The soundtrack begins with the Yes! on the song's second stanza:
Driving around,======
I just can't hear a sound,
Except my own wheels turning.
Wasting the day --
I'm just running away
From a heart that's a burning,
But I can't run forever.
Yes! We're gonna fall in love,
And it feels so right.
Yes, we're gonna make love.
It's gonna be tonight.
I can just imagine
Hugging and teasing
And loving and squeezing
All night.
I've made up my mind --
This is gonna be mine.
I'm so glad I waited.
Why did I try
To figure out why?
Everything can't be anticipated
I can't wait to tell him.
Oh, yes!
The lyrics tell the thoughts of a woman who has been reluctant to begin having sex with her boyfriend. All day she has been driving around and thinking about her reluctance. Suddenly she decides that -- Yes! -- she will have sex with him, for the first time, tonight. Her thoughtful reluctance has been overwhelmed by her emotional eagerness.
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The song was written by Neal Cavanaugh, Tom Graf and Terry Fryer. I did not find an article about how the song was written. The song was not heard by the public before the movie Dirty Dancing.
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The Wikipedia article about Merry Clayton includes the following passages.
.... Clayton was born in ... Louisiana. Clayton was born on Christmas Day [1948] and earned her name due to the holiday. She is the Daughter of Eva B. Clayton and Reverend A.G. Williams Sr. Clayton was raised in New Orleans as a Christian, and spent much of her time in her father’s parish, New Zion Baptist Church. After moving to Los Angeles, she joined the now famous singer group “The Blossoms.”
Clayton began her recording career in 1962 at the age of 14, singing Who Can I Count On? as a duet with Bobby Darin ... In 1963 she recorded the first version of The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss), the same year that Betty Everett's version reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Early in her career Merry performed with Ray Charles (as one of the Raelettes), who was the only artist her father allowed her to see live. Others include Pearl Bailey, Phil Ochs, Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, Joe Cocker, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, and on several tracks from Neil Young's debut album. Clayton is often credited as having recorded with Elvis Presley ....
Clayton is best known for her 1969 duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song Gimme Shelter, though on some releases her name is misspelled as "Mary." According to Jagger, this collaboration came about due to partially to chance. Jagger states that they thought “it’d be great to have a woman come do the…chorus.” They called Clayton “randomly” in the middle of the night, and she showed up to the studio “in curlers” and did the verse in a few takes, which Jagger remarks is “pretty amazing.” ...
In 1970, Clayton recorded her own version of "Gimme Shelter," and it became the title track of her debut solo album and peaked at #73, released that year. Her version would be the first of five singles under her name to crack the Billboard Hot 100.
That same year she performed a live version of Lift Every Voice and Sing for the soundtrack for Robert Altman film Brewster McCloud and also contributed vocals to Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg's film Performance. In 1971 she co-wrote the song Sho' Nuff about her mother.The website Hollywood Bowl has published an article with more details about her life.
She starred as the original Acid Queen in the first London production of The Who's Tommy in 1972. In 1973, she featured prominently on Ringo Starr's Oh My My ...
In the mid 1970s ... continued to release solo albums throughout the next decade ...
Her soundtrack work continued into the 1980s, including "You're Always There When I Need You", the title track for the 1980 Get Smart film The Nude Bomb, and the song "Yes" from Dirty Dancing, which hit #45 on the Hot 100.
In 1987, Clayton co-starred with Ally Sheedy in the film Maid to Order and played Verna Dee Jordan in the final season of Cagney and Lacey.
In 1989, she recorded a cover of "Almost Paradise" with Eric Carmen. ....
She was featured in the documentary film 20 Feet from Stardom (2013), which ... won the Oscar for best documentary at the 86th Academy Awards [and] ... the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Music Film ...
Clayton was married to jazz artist Curtis Amy from 1970 until his death in 2002.[13] Clayton's brother is the Little Feat percussionist Sam Clayton.
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The following video shows Clayton singing "Yes" on television in 1988.
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The following video shows Clayton performing the song "Almost Paradise" with Eric Carmen (famous as the singer of "Hungry Eyes").
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The following video shows the trailer for the documentary movie 20 Feet From Stardom.
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