Songoftheday 4/6/14 - I need a drink of water but I swallow hard instead 'cause it's hard to move a muscle when you're frozen in your bed...

Kim Carnes - "Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes)"
from the album Barking At Airplanes (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #15 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's Song of the Day comes from the raspy-voiced singer who captivated the world with her "Bette Davis Eyes", Kim Carnes. Kim's two albums after this success each managed to produce at least a top-40 pop hit in America, with "Invisible Hands" nicking the chart at #40 in 1983. The following year, she joined country-pop superstar Kenny Rogers and soulster James Ingram on the "triet" "What About Me?", which made the top-20.

Carnes' 1985 started out with Kim lending a hand for the USA for Africa "We Are The World" single, which topped the charts for a month in the spring. That May, Kim released her ninth studio album Barking At Airplanes. Produced with Bill Cuomo, who provided a lot of the synthesizers prominent on the record, the first single released from the set with "Crazy In The Night"...

"Crazy In The Night" became Carnes' seventh and final solo top-40 hit in July of 1985, while climbing to #24 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart. Her follow-up single, "Abadabadango", stalled out at #67 on the pop chart. She went back to long-time producer Val Garay on her next album, Light House, but the single from the project, "Divided Hearts", would be her last Hot 100 entry at #79. After this, she returned to country music, and in 1988 she was back on that genre's chart with "Crazy In Love", which went to #68 on the country chart and #13 on the adult contemporary list in Billboard. She would only resurface briefly in 1992 as a guest on Neil Diamond's "Hooked On The Memory Of You", which peaked at #23 on the AC chart.

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...and here's Kim playing at a bar in Virginia last year...


 Up tomorrow: Motorin' down a nostalgic road.