Question: Kim Carnes, Bette Davis Eyes

Question: Kim Carnes, Bette Davis Eyes

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StevieBee

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12,793 posts

254 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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Is the melody bit a synthesiser or a heavily synthesised guitar?


Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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The melody bit is Kim Carnes singing.

Which bit do you mean?

wikipedia after a 10 second Google said:
According to producer Val Garay, the original demo of the tune that was brought to him sounded like "a Leon Russell track, with this beer-barrel polka piano part." The demo can be heard in a Val Garay interview on TAXI TV at 21:50 Keyboardist Bill Cuomo came up with the signature synth riff, using the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer, which now defines Carnes's version. The song was recorded in the studio on the first take.
you can see the riff being played on said instrument here