Hungry Eyes

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"Hungry Eyes"
Hungry Eyes.jpg
Single by Eric Carmen
from the album Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from the Vestron Motion Picture
B-side "Where Are You Tonight"
ReleasedOctober 1987 (US)
Recorded1987
Studio Beachwood Studios (Beachwood, Ohio)
Genre
Length
  • 4:11
  • 3:49 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s) John DeNicola  · Franke Previte
Producer(s) Eric Carmen
Eric Carmen singles chronology
"The Rock Stops Here"
(1986)		"Hungry Eyes"
(1987)		"Make Me Lose Control"
(1988)
Music video
"Hungry Eyes" on YouTube

"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). [2] 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 [3] was not released commercially in the UK, but it managed to peak at No. 82 in January 1988, having charted purely on import sales.

Contents

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". [4]

Background

Eric Carmen, the performer of "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" 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 did not appear on the album until its reissue in 1998. 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 was initially hesitant to produce a song for another film soundtrack because he believed that soundtrack music died "horrible deaths". [5]

The song, only his second Top 40 song of the 1980s, represented 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 hit Top 10 in the US.

Music video

The music video featured Carmen with Sally Steele in a short scene in a café at the end. Steele later founded Vegas Rocks! Magazine , though she is not the main actress in the video, whose identity is unknown. [6]

Releases

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.

Track listing

7" vinyl single - UK/US
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hungry Eyes" Franke Previte, John DeNicola 3:49
2."Where Are You Tonight"Mark Scola3:59
12" vinyl single - UK
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hungry Eyes" Franke Previte, John DeNicola 3:49
2."Where Are You Tonight"Mark Scola3:59
3."(I've Had) The Time of My Life (Full Length Film Version)"Donald Markowitz, Franke Previte, John DeNicola 6:49
Cassette single - US
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hungry Eyes" (Song on side A1 and B1) Franke Previte, John DeNicola 3:49
2."Where Are You Tonight" (Song on side A2 and B2)Mark Scola3:59
CD single - Japan
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hungry Eyes" Franke Previte, John DeNicola 3:49
2."Where Are You Tonight"Mark Scola3:59

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Germany (BVMI) [36] Gold250,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [37] Platinum600,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Eyeopener version

British dance music group Eyeopener covered "Hungry Eyes" and released it as a single on 8 November 2004. [38] Their version reached number 16 in the UK and number 25 in Ireland. [39] [40]

Charts

Chart (2004)Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA) [41] 25
UK Singles (OCC) [42] 16
UK Dance (OCC) [43] 15

Other versions

New Found Glory released their version on their 2007 album of film covers, From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II .[ citation needed ]

A reworked version with altered lyrics by James Radford appeared in a 2017 commercial for Sheba cat food in the UK. [44] [ importance? ]

John Denicola, co-writer of 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.[ citation needed ]

Tobacco covered the song in 2020.[ citation needed ]

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