Kim Carnes - C/D?

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Awright, awright, I know this will turn into a referendum on "Bette Davis Eyes"; can you hum another Kim Carnes single? I saw the videos for "Voyeur" and "Crazy in the Night (Barking At Airplanes)" last night and I had to admit: that Rod Stewart rasp sounds great around cold Ultravox synths and stiff drum programs.

Is she worth investing in a solid greatest hits comp?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

I have the Sugar Bears album from the early seventies which features Kim Carnes as Honey Bear. (Sugar Bears = the characters in the TV commercials for Super Sugar Crisp cereal.) She wrote some of the songs on it, too. It's actually a pretty decent early seventies bubblegum album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I absolutely love her cover of Smokey Robinson's "More Love". I think she also did a duet with Kenny Rogers. I am not sure what the song was. But the Smokey cover rules.

― bahtology, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

"Crazy in the Night" I lurved back in 1985, though I only heard it a few times on the radio. A great shoulda been hit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

why is she not bonnie tyler?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

"Crazy in the Night" is fucking daft! It's great!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

why is she not bonnie tyler?

Then she would be singing Steinman songs...

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Mylo's rip of "Bette Davis Eyes" for "Into My Arms" gets my award for deathly obvious but undeniably effective sample of the year so far. Some hooks are just magic in any context, and that's one of 'em. I clap along when I hear the song on the radio.

I head another one once. Sounded pretty good, but I don't remember a damn think about it. You got a YSI of anything?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

"Crazy in the Night" was a bona fide hit; it went Top 20. Of course, no radio station, not even Jack, has chanced it since 1986.

Kim did two hit duets with Kenny Rogers: "Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer" and "What About Me," the latter of which (besides being the case exemplar of maudlin MOR well-off-songwriter schlock) also featured James Ingram. But as Bahtology noted above, it's her cover of "More Love" that holds up best after all this time (with "Bette Davis Eyes," she loses the battle to both the tin synth drums and Buckwheat).

On the whole, Classic.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

can you hum another Kim Carnes single?

"Nobody Knows" which is the song playing over the closing credits of Vanishing Point. Don't think it was a single, but it dates way back to when she was doing the hippie/gospel stuff.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Dud. Crap then, crap now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Invisible Hands!

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

In Britain it was only "Bette Davis Eyes" and a smaller hit with the follow-up "Draw Of The Cards."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

That husky voice startles, and she gave us Single Of The Year in '81 (at least in North America, which ignored "Ghost Town"), but I never liked any of the followups that I heard, nor the Kenny Rogers duet. Destined to be confused with Jennifer Warnes someday (if not already.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh, never! Jennifer Warnes is cool! She's sung harmonies on innumerable Leonard Cohen tracks! John Cale produced her debut album! She worked with Arthur Russell! I fancy her!

Wasn't Kim Carnes on "We Are The World"?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

jennifer warnes recorded a leonard cohen tribute album, didn't she?

― stockholm cindy (from norway) (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

Famous Blue Raincoat - a lovely and fantastic record.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Amen to Famous Blue Raincoat. The Warnes take on "Bird On A Wire" is definitive.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

But Warnes is, ahem, boring. In that Emmylou Harris way.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Everyone thinks she's a spaz
She's got Bette Davis eyes

therefore classic.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

> Wasn't Kim Carnes on "We Are The World"?

Yeah. Some say she only got the opp b/c her manager, Ken Kragen, was one of the organizers.

And Jennifer Warnes has one of my least favorite voices in the entire rock lexicon. I've never heard a hit artist sound so bored, or so boring.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Heh heh...I totally forgot that Warnes even did Cohen record! Actually I have no opinion at all about her - I just linked her to Kim Carnes because of (a) similar surnames and (b) both hit big with duets (Kenny Rogers/Joe Cocker).

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

'Bette Davis Eyes' was originally a jaunty 60s girl group track, written and performed by Jackie DeShannon. I'd like to say it's better than Kim's version but it's not. It's good though, worth a listen.

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

"...even did THAT Cohen record..."

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 4 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I invite you to visit THE KIM CARNES FAN CLUB WEBSITE!

The URL is http://go.to/kimcarnes

It's the best database about Kim Carnes!

Guilherme

― Guilherme (from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

CRAZY IN THE NIGHT

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 28 August 2008 21:43 (seventeen years ago)

Heheh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9OSuy4e4HU

I don't even remember that one.

― Bimble, Thursday, 28 August 2008 21:48 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

waht an odd song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4dWVE1F9go

― screen scraper (m coleman), Thursday, 2 May 2013 11:22 (twelve years ago)

nine years pass...

How had I never heard "Crazy in the Night" until this weekend?! It's like she invented Lady Gaga's whole thing two decades in advance.

― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:23 (two years ago)

It needs more stuttering.

Cray-cray-cray-crazy in the night

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 24 April 2023 19:13 (two years ago)

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