First reaction to KIM CARNES - "BETTE DAVIS EYES"

[@craenor]

My favorite trivia tidbit about this song is Bette Davis contacted Kim Carnes and thanked her for making Bette Davis's grandchildren think she's really cool because of the song.

[@emptybraincase4181]

to think she was just nana davis to her grandkids till this still gives me a smile. the woman was stunning, to say the least, in her day.

[@joesutherland225]

Yeah I'd forgotten about that

[@FUBAR1986]

Betty Davis with those deep, rich blue eyes

[@Nico3039]

elle aurait pu contacter deshannon aussi...

[@iandavies8061]

The video is so wonderfully early 80's....

[@norcalboy2572]

There a very few songs I'll crank through the roof when they come on. This is one.

[@DaveB806]

Took me instantly to the roller rink and skating to this song. Such great memories, thank you ❤

[@CdnTrader1]

Every kid from the 80s can sing this song from beginning to end without missing a word or a clap.

[@_MjG_]

80s kid here. I listened to this song many times over the years & I know less than half the words.

[@1001Hobbies]

*Bonnie Tyler* also has the same raspy voice. *"TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART"* is her biggest song. You will love it.

[@philipcochran1972]

Her hair is Harlow gold. Jean Harlow, famous actress from the 1930s Greta Garbo, another famous actress from the 1930s

[@2FMradioInIreland4]

Cool reaction well done

[@cspringer333]

Great song and another great reaction!

[@GetsumJ]

love this song

[@howard7606]

Verdy, loved your analysis. Always loved this song. Can tell how much you love music and feel it.

[@kennethwilliams7731]

Bette Davis was an incredible actress from many decades ago. She wasn't a conventional movie beauty but her talent was massive. When on the screen she could hold her own with an star of her day,man or woman. One word to describe Bette would be "confident "

[@charleswilliams6236]

This song is one of the best songs

[@danielmcguinness4036]

Bette Davis Eyes 👀 !!! Let's Go !!!

[@grogueQ]

Nice! I actually remember when you commented about her voice in that video, it's really cool you went back to check it out.

[@raymondbrush6442]

You might try Bonnie Tyler's tune Total Eclipse of the Heart. She's got a rasps in her voice too. She had throat problems early in her carrier and was told she wouldn't sing anymore. After that she had a hit with It's a Heartache. It's a solid but basic tune. she released eclipse in the 80s. It was written by Jim Stienman who wrote Meatloaf who you might want to check out. Try Paradise by the Dashboard Light by him

[@gliebzeit]

Kim Carnes has the female Rod Stewart voice. I can close my eyes and hear him singing this song. ;)

[@victorjohnson7512]

Betty Davis was a huge star in the 1930's and 1940's. She was considered a very "liberated woman" at the time. She continued to act well into old age making movies into the 1970's.

[@scottgrimes1287]

Secret of Harvest Home.....MAKE YEE THE CORN.........

[@NyMyers64]

For a long time I didn't know this was a cover. Kim Carnes is a song writer and was involved in most of the songwriting on this album. But this song was originally released in the 70s by Jackie DeShannon who co-wrote it

[@VIDSTORAGE]

Jimmy Page was Jackie DeShannon's song writing partner for a short time ..

[@rbrearey]

And it is SO different in tone. DeShannon’s take has a sort of cheery sound while Carnes cover brings a sinister edge to it all while being the same song

[@jamesmccullough1395]

Kim Carnes , who is in her 70's now, had one of the most beautiful husky voices ever. This song is so entrancing on so many levels. Merci, mon cherie!, for reviewing this chanson. Je suis un subscriber de Manitoba. J'adore ton chanel. Tu as une belle voix. I hope that you comprehend what I am saying, my French is a little outdated. Also , Bette Davis ' eyes were in fact were large and would look right through you, in that terminology. Look into your soul and such.

[@markusro2677]

Hi!thank you for your reaction!i love the song.Greetings.LG Markus

[@Lanternsinthesky-studios]

A little factoid about this tune: Keyboard player Bill Cuomo came up with the signature instrumental lick and together with the band and producer Val Garay created a completely new arrangement of the song, recorded the next day with no overdubs!

[@oaktree1628]

Great song!

[@RR-dl8lw]

Always liked this song

[@tonybaker55]

I used to drive to this in the Abu Dhabi desert...brilliant song! C'mon girl get down with it! Start movin'

[@lauriebarrett6789]

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow did a cover of "Bette Davis Eyes" in the movie "Duets". Also in that movie she did a duet with Huey Lewis called "Cruising" (a Smokey Robinson song).

[@Philip-hv2kc]

Yes, that syncopated percusion in the end section is something I'd love to hear a gifted drummer develop further.

[@jayo.7086]

“Crazy In the Night” is another great song of hers. Also loved her backup performance on Randy Meisner’s “Deep Inside My Heart”.

[@scottphillips471]

Was just going to mention “Crazy In The Night” but I see you are one step ahead of me. Another great song!!!

[@boosuedon]

Kim won two Emmys with this song, song of the year, and record of the year.

[@brayundia]

Back when this song was released I was a dj in a club and this was one of the most popular song.

[@felixgato125]

You can see Kim Carnes singing with Cyndi Lauper and Huey Lewis in the We are the World music video.

[@JohnnyLichtergud]

Veddy Cool! We zink dat Verdy has Betty Davis eyes. We subscribed twice!

[@haydenwittig8877]

A University Degree in 80s music and why these 10 yrs captivated us like never before and will never be remade is just around the corner.

[@kingtrophyguide4362]

Did you know that in 1981 the song "Bette Davis Eyes" written by Kim Carnes was also covered in German which was sang by Ute Berling and renamed "Als ob sie Bette Davis wäre"?

[@jeffbenson7471]

I love the raspy voice to. It's rare in general to hear one that sounds really good (Rod Stewart, Axl Rose) but your correct to hear a female with a great sounding raspy singing voice is nearly unheard of. The greatest singer with a raspy voice of all time, male or femake, is Janis Joplin. If you haven't heard Janis Joplin get ready because she is amazing. Check out her live performance video of the song Ball &:Chain at the Monterrey Music Festival. She willl blow you away. But I gave always loved this song and video. It's so unique and very well done.

[@MrVvulf]

2:00 You commented - "I really enjoyed the rasp in her voice" I searched through your videos and noticed you have not reacted to Janis Joplin yet. Oh boy, you're in for a treat. Not only does she have a raspy voice (when she wants to), she also puts copious amounts of soul into her singing. She really wore her heart on her sleeve, and let the emotion pour out. Mandatory songs to listen to by Janis would be, "Piece of My Heart", "Me and Bobby McGee", "Summertime", "Ball and Chain". There's many more, but those are all worth a listen for sure.

[@daleclark2376]

Oh, my God, yes! Definitely check out Janis!👍👍

[@juanamadoespinosahernandez823]

Admiro esta mujer 1981 la era que hizo epoca tengo 57 sños y es como si fuera ayer

[@ericgaudet5488]

Verdy great job with your reaction and thoughts on Bette Davis Eyes from Kim Carnes .

[@jeremiahlarkin1134]

Love ❤️ this Song 🎵 I Love ❤️ Bette Davis too!!!

[@renlessard]

Love this song. I was 11 when it came out and I bought the .45 with my allowance

[@bkazmer]

Verdy, Je n'ai pas entendu cette chanson depuis si longtemps et puis toi pour avoir ramené des souvenirs de cette époque.

[@kevindunlap5525]

LOL, it may have been THIS song that started me questioning popular music!!

[@thomasharris4942]

I remember seeing this on MTV as a kid, and feeling a certain kinda way about Kim...

[@seanmc7128]

Hi Verdy! Hiiiii!!!!!!! 😁 Verdys got Bette Davis eyes! Lol 👀

[@mikeross14]

You would have to see a 1930's 40's or 50's Movie with The Great Bette Davis to fully get what Kim is singing about!

[@dennischun2020]

De verdad me encantan tus reacciones a estas maravillosas canciones. Sigue así por favor Verdy

[@macdaddyns]

For another raspy voice check out Melissa Etheridge ,"I'm The Only One" or "Come to my Window"

[@bocorbiere3801]

What find very interesting and enjoyable about your video reactions is your keen sense and your very accute hearing to be able to pickup the different musical instruments and the sounds they make hope your majoring in musical or some part of the engineering field of the musical arts because you definitely have great talents 😊

[@chrisbricky7331]

Great reaction and thanks for sharing. This song references amazing actresses from the golden era of Hollywood. And like the rasp you are talking about from Kim Carnes, you have that same rasp in your talking voice, listen back to this video. Keep having fun enjoying exploring music. :) Chris

[@johnjohn37371]

This was on my parents jukebox downstairs at the house when a was little...my dad loved Kim Carnes...

[@justitia257]

Mi piaci un casino....moltissimo 🌹

[@mandolinean3057]

I remember hearing this song on my pocket radio when I was a kid...I thought it was Rod Stewart for the longest time lol

[@jamielandis4308]

“Crazy In The Night” is my favorite Kim Carnes song. It’s also a synthy 80’s tune that’s a lot of fun.

[@stevetanner3019]

From this same album by Kim “Don’t Call It Love” is a great song.

[@danrumble74]

One thing I like about your reactions is that you don't waste time trying to understand what the song's lyrics mean. You just take the song for how it, and the parts of it, sound. That's what I do as well 🙂

[@michaelash8552]

I liked this song but probably my favorite song with Kim Carnes is a trio with her, James Ingram and Kenny Rodgers call "What about me?" you should check it out to here a blend of voices from 3 musical genres (RB & Pop & Country).

[@whiteblack5441]

...hello v...exceptional u r..."stay"...soon...best wishes

[@davidpost428]

Unique and haunting song of that time.

[@robertnichol3669]

first time actually following the lyrics for this song....whoever Kim is singing about, She must had been a total badass to get that description in song, (don't know beyond the obvious Bette Davis any other rumour against it being her) very much an anthem from the time.

[@scottgrimes1287]

The director did such a great tribute to Bette Davis. Overall this is so classic.

[@mikeet69]

Another great reaction VERDY! I had never actually seen the video to this song. Another one hit wonder you may like from the 70’s is Andrea True Connection’s song More, More, More which is more disco type. Keep up the great work and as others have said look up a color picture of Betty Davis with her eyes. It might look familiar. ;-)

[@ravenwind1062]

I think Crazy is the Night also charted but not as high, so "two hit wonder"

[@rudolfwouters7729]

Love to sing this song myself, although i'm not a singer. Catchy melody, rough voice and easy lyrics to sing along with. This song takes me back to the time when i was doing my military service in Germany (as a Belgian). Two other songs from Kim that have touched me are the beautiful ballad "Breaking away from sanity" (with a choir) and the "Universal Song" from her album "Café Racers". If there is one artist that i personally would recommend you to listen to is Annabel Lamb. Just give it a try and listen to her song "Dream Boy". I'm pretty sure you're going to enjoy it!

[@michaelpaz5052]

She was an actress from the 1930's till the 1980's. There was a parody of this song called Marty Feldman eyes. He played Igor in Young Frankenstein. My favorite line in the song is "All the guys think she's a guy"😂

[@martinsv9183]

Could check out "Crazy In the Night" also. If you like raspy female voices check out "Stevie Nicks - Stand Back". Also 80's.

[@mikefetterman6782]

I saw that look in your eyes when she sang in that video. Kim's smokey, glass sharded, drug down a gravel road voice was refreshing after the disco era.

[@mikefetterman6782]

She was like a mix of Bonnie Tyler and Stevie Nicks.

[@coldwhite4240]

That exhale at 5:22 says it all! This is such a great song. Kim Carnes was a one-hit wonder here in the UK, but what a hit to be remembered for! The 80s had so many iconic songs where the vocal, music and video all came together to make something really unique and memorable, and this is just one example of how great that decade was. As others have said, this was a cover, as were several songs that are now considered classics of the 80s, so of course some credit has to go to the original writers/singers, yet many of the remakes far outshone the originals.

[@blortmeister]

So many great female artists that tend to get overlooked boys make boys cool. But there are so many amazing women Like Big Mama Thornton, Billie Holiday, Nina SImone, Janis Joplin...just wow. So it's nice to see Kim Carnes getting pulled back out into the light.

[@Funktastic_Ed]

If you like 80's sound, there's a lot of great classic songs that weren't in the "most popular" but are still extremely popular. Try: Talk Talk - It's My Life Terence Trent d'Arby (Sananda Maitreya) - Wishing Well Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen INXS - I Need You Tonight Fine Young anibals - She Drives Me Crazy Tina Turner - The Best

[@albacore101]

Greetings from Oregon. Rachel you have a wonderful natural rasp. Phido my 24 year old cat and I wish all the best..

[@henrydrums1529]

Hi! You can see JORGE VALDIVIA a soccer player with so much talent

[@nomchompsky2883]

Not first! wow this song reminds me of my early teen years.

[@BrowningEmy]

Gwyneth Paltrow sings this song in the movie Duets (2000), it's a good version too...

[@user-hideyukitanaka]

こんばんは、お疲れ様です。俺この曲がヒットした頃から洋楽聴き始めたんですよね。それから40年以上経ったんですよねw

[@juergenstange6844]

A typical one hit wonder of the 80s ! I like it, but I can't remember any other song of her. Maybe I should give her a chance. In 1981 I was 20 years old and we hadn't the opportunity to listen to selected songs in the internet. In fact, there was no internet.😉 We had only radio and tv ! I banned radio songs on my cassette deck. On "Compact Cassette", a kind of tape recording. Enough memories of an old fart... 😂 Great song ! 👍 Another great one hit wonder like this was Marylin Martin with "Night Moves"kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpLbZX2DepWCb68. Even much more "rockier" (I was/am more on the hard side 🤘)

[@MrRondonmon]

The song actually has the Icon movie actresses from the 30s mentioned, this woman had Jean Harlow hair, Gretta Garbo stand off sighs (she was hard to work with they say) and Bette Davis eyes. The original song in the mid 70s was not very good, Kim and her team freshened it up, and even Bette Davis loved it.

[@brianfuller757]

Kim Carnes still has an amazing voice.

[@brianstacey2679]

When i hear this, I think of the Eddie Murphy-Buckwheat SNL version entitled "????????"

[@firstnamelastname8060]

@4:31. That is some serious beatboxing!

[@aceblades8679]

Bette is pronounced “Bettie”. KZbin Jesse Langseth singing this cover on American Idol. I love her version.

[@clintashcraft579]

I've always loved this song. Still waiting for you to react to the new "LOVEBITES" and "BAND_MAID"s new songs. They will impress you!!!!!!!!!

[@mikejohnson7473]

You would probably like Stevie Nicks

[@jucarcan]

I would like to suggest something along the lines of this from around the same era. The Motels - Only the Lonely (1982) Give it a listen. I think you may enjoy it.

[@SatishKumar-iu2tu]

Mast 1no. Song 😘😘👌👍😊

[@cheesesteak59]

From back when this song first came out until listening to the first minute of it right now, I've never been able to figure out how this woman got a recording contract. Her voice sounds like she was smoking a cigarette and gargling mouthwash at the same time while singing. It's a catchy song, though. It just deserved a better singer.

[@eugeniocorpuz8338]

Kim Carnes did a duet with Barbra Streisand--Make No Mistake. He's Mine.

[@Dbo83-g5v]

Kim Carnes Kenny Rodgers and James Ingram -What About Me, lots of rasp.

[@KevDaly]

Bette Davis had very striking blue eyes

[@SevenThunderful]

The song was written by Jackie Deshannon and Donna Weiss. Deshannon was once the girlfriend of non other than Jimmy Page, before he formed Led Zeppelin and they wrote a couple of songs together. 3 degrees of separation from Page, not bad.

[@thegorn68]

If you like raspy female singing voices, check out Bonnie Tyler in songs like "It's A Heartache" or "Total Eclipse Of The Heart"

[@mudshark5393]

Also check out Marianne Faithful... she's not quite as raspy, but she's a bit broken on top to make up for it.

[@cat73walk]

You should check out her collaboration with Kenny Rogers and James Ingram in What About Me, a rare trio about a love triangle, featuring 3 great vocalists with their distinct styles.

[@coloradochris3952]

She's got Rod Stewart's voice

[@KillingMachine96]

Hello. I have 2 suggestions, not sure if you've done videos on these songs. Since you mentioned a raspy voice, 'Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. See if you can locate a video or music clip of the album version. The song was written by Jim Steinman who wrote many of Meat Loaf's hits and it's very dramatic. Ah, speaking of drama....in the late 1970s, the concept album Jeff Wayne"s War of the Worlds was released. It's based on the original HG Wells novel, not the George Pal or Tom Cruise movies. One song from the album, "Forever Autumn" got some airplay. The song features Justin Haywood on vocals (lead singer of the Moody Blues) and the voiceover narration of one of the most distinctive voices of the 20th Century, Richard Burton. The song is hauntingly beautiful, the orchestration is amazing and it will evoke much emotion in you.

[@meteerbil2078]

I heard that Kim Carnes was a back ground singer to Kenny Rogers and then got a break...

[@custardflan]

Bett--eeee Davis.

[@craenor]

Rhymes with Betty, even though it's spelled Bette. Though...I guess you're about to learn that in the song. :)

[@audioinsanity]

We'd like to point out that Kim Carnes, although a great vocalist, did not actually compose the song, "Bette Davis Eyes". The song was written by Donna Weiss and legendary rock singer/songwriter, Jackie DeShannon.

[@academyofshem]

I remember they called Kim Carnes "the female Janis Joplin."

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

You need to listen to and Fleetwood Mac song where Stevie Nicks takes the lead vocals.

[@greglegakis4177]

I think in some ways you have Better Davis Eyes, Verdy. Seriously. Look up a photo of young Bette.