Top 5 Songs From Dirty Dancing: The Musical

Kevin, August 19th, 2026

Nobody puts this soundtrack in a corner!

Ready to have the time of your life? With 35 songs, a live band and all the romance, dancing and drama of the beloved film, Dirty Dancing The Musical gives fans plenty of reasons to revisit Kellerman's.

We've picked out five of the biggest songs to listen out for when you see the musical.

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1. "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life"

And we owe it all to Dirty Dancing! Go to any wedding, and you're bound to hear this one at the reception. Originally recorded by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes for the 1987 film, "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" soared to number one worldwide and has won a number of awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.


2. "Hungry Eyes"

Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes" features during one of the show's most memorable sequences, as Baby begins her dance training with Johnny. What starts as Baby struggling to keep up quickly turns into one of the most iconic parts of her transformation from awkward holidaymaker to confident dancer. The song reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988, making it one of the biggest hits to emerge from the film's soundtrack.


3. "Do You Love Me?"

Time to enter the staff quarters. "Do You Love Me?" plays as Baby discovers the very different world of the resort staff, where Johnny and the other dancers let loose away from the guests. It's one of those scenes where Baby starts to realise that there's much more to Johnny's world than the polished dance routines she's been watching from the sidelines.


4. "Hey! Baby"

You know the one. "Hey! Baby!"

OOH, AH! Bruce Channel's instantly recognisable 1961 hit is another essential part of the Dirty Dancing soundtrack and gets a particularly memorable moment during Baby and Johnny's dance training. It is impossible not to hear that opening and immediately think of Baby, Johnny and a watermelon.


5. "Cry To Me"

After Johnny's relationship with Baby's family becomes strained, Baby visits him and asks him to dance with her. The result is one of the more intimate moments in the show, with the song perfectly capturing the complicated feelings between them. It's romantic, it's soulful, and it proves that Dirty Dancing isn't all energetic choreography and lifts there's plenty of emotion underneath all those dance moves with Solomon Burke's "Cry to Me".

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