Dirty Dancing

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Kenny Ortega and his assistant Miranda Garrison chose the song for the finale by going through an entire box of tapes, listening to each one. Big Girls Don't Cry"by The Four Seasons - Acting as the introduction to Dirty Dancing's Baby (Jennifer Grey), the tune plays while she arrives at Kellerman's with her family. The original West End production closed in July 2011 after a five-year run, prior to a two-year national tour. As the album was nearing completion, says Lloyd, “We were looking for songs and Patrick said, ‘I have a song we could do,’ and we said, ‘Bring it on,'” says Lloyd. It was the number one video rental of 1988 [60] and became the first film to sell a million copies on video.

Dirty Dancing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Apple Music

To capitalize on the movie, a Dirty Dancing road show, featuring Medley, Carmen, the Contours and Ronnie Spector, hit the road. For a location, they did not find anything suitable in the Catskills (as many of the Borscht Belt resorts had been shut down at that point), so they decided on a combination of two locations: Lake Lure, North Carolina, and the Mountain Lake Hotel near Pembroke, Virginia, and with careful editing made it look like all shooting was done in the same area. I've Had) The Time Of My Life"by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - Essentially the main theme from Dirty Dancing, this song plays during the final dance scene at Kellerman's where Baby and Johnny reunite and perform their iconic number at the end of Dirty Dancing. I'll Remember) In The Still Of The Night"by The Five Satins - This song plays over the scene of Johnny and Baby in bed, and continues into the next scene where Vivian (Miranda Garrison) sees them together outside.Patrick Swayze also required a hospital visit; insisting on doing his own stunts, he repeatedly fell off the log during the "balancing" scene and injured his knee so badly he had to have fluid drained from the swelling.

Dirty Dancing (1987) - Original Soundtrack From The Vestron Dirty Dancing (1987) - Original Soundtrack From The Vestron

The production opened on November 15, 2007, at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, with an all-Canadian cast, except for Monica West (Baby Housman), Britta Lazenga (Penny), and Al Sapienza (Jack Housman). Although it’s hard to imagine a time when Swayze wasn’t a marquee name, such was the case when Lloyd and album executive producer Jimmy Ienner began the process of rounding up artists for the soundtrack. When Robbie refuses to help Penny, Baby, without explaining why, borrows money from her father to pay for Penny's abortion. Ienner, who had previously produced albums and songs for John Lennon and Three Dog Night, opted to stick with much of the music that had already been used during filming and obtained licenses for the songs from Bergstein's collection.A May 2007 survey by Britain's Sky Movies listed Dirty Dancing as numberone on "Women's most-watched films", above the Star Wars trilogy, Grease, The Sound of Music, and Pretty Woman. When the film was re-released in 1997, ten years after its original release, Swayze received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, [14] and videos were still selling at the rate of over 40,000 per month. I've Had) The Time of My Life," performed by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, composed by Franke Previte, John deNicola, and Donald Markowitz– this song rose to No. More Dirty Dancing (full title: More Dirty Dancing: More Original Music from the Hit Motion Picture) is a follow-up album to the soundtrack to the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.