![]() ![]() The Kim Carnes album containing the song - Mistaken Identity - also hit #1 and sold over eight million copies. It remained in the Top 40 for about 20 weeks. Billboard Hot 100 chart during May, June and July. Released on the EMI America label as a single in the spring of 1981, the song spent a total of nine weeks at #1 on the U.S. In 1981, it also won Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the year. “Bette Davis Eyes,” in fact, became the third best-selling song of the entire 1980s decade, ranking only behind “Physical” by Olivia Newton John and “Endless Love” by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie. ![]() But it was the Kim Carnes version of the song in 1981 that became the big hit. DeShannon had also recorded a version of the song on her New Arrangement album of 1975. ![]() “She’s got Bette Davis eyes” was the refrain made famous by the top-selling song of 1981, appropriately titled, “Bette Davis Eyes.” The song was performed by singer Kim Carnes, and was originally written in the mid-1970s by singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon and Donna Weiss. In May and June of 1981, the most popular song around was a tune about a Hollywood actress - or more precisely, about her eyes. Bette Davis captured by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine, January 23, 1939.
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