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Before she started writing the script, writer and creator, Eleanor Bergstein picked the music for the original film from her old '45s and made a casette entitled "EB's Dirty Dancing" which she passed around to studio executives when trying to set up the film. Every major studio turned it down...
Having spent 18 weeks at #1 on the American Billboard chart, the soundtrack has gone on to be one of the most successful of all time, selling 44 million copies and counting and winning a Grammy Award and an Academy Award for the hit song "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life."
A number of the songs Eleanor tried very hard, and unsuccessfully, to obtain for the movie have been securred for the stage show and put in the places originally intended, including "Save The Last Dance For Me" (The Drifters) and "Stubborn Kinda Fella" (Marvin Gaye).
Music featured in the show:
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