Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

1	Dance Like This / Claudette Ortiz 4:09
2	Dirty Dancing / Black Eyed Peas 3:48
3	Guajira (I Love U 2 Much) / Yerba Buena 4:10
4	Can I Walk By / Jazze Pha 4:06
5	Satellite / Jorge Moreno 4:19
6	El Beso del Final / Christina Aguilera 4:42
7	Represent, Cuba / Heather Headley 3:44
8	Do You Only Wanna Dance / Mya 3:50
9	You Send Me / Shawn Kane 3:28
10	El Estuche / Aterciopelados 3:23
11	Do You Only Wanna Dance / Julio Daivel Big Band 3:10
12	Satellite (Nave Espacial) / Jorge Moreno Bonus Track / Spanish Version 4:18

Barnes & Noble

The original Dirty Dancing was set in the Catskills in 1963 but featured '80s soundtrack fodder from Patrick Swayze, Eric Carmen, and Jennifer Warnes. Havana Nights, set in Cuba in the late '50s, has a soundtrack complete with Spanish-inflected hip-hop and R&B. Oh well -- fans of era-appropriate mambo and cha-cha-chá are not the audience for this film, anyway. The younger demo will get something of an introduction to Latin music, at least in the form of contemporary standouts such as the Cuban rap ensemble Orishas (joined with Broadway vocalist Heather Headley in a nearly unrecognizable remix) and Colombia's Aterciopelados. New York's Grammy-nominated Afro-Latin powerhouse Yerba Buena represent with their savvy update "Guajira (I Love U 2 Much)," but it's likely that these solid contributions will be overshadowed by Christina Aguilera's Spanish turn on "El Beso del Final," Black Eyed Peas' title track, and Carlos Santana's two cuts with crooner Jorge Moreno. The best of both worlds is Mya's "Do You Only Wanna Dance," ingeniously combining vintage mambo samples (Machito & His Afro-Cubans) and the Diwali riddim. It's reprised in a big band format to close out this tropical treat. Mark Schwartz

All Music Guide

The soundtrack to 1987's Dirty Dancing was an enormous hit, reaching number one on the Billboard charts and launching three Top Ten hits, including Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes' chart-topping duet "(I've Had) The Time of My Life." The soundtrack to its belated sequel-cum-remake, 2004's Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, is a collection of Latin-flavored pop, R&B, hip-hop, and dance. More stylistically unified than the original's soundtrack, it blends together and sounds like variations on Cuban-flavored grooves. Stephen Thomas Erlewine