Let’s be WE ARE THE WORLD

I'm Waylon Jennings, walking out after that weird Jackson boy tells us all to sing some African gibberish..."shal....la....sha linga"...what the fuck is this horseshit? Willie, I'm outta here! I'll be in the limo drinkin' Jack and snortin' coke off a hooker's ass.

I'm Madonna and I wasn't invited. But I'm over it now.

I'm Prince and I refused to participate. And I'm over ot too.

We're everyone, wondering what the heck is Dan Aykroyd doing here?

I’m still waiting for the proceeds.

I’m Bette Midler - bitter that I have to stand next to LaToya Jackson.

I am Ruth Pointer. Baddest bitch in the game but no solo.

No, OP, I'M Kim Carnes, wondering why you all don't bow the fuck down to me for being (along with Cyndi Lauper and Huey Lewis) in the only good part of the song.

Suck it, Bono. You, too, Lionel.

I'm Bob Dylan. No one has the balls to tell me I sound like Buckwheat when I sing.

I'm Linda Ronstadt. And I called in sick with a cold because (a) I really did HAVE a cold, or (b) I knew a horseshit song when I heard it, and wanted no part of the ensuing trainwreck.

I'm Springsteen at his hottest.

I was only told after that we would not be receiving a check for our services.

'Charity'

That AIDS charity was not so smart. I didn't make that mistake again.

I'm Bette Davis, OP, and I put Kim Carnes on the map!

I’m Quincy Jones, now wishing I had got Madonna or Donna summer instead of this pain in the ass cyndi lauper.

I'm Kim Carnes, wondering my "solo" is only two fucking words!

I'm Michael Jackson, ducking out to visit The Goonies set in between takes.

I'm Carly Simon. I'm "terribly hurt and offended" I wasn't invited. I feel worse when interviewers ask why I didn't attend.

(Seriously - why didn't they invite Carly??)

R17 That interviewer is such a dick. You can see the justified contempt Carly has for him.

I'm Miss Ross seeing the "Leave Your Ego at the Door" sign and LAUGHING SO HARD!

I'm Dionne Warwick, smoking my Virginia Slims out in the hallway.

I'm Cyndi Lauper, annoying everyone with my unprofessionalism as my ugly bracelets keep making noise and ruining takes.

I'm old, crochety yet high as a kite Ray Charles pissed off at MJ drawing this shit out with his grandiose ideas!

"I don't know nothin bout no sha la sha lingay! Get this sequin glove wearin motha fucka outa here fo I make like a Pepsi commercial and set his ass on fire! "

I'm Bob Geldof. Americans don't know who I am and they will soon forget I exist.

I'm Miss Michael Jackson tee-hee-ing and giggling behind a lacquer fan, that is flapping like a hummingbird's wing, as I imagine the boy from Silver Spoons naked.

Do they know it's Christmas at all?

I'm the idiot who invited nobody Shiela E. and then told legend Carly Simon that there was no room.

I’m the token African woman they dragged in to tell the celebrities how important their great work is.

I'm the $1.04 that went to Africa after expenses.

I'm Michael Jackson's glove

I'm Hands across America asking when I can let go of this stranger's hand. I want to go home. I'm hungry.

I'm Live Aid, y'all!

We're the Pointer Sisters, hoping Ray Charles will share some of his blow with us.

I'm Stevie Nicks, putting down a few uncredited backing vocals on the Phil Collins/Marilyn Martin duet, "Separate Lives."

I'm Rebbie, Janet and Jermaine, not feeling the nepotism.

I'm Madonna, combing Lionel Richie's cum out of my hair hoping he gives me a solo.

i'm the new rendition that was done for Haiti in 2010 and I'm better than the original

I'm Justin Bieber before I transitioned

I'm Miss Warwick, taking notes on how to scamvangelize people, which I'll use for That's What Friends Are For.

I’m Marilyn “singing” with the chorus on Do They Know It’s Christmas.

I’m Tina - and where the FUCK is my fish sandwich???

I'm the lesser Jacksons just taking up spots that could have gone to people with careers.

[quote]I'm Bob Geldof. Americans don't know who I am and they will soon forget I exist.

We knew it was Christmas, but didn't want to stay Up All Night with you, Bob, although we Don't Like Mondays, either.

Anyone else remember it was Marilyn that was found dead after Boy George od'd? I was surprised to find out he was still alive.

R43 not only that but he made a comeback single Love or Money - tried to link it from youtube but came up as error. Was in London when he was pushing it on the morning talk shows.

R43 #MandelaEffect

I am r36 and I am delusional.

I'm whatever the fuck Sheila E was on that night!

R9, you are right. I never realized that he does sound like Buckwheat.

I'm Cyndi Lauper, too, making the MOST of my line. And then jumping in for an extra scream, to blow Kim Carnes out of the water.

"Well well well WELLL......YEAAAAHHHHHH-YEAAAHHHHHH"

I'm Stevie Nicks; I must've been on tour that night, because why else would they invite Lindsey over me?

R50, from R33:

[quote]I'm Stevie Nicks, putting down a few uncredited backing vocals on the Phil Collins/Marilyn Martin duet, "Separate Lives."

I’m La Toya Jackson, one of America finest music artists (at least that’s what the USA For Africa press release said).

I'm Steve Perry. I have a better voice than anyone else in the room and should have just sung the whole damn thing.

I'm the constant reminder that there was a sign on the door of the recording studio saying, "Check your egos at the door." Which, with its ceaseless underscoring that the artists were doing it for philanthropic reasons and could come down of their stable of high horses, was fairly egotistical.

I’m the story behind the song!

I'm Springsteen's anal sphincter trying desperately to pass that turd as he strains "to sing".

I’m BandAid, the hastily organized group of UK artists + Kool and the Gang who received no food and had to perform at 8 AM and still produced a far superior, less insipid song.

Where was Donna??

I am the Grammys a year later, where I awarded We Are The World 4 Grammys including Song and Record of the Year. Everyone At the recording voted for it because it might have been the only chance they would ever had to sing on a Best Record winner.

R58, she was either trying to promote that turd of an album Cats Without Claws or praying.

Her name was Ruth, R54, not Rita.

I think Ruth was the one who flashed her pussy in the bathtub in the I'm So Excited video, much to the horror of the viewing public.

R62, no, that was June ( of "Jump" fame).

R62, no, that was June ( of "Jump" fame).

For reference

R65 What's odd about the video is that Michael Jackson seems to have gone back into the studio to re-record his parts.

As there is nobody on either side of him when he does his first "solo."

R66 I think Michael recorded before everyone and laid down background vocals so everyone could have a reference

I love you R24!

R62, that was JUNE and it was HOT!

We're all the dead ones - June Pointer, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, James Ingram. Anyone else?

Hi, I'm Waylon Jennings and I'm also dead.

Hi it’s Kenny Rogers and Al Jarreau we’re also dead!

R70 Kenny Rogers, just died a few weeks ago.

R70 Our careers are all dead.

I'm guessing there haven't been many Pointer Sisters threads on DL, because judging from this one, there is lots of inaccuracies.

I'm Whitney "Nippy" Houston. I wasn't big enough to be invited yet.

I'm Kim Carnes' two-ish good notes.

I'm Madonna. They didn't invite me because they thought I was a flash-in-the-pan who would be over in a year. I outlasted all of those motherfuckers.

R78 Say what?

Bruce you're wonderful but your career as a hitmaker was over by the early 90s.

Here's Bette Midler's comment about making the record.

Go to 3:37.

I’m Hall, or maybe I’m Oates. I’m not sure which is which?

Hall was the hot one. Oates was the ugly one.

R84 I think they are both ugly. The mystery continues...

We’re Sha-La and Sha-Lingay and we still don’t what we did to piss people off!

[quote]We're all the dead ones - June Pointer, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, James Ingram. Anyone else?

Lindsey Buckingham, as far as I'm concerned.

What was the Sha La Sha Lingay story?

We did it better.

Never mind- I found it.

[quote] Sure enough, there was an epic argument after 1 a.m., centered on some nonsense words that Jackson had finished the chorus with: “sha-lum sha-lingay.” Bob Geldof, the man behind Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” the year before (and Live Aid later this same year), who had begun the evening by telling the throng about the brutal realities of the famine in Ethiopia (“you see dead bodies lying side by side with the live ones”), objected that if they sang “sha-lum sha-lingay,” they would sound like they were mocking Africans.

[quote] Jones had the cameras turned off while the stars discussed the issue; Stevie Wonder left to call a friend in Nigeria to get an appropriate Swahili phrase. When Wonder came back and reported that the correct lyrics would be “willi moing-gu,” Jones said, “the shit hit the fan.”

[quote] Ray Charles shouted out, “Say what! Willi what! Willi moing-gu, my ass! It’s three o’clock in the goddamn mornin’. Swahili, shit — I can’t even sing in English no more.” At this point, Waylon Jennings took off, completely unwilling to sing in Swahili. Geldof observed that Ethiopians don’t actually speak Swahili, a point underscored by Lauper, who said that it was like “singing to the English in German.”

[quote] Lauper, Simon, and Jarreau started lobbying for a meaningful phrase, and Jarreau came up with “One world, our world,” which got modified to “one world, our children.” Tina Turner, so tired she had her eyes closed, said to herself, “I like sha-lum better. Who cares what it means?”

This was right before Michael fell off the tracks. He looked good and sounded amazing.

[quote] We're all the dead ones - June Pointer, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, James Ingram. Anyone else?

Diane is still with us. Unfortunately.

R17 Funny, I can totally picture Carly as part of Live Aid. She would have been a nice addition. Oh well, they had to draw the line somewhere....

I'm the soloists' egos. We all made it past the door.

Let's be a shitty little song that Michael Jackson (tee-tee) wrote in five minutes. Or less.

r55, I remember that being on what seemed like a continuous loop on HBO for a while.

I'm the word "children" that Michael Jackson wrote into the song. When you sing it, all 137 times, you are probably not imagining them nude. He is.

I never knew Waylon Jennings walked out.

Funny that they invited Lauper but not Madonna.

Little historical things like that always interest me.

If only they had a time machine...

They didn't think Madonna would last, she was a gimmick as far as they were concerned. Of course they were wrong. It was pretty stupid even at the time, because Madonna was red-hot and would've given them even more publicity.

Yes, and Lauper was has-been just a couple of years later.

I'm the tears of memory.

I'm the children. Too weak to swat the flies crawling all over our faces.

I’m the sun visor and sweatpants I claimed as a charitable contribution.

[quote]because Madonna was red-hot and would've given them even more publicity.

Both of them were red hot at the time. Cyndi was up for five Grammys including Best New Artist and Album of the Year.

Madonna got to perform at Live Aid a couple of months later. A decent performance, but let's be honest, her voice improved a lot over the course of her career.

I watched that all those years ago. It was a big deal when M took the stage because it was the first time anybody ever saw her with dark hair (on her head that is).

[quote]Funny that they invited Lauper but not Madonna.

And LaToyota and . . . well, anyone.

They could have invited Carole King. Or Aretha. Or Donna Summer.

Kim Carnes' manager put the whole thing together.

R108: I was just about to write Kim's manager was Ken Kragen and all his clients Lionel, Kenny, James Ingram and Kim (maybe more) got solos.

John Denver was upset he wasn't invited either. His hit making days were long gone, he was one of the first music stars to draw attention to world hunger, particularly in Africa. Which showed the whole thing was about who was popular.

Thanks for explaining why Kim Carnes was there.

Kim Carnes was there because she had a string of top 40 hits from the early to mid 80's. At that time, Bette Davis Eyes was one of Billboard's longest running number one singles.

Joan Baez wrote in her memoir, "And A Voice To Sing With," that she, too, was miffed over not having been invited to the WATW session.

Her consolation prize was opening the show on the American side of the Live Aid concert - where she sang a medley of "Amazing Grace" and, yes, "We Are The World."

[quote] I'm the lesser Jacksons just taking up spots that could have gone to people with careers.

I’m the “lesser Jackson’s” double platinum 1984 album “Victory.”

I’m the last Let’s be We Are the World thread. Because Dataloungers are senile I and many of the thread topics are reruns.

I am Michael Jackson, the only reason that "Victory" went double platinum and the only smash on the album was a song I co-wrote and sang with someone who wasn't a Jackson.

Tee hee hee.

[quote] I’m the “lesser Jackson’s” double platinum 1984 album “Victory.”

Which shipped double platinum and was returned quadruple platinum.

It's telling that their only hit single off that album was the duet between Michael and Mick Jagger, State of Shock, and even that only went to #4. The tour was a smash, but only because it was the only way to see Michael live.

Perhaps if they had waited a year and put it out in 1985 or 86, when Thriller had calmed down and people were hungering for more Michael, the album would have sold better.

Also, if they had released it in 85, we might have been spared the career of Janet Jackson.

[quote] Which shipped double platinum and was returned quadruple platinum.

It's telling that their only hit single off that album was the duet between Michael and Mick Jagger, State of Shock, and even that only went to #4. The tour was a smash, but only because it was the only way to see Michael live. Perhaps if they had waited a year and put it out in 1985 or 86, when Thriller had calmed down and people were hungering for more Michael, the album would have sold better.

[quote] Also, if they had released it in 85, we might have been spared the career of Janet Jackson.

[quote] I am Michael Jackson, the only reason that "Victory" went double platinum and the only smash on the album was a song I co-wrote and sang with someone who wasn't a Jackson. Tee hee hee.

I’m the anger, resentment and irrational rage that talentless poor white trash feels towards the Jackson Family.

[quote] I’m the anger, resentment and irrational rage that talentless poor white trash feels towards the Jackson Family.

Actually, you're a tranny lover who doesn't know how to format a quote properly.

R105 That was fun to see again. Those big concerts were so genuinely exciting back then, and so was she.

Do you think people like Carly Simon, John Denver and Joan Baez "called each other up on the telephone" to bitch and moan about the diss?

Where the fuck was Donna Summer?

Not being snarky but did Joan Baez have a top 40 hit ever? I know who she is but don’t know any of her songs.

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"went to #3 in 1971 R124.

To those asking why Donna Summer wasn’t there: Quincy Jones hated Donna Summer after their collab on Love is in Control!

Maybe it was better she wasn’t there - she would have blown the others out of the water anyway.

He did R126? I never read that anywhere. I knew she was pregnant when they did the album, but Donna's husband Bruce Sudano was very complimentary towards him when Donna and Quincy Jones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.

God the 80s stunk to high heaven!

Why did Donna and Quincy fight?

I am the world. I am the children.

The title track to her "Diamonds And Rust" album also cracked the Top 40, R124. Plus several Top 20 LPs.

Donna probably was asked but David Geffen probably never told her. Most of his time spent in the 80s was fucking up Donna's career and fucking Steve Antin up the ass.

Geffen Records label owner David Geffen had been disappointed with the chart performance of the 1980 The Wanderer. He had Summer record a new album with Quincy Jones from whom a production credit – given Jones' track record particularly his work with Michael Jackson – Geffen felt would guarantee a commercial smash. A period of six months elapsed between the first session for the album and the completion of the tracks. Summer has since stated that this was one of the hardest albums ever to record – some of the songs were quite challenging, plus she was pregnant with her daughter Amanda Grace at the time. It has also been reported that she found producer Quincy Jones to be rather boisterous and controlling and soon after the album's release she opened up to the Los Angeles Times: "Sometimes I feel it's a Quincy Jones album that I sang on".

Rolling Stone wrote "the product of the Jones-Summer collaboration, turns out to be a gaudy, cluttered, frantically eclectic album whose high points don't stand a chance against the overblown orchestrations and the poorly chosen material."

[quote]Maybe it was better she wasn’t there - she would have blown the others out of the water anyway.

Maybe. Can you imagine her, Whitney, Aretha, Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight altogether? They would've turned it into a contest.

R61, thanks for catching that. Dumb mistake.

[quote]Geffen Records label owner David Geffen had been disappointed with the chart performance of the 1980 The Wanderer. He had Summer record a new album with Quincy Jones from whom a production credit – given Jones' track record particularly his work with Michael Jackson – Geffen felt would guarantee a commercial smash.

Did Michael Jackson have smash hits as a solo artist with Jones before 1980?

Yes, R137, the Off the Wall album

[quote]"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"went to #3 in 1971

But everyone remembers and likes our version more.

Michael Jackson's music went to shit after he stopped working with Quincy Jones.

Thanks R61. Dumb mistake.

After the Wanderer, Donna recorded I'm a Rainbow with Giorgio Moroder and that was the one that was shelved and Geffen demanded she work with Quincy. When Donna worked with Moroder and Pete Bellotte she was a full collaborator on her albums and cowrote the songs and came up with the concepts of the albums. I guess she found out after she left Casablanca that woman rarely had the creative input in their albums that she did, especially a black female artist. By the time of We Are The World, she was seen as just another black female dance artist .

Geffen put out a shit ton of payola to promote The Wanderer. It had one "hit single" that no one remembers today and the album was certified platinum but probably sold chiffon. Donna never really had a hit with Geffen. Ironically her only hits after joining Geffen were with her old label, 83's She Works Hard for the Money (which was an album she owed Polygram) and her comeback album in 1989 that contained This Time I Know It's For Real that was on Atlantic.

Carnes deserved to be there. She had the biggest hit of the 80s at that time plus Grammys. She has talent. Her manager did set it up but she had at least 10 top 40 hits. What I hated is she had the ENTIRE paragraph until Huey and Cyndi stepped in after she sang “when we”

EXCUSE ME R144 I had the biggest hit of the 1980’s!

It's true R140. If only Michael stayed with Quincy. If only Donna had stayed with Giorgio Moroder. If only Madonna had stayed with Pat Leonard and Stephen Bray.

What are all these supposed bits Kim Carnes had besides Bette Davis eyes which wasn’t that big a deal to. Begin with

Same question as r147. Her biggest hit was 4 years before "We Are the World."

I'm Cindi Lauper who is so professional I was not pissed it got "when we.."

I remember another Kim Carnes hit “More Love” which I really liked. “BDE” seemed like a novelty song and got old quick. I think she also had a hit throuple song with recently deceased Kenny Rogers and James Ingram?

"More Love" was released a year before "Bette Davis Eyes," 5 years before "We Are the World."

Bette Davis Eyes is the only song of hers that I can remember.

Kim Carnes could not sing.

How did she even have a career?

People complain about people without talent now, but it was going on back then too.

"...she also had a hit throuple song with recently deceased Kenny Rogers and James Ingram?"

"What About Me?" from 1984. I LOVE that song.

She also had "Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer" with Kenny and a song called "Voyeur".

Kim Carnes sang like she smoked 580 cigarettes an hour.

I'm a vinyl 45 rpm in the local dump where 99.9 percent of us wound up after being played only once.

350 cigarettes an hour is sufficient.

She’s no match for Babs. Awful song too.

R158 Barbra's "Emotion" album makes me so sad.

Such a wonderful voice, in its prime, squandered on schlocky songs.

Barbra has such bad taste. She should have been singing the Cole Porter songbook. What a fucking waste of talent.

I liked Kim's voice. It wasn't boring sweet like all her other female contemporaries. It had some grit and life to it. This song is amazing.

I’m Stevie Nicks, in the recording studio with my friend Marilyn Martin while she lays down her vocal for Phil Collins’ “Separate Lives”. I just did a Mt Fuji of cocaine and am in no condition to sing WATW, even had I been invited. I will laugh in a few weeks when I see Lindsey relegated to the back row with Dan Ackroyd and the fucking NEWS.

[quote] What are all these supposed bits Kim Carnes had besides Bette Davis eyes which wasn’t that big a deal to. Begin with

They've been mentioned above. And in terms of being "washed up," the same year We Are the World came out, Kim had a big hit later with Crazy in the Night. She'd also won her 2nd Grammy in 1984 for the song she did on the Flashdance soundtrack, the very underrated I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is. She also wrote all of Kenny Rogers' album Gideon, which went platinum (and had the #4 duet with Kim, Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer).

Though Mistaken Identity was her big hit album and went to #1 and was nominated for several Grammys including album of the year, Carnes' masterpiece is the album Voyeur. It got middling reviews when it was released because people said it was more of the same (as Mistaken Identity), but it actually improved on that album and was much more of a concept album.

I think Kim was fantastic, had a very unique voice, and yes, she actually COULD sing.

[quote]They've been mentioned above.

yeah, and most people never heard of them.

Thanks to the poster for explaining why Donna Summer's career hit a snag in the early 80s. She never should've parted ways with Moroder.

[quote] yeah, and most people never heard of them.

No, dear, what you mean is YOU never heard of them, so of course no one else could have possibly heard of them because you know so much.

Meanwhile, Kim had a dozen Top 40 hits, so I guess you don't.

I'm Lionel Richie trying to resurrect this annoying ass song for the third damn time. No one told me how badly the 2010 version sucked.

Kim Carnes is only remembered for Bette Davis Eyes, I had no idea she had other hits. They must've came and went.

I’m Kenny Rogers, R13, and I was I who put Kim on the map with our duet “Don’t Fall in Love With a Dreamer.”

This should have been a bigger hit.

Eddie Money ripped off the beginning of this in “Take Me Home Tonight.”

The little boy in the video at r169 is Kim’s son. He’s a realtor in LA and gay. Kim and her husband were close to David Cassidy and were in his band in the early 70s. They actually wrote a column for a teen magazine about being on the road with him.

Kim Carnes *was* involved because she was a star back then.

Diet Coke commercial Mountain Dew commercial MTV videos (some directed by Russell Mulcahy)

Fuck, she even did theme songs (My Sister Sam) and made it big in Japan

She was on the level of Laura Branigan (RIP)

Carnes lives in Franklin, TN in a mansion.

She’s written #1 country hits for Reba, etc.

Net worth $10mil.

I met her once in Chicago at a roof top charity event. She performed with her band and I had a chance to have a conversation with her. Great woman. I recall her saying Casablanca Records wanted to release the ballad “I’ll Be Here Where the Heart Is” from the then red hot Flashdance but her record company, EMI-America, refused wanting it to just remain on her Cafe Racers effort.

But she was a star in the 80s

This thread was great until Kim Carnes' one remaining fan decided to make it all about her.

No one -- but you -- cares about her.

Stop.

LOL @ R158's single cover. Kim Carnes' name is like 6 pt font. It's a duet, Babs. She's not singing backup.

R170, I don't hear anything that sounds like TMHT

I'm the superiority that OUR song doesn't contain the line "Tonight, thank God it's Them Instead of You".

I’m Michael Jackson, cowering away from the white butch singers like Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Steve Perry, Billy Joel, etc. I hide away and have to be coaxed out by black women from my own camp like Diana Ross and Latoya Jackson.

Their macho energy stresses me out, so for revenge I’m going to make them sing “SHA LAAAA. SHA LINGAY....”

I'm Dan Aykroyd, and even I don't know what the fuck I'm doing here. I wonder if Ray Charles is gonna share any of his coke.

[QUOTE] I'm Dan Aykroyd, and even I don't know what the fuck I'm doing here

Aykroyd was arguably a rock star since he performed on stage and recorded as The Blues Brothers, even though it was more of an acting skit than anything else. But in the 80s his cocaine/motorcycle/high comedy lifestyle was considered very much rock and roll. My guess is Ken Kragen was representing him else they were friends and he invited him along.

Was there ever a worse "music" act than The Blues Brothers?

R180, yes.

Dan Aykroyd was also in Michael's Liberian Girl video. They must have been friends back then.

Their friendship ended when Dan starred in My Girl. For obvious reasons.

I’m Madonna and in a few weeks my far superior “Crazy For You” is going to knock your ass off the #1 spot.

R184 And now you're crazy for everyone.

Michael called and asked me if I would like to partake. I thought it was a cute song when he played it over the phone. But I was confused by this constant reference to "we". "Who is this 'we' and why am 'I' singing along with them?". I politely declined and went back to eating my macaroni salad.

I am the actual Miss Warwick, trying to tolerate the drag queens imitating me here but waving at them as fans. (small wave with two fingers)

The truths are that I lost interest in this gig when they refused to abide by my simple re-quest that it be called "I Am the World" with everyone doing backup for me as lead soloist. Fuck. THAT made more sense than this jibber-jabber hop-around gimme-gimme bullshit.

My white choir gown was sequined and lowwwwwww cut (all the way down to the top of my cleavage, just above my waist) and sexy to death. As the Earth Mother of ALL I was going to sing about how I welcomed all the little animals and people and things into my World. Beautiful. With my 800 number there for donations to the cause.

But no. Shit. Should have seen them trying to get a stoned Little Stevie Wonder halfway facing the camera. And Miss Jackson was so icky. I can understand having a boy fanning one but not low and behind. Michael had nothing but bare hipbones back there. And those rockers were just screaming. SCREAMING. I had all their mikes turned off and you couldn't even tell.

Fuck that. I'm doing a Corona-the-World co-VID-2020-&-Beyond number with celebrity puppets that'll make you all forget this ego-shit pile.

Anyone know where I can get some dee-cent hash? I'm nostalgic and my six dealers are all dead or entubed somewhere. Call Damont's cell. I'm not taking any chances even with the microchipwaves.

Huey Lewis was rather sexy.

I'm Damont on the phone with Miss Warwick's CPA/weed man trying to see if We Are the World is a tax writeoff.

Oh shit, here she comes. Peace.

Wasn't Huey Lewis known for being well-endowed?

R158 Not bad. Kim more than held her own.

We’re Bananarama, STILL sleeping off the visible hangover we had the morning of filming the DTKIC? recording.

[quote]Was there ever a worse "music" act than The Blues Brothers?

It was a total straight guy thing. John Belushi was one of the most overrated comics ever, he wasn't the slightest bit funny most of the time, but straight guys worshipped him.

A bit off topic, but has anyone recently tried to listen to "Thriller?" I just couldn't listen to it for some reason. It was like fingernails against a chalk board - inspired a truly averse reaction in me.

r190 Yes he is, some groupie went on Stern and said he was the biggest of them all.

r190 Yes he is, some groupie went on Stern and said he was the biggest of them all.

R175, that “Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh” at the beginning?

You make my heart beat faster and that’s all that matters!

I can't believe there is a Kim Carnes stan. That is so fucking random.

I am possibly the worst song ever released. And I am the pathetic Grammies awarded to it like clockwork.

P.S. Carnes had the same manager as others there, Ken Kragen maybe? Only reason she was there and given two words to sing.

(PSS I am not the Carnes stan but I do have/use a keychain in the shape of the "Cafe Racers" logo. I love it, though it cuts my thighs with its sharp edges in my pocket from time to time).

Kim was represented by Ken but also had professional history with Kenny Rogers.

Why is it so hard to believe that Kim Carnes was a well known performer with hit records in the 80s?

Why isn’t anyone questioning why Randy and Latoya Jackson were there? Latoya was in the first row!!!

If I recall correctly, the official reason why Dan Aykroyd was there was to represent the American film industry. To think, we could have had Harrison Ford, or Eddie Murphy, or Sally Field ...

Why not a Kim Carnes stan? DL even has a Frances Cleveland troll....

There are at least three different people sticking up for Kim Carnes. I'm one of them and I didn't post half of what's on here.

In that Rolling Stone article, Dan Ackroyd said the reason he was there was because he and his dad were in LA interviewing business managers and mistakenly got an appt w/ Kragen, not realizing he was a personal manager (which sounds strange to me). Kragen mentioned the recording session, which was happening that night, and invited Ackroyd to come participate.

I’m Lucy, I was asked to participate, but Gary told me not to.

Sorry, I loved her but even back then, it was odd seeing Carnes there. She had peaked with "Bette Davis Eyes": 4 years before and was hardly on the charts anymore.

You think about all the big names of the time who weren't there and you wonder why. Of course some of them were out of town and couldn't make it but surely some others would've liked to have participated but never got the call.

Fucking Latoya Jackson and one or two useless Jackson brothers were front and center, though lol! That surely must've pissed the real talent off.

There's a monster on my ceiling There's a monster on the wall

There are thousands in the closet Now they're coming down the hall!

I'm so hidden they can't find me But then again they might

What can I do to keep from going Crazy in the night??

Bette Midler hasn’t had a big hit single in a few years either and her “Wind Beneath My Wings” comeback was years away. What was supposed to be her big hit single “Beast of Burden” (featuring Mick Jagger in the video) flopped in the US and her album sales were coming from comedy mostly.

*hadn’t, not HASN’T

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Kim Carnes and Kenny Rogers were both members of the New Christy Minstrels, during The Great Folk Scare of the 1960s.

[quote] Sorry, I loved her but even back then, it was odd seeing Carnes there. She had peaked with "Bette Davis Eyes": 4 years before and was hardly on the charts anymore.

Except she was and continued to be after the recording, as you've been told umpteen times in this thread.

I don't remember Kim Carnes being a big deal after Bette Davis Eyes. I can't name one other song of hers. The duet with Kenny Rogers must've been on the country charts, which I didn't follow.

Then scroll back and read the thread, you dumb fuck. Outside of injecting you with t

I clearly remember “Invisible Hands”, “You Make My Heart Bear Faster” and “Crazy in The Night” on Top 40 radio. “More Love” on pop and R&B radio, and she also had a hit single with Kenny Rogers and James Ingram called “What About Me” which was Top 20 on Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on AC.

and Kim also did a Diet Coke commercial which doesn’t sound like much but so did Whitney Houston and it was a hugely successful campaign.

“Just for the rock of it!

Just for the roll of it!

The real cola taste of it!

DIET COKE!!!”

r216 nobody remembers anything Kim Carnes did outside of Bette Davis Eyes (except r217), the above poster was correct that by '85 she wasn't really on the radar anymore. Of course it's already been explained that her manager was the one who put this whole thing together so that's why she was there.

[quote] [R216] nobody remembers anything Kim Carnes did outside of Bette Davis Eyes (except [R217]), the above poster was correct that by '85 she wasn't really on the radar anymore.

Except that the above poster was incorrect, as between BDE and WATW, Kim had five Top 40 hits, had won a 2nd Grammy and had been on the biggest soundtrack album since Saturday Night Fever. And she had another big hit later that year. Again, as you've been told.

It's not that I'm a Kim stan, it's that I don't understand people who keep making the same fucking argument even after they've been shown the receipts. I'm sorry you were wrong. No one cares. Stop arguing the fucking point. Was she the biggest star in the world? No. But it's not like anyone is trying to justify Maxine Nightengale being asked to the recording.

Nobody remembers anything Kim Carnes did except Bette Davis Eyes. Her other songs haven't stayed in the public's consciousness.

[quote]I don't remember Kim Carnes being a big deal after Bette Davis Eyes. I can't name one other song of hers. The duet with Kenny Rogers must've been on the country charts, which I didn't follow.

exactly. 100X over

R215, her duet with Kenny Rogers placed at #31 for the Year-End Top 100 Songs of 1980, which was higher than “Ladies Night” by Kool & the Gang, “All Out Of Love” by Air Supply, “Fame” by Irene Cara, “On the Radio” by Donna Summer, and “Heartbreaker” by Pat Benatar.

Weird r223 because all those other songs are still very well remembered.

R224, that’s just to give you context on how well known Kim was in 1985.

Will Kim Carnes sing "We Are The World" with Kim Burrell at Kim Jong Un's funeral?

Nobody was checking for Kim Carnes in 1985 lol!

R227, this whole thread has been, “Why is Kim Carnes in that video? She was just a one hit wonder!” Not at the time, she wasn’t.

All that talk earlier about Donna Summer and Quincy Jones, and nobody mentioned their incredible version of "State of Independence" which was almost an indirect and unintentional precursor to We Are the World?

It featured a backing choir of popular performers including Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Brenda Russell, Christopher Cross, Dyan Cannon, James Ingram, Kenny Loggins, and Stevie Wonder, some of whom sang on WATW. Heck, even Jones' wife at the time, Peggy Lipton, sang backup.

I think "State of Independence" is a far superior record than WATW. I would even say it may be Donna's best recording. Although her collaboration with Jones may have been an unhappy one, they did come up with THIS.

It is odd that Summer wasn't there or possibly not invited. Apparently Jackson was a fan. But maybe her being there may have reminded too much of State of Independence, which, sadly, missed the Top 40 in 1982.

Over time, it has been reassessed and praised, and deservedly so.

Sorry, I don't believe Diana Ross was part of that choir.

Or Stevie. Oops!

Dyan Cannon sings!

Check out Steve Perry at the top of his game, followed by a struggling Daryl Hall. Steve Perry had the harder singing part and hit his notes take after take. Hall, on the other hand, struggles galore.

that’s just not true R219. She wasn’t on YOUR radar, but Billboard says otherwise.

Why was Bette Midler there? Her last hit record was in 1979. The promise of her film and recording career had faded and she was doing comedy albums and Broadway by then, her comeback would come a few years later. No one who watched MTV at the time remembered her.

Why was Latoya and Randy Jackson there? Whose ‘radar’ were THEY on other then nepotism? What about Dionne Warwick? Her most recent BIG hit was “Heartbreaker” in 1982; she placed singles on the AC chart after that but they weren’t any bigger smashes than Kim’s singles, until she did “That’s What Friends are For” later in the year.

Jeffrey Osborne’s big single was “Wings of Love” in 1982, his next big single wouldn’t be until 1986 with “You Could Be Mine”, in between that, and by the time of the recording of “We Are The World” his singles were low landing on AC or R&B charts and were no bigger hits than Kim’s. Why was HE there?

Why was Al Jarreau there? His last BIG single “We’re in This Love Together” was in 1981. Singles after that landed low, although 1983’s “Morning” almost made Top 20, 1984’s “After All” didn’t even crack the Top 50. His singles really were any bigger hits than Kim’s.

This is all public information available by looking at the Billboard charts. I’m not negating the talents of Midler, Jarreau, and Osborne. I’m saying that their situation with hit records was the same as Kim Carnes. No one in that studio was selling records the way Jackson, Springsteen, and Tina Turner were.

Steve Perry made a lot of people look bad that day! Daryl Hall looks very ill at ease hanging onto his sheet music for dear life.

Bette Midler herself admitted to Arsenio Hall that she had no idea why she got invited.

Starting around 04:05 in the clip.

Such was the power of the Jackson name, even by 1990 when this clip aired Arsenio was loathe to dump on Latoya.

I'm the panty hose things in front of the microphones. To this day I don't know what the fuck I'm about.

The thing about Kim Carnes is that, TODAY, she's only remembered for Bette Davis Eyes, which always struck me as a rather bizarre novelty song. That raspy voice and run-on song structure are both grating. Sure, she might have had other songs on the charts, but nobody remembers them except for her most ardent fans. So it was understandable why she might have been there that day, but to compare her to people on a career basis like Dionne Warwick, with dozens of memorable hits, is ludicrous.

Hey, where was I? Oh yeah, I was busy making movies

R239, name a smash Jeffrey Osborne hit remembered TODAY other than “On The Wings of Love.”

Dionne Warwick, with her lovely 60s catalogue and her 70s and 80s comeback hits, is primarily remembered today for being a kooky pothead and for the Psychic Friends Network.

We had a 500+ reply thread last year where we discussed how no one seemed to remember who the late James Ingram was.

LATOYA JACKSON.

A lot of artists were there because they were either popular and on the charts at that moment or they were well loved by the industry and enormously talented. Al Jarreau may have not been on the 1984 mall America hit parade but he was well loved by everyone in that room and with Quincy. What your gonna throw out Ray Charles cause he wasn't in the MTV top 20?

exactly R242. Kim Carnes was still part of the moment in 1985, whether anyone likes it or not or whether anyone remembers anything but “Bette Davis Eyes” or not.

[quote]What your gonna throw out Ray Charles cause he wasn't in the MTV top 20?

Ray Charles was a legend.

r241, Baby, Stay With Me Tonight was another Osborne hit off the top of my head.

Your statement about Warwick is clearly ridiculous and you destroy any credibility you might have had otherwise.

no it’s not. Her catalogue was impressive but her hits dried up after around 1990 (“Love Power” is one of the last I can remember) and YES unfortunately now when you say her name people remember the Psychic Friends Network. She did it to herself, no one forced her to promote that nonsense.

And yes she is a kooky pothead and it’s a DL meme.

R238 - those are pop guards. They lessen the audible impact of sounds made while singing. Ex the "P" and "T" sounds, as well as the hiss of "S."

r207, Carnes has a big hit in the summer of 1985 with Crazy in the Night

That Babs duet? Carnes wrote and produced it and was *asked* to do this by Streisand. It later became a #1 hit for Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap.

It’s not one “stan”, I think we’re just kids from the 80s and remember her being a pop star

Kim Carnes Matters!

^^^ PLUS, all the boys think she's a spy.

r248 nobody fucking remembers those songs. Cast a net over the general public and say "Kim Carnes" and all you'll get is Bette Davis Eyes.

I loved Kim Bethesda Carnes and especially her superhits Betty Davis Eyes. Angel Of The Morning. and Queen of HEARTS, BABY!!!!!

This is a much better version, even if there are again a few questionable choices. Justin Guarini?

251: YOU don't remember Kim Carnes. You like most Americans are casual listeners. Music isn't that important to you. I bet you only kbow one or two Michael Jackson or Prince songs.

Kim "Cunt" Carnes threw my grandmother on the live rail at a subway stop as the train approached.

She almost died!

I'm Michael Jackson, side-eying all the off-key white people screeching their tone-deaf heads off in the studio recordings.

This thread is going to be the top Google hit for "Kim Carnes".

[quote]YOU don't remember Kim Carnes. You like most Americans are casual listeners. Music isn't that important to you. I bet you only kbow one or two Michael Jackson or Prince songs.

Because fucking Kim Carnes with her ONE hit that anybody remembers was in the same category as MJ and Prince.

Before I started reading this thread I had only vague positive memories of Kim Carnes and her song Bette Davis Eyes. Now I loathe her and all her fucking crazy fans.

It's true that MJ was afraid of Bruce Springsteen and kept hiding from him. Fucking freak, he was.

Forgive me if this has already been posted, but Rolling Stone recently did a breakdown of what went on that night....

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Kim Carnes? The two words she sang were the highlight of that musical travesty.

"Michael took two helpings!!!" :Leave your ego at the door, my ass.

I also read that the butch guys like Bruce, Billy Joel, Daryl Hall Waylon etc really only wanted to lay down their vocal parts but they were encouraged by Quincy to kowtow to Michael, which was galling to them because he was isolating himself and was surrounded by Diana (who DID try to also work the room and was not her usual diva self) Quincy, Lionel, his family etc. So Michael would say something in a feathery whisper to them and one of the lower ranking Jacksons would deliver that to the men as if they were translating some other language. When Bruce roared his vocal Michael Jackson didn’t like it and was whining to Quincy privately that he preferred if they could give that slot to a black singer. Quincy, even if he agreed in principal, couldn’t entertain that because he knew the record has to appeal to a wide variety of buyers. So he had to tolerate the likes of Cyndi Lauper, who of course would go on to be a Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award winner.

Waylon was in the chorus and Joel and Hall had a few solo words.

Putting Springsteen and wonder together towards the end was one of the better parts of the song.

I'm Canada.

Our Tears Are Not Enough was way better.

And that bitch Kim Carnes was copping my style.

Everything's better with Anne Murray in it.

Kim not only participated in WATW, she elbowed her way to the very front of that chorus so she’d be holding hands with Michael Jackson! Cyndi Lauper still has the bruises!!!

Who ‘da boss NOW, Bruce?

I'm Michael Jackson and I had to get drunk with Springsteen to make him think I was "one of the guys".

I'm Brooooooooce, and I had to sleep with a prepubescent boy in order to convince Michael that I was cool.

I'm also Michael Jackson, and I put on a fake and extra high voice when I won my Grammy for the song, so that I would seem less threatening to all of the little boys of the world.

I don't think I've ever read the words 'Kim Carnes' as much as I have in the last week reading this damn thread.

I'm Paul Simon wondering why no one gave me a box to stand on. I mean everyone from Kenny to Cindy is towering over me and I'm feeling a bit, you know, short and kinda overwhelmed.

Weirdo pedo MJ's hideous outfit looks like he stopped by Liberace's house and stole the curtains. MJ was the king of bad, vulgar taste.

In retrospect, it's amazing how someone as strange and freakish as Michael Jackson basically became such a beloved entertainer in the conservative Reagan Era. It's like people just overlooked how odd and bizarre he was. Of course, it was a different time and the public wasn't as cynical as the public is now.

In the Reagan era, the child molestation allegations against Michael hadn't happened yet. As far as everyone was concerned, he was just an eccentric artist and there was no reason for people to dislike him. Once the 90s started, the first allegation hit and he started turning into Casper the ghost, he wasn't so universally beloved anymore.

Fuck this shit. I'm the better song with better singers and celebrities, and better looking men.

^^^ that’s because Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson hated Joos

WTF is "we are the children" supposed to mean in the context of this song? The lyrics sound like the earnest scribbling of a twelve-year-old schoolgirl who thinks she's saying something profound and philosophical.

I’m LaToya still wearing shit from my heart don’t lie video.

Kim Gertrude Carnes RULES. Look at her on that pic where she elbowed Cyndi off into the shadows and then the bitch GRABS Michaels hand AND THEN starts looking for a camera for the perfect angle. Look at the picture!

Miss Dionne has some competition.

It was hilarious that Carnes muscled her way into the front row for the photos, next to actual superstars MJ and Diana Ross. Pretty ballsy for someone who was basically a one-hit wonder.

But according to some here, Carnes had a massive hit in 1985 with Crazy in the Night which had a massive peak at NUMBER 15.

I'm sure Madonna and Cyndi at the time were shook.

among all the various trolls on DL we have a “Kim Carnes was a one hit wonder and NOBODY remembers her” troll.

I’m going to flag R282 to ignore and then see what other replies she’s done on threads. I guarantee that besides anti-Kim Carnes replies there are thousands of anti-Meghan Markle replies. She seems the type.

yep, I was right. Amazing

The Kim Carnes stan is on the warpath!

I'm going to flag r285/286 to ignore and then see what other replies she’s done on threads. I guarantee that besides being a Kim Carnes' only remaing fan, there are replies that she doesn't wash regularly and has a filthy asshole that's tangled with hair and caked in shit. She seems the type pig who would be like that.

Yep, I was right. Amazing

Kimberly Lacretia Dianne Carnes has the voice of a raspy warily ANGLE!!!

A glorious, blonde ANGLE!!!!!!!

In retrospect, Cyndi Lauper looked retarded.

Because of this thread, I googled Kim Carnes since I had no idea what she looks like and I have to say, she has aged very well. She's a very lovely 75 year-old woman.

Now I'm craving chili con carne.

Everyone in my school was ROCKING OUT to Kimberly Carnes MEGA HIT "Crazy in da Night" in 1985. Madonna was barely talked about.

In fact, in between class other bitches would stop me in the hall and say "Have you heard Kimberly Carnes HIT song Crazy in Da Night!!?"

"Why NO!" I'd say. And I immediately cut class and RAN to Sam Goody to BUY THAT GODDAMNED CASSETTE!!!

I fingered myself to Crazy In Da Night from 1985-2017.

I worship R294.

I was first man mounted (from behind) to Crazy In The Night in 1997. (The 1985 Kim Carnes megahit). The man told me that it was the best song ever for "fuckin" so that is what played on a loop while I was violated.

So now each time I am violated (from behind) I insist that Crazy In The Night (the hit 1985 song by Kim Carnes) plays until the man finishes. (Climaxes).

The hit song Crazy In The Night is the ONLY song for me.

I am violated to it! (From behind)

I'm Diana Ross!

R294 is strangely unhinged and...angry? at Kim Carnes for some reason?

They should have just let Steve Perry, Jeffrey Osborne, James Ingram and Al Jarreau sing the whole damn sang.

BTW, Jeffrey also did the Woo Woo Song.

Daryl Hall had a mullet that was a wonder of engineering.

The late Kevin Meaney did an outstanding rendition of WATW on Carson.

If Kim Carnes really knew a gal who had Bette Davis eyes she'd go knock her on the head, steal them and auction them off on eBay.

Because at this point that nursing home costs money she can't possible have.

whether or not I’m a Kim Carnes fan (other then the chart hits I don’t know her music) doesn’t take away that R282 has an insane obsession with trolling Meghan Markle threads. Interestingly, the same pattern appears in other posters i’ve ignored: all very active on the We Are The World thread, VERY active on Meghan threads, and active on the China and Japan thread. Coincidence? Or multiple browsers to look like separate users? Hmmm I mean, I put R282 on ignore and she posts afterwards that she knew she was ignored, how could she if I blocked her temporarily to look at her posts?

r303 putting a person on ignore just means you can look at their other posts. It doesn't do anything else.

The travails of Harry and Meghan (how they suffer! Won't anyone think of them?) is a pleasant diversion for people right now in the midst of all the bad shit going on. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

[quote]I fingered myself to Crazy In Da Night from 1985-2017.

Cyndi Lauper recently told Larry King she did the exact same thing.

I’m Kenny Rogers “USA For Africa” sweatshirt, I’m much too tight.

I was molested and wasn’t even invited to be in the fucking chorus!

R283, “Crazy in the Night” wasn’t “massive,” it only peaked at #15 on the charts, which is modestly successful, but it didn’t even place on the Year End Top 100 songs of 1985.

Apparently juice newton hates me. Carnes as well.

^^ Ms. Carnes^^

Was this the last time your name was seen anywhere near a hit record, Diane?

Why wasn't that other rugged gravel-voiced slag Bonnie Tyler there?

r308 it was sarcasm.

R312, she was originally offered Kim's two word solo. But she was holding out for a better one.

I’m the Grammy Miss Kim “two lines” Carnes got for We Are The World. Soloists got Grammys chorus got a shitty certificate

[quote]I fingered myself to Crazy In Da Night

OMG! You weren't the only one!

I remember fingering myself to Crazy In Da Night for two solid months.

One time, my mother came in my room and asked, "What is that totally rockin' song, son?"

I told her, "It's Kim Carnes COLOSSAL HIT Crazy In Da Night that has the whole world fingering itself. It's it, like, totally tubular?"

Before I had gotten that last remark out, Mom was already on the floor fingering herself to Crazy In Da Night.

R316, I am with you my fellow Carney.

Just last night, I was digging through my closet looking for my old poster of Kim so I could frame it and hang it over my bed.

Just the THOUGHT of Crazy In Da Night had me fingering myself so feverishly that I ended up getting dizzy and fell on my head.

As I came to, with Crazy In Da Night playing in my mind, I saw something under the bed.

I reached under the bed and pulled out, YOU GUESSED IT!!! My original cassette tape of the monster hit- Crazy In Da Night by our dearest and hottest, KIM!!!!!

I put in my old boom box, rocked the FUCK out for the rest of the evening and fingered myself into oblivion!!!

This is a HIT song, my friends!!

God. We've moved from a Kim Carnes Troll to a I'm fingering myself to Kim Carnes Troll

Do I detect a small note of sarcasm in your rant, R317?

Wow, it's taken 35 motherfucking years, but Kim Carnes finally has her day. She's totally dominated a thread involving 30 other singers with longer lasting and much better careers.

Was Prince asked or was there only room for one little off kilter black guy?

Prince was asked, he thought the song sucked, and didn't want to do it.

In case it hasn’t been posted earlier...

why was Latoya there but Janet and Reebie weren’t?

why wasn’t Pat Benatar there?

or the Queens of Rock, Ann and Nancy Wilson?

or Patty Smyth?

R323: Heart's comeback wasn't until later in 1985 and 1986.

Don't know why Pat wasn't there. Until Madonna took over, she and Cyndi were the most popular females in pop music. Maybe she turned it down. Pat was in the Sun City song the next year.

R320, r321: the line Diana Ross had in the song was supposed to be Prince. The second part of the line harmonized with Michael. They wanted the money shot of Michael Jackson and Prince singing in the same microphone. It was not to be.

In addition to the song sucking, at that time Prince didn't want anything to do with any project that he wasn't fully in control of. I may be wrong but Stevie Nicks "Stand Back" was the only song he played on that he didn't write or produce.

Does anyone remember if Prince was invited to perform at Live Aid?

R323 They were all busy...fingering themselves to "Crazy in Da Night"!

R323, Janet's pregnancy was classified as high risk and she was reduced to bedrest. Centipede peaked on the Billboard charts just before WATW was recorded. Rebbie was probably busy promoting.

I’m Dionne Warwick and someone tell Keith Richards to stop using my teeth to open his beer bottles...

R327: Ouch!

I remember Bette Midler joking about this on one of her records. "I stood next to LaToya. She was wearing a headband. I felt naked."

R328, I love you.

What was the deal with Dionne's teeth- Its like her frontal jaw is oversized and misshapen kind of like a shark meets the Alien from Alien starring Sigourney Weaver.

He teeth were jacked pre- 1975 or so, then she got caps to straighten those messes OUT!

R331, my mother said that Dionne’s upper front teeth were practically vertical when she first started. And she had something of a unibrow. She is one of those people who got more attractive as she got older. Sometimes she’d look really ugly and other times she was pretty. I am sure that she had some work done on her nose as well.

R332. Your mother gives me LIFE!!!!

YES!!!! They were VERTICAL!!! It was like the front jaw was normal than arched up and then arched down!

YES!!!!

[quote] the line Diana Ross had in the song was supposed to be Prince. The second part of the line harmonized with Michael. They wanted the money shot of Michael Jackson and Prince singing in the same microphone. It was not to be.

There was bad blood between Miss Michael Jackson and Prince. Prince has won the AMA that night over Thriller, which only made things worse.

Prince contributed a song to the WATW album.

He made a video of the song and sent it to be played at Live Aid in lieu of a performance.

A lot of artists asked to participate, but were turned down.

As Carly said they told her, they had to draw the line somewhere.

Supposedly Streisand was asked but turned it down and regretted it. So she did Hands Across America the next year.

Hi all~ When I wusch invited to perform for the" I Am The World" Extravagansha I politely declined Quinshy's invitation. I had musch too musch on my plate at the time . And besides that, my darlingsh - I was WAY to preoccupied- This lady right here was FINGERING HERSHELF ALL NIGHT TO THE HIT DEMO TRACK of a little shong to be called Crashey In Da Night, by my dearesht friend, Kim Carnsh. I am show shorry to have mished your mushical jubilee!

Some of them who didn't participate were probably out of town or out of the country working on other projects and couldn't make it. WATW was pretty slap-dash, there wasn't much advance notice. They just got people who were in LA at the time and could make it to the session.

I wash shertainly giving and old shlap and dash! To my WET PUSHY!!!

Timed to the delichush pulshating beatsh of the hit demo track of Crashy In Da Night!!!

By my dearesht and mosht talented friend, Kim Carnsh.

[quote] Supposedly Streisand was asked but turned it down and regretted it.

Babs would have been sublime singing the “When We” part given to Kim Carnes!

WHEN WE!!

WHEN WE!

WHEN WE!!!!!!

LICK UP MY SUBLIME VOCALS, BITCH R340!

Thanks r333. She gave me life too....🤗

HEWEY LEWISH!! For God'sh shake! Shomeone get that coke booger outa hish noshe THISH SHECOND!!!!

why wasn’t Joan Jett there? Mike Reno? Kool and The Gang (as a nod to their Band-Aid appearance), Teddy Pendergast (in his wheelie), Ashford and Simpson? Patti Labelle? Johnny Mathis? Tanya Tucker? Marie Osmond?

What about Lou Rawls? Lena Horne? Frank Sinatra? New Edition? That Carpenter brother? Linda Ronstadt? Where were they?

Yeah, Frank Sinatra was a huge oversight. Or Sammy Davis Jr

WHY THE FUCK WAS TINY TIM AND HIS UKELELE NOT INVITED TO WE ARE THE CUNTING WORLD!!??

Charlene?

Pia Zadora?

The Singing Nun?

Joyce?

R345:

Read the thread, dummy!

^^^ R10, he meant.

I was invited but I thought the song was TACKY.

Did Ana Geysteyer base her Bobbi Mohan Cope off Joyce's look?

I'm George Michael who said it was too stupid and trendy and wasn't doing it again.

Teena Marie?

Irene Cara?

Crystal Gayle?

Lita Ford?

Ronnie Milsap?

Chaka Kahn?

Why no one from the Lawrence Welk family of stars? Why no Norma Zimmer?!!

The Go-Gos

Debbie Harry

Boston

Stephanie Mills

Michael McDonald

Patti Smith

The B-52s

R353, George Michael wasn't asked. He was a Brit.

Where was Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart...???

Just IMAGINE what they could have done with this material!!!

George Michael wasn't a big star in America yet. He only had one big hit (Go Go) when it was recorded. Like Madonna, if they recorded the song exactly one year later they would have asked him. And he probably wasn't in America at the time.

R359 it was always a song to be sung by American artists only.

why didn’t someone tell Dionne that she had a huge visible nose hair or booger visible in her flaring wide nostril??

Sheena Easton?? She was at Live Aid.

Marilyn McCoo?

Neil Sedaka?

Peabo Bryson?

Duke Fakir?

Mrs. Miller?

Randy Newman?

Paul Newman?

Laraine Newman?

Yvonne Ellimann?

Pat Suzuki?

Dale Bozzio?

Baltimora?

Benny Mardones?

Listing random names is so clever and witty.

Why wasn't the shrieking loon Patti LaBelle invited to join them? She could have drowned out Diana Ross just like she did that other time and prolonged their childish feud (which probably only existed in LaBelle's crazy, melodramatic head to begin with).

I thought Patti was there - relegated to the chorus?

Patti didn't make her big pop star comeback until later that year with New Attitude and Live Aid.

New Attitude was released a month before We Are The World was recorded, charting at a mediocre 17.

Well r369 that was pretty good considering she never had another pop hit since Lady Marmalade

We know who Geldof is. He saves the lives of Africans. Could give a fuck for Australians.

Reeree wasn’t there because it was recorded in California, and Ree don’t do no planes. She don’t do air conditioning either, must have always been HOT working with her. Woooo

RIP Aretha

R370 She never really had much of catalog.

[quote]Well [R369] that was pretty good considering she never had another pop hit since Lady Marmalade

Ever hear of "On My Own?"

Moreover, the people who were invited were mostly people who had attended the AMAs that night and as mentioned, friends or clients of the Manager guy.

Is Patti Labelle still touring or is she basically retired now?

[quote]Is Patti Labelle still touring or is she basically retired now?

She was touring until COVID. She tours all year round and her shows are 100% live singing and live band, no backing tracks.

I’m Kim Carnes making this thread all about ME again!

Oh yeah Patti still tours. I've seen her three times in the last ten years. She's still got her voice.

This thread is exactly the kind of content you could ONLY find on Datalounge. I love you bitches!

I'm Olivia Newton-John. I was barred for being Australian:

[quote]The nationality restriction forced Kragen to exclude his friend, Olivia Newton-John. “I hated to refuse her,” he said. “I wrote her a long letter and explained it to her. We’ve remained friends.”[/quote]

I'm Madonna. I was a presenter that night at the American Music Awards, and those bastards still didn't invite me to their little sing-along. It is now 35 years later, and I have sold more records than all of them, except Michael Jackson.

I haven't had time to read the entire thread, but has anybody mentioned Kim Carnes?

Of course Kim Carnes has been mentioned. She was one of the biggest stars of the 80s, with MULTIPLE hit songs that everybody remembers. She isn't just remembered for Bette Davis Eyes, you know.

R383 is lying R382. Kim Carnes has yet to be mentioned. Please share your thoughts.

I'm typing with one hand because I am fingering myself to Kim Carnes's many, many hits.

the fingering to Kim Carnes troll is just stupid. She’s obviously trying to amuse or annoy someone but it’s just falling flat.

How did the Canadian Dan Aykroyd get to participate if they restricted it to American nationals only?

Good Question R387!

Harry Belafonte was Jamacian

Tina Turner was born in Africa, hence her African accent

Okay, who is that chick with the huge shades standing between Ray Charles and a Jackson brother(maybe Randy or Jermaine) in the choir? She looks strung out on something.

Liza was supposed to appear at Live Aid to help introduce the acts, but she pulled out at the last minute.

r391 that was Sheila E. They asked Prince to do it, but he thought the song was a piece of shit so he sent her instead.

Refer to my post at R47, R391.

-R22

the highest female in the room that night was most likely Ruth Pointer, actually.

sorry I mean JUNE Pointer

Ruth Pointer also liked her drugs. A lot.

The most fucked up was probably Waylon Jennings.

BTW, Ruth Pointer wrote her memoir a few years ago and it's a really good read. Bitch was WILD in the 70s and 80s. Lots of stories.

Was June a closeted lesbo?

R374: "On My Own" hut number 1 a year later in1986. "New Attitude" was the start of her pop comeback.

[quote][R374]: "On My Own" hut number 1 a year later in1986. "New Attitude" was the start of her pop comeback.

Yes but I was replying to someone who said she NEVER had another hit after Lady Marmelade.

Wow, Huey Lewis was probably the best-looking man in that room.

Also, if you watch that "making of" video at R233, you can see how embroiled he was in all those Kim Carnes / Cyndi Lauper retakes. Very patient and gracious throughout. (His singing was not the problem.)

Huey definitely had the biggest dick.

^^^ Sez you!

Huey is half Polish. Aren’t Polish men known to be well endowed?

I'm Latoya's headband.

R400, it was also the end of it.

r381, I remember Madonna was at the American Music Awards the night WATW was recorded. She presented an award alongside sexy Huey Lewis. Madonna had just had a huge #1 single with "Like A Virgin". And her "Like A Virgin" album would hit #1 the following week.

I wonder if she got to sample Huey Lewis' huge donkey-dick.

I haven't seen the We Are The World video in years. Is this the one where June Pointer flashed her snatch?

Did Diane demand that everyone call her Miss Ross?

R410 From what I have read, Miss Ross was on surprisingly good behavior that night. She was very chatty and friendly.

I guess being placed in the position of honor next to Michael (and Mary Wilson being nowhere in sight) mollified her.

I remember reading Diana was all over sexy Daryl Hall, who was happily married and not known to play. He wound up producing some music on her “Swept Away” album the next year.

[quote]I haven't seen the We Are The World video in years. Is this the one where June Pointer flashed her snatch?

That was "I'm So Excited." How the hell that got past the censors is anyone's guess.

Daryl Hall was really cute back then, I would've been trying to hit it too.

How shitty of them not to invite Madonna, when she was right there at the AMAs that night. Maybe they didn't because they thought Madonna would've gotten all the attention in the press, since she was the hottest act in music at that moment.

R414 I think they thought Madonna was a flash in the pan.

I mean, who in their right mind would guess how big her career would get, given her talent?

Madonna's rubber bracelets would've caused much less havoc than Cyndi's metal ones. They probably would've wrapped three hours earlier.

R410, I doubt she'd have gotten away with it in that room. A lot of them were just as big in terms of stardom and some of the others had had more recent success than she.

Had Mary! Wilson been invited maybe Diane would have insisted that her former bandmate address her as Miss Ross.

Fuck “The News” band members. Other than Huey Lewis, they shouldn’t have been there and instead they should have made room for Carly Simon.

or Peter Cetera

or James Taylor

or Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons

or Irene Cara

or David Crosby

or Joan Baez

or Martha Davis

Huey Lewis and the News were godawful. Dumb straight boy frat bullshit music. In the 90s, Hootie and the Blowfish took over that title.

R407 True. You blinked, you missed it. That's why in concerts she has to extend "Over the Rainbow" to about 45 minutes as there's not much other material with which to fill up a setlist.

R420, LaBelle should be on death row for murdering every song she has ever tried to sing. The only thing she does is scream all the fucking time. I wish Aretha had sat on this bitch and suffocated her.

R420, “Stir it Up” was a #41 single in 1985, and “Somebody Loves You Baby” went to #1 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1991

Thank you R422. Not to mention On My Own went to #1 in 1986.

Y'all are very ignorant. Miss Patti puts on an amazing show and covers many of her own R&B hits as well as other songs and she sings 100% live with a live band, something hardly anyone does now.

That said, if she had been at WATW she would've outsung everyone (see: Sisters in the Name of Love)

"On My Own" was a good song, helped by Michael McDonald of Doobie Brothers fame. Patti's not screaming that much in "On My Own." To say that she only had one hit song is silly.

She makes money now on her foods, e.g., banana pudding, which are sold at Walmart.

424: that's the banana pudding without the bananas.

I was saying Patti didn't have another Billboard chart hit after Lady Marmalade until New Attitude, then the string of hits. The Billboard charts were kinda sketchy back then, songs by black artists you thought were bighits weren't. Then came Soundscan in the 90s which measured actual sales then all of a sudden all of these black artists who either you never heard or not for a long time started having big hits.

Hilarious, R425. I didn't realize there were no bananas in Patti's banana pudding. I looked at the label and it does say: "For an extra treat, add fresh sliced bananas!"

It's funny how some songs back then didn't do all that well on the charts but then became songs we all know well. Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell," for example, didn't even crack the Top 40 but it's a song that is well-known today on all the 80s retrospectives. Lots of other songs like that, too.

Conversely, songs that were big hits back then didn't have much staying power, and you never hear them anymore.

I’m Bruce Springsteen’s camel toe.

I LOVE Patti's Stir It Up. First heard it watching GLOW. When I looked it up, I was SHOCKED it didn't make the Top 40. I would've thought top 10 for sure. I was surprised New Attitude didn't crack the top 10.

1985 Patti was no holes barred "Fuck it! What have I got to lose?" Patti. She was at the age where it was pretty much make it or break it regardless crossover success, and perhaps emboldened by Tina's triumph, decided to grab the brass ring herself. Her "no holes barred take no prisoners" performances put her on the map in a way she had never been before.

She brought down the house at Live Aid. Dionne, Cher, Tina Turner, Grace Slick were standing by the stage watching her perform, enthralled. Bette Midler gave her a warm introduction pretty much highlighting her entire career. She fumbles midway through with a weak Stir It Up only to come back full force with Over the Rainbow. The applause from people working backstage pretty much sums it up.

R430 Stumblies through Stir It Up? They gave here fucking broken microphone!!!!! But she and the band and bg singers handled it like pros!!!!

[quote] 1985 Patti was no holes barred "Fuck it! What have I got to lose?" Patti.... Her "no holes barred take no prisoners" performances put her on the map in a way she had never been before.

It's "no holds barred," but maybe "no holes barred" is better for what you're talking about.

The fucking typo queens are so tedious.

I’m Kim Carnes reaching out her Invisible Hands... to FINGER YOU!!

Patti LaBelle sang “On My Own”? I can’t imagine she sounded as pretty as Lea Salonga singing that song.

It's a different On My Own r435. The Patti Labelle/Michael McDonald version was a huge #1 hit. You still hear it played today.

Patti did all that screaming and yelling on "Sisters in the Name of Love" and the infinitely more talented Gladys Knight still stood out as the best singer of the three.

Patti is like a circus freak. No interpretive ability, no understanding of the lyric and no idea how to modulate her voice and tone. She's like a porn star with a 13-inch dick who thinks it's enough to just keep showing it and doesn't know how to do anything else.

Patti can do a lot more than screech.

There's an unfortunate "countrified" twang to Patti's voice when she's not screaming the lyric. It makes for a most unpleasant sound. Sorry, Pat.

I agree, she saw an opportunity with MCA and she went for it full force. It helped that Cyndi Lauper and Madonna were doing all kinds of weird things with their hair, so Patti’s outer-space hair fit right in. Even if her chart success wasn’t huge, that comeback kept her on the map and she never left. You say “Patti Labelle” and everyone knows who she is, she still tours, still gives an extraordinary performance, and she loves being on TV and doing other projects like the cookbooks and public awareness of diabetes. If she hadn’t had the MCA comeback, I think if you said “Patti Labelle” you’d have to follow it up with “the singer from Labelle? remember? Lady Marmalade?” and then they’d remember. So, she’s a star and an icon now, even if she never works again. Such are the mysterious ways of divadom.

How dare anyone tarnish Ms. Labelle? Put some respect on her name. This is the woman who gave us "You are My Friend" and "Lady Marmalade". Nit to mention that her version of "If You Asked Me To" is exponentially better than Celine Dion's version.

ENOUGH, you Labelle freakazoids! This is MY thread, and I've waited a G-D lifetime for it, and I WANT IT BACK!!!

“WHEN WE”

I'm Kim Carnes, and I'm the breakout star of this thread. Please enjoy my #1 smash hit "Bette Davis Eyes".

Patti vs Aretha in a catfight. Who would win?

I'm the greatest collective cringe in history, for the most cringe-worthy song in history.

[quote]Patti did all that screaming and yelling on "Sisters in the Name of Love" and the infinitely more talented Gladys Knight still stood out as the best singer of the three.

That's in your plebeian and musically uneducated opinion.

And her voice has held up better than Dionne’s.

I’ve met Kim Carnes

She legitimately was a star from 1980-1985.

She was there and next to Jackson because she was also respected in the industry as hard working and very talented. She worked with the likes of Jerry Wexler before she even became famous. She’s won Grammys etc.

She’s also worth around 15 mil. You don’t get that with one hit.

She wrote The Heart Won’t Lie and Make No Mistake, She’s Mine, both #1 country smashes.

She was in Mountain Dew and Diet Coke commercials. Helped start the video craze on MTV (Russell Mulcahy directed 3 of her earlier videos).

She performed with Rod Stewart And Tina Turner in front of 80K people and 1 million viewers.

Duets in the 80s with Neil Diamond, Streisand, Rogers, Ingram.

Even charted on top 5 Dance with Invitation to Dance produced by Nile Rodgers.

She wrote and sang theme songs for My Sister Sam and Baywatch. All in the 80s.

16 top 100 singles, 12 making top 40, 4 in the top 15

Plus AC charts. Flashdance. Spaceballs.

Anyway, stfu unless you lived in the 80s.

She belonged there.

She didn't belong in the front row, though.

I think putting women up front was their attempt to be gentlemen.

KC being worth $15 million isn’t that impressive when you consider J Lo and A Rod paid something like $20 million for an apartment in NYC.

Funny how they didn't have many big female names there. Except for Diana, Dionne and Tina the others were past their peak or just total "WTF is she doing here" like LaToya.

How does LaToya make ends meet? The flesh trade?

Latoya is extremely close friends with Kathy Hilton, mother of Paris.

Latoya wrote “Reggae Nights” which was sang by Jimmy Cliff. She probably did ok from that, plus she had a line of headbands in the 80s. Oh, and “Heart Don’t Lie” which I think made the Hot 100 chart and peaked at #56. Grantee, that’s not #15 like “Invisible Hands” but it’s something.

I remember reading a book on the Jackson family that they knew early on latoya couldn’t really sing and tried hard to gear her towards an acting career.

I’m 2:10 and WAAAAAW WORLD, WAAAAAW CHILREN!

R56 was right

how come Stevie Wonder only held hands with Diana Ross? Why not Billy Joel? Bruce Springsteen? Daryl Hall?

why wasn’t John Cougar there? He was red hot at the time!

Rita Coolidge?

Cher?

Marie Osmond?

Peter Cetera?

[quote]how come Stevie Wonder only held hands with Diana Ross? Why not Billy Joel? Bruce Springsteen? Daryl Hall?

He couldn't see them.

She had known him since he was 10 years old, R459.

She had known him since he was 10 years old, R459.

R459: why would Stevie want to hold hands with Springsteen, Billy Joel or Daryl Hall? And before any of you millenials start, Stevie just had a number 1 hit and was on his way to winning an Oscar.......

You just answered the question r462.

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