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ItemImage"Bette Davis Eyes" was a big hit for Kim Carnes in 1981.



This item was submitted by Moose74 (6) on 7/19/2008 3:32:12 PM.

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edt4 (116)
11/17/2008
I liked it well enough when it first came out, but what got played on the airwaves back then was so uniformly awful that I grabbed at anything halfway decent or less-than-painful like a drowning man grabbing at a life preserver. Sadly, it took only about 2 weeks of incessant airplay (I was driving a beat-up used car with no FM, no tape deck, no air conditioning; only some of the worst AM stations on God's green earth, back in the days before right-wing talk radio grabbed hold of the AM format for decades to come) for me to thoroughly loathe it, and I turn it off immediately if I chance upon it on the radio dial now. Not sure whatever happened to Kim Carnes; I guess she definitely qualifies as a "one hit wonder". I think I remember reading that the actual Bette Davis was pleased with the song because for the first time her grandchildren seemed to take her seriously as a cultural icon.

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fitman (51)
11/17/2008
Not great. Not annoying. One of the few decent hits of the '80s.

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Moosekarloff (21)
11/17/2008
A pretty limp and predictable little ditty by a noted one-hit wonder. "Raymond Burr Eyes" would have been a better concept. Ho-hum.

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hardrockfanatic (8)
09/04/2008
I always liked Kim Carnes rough voice. This song is a classic.

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Moose74 (6)
07/19/2008
"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes is a great record with a memorable vocal. The woman described in the song doesn't just have Bette Davis eyes, she's got "Greta Garbo stand-off sighs" and "Her hair is Harlow gold." This IS one formidable woman! Extraordinary lyrics. Sometimes, everything pulls together just right.

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