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Sexy and insinuating, Kim Carnes rasps out a winner...
This curious and seductive song, co-written and recorded by Jackie DeShannon in 1975, has turned into a surprise hit for Kim Carnes, who has been looking for a smash almost as long as Now Voyager has been playing on the late show. Carnes, 34, who served time in the late 1960s dishing up freezer-packed folk music with the New Christy Minstrels, has a voice that is throaty without being funky, insinuating but safe, sort of like Lizabeth Scott chugging Vicks cough syrup. Garbo and Harlow are mentioned with Davis in the song, an evocation of a killer-diller...
Carnes and her husband Dave Ellingson have collaborated on songs recorded by Sinatra (You Turned My World Around) and Streisand (Love Comes from Unexpected Places), keeping themselves comfortably off the dole while they waited for Kim's career to take off. Kenny Rogers, who like Kim and Dave is a Christy Minstrels alum, gave a boost last year when he recorded one of their tunes, Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer, as a duet with Kim. That chart pacer paved the way. Carnes had a successful follow-up single on her own, but Bette Davis Eyes...
...Boston College. Boston University was expected to win the 400 meter relay race with Harvard seeded somewhere back in the pack. "We beat them by a couple of feet, I don't know why, but we got first (and a University and GBC record along with Joe Salvo, Kim Stephens, and Peter Nsiah). It was great, that race set the tone for the meet. It said, 'Hey, Harvard is here to run and win.' We won the GBC's that day--I'll never forget...
...with foam. When the strategy bounced back, Miss U.S.A. organizers expelled her from the competition. Fountain countered that some of her peers had cantilevered their chests with permanent breast implants. Contestants flatly denied the charge, and pageant officials went on to select as Miss U.S.A. Ohio Beauty Kim Seelbrede...