John Waters talks to the Provincetown Banner about a new CD he has produced that is set to arrive on Valentine's Day. It's described by the paper as “a combination of the teen angst music of the '60s along with lounge-y love ballads, rhythm and blues and a liberal sprinkling of cuts that defy categorization. It is both eclectic and electric on a lot of levels with everything from Dean Martin and Ray Charles to Ike and Tina Turner blended with punk rock and movie themes.” The CD contains 14 of the director's favorite tracks
Waters says as a teenager he fantasized about being a DJ from his Baltimore bedroom: “I had a top 10 board over my bed and once a week or so I would call the record stores in Baltimore and pretend I was the radio station and ask them what sold the most and average them out and put the top 10 up with a blank piece of cardboard over each title, pull off the cardboard and say, ‘Number 10 is…' and name the record and dance around the room. I was really obsessed by it.”
Waters notes that one of the songs on the CD has an intimate Provincetown connection
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