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 for the stage and film versions of "Grease". Birch was initially hesitant to accept after learning that neither composers Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey nor John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John would be involved in film. Bronte Woodard, the writer who adapted the original stage material for the original film, had died in 1980, and Canadian comic Ken Finkleman (who was also writing and directing "" at the same time) was tasked with penning a new script mostly from scratch. The total budget for the production was $11.2 million, almost double the budget of the original. "Grease 2" was intended to