Always associated Stay with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Did not realize it was a 1960 hit. RIP.
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You were obviously not a junior high girl when Dirty Dancing came out. If you were, you would have had the soundtrack (on cassette tape, of course) and you would have listened to the Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs version of Stay so many times that Frankie Valli just sounds wrong singing it.
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What about Jackson Browne?
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Maurice Williams or GTFO.
How else is Penny going to get the $250, while Johnny chastises Baby for running to her Daddy for the money?
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You are right; I was not a junior high school girl when Dirty Dancing came out! 
I just listened to Maurice William’s Stay for the first time and it blew me away: much better than The Hollies or Frankie Valli or the many other covers!
I didn’t get into listening to music on the radio seriously until 1963 when The Beatles got popular. That is probably why I missed Maurice Williams’ original release of Stay in 1960. Having heard it now it would have stuck in my mind had I heard it then.
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Took me a bit to find the clip, but here it is. Maurice, Baby, Billy, Penny, and Johnny… for old times sake.
I mean, just think… Baby and Johnny might never have decided to do the routine at the Shelldrake…
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Thanks.
I never saw Dirty Dancing but my wife just told me she had watched it when it came out and enjoyed it.
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What?!?!
I mean, I know you weren’t a young teen girl when it came out, but it is kind of an iconic movie.
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Dirty Dancing’s targeted audience might not have been middle-aged married men like me? I certainly had heard of it but that is not the same as watching it!
My daughters after they became teenagers all saw it though.
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According to Wikipedia their target audience was teenagers but then the actual audience was largely adults which caught them by surprise. They planned to release it for just one weekend but it ended up grossing over $200 million … on a budget of $4.5 million.
To bring it back to Maurice Williams, they were also surprised at the massive success of the soundtrack which has a few original songs on it (including I’ve Had The Time Of My Life) but is mostly re-released songs from the 1960s (movie takes place in the summer of 1963).
Check it out!
unless you area NY Jew, and you frequented the Catskills
The music of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s was fun so glad that the music got the exposure with a new generation.
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Yeah the first soundtrack was so successful that they released a second one with even more songs from the movie.
Meh, I’ve never seen it. The original of Stay is very good as were a number of the many covers that followed including the Jackson Browne one linked above, I nearly wore out that album.
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Never saw Dirty Dancing either. As a teenage guy I heard it was too much dancing and too little dirty for my adolescent tastes.
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Phil Donahue - I vaguely remember my mother would watching his show when I was younger.
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I used to watch his show and soaps with mom sometimes when I came home from school. RIP Phil
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I liked his show. I was surprised when he stopped it at the age of 61, although it had been going for 29 years. Apparently his ratings were starting to decline. I imagine with the current polarized situation, his type of show would be very popular. His show was popular in Australia.
He opened the door for a lot of talk shows that followed including Oprah that eventually supplanted him in the ratings and guys like Jerry Springer who dialed up his controversial topics to 11.
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