Carnes' version of “Bette Davis Eyes” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1981 and held it for nine weeks. They disappear and reappear in the second chorus.
In the first chorus, she performs with a band; halfway, dancers enter the hall.
The song finishes with the dancers making dance motions while approaching Carnes; the band is already gone when the video ends with the black-draped leaning figure. It’s not ‘make a pro blush,’ it’s ‘make a crow blush.’ This phrase goes back to the US mid-west in the early 1900s which loosely translates as ’causing unease with little effort.’ 26 on the Dance c… It is an objective fact that the original lyric in DeShannon’s version was “crow blush” and it was changed in the Carnes version to “pro blush.” A well-documented fact. A shadowed silhouette of Bette Davis smoking a cigarette appears throughout the video. It was also ranked the The song could be the perfect descritpion of an love-hate or masochistic relationship.DeShannon’s original lyric is indeed “crow blush,” but Carnes changed it to “pro blush.” This is well-documented.Why the downvote?
The single also reached No. In the second verse, the dancers make slapping and floor-pounding dance motions. "Bette Davis Eyes" is a song originally written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974, but made popular by American singer Kim Carnes in 1981 when it spent nine non-consecutive weeks on top of the US Billboard Hot 100 (originally on top for five weeks, then interrupted for one week by the "Stars on 45 Medley", then returned to the top spot for another four weeks) and became Billboard's biggest hit of the year. Jackie DeShannon sang 'she knows just what it takes to make a crow blush', while Kim Carnes replaced 'crow' with 'pro'. The video starts with a leaning figure draped in black at the center of a dance hall. Cleopatra Records released a re-recording of the song as a single in 2007.
Pretty stupid to downvote facts.As with most sites, the lyrics are wrong. It was written by Donna Weiss and Jackie Deshannon in 1974.
“Bette Davis Eyes” is the lead single from Kim Carnes‘ sixth album Mistaken Identity. The drape flies out to reveal Kim Carnes wearing sunglasses as she sings the first verse. 5 on Billboard's Top Tracks chartsand No.