| Product Summary | | Label: New Line Records | | UPC: 00794043905926 | | Release Date: 2/6/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203931112 | | Item#: M3EJUF | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Tonight You Belong To Me - Patience & Prudence ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Jet Boy Jet Girl - Elton Motello ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry ~ Various Artists | | | 4. I'd Love to Take Orders From You - Mildred Bailey ~ Various Artists | | | 5. In Spite Of Ourselves - John Prine/Iris DeMent ~ Various Artists | | | 6. All I Can Do Is Cry - Tina Turner/Ike Turner ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Big Girls Don't Cry - Edith Massey ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Imitation Of Life - Earl Grant ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Sometimes I Wish I Had A Gun - Mink Stole ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Johnny Are You Queer? - Josie Cotton ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Right Time, The - Ray Charles ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Hit The Road To Dreamland - Dean Martin ~ Various Artists | | | 13. If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake - Eileen Barton/The New Yorkers ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Belwildered - Shirley & Lee ~ Various Artists | |
| In the liner notes to A Date with John Waters, John Waters writes: "Come on over, let's listen to some tunes. Have a seat on my sofa. Think I invited you over here to discuss the future of independent film? Hell no, I'm lookin' for a little action." The album is a heartfelt and touchingly bizarre compilation of love songs selected by the legendary filmmaker himself. Just in time for Valentine's Day, this album is the follow up to Waters' Christmas album, A John Waters Christmas, which The Associated Press called a "perfect antidote for those weary of hearing the same saccharine Christmas songs over and over."
"Go ahead, turn up the volume. Feel like go-go dancing? Hit it! I love to watch. Go baby, go!" John Waters
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Filmmaker John Waters spent his career refining the idea of bad taste to the point where it actually became good. A DATE WITH JOHN WATERS--the follow-up to the delightfully odd holiday compilation CHRISTMAS WITH JOHN WATERS--is in many ways the musical equivalent of one of his movies. Like his sleaziest masterpieces, this Valentine's Day mix-tape features both Mink Stole ("Sometimes I Wish I Had a Gun") and Edith Massey ("Big Girls Don't Cry"); it's funny (John Prine and Iris Dement's "In Spite of Ourselves"), a bit kinky (Elton Motello's "Jet Boy Jet Girl"), a bit gay ("Johnny Are You Queer" by Josie Cotton), and at times uncomfortably bizarre ("Tonight You Belong to Me" by Patience and Prudence ). However, like all of Waters's best work, A DATE WITH also contains its strokes of pure genius. In this case, it's his inclusion of Ike & Tina Turner's show-stopping live version of "All I Can Do Is Cry." |
Producer: John Waters (Compilation) |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | A Date With John Waters - CD By: Bill Sherman - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 1/30/2007 9:31 AM | | Just in time for Valentines' Day, John Waters serves up the musically romantic goods. To start, any CD anthology that has the wherewithal to include both Clarence "Frogman" Henry's "Ain't Got No Home" and Edith Massey's cover version of "Big Girls Don't Cry" automatically has me goin' into it with good feelings....read the full review |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/06/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : NLR-39059 | | Label : New Line Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 41m : 55s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00794043905926 |
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