"Making Love" is a 1982 song written by Burt Bacharach, Bruce Roberts, and Carole Bayer Sager to serve as the theme song for the film of the same name in which, as recorded by Roberta Flack with Bacharach and Bayer Sager producing, it played under the closing credits: a Top 20 hit single for Flack (who arranged the track), "Making Love" was included on the singer's 1982 album release I'm the One.

"Making Love" would return Flack - as a soloist - to the Top 20 of the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the first time since 1974: she had in 1978 reached #2 with the Donny Hathaway duet "The Closer I Get to You" and that same year reached #24 with the movie theme song "If Ever I See You Again" (not sung by Flack in its parent film).

Flack's followup single: "I'm the One", stalled at #42 on the Hot 100, leaving "Making Love" her sixth and final Top 40 hit although she would subsequently reach the Top 20 with two duets: "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" with Peabo Bryson (#16/ 1983) and "Set the Night to Music" with Maxi Priest (#6/ 1991) which, with her three Donny Hathaway duet hits from the 1970s, would make Flack's overall Top 40 tally eleven hits.

The Washington Post music critic Geoffrey Himes considered that track's parent album: I'm the One, evinced "the mistaken notion that the slower and dreamier the song, the more profound it is", citing "Making Love" itself as the "worst example": "Flack whispers the maudlin lyrics [of "Making Love"] 'meaningfully' and the syrupy melody drags interminably.

"[19] However, Chuck Graham of the Tucson Citizen characterized the I'm the One album as "sweetly tempered [with] moods...done in pastels [i.e. subtly]", deeming the track "Making Love" "an expression of adult confidence that overcomes the hurt of infidelity [whose] lyric is several steps above the usual level of pop songs.