25th ANNIVERSARY CD PACKAGE PRESENTS ORIGINAL
12-SONG ALBUM, SOARING ON THE WINGS OF ORIGINAL CHART HITS “HUNGRY
EYES,” “SHE’S LIKE THE WIND,” “(I’VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE” AND MORE!
BONUS FEATURES OF THIS SPECIAL
FAN EDITION:
• Six ready-to-frame art
cards with iconic movie images, plus a bumper sticker;
• New hardcover package with
liner notes by executive producer Jimmy Ienner,
producers Michael Lloyd and Leon
Medica, and producer-performers
Eric Carmen and Zappacosta
Available everywhere September
25, 2012, through RCA/Legacy
Responding
to the feedback from loyal fans around the world, Legacy Recordings presents DIRTY DANCING: THE DELUXE ANNIVERSARY EDITION,
which presents the original 12-song album of 1987, along with new bonus
features. This special commemorative
project reflects Legacy’s direct survey of a portion of the millions of Dirty Dancing fans on Facebook who
responded and wished to maintain the experience of the original release by
showcasing the original running order of the album as it was first released,
without bonus tracks. This special fan
edition CD package will be available everywhere September 25th
through RCA/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
DIRTY DANCING: THE DELUXE ANNIVERSARY EDITION
will contain a number of exciting additions specifically requested by the fans,
starting with the package’s dedication to the movie’s star, the late Patrick
Swayze (1952-2009). The image-driven CD
booklet contains six ready-to-frame art cards showing iconic images from the
movie, plus a newly-designed bumper sticker.
Fans also voted on the CD cover image from four images proposed by
Legacy, and overwhelmingly chose to retain the original “Lift” image.
“From the
birth, 25 years ago,” writes executive producer Jimmy Ienner, “to the
never-ending success of the movie and the soundtracks, I’m very proud of all my
great producers and the extremely talented artists that contributed so much to
the very satisfying rollercoaster ride called
Dirty Dancing. I’m also very indebted to anyone involved in
any way on the music and the film sides of this wonderful journey. Lastly, but no less important, to the devoted
fans around the world for the unbelievable continued support. Keep carrying the watermelons and enjoying
the lifts.”
The
accompanying booklet includes behind-the-scenes liner notes written by the song
producers, starting with Jimmy Ienner.
The stellar producers themselves then offer their own thoughts,
including:
- Eric
Carmen, singer and producer of “Hungry Eyes”;
- Leon
Medica, producer of “Where Are You Tonight?” (sung by Tom Johnston);
- Alfie
Zappacosta, singer and producer of “Overload”; and
- Michael
Lloyd, producer of “She’s Like the Wind” (written and sung by Patrick
Swayze), “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” sung by Bill Medley and Jennifer
Warnes, and “Yes” sung by Merry Clayton;
(Note: Eric
Carmen and Zappacosta served double duty as both producers and
performers of their respective tracks.)
2012 marks
the 25th anniversary of Dirty
Dancing, named one of the Top 10 Date Movies of all time by an E!
Entertainment Television poll, with worldwide box office sales of more than
$214 million since its opening in 1987.
Worldwide CD sales of the best-selling original RCA soundtrack album are
in excess of 42 million copies, 11-times RIAA platinum in the U.S. alone.
The Dirty Dancing soundtrack album
soared on the wings of the original chart hits “Hungry Eyes” (Billboard
Hot 100 #4); “She’s Like the Wind” (Hot 100 #3); and the Grammy®, Oscar, and
Golden Globe Award-winning “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” (Hot 100 #1). Those three songs were among the six original
new songs produced for the soundtrack album, which spent 96 weeks on the Billboard
200 albums chart spanning 1987-’88-’89, including 18 weeks at #1. The other four original tracks are:
·
“Yes” performed by Merry Clayton (produced by
Michael Lloyd);
·
“Overload” performed, co-written and produced by
Zappacosta; and
·
“Where Are You Tonight? ” performed by Tom
Johnston.
The Dirty Dancing soundtrack album
also included five well-chosen pop classics that were featured in the
movie. Those five hits, all dating from
the 1950s and ’60s, are:
- “Be My
Baby” by the Ronettes (Hot 100 #2, 1963);
- “Stay”
by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs (Hot 100 #1, 1960);
- “Hey
Baby” by Bruce Channel (Hot 100 #1, 1962);
- “Love
Is Strange / Mickey & Sylvia (Hot 100 #11, 1957); and
- “In
The Still Of The Night” by the Five Satins (Hot 100 #24, 1956).
The final
track was recorded by former RCA group the Blow Monkeys from England, their
cover of Lesley Gore’s 1964 hit, “You Don’t Own Me.”
A
cornerstone of ’80s pop culture, Dirty
Dancing reflected back on the early-’60s culture of summer vacation
life at a resort in New York’s Catskill Mountains (although it was filmed on
location in Virginia and North Carolina).
With its heavenly mix of generation gap melodrama, well-programmed rock,
R&B, Latin and pre-disco music, coming-of-age sexuality among its teens,
and of course plenty of laughs and “dirty dancing,” the movie has stood the
test of time over the last quarter-century.
Dirty Dancing starred 27-year old
Jennifer Grey (in only her sixth movie role, her follow-up to Ferris
Bueller’s Day Off in 1986) as young, naive “Baby” Houseman; 25-year old
Patrick Swayze (only four years into his movie career, in between Red Dawn, which co-starred Grey, and Steel Dawn) as the sultry dance
instructor Johnny Castle; and veteran character actor Jerry Orbach (four years
before he began his 13-year stint on “Law & Order”) as Baby’s father, Dr.
Jake Houseman.
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