![]() “They were terrible songs … it was like listening to a drink of water.”Īs the movie reached the finish line and their search remained fruitless, a worrisome realization set in. So, each night, after long days of shooting in North Carolina, she gathered her exhausted team-director Emile Ardolino, choreographer Kenny Ortega, and stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey-onto couches and popped in recently submitted demos. Though she had already handpicked the entire 1960s soundtrack, for the final song, Bergstein wanted something that echoed the era while still sounding contemporary to the ’80s. Throughout the production of Dirty Dancing, the writer-producer had been searching for a new song to play over her movie’s climactic last scene. ![]() Surrounded by cassette tapes in her hotel living room, Eleanor Bergstein began to feel hopeless. Welcome to The Ringer ’s Return to Summer Blockbuster Season, where we’ll feature different summer classics each week. 2020’s summer blockbuster season has been put on hold because of the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the movies from the past that we flocked out of the sun and into air conditioning for.
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