The Heat Is On (Glenn Frey song) Australian Singles Chart in 1985 and gaining peaks of No. 8 on the Canadian Singles Chart and No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, it is the highest charting solo single by any member of the Eagles. The music video for the song received heavy MTV airplay. It showed a film editor assembling scenes for "Beverly Hills Cop" while Frey and a band played the song in the adjacent room, with action scenes from the movie then directly interspersed. Among the musicians shown in the video is saxophone player Beverly Dahlke-Smith (the actual recording being made
The Heat Is On (Glenn Frey song) by session horn player David Woodford) and Frey's long-time drummer, Michael Huey. The recording subsequently appeared on Frey's albums "Glenn Frey Live" (1993) and "Solo Collection" (1995) as well as on some various-artists "top hits" collections. The Heat Is On (Glenn Frey song) "The Heat Is On" is a song written by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey, and recorded by Glenn Frey for the American film "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984). The song was published as a single and as the sixth track of the album "Beverly Hills Cop: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack" (1984). According to Frey, he was