[ Sony / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 6 April 2018
ULTIMATE DIRTY DANCING contains every song from the DIRTY DANCING movie, sequenced in the order that they appeared in the film.
The Patrick Swayze film DIRTY DANCING and its accompanying soundtrack have become a pop-culture phenomenon over time. Not only was there as second album of DIRTY DANCING songs, but years after the movie's initial release, we have a compendium of songs from both albums, with the track list arranged to follow the same order as the movie. Regardless of what you may feel about Swayze's own addition to the pop pantheon, "She's Like the Wind," ULTIMATE DIRTY DANCING is full of 1960s R&B classics. Bruce Chanel's wistful, harmonica-laced "Hey Baby;" Otis Redding's pleading ballad "These Arms of Mine;" and Solomon Burke's transcendent, consoling "Cry to Me" rub shoulders with early-'60s hits by Frankie Valli and the Ronettes. The collection appropriately closes with DIRTY DANCING's ostensible theme song (and a favorite of lounge singers everywhere), the Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes romantic duet "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Big Girls Don't Cry - Franki Valli & The Four Seasons
Merengue - Michael Lloyd & Le Disc
Trot The Fox - Michael Lloyd & Le Disc
Johnny's Mambo - Michael Lloyd & Le Disc
Time Of My Life - The John Morris Orchestra (instrumental version)
Where Are You Tonight - Tom Johnston
Do You Love Me - The Contours
Love Man - Otis Redding
Stay - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
Wipeout - The Surfaris
Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen
Overload - Zappacosta
Hey Baby - Bruce Channel
De Todo Un Poco - Michael Lloyd & Le Disc
Some Kind Of Wonderful - The Drifters
These Arms Of Mine - Otis Redding
Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia
You Don't Own Me - The Blow Monkeys
Yes - Merry Clayton
In The Still Of The Night - The Five Satins
She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
Kellerman's Anthem - The Emile Bergstein Chorale
(I've Had) The Time Of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes