Released a few months after the success of "Hungry Eyes," Carmen's song from the film Dirty Dancing which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Make Me Lose Control" also reached the Top 5 on the Hot 100, topping out at #3. On the Sales chart, the song spent a week at #1; on the Airplay chart, it made #4. The song spent 13 weeks in the Top 40. In addition, "Make Me Lose Control" spent three weeks at #1 on the adult contemporary chart, the singer's second song to do so (following "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" from 1976).Although "Make Me Lose Control" did not originally appear on any of Carmen's studio albums, the song would later surface on various "greatest hits" releases.

"Make Me Lose Control," while featured in the Dirty Dancing movie, was for some reason excluded from the soundtrack album. Carmen stated in the liner notes to a compilation album that the song was an "odd record because it was all by itself. The song wasn't part of an album, but it was an interesting experience to jump back into the studio with Jimmy Ienner after ten years." Ienner is the producer of this and other songs recorded by Carmen.

"Make Me Lose Control" was featured in the Showtime TV series Dexter in a season one episode called "Shink Wrap" . It was being enthusiastically sung into a police trophy by Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter), while she danced in her bra in front of a mirror. [1]

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