On this episode of The Italian American Entertainment Podcast, host Vince Chiarelli, of The Vince Chiarelli Band, interviews Franke Previte & John DeNicola, the pair of Italian American Academy Award winning composers of the two iconic songs from Dirty Dancing.

Garnering an astonishing 55 million in sales worldwide, the “Dirty Dancing” original soundtrack spent 18 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart and 230 weeks in the Top 30. As one of the greatest selling soundtracks of all time, the film became an iconic classic almost as soon as it hit the theaters in 1987…33 years later the “Dirty Dancing” brand is a cultural phenomenon.