Dirty Dancing

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For example, the guitars were dropped way down for the film because guitars weren’t a dominant instrument back then – saxophones were.

Dirty Dancing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Apple Music

The song won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group, an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Warnes says Hatfield was “very generous” with praise when she saw him, but the story was an unhappy one to the end: In 2003, shortly before a Righteous Brothers show in Michigan, Hatfield was found dead in his hotel room. The single was scheduled for release shortly before the movie – but when the movie was delayed an extra month, the song was left out to dry and wilted on the charts. The song has also lived on outside the movie with it memorably featured in the (500) Days of Summer soundtrack and a recurring joke in that movie. Bergstein gave the script to other studios but was repeatedly rejected until she brought it to Vestron Pictures.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. And in stats that are unimaginable these days, the album would sell 11 million copies and cling to the Number One spot on the Billboard album chart for over four months. Starring Romola Garai and Diego Luna, the plot follows a sheltered American teenager learning about life through dance, when her family relocates to Havana, Cuba just before the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

Dirty Dancing (Original Soundtrack) (CD) - Discogs

Marketers of the Clearasil acne product liked the film, seeing it as a vehicle to reach a teen target audience. In Sweden, feminist art group Sisters of Jam put the text "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" (in English) in white neon light at Umeå Bus Square (2008) and at Karlstad University (2012).Yes"by Merry Clayton - This song appears twice in Dirty Dancing, first during the scene where Lisa (Jane Brucker) goes to Robbie's cabin and finds him with another girl, and again during the movie's credits.