The article examines how Kim Carnes turned an overlooked song into a major hit in 1981, focusing on the creative choices behind its transformation. Its significance lies in showing how interpretation, arrangement and performance can revive material that had previously attracted little attention.

The supplied text identifies the song’s distinctive “beer-barrel polka piano” sound as part of the discussion, but provides no further substantive details about the recording or its commercial performance. It frames Carnes’s version as a classic from 1981 and suggests that its musical reworking was central to that status.