1981 studio album by Kim Carnes
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.
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]
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Mistaken Identity.[17]
Musicians
- Kim Carnes – lead vocals (all tracks); piano (track 10)
- Bill Cuomo – arrangements (tracks 1, 3); Prophet
- Steve Goldstein – keyboards
- Bryan Garofalo – bass, background vocals
- Craig Krampf – drums, background vocals
- Craig Hull – electric guitar, slide guitar, background vocals
- Josh Leo – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, background vocals
- M. L. Benoit – percussion
- Jerry Peterson – saxophone
- Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar (track 1); acoustic guitar (track 2); harmony vocals (track 6); background vocals
- Danny Kortchmar – acoustic guitar (tracks 4, 7)
- Don Francisco – percussion (tracks 6, 9)
- Dave Ellingson – harmony vocals (tracks 2, 3, 7, 8); background vocals
- Daniel Moore – harmony vocals (tracks 2, 4, 8, 10); background vocals
- Wendy Waldman – harmony vocals (track 7)
- Maxine Willard Waters – harmony vocals (track 4)
- Julia Tillman Waters – harmony vocals (track 4)
Technical
Artwork
- Bill Burks – art direction, design
- David Alexander – photo