<P> The Carnes version spent nine non-consecutive weeks on top of the US Billboard Hot 100 (interrupted for one week by the "Stars on 45 Medley") and was Billboard's biggest hit of the year for 1981 . The single also reached No. 5 on Billboard's Top Tracks charts and No. 26 on the Dance charts . The song won the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year . The song was also a number one hit in 21 countries and peaked at number 10 in the United Kingdom, her only Top 40 hit there to date . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> Bette Davis, then 73 years old, wrote letters to Carnes, Weiss, and DeShannon to thank all three of them for making her "a part of modern times," and said her grandson now looked up to her . After their Grammy wins, Davis sent them roses as well . </P> <P> The song was ranked at number 12 on Billboard's list of the top 100 songs in the first 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart . Cleopatra Records released a re-recording of the song as a single in 2007 . </P>

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