Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes youtu.be/EPOIS5taqA8 Written in 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon. DeShannon recorded the song that same year on her album New Arrangement. In this original incarnation, the track is performed in an R&B lite arrangement, featuring a prominent uptempo piano part, as well as flourishes of pedal steel guitar and horns.However it was not until 1981, when Kim Carnes recorded her version of the song in a radically different synthesiser-based arrangement, that Bette Davis Eyes became a commercial success. There is much confusion over whether the lyrics are she knows just what it takes to make a crow blush or ... pro blush. Jackie DeShannon sings crow in her version, and Kim Carnes recorded it as pro from a mistranscription of the lyrics. This error has proliferated through numerous cover versions. The phrase could make a crow blush is an early 20th-century Midwestern United States colloquialism meaning that one could unease someone with little effort, and the arranger from Carness version was unfamiliar with the term.
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