Dirty Dancing is a 1987 romance film credited as being one of the most watched films of all time. Written by Eleanor Bergstein, the film features Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes, and Jerry Orbach. The story details the moment of time that a teenaged girl crosses over into womanhood both physically and emotionally, through a relationship with a dance instructor during a family summer vacation. Around a third of the movie involves dancing scenes choreographed by Kenny Ortega (later famous for High School Musical), and the finale has been described as "the most goosebump-inducing dance scene in movie history".
Originally a low-budget film by a new studio and with no major stars (at the time), Dirty Dancing became a massive box office hit. As of 2007, it has earned $300 million worldwide. It was the first film to sell over a million copies on home video, and the Dirty Dancing soundtrack generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles, including "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", which won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Grammy Award for best duet. The film spawned a 2004 sequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, as well as a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America, with plans to open on Broadway.
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Solo career.
His first two solo singles were chart hits in 1976. Musically, both were built around works by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The first of these
— "All By Myself," which is very similar to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 — hit #2 in the United States and #12 in the United Kingdom, where it would be his only charting hit. Then, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" — also heavily inspired by Symphony No. 2 — reached #11; however, it di
d reach #1 for one week on the Adult Contemporary chart. Two years after its 1975 release, the album was certified Gold in 1977 for sales of 500,000 copies. "That's Rock 'N' Roll" was also a #3 hit single for singer Shaun Cassidy. Carmen's second album came out in the summer of 1977 after a year-lon
g delay, and featured such backup players as Burton Cummings, Andrew Gold, Bruce Johnston and Nigel Olsson. It spent 13 weeks in the Billboard Top 200, peaking for two weeks at #45. It produced the Top 30 hit "She Did It," but the title track, "Boats Against The Current," only managed to scrape the
bottom of the chart. A third single taken from the album, "Marathon Man," became his first solo single not to hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Shaun Cassidy again made the Top 10 in 1978 with Carmen's "Hey Deanie." Carmen followed up with two more albums. Despite declining chart fortunes, the single
"Change of Heart" broke into the top 20 in late 1978. But in 1980, he temporarily withdrew from the music industry. Four years later, after Mike Reno and Ann Wilson topped the charts with the Carmen-penned ballad "Almost Paradise," he resurfaced on Geffen Records with a second self-titled album and
a further top 40 hit, "I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips." The follow-up single, "I'm Through with Love" also cracked the Billboard Hot 100. Another track from the album, "Maybe My Baby," later became a country hit for Louise Mandrell. However, it was a few more years before Carmen made a real pop cul
ture comeback with two songs: first with a hit from the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, "Hungry Eyes" (US #4) written by John DeNicola & Franke Previte, and then with the self-penned #3 hit "Make Me Lose Control." Both songs became Top 5 hits on the music charts. However, Carmen did not follow these hits with a new album.
The year 2000 saw the stateside release of I Was Born to Love You, which had been released in 1998 only in Japan as Winter Dreams. Carmen eschewed the use of a band on the recording, playing most of the instruments and programming the drum parts himself. The album did not find a large audience, but Carmen has continued to enjoy success placing songs with other artists over the years.

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