Carnes was the member of New Christy Minstrels from 1962 until 1970. Kenny Rogers was also the member, & when you took this period Carnes met & married Dave Ellingson, with whom she would write virtually all of her songs. She began releasing albums when you took a early Seventies.

Within 1980 a duet with Kenny Rogers titled "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer" became the major hit on the country and western charts and likewise became the popular hit. Her cover version of the Smokey Robinson & The Miracles song "More Love" became her first solo hit single in 1980 when it reached the US Top 10.

Inside 1981 she recorded the Jackie DeShannon and Donna Weiss song "Bette Davis Eyes". When a foremost only freed from either a album Mistaken Identity, it spent 9 weeks at first on the Usthe singles stock & index charts and became a worldwide hit. Bette Davis admitted to being a fan of the song & approached Carnes & the ballad maker to thank the children. A only went in to be a greatest vendor of the season & won Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.

Carnes continued to record & freed many albums into a Nineties. These releases failed to email a level of profits of "Bette Davis Eyes", however by this instance she wwhen the extremely respected songster, & collaborated by having such creative person as Barbra Streisand.

Within 2004, she re-appeared using the self-freed album "Chasin' Wild Trains".

Discography
Rest in Pine tree state (1972) Kim Carnes (1975) Sailin' (1976) ''St Vincent's Court (1979) Romance Dance (1980) Mistaken Identity (1981) Peeping tom (1982) Coffeehouse Racers (1983) Barking at Aeroplane (1985) Weak Home (1986) Review from either a Home (1988) Checking Out A Ghosts (1991) Gypsy Honeymoon: Right of Kim Carnes (1993) Chasin' Untamed Trains'' (2004)

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