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More Dirty Dancing (1987 Film Additional Soundtrack)

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if these songs weren't added all together on another soundtrack, that would've been a travesty! the movie is full of great songs and it was crazy that these weren't on the first soundtrack... maybe they weren't expecting it to do so well. People who don't even like the movie so much seem to love the soundtrack anyway

This soundtrack captures the emotions of the movie more so than the original. The first CD is still very good, but this one is always in my CD player. I have watched the movie numerous times, and love it every time! "Some Kind of Wonderful" "Cry To Me" & "These Arms of Mine" are my favorites. Even if the movie wasn't a personal favorite, this CD is a mix of great oldies anyone can enjoy.

Unless you're from Brain(less)tree, Mass.you'll probably like most of the tunes on this package, the ones with real feeling. For one who was there when these songs were originally popular, I can tell you they evoke real memories of the time. They catch the early 60s' mindset. Forty years after "Cry to Me", Solomon Burke was still recording and making appearances. Why they left this song out on the initial album is beyond me. It played as Johnny and Baby first made love, a significant turn in the movie. "Some Kind of Wonderful" (not to be confused with a song by Grank Funk Railroad of the same name) was popular a couple of years before the movie's timeframe. "Wipeout" was a new song that summer, liked by all the teens. "Do you Love Me?" was a recent hit and upon its use in the movie inspired the aging Contours to go on tour again. If they had included "Hey, Baby" from 1962 (with Texas bluesman Delbert McClinton on the background blues harp)and the song apparently written for the movie and done by Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers and Jennifer Warnes, the other songs could have been done away with. Don't let any negative review from an unhip, inhibited reviewer with a banned-in-Boston hangup influence you. This is one you'll want to have. Shortly after Baby and Johnny's summer, JFK was killed in Dallas, then came the Beatles and the end of an era.

whatever critic said that most of the album was full of undistinguished early 60's music obviously doesn't understand the 60's. How can Otis Redding be considered undistinguished? The album is also great for its Latin beats which are so popular today but appear here in their more "classy" forms. This album is great *because* of its randomness, there is something for everyone and anyone who doesn't feel like dancing needs to get a partner and move!

More Dirty Dancing released in early 1988 was the better release from the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack most of the good songs in the movie are on this soundtrack not original is good but how could they leave out these jewels. Everybody who loves this movie should have both albums.

I actually liked this collection better than the first CD. I bought it for Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance). There are great dance songs, and Wipeout is a great road-trip drum-along song.

Dirty Dancing was a movie that was filled with hopes and dreams, growing up and growing wiser, and plain, old good music. Cry to Me is one of the best tracks on the CD and I bought this CD just for that song but soon recalled all the others and find it a great addition to my Dirty Dancing CD. It is just a real easy listening kind of recording! Patty

Dirty Dancing was a movie that was filled with hopes and dreams, growing up and growing wiser, and plain, old good music. Cry to Me is one of the best tracks on the CD and I bought this CD just for that song but soon recalled all the others and find it a great addition to my Dirty Dancing CD. It is just a real easy listening kind of recording! Patty

I love my Dirty Dancing soundtrack, but I always wished that the other great songs from the movie - "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Cry to Me", etc., were there. Imagine my delight to find this wonderful follow-up! The instrumental tracks are just as good as the oldies - Johnny's Mambo, in particular, just makes me want to get up and move! Highly, highly recommended.

CD quality is good. I was surprised at the songs. I expected them to be more like the ones in the original recording of DD. Guess it just wasn't my taste.