Grease 2 (soundtrack) Grease 2 (soundtrack) Grease 2: Original Soundtrack Recording is the original motion picture soundtrack for the 1982 film "Grease 2" starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. It was originally released by RSO Records in 1982, with Polydor Records re-issuing it in 1996. Like the film, the soundtrack failed to match the commercial success of . The album peaked at #71 on the "Billboard" album chart. The lead single, "Back to School Again" by the Four Tops, peaked at #71 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the U.S. and at #62 on the UK Singles Chart. "Billboard" magazine listed the album
Grease 2 be the second film (and first sequel) in a proposed "Grease" franchise of four films and a television series. (The third and fourth films were to take place in the sixties and during the counterculture era.) However, the projects were scrapped due to the underwhelming box office performance of "Grease 2". Maxwell Caulfield was unhappy with the film's "drab" title, and unsuccessfully lobbied to change it to "Son of Grease". Birch proposed an idea to feature Travolta and Newton-John reprising their characters as a now married couple running a gas station near the end of the film, which did not