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Eric Carmen's Hungry Eyes: The Cheesiest Sax-solo Ever

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If I found it hard to pick the greatest sax solo ever, identifying the Hungry Eyes song as the cheesiest sax solo was easy. When you watch the video you'll see why - and in this case it isn't just the audio track, the video is important in the cheese factor. Hungry Eyes is a track from Dirty Dancing which, let's face it, is a fairly cheesy movie to start with. I rather like it. But in Hungry Eyes the cheese steps forwards and takes over. In my opinion it goes too far.

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Eric Carmen's Hungry Eyes Song

The sax solo strarts about 2:47 in to the video. Just watch and listen and you'll see why I have picked it as the cheesiest sax solo ever!
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Contents

  1. Eric Carmen's Hungry Eyes Song
  2. Your Turn. Am I Right?
  3. Dirty Dancing
  4. Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
  9. Watch Dirty Dancing
  10. Greatest Sax Solo Ever
  12. About Kate Phizackerley
  13. Be my Guest

Your Turn. Am I Right?

So do you agree that Eric Carmen's Hungry Eyes is the cheesiest sax solo of all? If not, then what do you think is the cheesiest sax solo?

Is Hungry Eye the Cheesiest Sax-solo Ever?

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Yes

al says:

sounds good to me.

Posted May 04, 2010

No way!

andreas says:

kenny loggins - heart to heart

Posted April 15, 2011

David says:

sax-o-fun. can't remember the artist, but it was the artist who originally introduced it to jazz. It coins the "laugh" effect that saxophones can do.

Posted December 20, 2010

 

Dirty Dancing

Although Hungry Eyes is sooo cheesy, as I said in the Introduction I've always enjoyed Dirty Dancing as a movie, and of course Patrick Swayze's role was appreciated by many women.

Dirty Dancing was a low budget movie released in 1987, and the soundtrack was always central. In many ways it's the 1980's equivalent of Mama Mia released some 20 years later.
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Dirty Dancing Soundtrack

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(I've Had) The Time of My Life

While I have picked Hungry Eyes out for being overly cheesey, some of the other tracks are classics that most people will know, even if they don't know which movie they came from. Perhaps the most famous anthem from the movie is (I've Had) The Time of My Life by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. (A lot of people know it was sung by Jennifer Warnes; in my experience very few remember Bill Medly's involvement, although his voice works really well.)
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6m people can't be wrong. YouTube regulars will know that only the classic videos are viewed by millions of viewers. Those viewing figures along show just how well known this song is. (Sorry, but you'll need to click and watch the video over on YouTube - but please come back here when you've watched it!)

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Love is Strange

As I commented earlier, Dirty Dancing could be considered the Mama Mia of it's day. Although some of the music was contemporary, other tracks were 20 or 30 years old. A good example of that is Love is Strange first released in 1957 and which probably remains vaguely familar today more than 50 years later.
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Dirty Dancing has transferred well to the stage. The picture used for this video is from a production in London's West End.

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Watch Dirty Dancing

If you've never seen Dirty Dancing you really should. It's essentially a coming-of-age love story, with a great soundtrack. If you enjoyed Mama Mia then I think you would enjoy Dirty Dancing as well. It was released for the 20th anniversary.
Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition)

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Greatest Sax Solo Ever

At the other end of the scale, Will You featuring Wesley McGoogan is my choice for the greatest sax solo - or if you prefer you can check out my top dozen and vote yourself for the greatest sax solo.
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... or maybe you are interested in the nuttiest sax solo.

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