<Li> ASCAP "Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures" and "ASCAP Songwriter Of The Year" for its writer . </Li> <P> In 2004 AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey placed it #86 among the top tunes in American cinema . </P> <Ul> <Li> In 2003, the top 11 contestants of the first season of Canadian Idol performed it as a group number during the season finale . </Li> <Li> The song was covered in 2004 by Carmen & Piero and their version features on Best of Mundart and Duets . </Li> <Li> Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee performed a version as their final duet during the fifth - season finale of American Idol in 2006 . </Li> <Li> The song was covered in 2006 by British glamour model Katie Price and her then - husband, pop singer Peter Andre . The track is included on their 2006 album of duets A Whole New World . </Li> <Li> In 2007, the song was performed by British girl group Girls Aloud on their concert The Greatest Hits Tour (Girls Aloud) </Li> <Li> The 2007 compilation Over The Rainbow featured a cover of the song by Jermaine Jackson and R&B / dance music singer Jocelyn Brown . </Li> <Li> Barry Manilow covered the song on his 2008 album of cover songs, The Greatest Songs of the Eighties . </Li> <Li> The song appeared on the Fox series Glee in the second - season episode "Special Education". It was sung by Quinn (Dianna Agron) & Sam (Chord Overstreet) as the opening ballad at Sectionals . It is also featured on the soundtrack Glee: The Music, Volume 4 and charted at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 . </Li> <Li> Sam Milby and Toni Gonzaga covered this song on their 2009 album Love Duets . </Li> <Li> In 2009, Namibian singer Nianell and South African singer Dozi included a version on their duet covers album It Takes Two . </Li> <Li> In 2010, The Black Eyed Peas sampled the chorus in their song, "The Time (Dirty Bit)" (from the album The Beginning), with the line "Yes, I swear it's the truth" changed to "And I swear this is true". </Li> <Li> The song's original recording is a regular staple at live shows of the Norwegian electro rock band, Datarock, and is frequently performed as a sing - along by band and audience . </Li> <Li> In 2011, Kris Lawrence and Kyla record their version for the show Time of My Life as the show's theme song . </Li> <Li> The song has also been used as a commercial jingle for Sandals Resorts . </Li> <Li> German jazz - metal band Panzerballett covered this song in their 2012 album Tank Goodness . </Li> <Li> This song was covered by the Strictly Come Dancing band and singers, led by David Arch, in 2012, as the backing for gymnast Louis Smith and professional dancer Flavia Cacace's salsa in week 3 and the first part of the final . </Li> <Li> In the Major Crimes episode "There's No Place Like Home", a suspect's alibi was that he was doing the song karaoke . The Major Crimes squad watched his performance for a minute but quickly shut it off when the suspect started dancing . At the end of the episode, the credits were played over a scene of the man singing and dancing to the song with a partner rather than the regular black screen . </Li> <Li> In 2014, the song was recorded by Kerry Ellis and Joe McElderry for Ellis' self - titled album . </Li> <Li> In 2015, on the 21th season of U.S reality / competition show Dancing with the Stars wildlife expert Bindi Irwin and her dance partner Derek Hough danced the rumba to it on week 6 and got the highest score of the night . </Li> <Li> In 2016, Jodie Sweetin and Macy Gray covered the song in the third episode of Fuller House "Funner House" while Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber danced to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" in the same episode . </Li> <Li> In 2016, The Netherlands LuckyTV released a video that lip - synched the second Clinton - Trump presidential debate to the song so that it looked like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were singing a duet . The video later went viral on YouTube, with approximately 777,000 views in the first day . </Li> <Li> British rock band The Darkness play the song after their gigs are finished . </Li> <Li> In 2017, during the credits of the Bob's Burgers episode "Thelma & Louise Except Thelma is Linda", Teddy (Larry Murphy) and Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) sing it . </Li> <Li> In 2018, the song was featured in an ad for the NFL during Super Bowl LII, with Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. recreating the dance scene from Dirty Dancing . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In 2003, the top 11 contestants of the first season of Canadian Idol performed it as a group number during the season finale . </Li>

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