Mistaken Identity (Kim Carnes album)
1981 studio album by Kim Carnes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mistaken Identity is the sixth studio album by American singer Kim Carnes, released in April 1981 by EMI America Records. The album spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, and was subsequently certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Released | April 1981 | |||
Recorded | December 15, 1980 - January 12, 1981 | |||
Studio | Record One (Los Angeles) | |||
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Length | 40:13 | |||
Label | EMI America | |||
Producer | Val Garay | |||
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Singles from Mistaken Identity | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
The album's lead single "Bette Davis Eyes" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for nine non-consecutive weeks and topped the Hot 100 year-end chart of 1981. Follow-up singles "Draw of the Cards" and "Mistaken Identity" reached numbers 28 and 60 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.
Record World said of the title track that "Dreamy sax/keyboard colors provide the backdrop for [Carnes'] vocal longing."[3]