Some songs take time, not to mention the right artist, to become unforgettable hits. "Bette Davis Eyes" was first co-written and recorded in 1974 by Jackie DeShannon, offering a jazz-influenced soft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hit songwriter Jackie DeShannon knew something special had happened with her song "Bette Davis Eyes" when she was approached in a ...

On this day in 1981, Kim Carnes' iconic soft rock hit "Bette Davis Eyes" was dominating the Billboard Hot 100 for the fourth consecutive week. The song, originally written by Donna Weiss and Jackie ...

On Thursday, singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon will be inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. One of the first female rock 'n' roll songwriters, DeShannon penned the classics "Put a Little Love ...

Kim Carnes has explained her feelings about JoJo Siwa’s new cover version of “Bette Davis Eyes,” which A took to No. 1 for five weeks in 1981. Carnes said she’d been concerned when she heard the two ...

Kentuckian Jackie DeShannon's career is as vital to teenage Americans' acceptance of rock 'n' roll as it is to the mainstreaming of torch songs into pop music in an era after the standards in the ...