Billboard #1 Hits: #644: ‘[I’ve Had] The Time Of My Life’- Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. November 28, 1987. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘[I’ve Had] The Time Of My Life’- Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes.
- Record Company- RCA
- Genre: Pop
- Written by John DeNicola, Don Markowitz, Franke Previte.
- Time: 6:46
- B-side: ‘Love Is Strange’- Mickey and Slyvia
- Album- Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
- Grade: B-
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #6 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, South Africa.
Yet another #1 from a movie- this one Dirty Dancing. The song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with vocals.
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this is one of the few movie songs which I appreciate a lot more after seeing the movie. I found it a run of the mill tune back in the 80s, never seeing the movie until being with women who adored it in the early-2000s (none as much as my wife now). Now I actually like that song, it fits perfectly in the film.
I didn’t like the movie back then- never have seen it since. The song- is Ok…
fair enough!
Off Topic: Sad about J.R. Richard. He was one of the most intimidating pitchers I remember.
Back when he was on the same pitching staff as Nolan Ryan in Houston- J.R. not only the more intimidating pitcher but the better of the two.
I totally agree. Joe Morgan said he was probably the toughest pitcher he ever faced. I have to wonder what if…but I’m glad he survived it although he had a rough life for a while.
He seemed to be – possibly due to his height- kind of like Randy Johnson- took him a while to really get going but when he did- could he have had a Randy Johnson like career- with his prime in his 30’s? Yes, what could have been. His stroke totally changed the way I view an athlete saying he was hurt etc… the Astros thought he was just jaking it…of course until it was obvious he wasn’t.
It was shocking to me that someone that young would go through that. That probably changed baseball’s way of looking at injuries.
It is sad, but I must admit I mistakenly thought he had died about ten years back. I remember seeing him once or twice in a televised game – man, that was one tall dude!
Yes and he was a great pitcher…he was actually better than Nolan Ryan at the time.