 "Hungry Eyes" peaked at #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and #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 #82 in January 1988, having charted purely on import sales.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".