This soaring, syrupy ballad plays over the closing credits of the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman, right after Richard Gere’s character surprises his girlfriend (Debra Winger) at her factory job and carries her out of the building. “Up Where We Belong,” Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes Everyone could imagine Kenny and Dolly rowing off into the sunset together.
1 on the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, and Adult Contemporary charts. But there’s no denying the chemistry between Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton on this sweet and easy 1983 rendition, which reached No. The Bee Gees wrote “Islands In the Stream” for Marvin Gaye, who probably would’ve done a killer version. “Islands in the Stream,” Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton In the end, Cash and Carter sing, “We’re going to Jackson,” implying they’re sticking together-or else taking a road trip to see who’s right. Carter laughs off his threats, certain the ladies of Jackson will play him for a fool. While Cash spends much of “Jackson” singing about how he’s heading to the titular city to carouse with other women, the whole thing feels like playful fantasizing. Johnny Cash and June Carter were about a year away from getting hitched when they released this 1967 song about a married couple who lost their spark. In the first verse, an innocent Grande asks for something more than physical pleasure, to which the wolfish Weeknd responds, “I know your motives, and you know mine.” This relationship is doomed to fail, but at least they’re going to have some fun first. Shadowy R&B innovator The Weeknd scored his first-ever Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with this double-entendre-packed 2014 collaboration with Ariana Grande. “They won’t get you like I will,” Drake promises on this 2012 smash, which is built around a club-ready sample of Jamie xx’s remix of Gil Scott-Heron’s “I’ll Take Care of You.” Drizzy’s real-life on-again, off-again love interest Rihanna doesn’t get her own verse, but she steals the show in the choruses, following Drake’s fitful rhyming with a simple declaration: “I’ll take care of you.” It’s a bright-eyed, uptempo celebration of love that transcends distance, geography, and inclement weather. Written by the husband-and-wife team of Ashford and Simpson, 1967’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” marked the beginning of Gaye and Terrell’s fruitful partnership. Plus, it's damned romantic, especially when uttered by Patrick Swayze.As far as duets go, Marvin Gaye was never better than when he was singing with Tammi Terrell. "Nobody puts Baby in the corner" is a quote all about standing up for what is right and fair. By doing this, he earned the respect from Baby's father that he deserved. It may have been even more empowering if Baby herself said it instead of Johnny, but it's still a powerful statement coming from him, someone who has seen her strength and wanted to repay the favour after she defended him. She protects other women, risks her own reputation to defend someone else, admits when she's wrong and called out inequality when she saw it. He was also pointing out how strong she is after everything she had done over the course of the movie. And then she proves it by showing her family what an amazing dancer she is. Johnny is basically saying that Baby doesn't deserve to be silenced by anyone, as she's incredible to him. Baby is obviously literally sitting in the corner at her table, but it has a deeper meaning. Swayze could have said anything before bringing Baby to the stage and performing that iconic lift, and it probably would have worked.īut the original quote can mean one of several things. Sadly, Swayze lost his battle with cancer in 2009, but the actor used the iconic quote with humour after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. I quote a version of it myself these days, saying, 'Nobody puts Patrick's pancreas in a corner,' when people ask how I'm coping with cancer."ĭirty DancingActors Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze attend the premiere of 'Dirty Dancing' in 1987.
And of course it became one of the most quoted lines in the movie. "But, seeing the finished film, I had to admit it worked.
I could hardly bring myself to say: 'Nobody puts Baby in a corner.' It sounded so corny," Swayze wrote. "We did a lot of rewriting for the big final scene, but one line that I hated stayed in. In his book The Time Of My Life, written by him and wife Lisa Niemi, Swayze confirmed this, but later realised it did work perfectly and used it himself later in life to describe his fight against cancer.
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