Ultimate Dirty Dancing

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Ultimate Dirty Dancing
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Soundtrack album by
various artists
ReleasedDecember 9, 2003
Length74:36
Label RCA
Dirty Dancing chronology
More Dirty Dancing
(1988)
Ultimate Dirty Dancing
(2003)
Dirty Dancing: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Ultimate Dirty Dancing is a soundtrack album containing every song from the 1987 film Dirty Dancing , sequenced in the order it appears in the film. It was released on December 9, 2003, by RCA Records.

Contents

Track listing

Track listing [2]

  1. "Be My Baby" – The Ronettes
  2. "Big Girls Don't Cry" – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  3. "Merengue" – Michael Lloyd & Le Disc
  4. "Trot the Fox" – Michael Lloyd & Le Disc
  5. "Johnny's Mambo" – Michael Lloyd & Le Disc
  6. "Time of My Life" (instrumental version) – The John Morris Orchestra
  7. "Where Are You Tonight?" – Tom Johnston
  8. "Do You Love Me" – The Contours
  9. "Love Man" – Otis Redding
  10. "Gazebo Waltz" – Michael Lloyd
  11. "Stay" – Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs
  12. "Wipe Out" – The Surfaris
  13. "Hungry Eyes" – Eric Carmen
  14. "Overload" – Zappacosta
  15. "Hey! Baby" – Bruce Channel
  16. "De Todo Un Poco" – Michael Lloyd & Le Disc
  17. "Some Kind of Wonderful" – The Drifters
  18. "These Arms of Mine" – Otis Redding
  19. "Cry to Me" – Solomon Burke
  20. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" – The Shirelles
  21. "Love Is Strange" – Mickey & Sylvia
  22. "You Don't Own Me" – The Blow Monkeys
  23. "Yes" – Merry Clayton
  24. "In the Still of the Night" – The Five Satins
  25. "She's Like the Wind" – Patrick Swayze
  26. "Kellerman's Anthem" – The Emile Bergstein Chorale
  27. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" – Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [17] 3× Platinum900,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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