More Dirty Dancing is a 1988 follow-up album released after the huge commercial success of the 1987 motion picture Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach...

and 1987 its soundtrack

Dirty Dancing (soundtrack)

Dirty Dancing is the original soundtrack of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. The album became a huge commercial success in the USA. It spent 18 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album sales charts and went multi-platinum. It spawned a follow-up album entitled More Dirty Dancing . Executive Produced by...

. David Handelman of Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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gave the album one star

Star (classification)

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 out of five, calling some of the tracks "instrumental idiocies". Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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 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".

Track listing

1. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life
   (I've Had) The Time of My Life
   " The Time of My Life" is a song composed by Franke Previte, John DeNicola, and Donald Markowitz. It was recorded by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, after having been selected to be the finale song for the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, by choreographer Kenny Ortega and his assistant Miranda Garrison...
   
   " (instrumental
   Instrumental
   An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
   
   ) (The John Morris Orchestra
   John Morris (composer)
   John Morris is an American film and television composer, best known for his work with filmmaker Mel Brooks.-Life and career:...
   
   ) — 0:37
2. "Big Girls Don't Cry" (The Four Seasons
   The Four Seasons (group)
   The Four Seasons are an American rock and pop band who became internationally successful in the mid-1960s. The Vocal Group Hall of Fame has stated that the group was the most popular rock band before The Beatles...
   
   ) — 2:25
3. "Merengue" (Michael Lloyd & Le Disc) — 2:16
4. "Some Kind of Wonderful
   Some Kind of Wonderful
   Some Kind of Wonderful is a 1987 romance film starring Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, and Mary Stuart Masterson. It was one of the many successful teen dramas written by John Hughes in the 1980s, although this one was directed by Howard Deutch. During filming, Deutch met Thompson and two years later...
   
   " (The Drifters
   The Drifters
   The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...
   
   ) — 2:33
5. "Johnny's Mambo" (Michael Lloyd & Le Disc) — 3:02
6. "Do You Love Me
   Do You Love Me
   "Do You Love Me" is a 1962 hit single recorded by The Contours for Motown's Gordy Records label. Written and produced by Motown CEO Berry Gordy, Jr., "Do You Love Me?" was the Contours' only Top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Notably, the record achieved this feat...
   
   " (The Contours
   The Contours
   The Contours were one of the early African-American soul singing groups signed to Motown Records.The group is best known for its Billboard Top 10 hit, "Do You Love Me," a million-selling song that peaked twice in the Top 20....
   
   ) — 2:49
7. "Love Man" (Otis Redding
   Otis Redding
   Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul and R&B...
   
   ) — 2:14
8. "Wipe Out" (The Surfaris
   The Surfaris
   The Surfaris were an American surf rock band formed in Glendora, California in 1962. They are best known for two songs that hit the charts in the Los Angeles, California area, and nationally by May 1963: "Surfer Joe" on the A-side and "Wipe Out" on the B-side of a 45 RPM single.-Career:The original...
   
   ) — 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
    Cry to Me
    "Cry to Me" is a song written by Bert Russell a/k/a Bert Berns, first recorded under the production of Bert Berns by Solomon Burke, reaching #5 on the R&B charts in 1962....
    
    " (Solomon Burke
    Solomon Burke
    Solomon Burke was an American singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, mortician, and an archbishop of the United House of Prayer For All People. Burke was known as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", and as the "Bishop of Soul", and described as "the Muhammad Ali of soul", and as "the most...
    
    ) — 2:23
12. "Trot the Fox" (Michael Lloyd & Le Disc) — 2:04
13. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow
    Will You Love Me Tomorrow
    "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", also known as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and originally recorded by The Shirelles. It has been recorded by many artists and was ranked among Rolling Stone 's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #125...
    
    " (The Shirelles
    The Shirelles
    The Shirelles were an African-American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens , Doris Coley , Addie "Micki" Harris , and Beverly Lee...
    
    ) — 2:39
14. "Kellerman's Anthem" (The Emile Bergsteign Chorale) — 3:17
15. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" (instrumental) (The John Morris Orchestra)  — 0.55