@ProfessorofRock Yeah, usually when you see a countdown of one hit wonders at least half of them aren't really one hit wonders but just they have one song that completely overshadows their other hits
Also sang an uncredited duet with Randy Meisner on "Deep Inside My Heart" off of his "One More Song" LP. It was actually a pretty good hit, reaching #22 on Billboard Hot 100 in 1980.
Please build me a time machine, Professor! 🙏
Let me in it too! 😊
Sure, and we'll leave the scammer in London during the Black Plague.
Love that song. I like to slip it into my band's 80's playlist from time to time. Really gets a great reaction from the crowd. Fun to play, too.
Loved hearing the story about Betty's reaction to this song. Another great episode Professor
Yes, this song is very memorable. It had alot of radio play in the early 80s. My favorite line in this song, "All the boys think she's a spaz, she's got Betty Davis eyes 👀
I guess I misheard the lyrics after all these years. 😁
Me too! Lol
Spaz! Ha ha. That's awesome!
@Anna Trail Yes 😊 ♥
😂 spaz 😂
I heard something VASTLY different. I heard “sign”. Reminds me of my mom, who went crazy for one boy in junior high in 1981 when this song was popular.
When first I started to listen to Casey Kasem's American Top 40, this was the #1 song. Fell in love with it, the countdown, and Kim Carnes. I went out and got Mistaken Identity and loved every second of it. The LP is one of my all time faves as is her follow up album Voyeur. That LP, IMHO, is a dark synthpop masterpiece. The title track single should have been a second #1 for Carnes. I went back and bought all her earlier albums and continue to buy every new release. Still a big fan. Many years ago, I got to see a two-fer concert featuring her and Kenny Rogers. She was terrific. I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but it was Carnes and her husband Dave Ellingson who wrote all the songs for the 1980 Kenny Rogers concept album Gideon that featured "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer." Back in '73, Carnes and Ellingson co-wrote a couple tunes with David Cassidy for his solo album Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes. Carnes and Ellingson also wrote the festival winning song "Love Comes from the Most Unexpected Places," which appeared on Carnes' '76 album Sailin'. The following year, Barbra Streisand would record that song for her Superman album. That would later lead to Carnes writing and then performing the 1984 duet "Make No Mistake, He's Mine" with Streisand (#8 AC/#51 Pop). Her pal Kenny Rogers would record that tune (with a slight title change) as a duet with Ronnie Milsap. It would be a #1 Country hit in '87. Sorry...just a big Carnes fan here! Glad to see her get some love.
Don’t be sorry, I love hearing more about artists from their fans, who know their stuff. That’s how we approached music in the 80s; if we loved an artist or band we went all in and bought everything they recorded with our pocket money.
So many great songs.
I agree with you 100%. We need to hang out!
Hey, Professor…
Thank you for keeping my childhood and teenage years alive. Your passion for all things ‘80’s is wonderful to see. Your content is really strong.
Another great presentation about a song I had forgotten about but loved.
1939 Once again pops up in your videos. Now Voyager Bette Davis Ninotchka Greta Garbo! The best single year in Hollywood's 🎥 film!
right?
@@ProfessorofRock How are you and the family doing My Mellow?
@@ProfessorofRock Are You related to an Amy who's an artist 🎨?
😉
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" is amazing. Bette Davis is absolutely psycho in that film. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford really hated each other in real life.
It is a crazy film. It Inspired another big hit song. Cold as Ice by Foreigner
@@ProfessorofRock No kidding? I honestly did not know that.
That one scared the absolute hell out of me.
I loved it. She is on my list of favorites songs. Thanks Professor.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I have been championing her on your page forever. Finally you do a video on her. Please don’t think she is a one hit wonder, drop of the cards, voyeur, crazy in the night, or also wonderful songs from the 1980s, Kim Karns is an absolute riding machine. Although Jackie De Shannon caused her to have her biggest head, Kim Carnes will always be one of my top The Hitmakers ever
I love Voyeur. Cool song!
Kim Carnes is just phenomenal and could do any genre of music and make it her own and with the legendary Russell Mulcahy directing the legendary video clips for bette Davis eyes and the equally creepy video for draw of the cards she became one of early MTV's video stars
She should have been bigger. Those videos are truly works of art.
Absolutely love your channel and the stories behind some of the best songs of our generation. Kim is an amazing singer and Betty Davis eyes was very catchy and how could you forget this song.
I had NO IDEA she was in the New Christy Minstrels. I LOVED those albums when I was a young kid. The Cat is a great song I still remembered to this day, and thanks to this video reminded me to go to Apple Music and download it.. thanks. Love Bette Davis eyes and Kim’s voice. BTW, Bette Davis is one of the BEST actresses ever. Love her movies.
Kim toured with The New Christy Minstrels (1966-1967), but as Minstrel vocalist she cut just one song: “Beautiful Beautiful World.”
I love Kim Carnes voice. She could only be mistaken for Rod Stewart if your listening on an AM radio in a noisy '77 VW bug.
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! ha ha. That's funny.
Haha! 😜
Spent 5 weeks at number 1 here in Australia .Kim also had another top 20 with Crazy In The Night in 1985
That's right! We covered it in the video. It's a cool song.
....."Crazy" was GREAT! ...but, calling your Album "Barking At Airplanes" was a tad unladylike! ...ha-HAA!! ...jus'kiddin'....
Such a great song.
I agree .. I love the Professor Of Rock,thank You for curating our 1970-1980’smusic
Just one amazing pop song , like a pop song for those of us who weren’t into pop. The arrangement and vocals were so complementary and crisp it was almost haunting.
Her voice is smokey and many singer's would love to have her voice. I never thought it was Rod Stewart and thought it was easy to tell it was a woman singing. There will never be another generation that will ever come close to the 80's. The 80's was freeing and there was music for everybody.
I knew who it was immediately. I was a fan of her earlier work.
@@fivestring65ify I agree with both of you that it’s easy to tell it’s a woman singing. Fantastic song and the music video is mesmerising.
She sounded like Rod Stewart to me and I thought that she received vocal training from him.
Try to do a video on "Flashdance" album. Fantastic songs
Sounds good!
....Oh, Lady Irene HAS sumpthin' to SAY, about that tune, if ya know the backstory...
@@ProfessorofRock what is the "hit me up" on telegram reply below? Is this you or a bot
@@kipkyzer9298 That's a Professor of Rock impersonator.
And great film too.
Another great video, Adam!! You really put a lot of work into your show. Love the 'Twin Peaks - Laura Palmer' t-shirt!!!
Great episode thanks!
Thumbs Up This Comment If You Think Adam Should Have His Own Television Show..
Annie Lennox was dressed like Kim Carnes in her Sweet Dreams music video!🌈🌈🌈🌠The More You Know!
You sure about that?
@@ProfessorofRock She talked about her choice of clothes. With their both androgynous looks. She talked about it on MTV Gloves
Wait, WHAT?! Source plz!
Another CLASSIC episode, Professor. It is indeed a crime that Kim wasn’t a bigger star. And it’s a bigger crime that my favorite song from her didn’t even touch the top 40. “You Make My Heart Beat Faster (And That’s All That Matters)”. What an awesome tune! Criminally underrated and under-promoted.
Great story for a great song. Thank you!
Laura Palmer! 😂❤
Right?
He has thee best t's!
no offense but Alvin and the Chipmunks had the greatest cover of Betty Davis Eyes. There is no close second.
Great show! Thank you !!
One of favorite songs of all time - timeless classic with such a killer vocal
I first heard the song in the early 80s when I was in High School and one of the cable movie channels would play music videos during the gap between movies. Those gaps introduced me to quite a few songs, like Billy Jean, Heat of the Moment, Centerfold, The Tide is High, and many others.
Awesome episode Professor! Love Kim Carnes! " Betty Davis Eyes " was such a great song from a great time in my life! I also liked "More Love" too! Thanks for keeping the music alive Professor!
Another fantastic (as always) and well researched historical overview. The lyrical references of this tune in concert with your depiction of Garbo etc., made me think of The Kinks' (Ray Davies) classic sentiment in 'Celluloid Heroes'.
I remember this song being on the radio ALL THE TIME... and I do remember it on American Top 40. I have always liked this song and the gravelly texture of Kim's voice.
Love your show! Oh and love Zenni, I wear them too. Keep up the great work. Rockin it in eastern Canada
I love that Janice Joplin, Bonnie Tyler rasp she got. Brilliant 80's production. It's a well deserved hit. I never tune out when it comes on the radio, it's still gets me after all these years.