" Hungry Eyes " is a song performed by American musician Eric Carmen , a former member of the band Raspberries , and was featured in the film Dirty Dancing (1987). The song was recorded at Beachwood Studios in Beachwood, Ohio in 1987. "Hungry Eyes" peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 3 on the Cash Box Top 100 in 1988. The power ballad was not released commercially in the UK, but it managed to peak at No. 82 in January 1988, having charted purely on import sales.
11-555: Songwriters Franke Previte and John DeNicola wrote the song, as well as another hit from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack , " (I've Had) The Time of My Life ". Eric Carmen, the lead singer on "Hungry Eyes", had been the vocalist of the Raspberries . In 1975, he released his first solo album Eric Carmen in 1975, spawning the worldwide hit " All by Myself ", but subsequently faced declining chart fortunes. "Hungry Eyes"
22-654: A Golden Globe and a Grammy nomination. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" also won the ASCAP song of the year award. In 2014, the song was chosen as one of ASCAP's top 100 songs ever written, landing at number 15. Previte was chosen as one of America's top 25 songwriters to represent the US in a songwriter summit in the USSR, which resulted in a release of an album called Music Speaks Louder Than Words in 1990. Dirty Dancing (soundtrack) Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from
33-589: A single on 8 November 2004. Their version reached number 16 in the UK and number 25 in Ireland. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. New Found Glory released their version on their 2007 album of film covers, From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II . A reworked version with altered lyrics by James Radford appeared in a 2017 commercial for Sheba cat food in the UK. John Denicola , co-writer of
44-564: Is the all-time best-selling album in Germany. A follow-up album, More Dirty Dancing , was released in March 1988. The album Ultimate Dirty Dancing , released in December 2003, contains every song from the motion picture Dirty Dancing in the order it appears in the film. Due to the strong resurgence of vinyl record sales, for the film's 30th anniversary in 2017, Dirty Dancing received
55-696: The Knockouts . Born and raised in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Franke Previte Sr. (an opera singer), Previte was with the New Jersey rock quintet Franke and the Knockouts as the singer and songwriter. Previously he had sung with the Oxford Watch Band and Bull Angus. Franke and the Knockouts were signed by Millennium Records in 1981 and had three U.S. Top 40 singles, as well as two Top 50 albums. Their biggest single, " Sweetheart ",
66-776: The Vestron Motion Picture is the original soundtrack to the 1987 film Dirty Dancing . It was released on August 4, 1987, by RCA Records . The album went on to sell 32 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling albums of all time. In the United States, the album spent 18 weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and has been certified 14-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With shipments of at least 3.25 million copies, it
77-549: The main actress/mystery girl and Sally Steele in a short scene in a café at the end. Steele later founded Vegas Rocks! Magazine . The song was released commercially on 7" vinyl in many countries; plus, a 3-track 12" maxi single and 2-track cassette were produced. CD singles were a relatively new format; however, a 2-track Japanese mini CD single was commercially released in 1988. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. British dance music group Eyeopener covered "Hungry Eyes" and released it as
88-406: The song, released his own version in 2019 on his debut album The Why Because on Omad Records. It reached number 22 on Billboard ' s Adult Contemporary chart. Tobacco covered the song in 2020. Franke Previte Franke Jon Previte (born May 2, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning composer. He was the lead singer of the 1980s AOR rock band Franke and
99-558: Was initially hesitant to produce a song for another film soundtrack because he believed that soundtrack music died "horrible deaths". The song, Carmen's second Top 40 song of the 1980s, was his biggest hit since "All by Myself". A few months after the success of "Hungry Eyes", Carmen released the Ienner-produced " Make Me Lose Control ", which also reached the Top 10 in the US. The music video featured Carmen with Paulina Porizkova as
110-483: Was written by Previte and Knockouts guitarist Billy Elworthy, and became a Top 10 hit in 1981. The group's other two Top 40 hits were "You're My Girl" and "Without You (Not Another Lonely Night)". The band switched to MCA Records in 1984, and split up around 1986. Previte co-wrote music for the hit soundtrack for the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing , including " (I've Had) The Time of My Life ," and Eric Carmen 's hit " Hungry Eyes ". That same year Previte also received
121-492: Was written in 1984 by John DeNicola and Franke Previte, and originally recorded by Previte's band, Franke and the Knockouts for their album Makin' the Point , but it did not appear on the original version of the album; it was, however, included on a 1998 reissue of the album. Jimmy Ienner , Raspberries' producer, asked Carmen to sing this song for the Dirty Dancing album because he was familiar with Carmen's musical style. Carmen
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