The two had collaborated before, and Markowitz was one of the few people he knew who had an eight-track sequencing machine. With those details, DeNicola called up Donald Markowitz for assistance.
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Previte explained the movie (“Baby meets Johnny in the Catskills”) and offered some structural notes: The chorus would begin at half-speed, he told DeNicola, and the verses would switch to double-time to become an upbeat dance tune. He called John DeNicola, a musician he’d written with before, and asked him to compose a backtrack. “I’m like, Oh my god, I’ve got to write ‘MacArthur Park,’” Previte says.īut with just $100 in his bank account, Previte had nothing to lose. “Make time, this is going to change your life.” When Previte heard the movie’s title, Ienner reassured him of the movie’s credentials, gave him a general description of the plot, and explained the parameters: The song needed to fill seven minutes and be ready in two weeks. Though he thought the offer was a dead end, Ienner insisted. “He goes, I’ve got this little movie, I want you to think about writing a song for it,” Previte recalls. Though Previte hadn’t talked to Ienner in two years, the former head of Millenium Records was suddenly in his ear with a way back into the industry. “I go Nah, nah, time of my life … What the hell am I saying?” -Franke Previte, writer of “Time of My Life” It’s an eleventh hour symbiotic success story-one that required random phone calls, makeshift recording studios, and a pestering producer. It’s needle dropped into countless weddings and graduations, and its accompanying dance has become ripe for homage and parody-at once plucking heartstrings, revitalizing a classic melody, and introducing the movie (and “The Lift”) to new generations.
Thirty-three years later, the song remains iconic, inseparably linked to the movie’s finale. “So much happened because of that record and that movie.” “It was really kind of an out-of-body experience,” Medley says. Over the next four months, the indie-romance became an unlikely hit, and its catchy last song raced up the charts, turning into an award-winning, global sensation. As the musical backdrop to Baby and Johnny’s last dance, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” gave them a euphoric high that sent them straight into record stores. When Dirty Dancing premiered on August 21, 1987, audiences left theaters buzzing. The next day, Ortega adjusted his choreography to the new rhythm and lyrics, and a few months later, Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes replaced the vocals and polished the track. “We just got up and danced until it was over and said, That’s it!” Bergstein says. Bergstein knew she’d found the song that would save the movie. Within 30 seconds of hearing Previte’s falsetto bleed into a Latin-infused percussive beat, the entire group started prancing around the room. “We would lose the emotional precision we wanted.” Then, just a day before the finale was scheduled to be filmed, musical supervisor Jimmy Ienner delivered one last box of tapes, highlighting for Bergstein a duet written by Franke Previte called “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.”Ī History of Movie Costars Hating Each Other Although the climax of Baby and Johnny’s memorable stay at Kellerman’s Mountain House was mapped out, “We were going to be rehearsing, choreographing, and dancing to something that would not be the final song,” Bergstein says. “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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