Bill Dagg❌ (@Fuzzbert)

"Bette Davis Eyes" is a song written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974. It was recorded by DeShannon that year but made popular by Kim Carnes in 1981 when it spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It won the 1982 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The music video was directed by Australian film director Russell Mulcahy. On the Billboard Hot 100, the song was No. 1 for five weeks, interrupted for just one week by "Stars on 45" before it returned to the top spot for another four weeks, becoming Billboard's biggest hit of the year. It reached No. 2 in Canada for twelve consecutive weeks, and was 1981's No. 2 hit in that country, after "Stars on 45". It peaked at No. 10 in the United Kingdom, to date Carnes's only Top 40 hit in that country. Additionally, it ranked No. 12 on Billboard's list of the top 100 songs in the first 50 years of the magazine's Hot 100. "Bette Davis Eyes" was a No. 1 hit in 21 countries. Chart 1981 Australia 1 Austria 2 Belgium 5 Brazil (Gold) Canada 2 (Platinum) Canada Adult Contemporary 1 Denmark 4 (Gold) Ecuador 1 Finland 1 France 1 (Platinum) Germany (Gold) Ireland 5 Italy 1 (Platinum) Luxembourg 1 Netherlands 16 New Zealand 2 (2x Platinum) Norway 1 Quebec 1 Rhodesia 1 South Africa 1 Spain 1 (Platinum) Sweden 4 Switzerland 1 UK 10 (Platinum) US 1 (9 weeks) (Gold) West Germany 1 1997 Ireland 21 2002 Austria 67 2007 Denmark 14 2013 Slovenia 45 YT: 356m. views #music https://youtu.be/EPOIS5taqA8 American actress Gwyneth Paltrow covered "Bette Davis Eyes", released as a single in Australia on March 26, 2001, debuting and peaking at No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart on April 8, 2001. It spent nine weeks in the top 10 and came in at No. 35 on Australia's year-end chart for 2001. It earned a platinum certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association. Kim Carnes' version of the song has appeared in various films and TV series including 200 Cigarettes (1999), Cold Case S1E6 (2003), That's My Boy (2012) The Final Girls (2015), American Horror Story S5E5 (2015), Riverdale S2E18 (2018), The After Party (2018), Anaïs in Love (2021), The Tourist S1E1 (2022), Angelyne S1E3 (2022), MaXXXine (2024) and And Just Like That... S3 E7. Actress Bette Davis was 73 when Carnes's version became a hit. She wrote letters to Carnes, Weiss, and DeShannon to thank them for making her "a part of modern times" and said that her grandson now looked up to her. After their Grammy wins, Davis sent them roses and happily accepted the gift of gold and platinum records from Carnes, hanging them on her wall. The opening line, "Her hair is Harlow gold" is a tribute to starlet Jean Harlow, the leading sex symbol of early 1930s films, often nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde", whose look inspired Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, and others.