NUMBER 5: DIRTY DANCING – ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
German Music Charts – Best Selling Albums 1980 – 1989
The original soundtrack of the 1987 American romantic film Dirty Dancing, written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino with the film stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles. The album went multiplatinum in Australia, Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland… It spent 18 weeks as a number one on the Billboard albums chart. There was a follow-up album entitled “More Dirty Dancing” released in 1988 and “Ultimate Dirty Dancing” (2003) that contains every song from the film Dirty Dancing sequenced in the order it appears in the film and “Dirty Dancing “20th_Anniversary_Edition” released in 2007
Dirty Dancing OST – Track listing
- Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes – (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life
- The Ronettes – Be My Baby
- Patrick Swayze – She’s Like the Wind
- Eric Carmen – Hungry Eyes
- Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs – Stay
- Merry Clayton – Yes
- Blow Monkeys – You Don’t Own Me
- Bruce Channel – Hey! Baby
- Alfie Zappacosta – Overload
- Mickey & Sylvia – Love Is Strange
- Tom Johnston – Where Are You Tonight?
- The Five Satins – In the Still of the Night
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