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Release Date: 05/01/2007
Dirty Dancing was a late-'80s phenomenon that will not die. The movie was a smash and the
soundtrack was too, spawning several hit singles as well as causing a lot of overdue interest in some great oldies. The
Legacy edition of
Dirty Dancing is a remastered, resequenced, and redesigned revisitation of the
soundtrack and the music from the film. In fact, the disc presents all the songs that appeared in the movie in the order that they appeared and includes a handful of songs from the film's score. The music is a blend of '60s classics like the always wonderful
"Be My Baby" by
the Ronettes,
"Cry to Me" by
Solomon Burke, and
"Love Is Strange" by
Mickey & Sylvia and emotional '80s tunes from
Eric Carmen,
Tom Johnston, the film's leading man
Patrick Swayze, and of course
Bill Medley and
Jennifer Warnes, whose
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" was a mega-hit that was everywhere in the late '80s. The songs from the score are from the dance instruction scenes at the beginning of the movie, and while they aren't much to listen to, they do help the flow of the
soundtrack. Anyone who loved the film and the
soundtrack will love this disc as well. [The 20th anniversary edition includes all the music from the film, along with a previously unreleased piece of
Michael Lloyd's score,
"Gazebo Waltz."]
~Tim Sendra, All Music Guide
;)
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