More Dirty Dancing

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More Dirty Dancing
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Soundtrack album by
various artists
ReleasedMarch 4, 1988
Recorded1988
Length34:19
Label RCA
Producer
Dirty Dancing chronology
Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from the Vestron Motion Picture
(1987)		More Dirty Dancing
(1988)		 Ultimate Dirty Dancing
(2003)

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 . It was released on March 4, 1988, by RCA Records, [1] and made it to number three on both the US and the UK albums charts. "Do You Love Me", a 1962 Contours hit that features prominently in the film and appears on More Dirty Dancing, was re-issued as a single and became a hit for a second time, peaking at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1988.

Contents

David Handelman of Rolling Stone gave the album one star out of five, calling some of the tracks "instrumental idiocies". [1] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave it two out of five stars saying that the follow-up contained "nothing more than a pleasant collection of oldies and faceless MOR adult contemporary pop". [2]

Track listing

  1. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" (instrumental) (The John Morris Orchestra) – 0:37
  2. "Big Girls Don't Cry" (The Four Seasons) – 2:25
  3. "Merengue" (Michael Lloyd and Le Disc) – 2:16
  4. "Some Kind of Wonderful" (The Drifters) – 2:33
  5. "Johnny's Mambo" (Michael Lloyd & Le Disc) – 3:02
  6. "Do You Love Me" (The Contours) – 2:49
  7. "Love Man" (Otis Redding) – 2:14
  8. "Wipe Out" (The Surfaris) – 2:12
  9. "These Arms of Mine" (Redding) – 2:26
  10. "De Todo un Poco" (Michael Lloyd & Le Disc) – 2:27
  11. "Cry to Me" (Solomon Burke) – 2:23
  12. "Trot the Fox" (Michael Lloyd & Le Disc) – 2:04
  13. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (The Shirelles) – 2:39
  14. "Kellerman's Anthem" (The Emile Bergstein Chorale) – 3:17
  15. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" (instrumental) (The John Morris Orchestra) – 0:55

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Austria—50,000 [24]
Canada (Music Canada) [25] 3× Platinum300,000^
France (SNEP) [26] Gold100,000*
Germany (BVMI) [27] Platinum500,000^
Netherlands (NVPI) [28] Gold50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [29] Gold7,500^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [30] Platinum100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [31] Platinum50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [32] Platinum300,000^
United States (RIAA) [33] 4× Platinum4,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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References

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