Artist	Song
The Chips	Rubber Biscuit [Cry Baby] (from NYC) (1956)
The Jive Bombers	Bad boy [Cry Baby] (from NYC) (1957 #36, #7)
The Five Du-Tones	Shake a Tail Feather [Hairspray] (from St. Louis) (1963 #51, #28)
The Ray Bryant Combo	The Madison Time, part 1 [Hairspray] (from Philadelphia) (1960 #30, #5)
The Flares	Foot Stompin' [Hairspray] (from Los Angeles) (1961 #25, #20)
Lavern Baker	Jim Dandy [Pink Flamingos] (from Chicago) (1957 #17, #1)
Little Richard	The Girl Can't Help It [Pink Flamingos] (from Georgia) (1957 #49, #7)
Shirley & Lee	Let The Good Times Roll (from New Orleans) (1956 #20, #1)
The Swallows	It Ain't the Meat (baltimore) (1951)
Mildred Bailey	I'd Love to Take Orders from You [A Date with John Waters] (from Los Angeles) (1935)
The Chords	Sh-Boom (Life Could be a Dream) [cover vers.used in Cry Baby] (from Bronx, NY) (1954 #5, #2)
The Cardinals	The Wheel of Fortune (baltimore) (1952, R&B #6)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	Moanin' [A Dirty Shame] (from Cleveland Ohio) (1969)
Slim Harpo	Baby Scratch My Back [A Dirty Shame] (from Louisiana) (1966 #16, #1)
Shirley & Lee	Feel So Good (from New Orleans) (1955, R&B #2)
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry	Ain't Got no Home [A Date with John Waters] (from Louisiana) (1957 #20, #3)
The Chordettes	Mr. Sandman [cover vers.used on Cry Baby] (from Wisconsin) (1954 #1)
The Orioles	In the Chapel in the Moonlight (baltimore) (1954)
The Tune Weavers	Happy, Happy Birthday Baby [Pink Flamingos] (from Boston) (1957 #5, #4)
Eileen Barton	If I Knew You Were Comin' Id've Baked a Cake [A Date with John Waters] (from Brooklyn, NY) (1950 #1)
Billy Lee Riley	Red Hot [A Dirty Shame] (born in Arkansas, Memphis Session artist) (1957)
Earl Bostic	Jungle Drums [Cry Baby] (born in Oklahoma) (1953)
The Swallows	Roll Roll Pretty Baby (baltimore) (1951)
Shirley & Lee	I'm Gone (from New Orleans) (1952, R&B #2)
The Classics	Till Then (from Brooklyn, NY) (1963 #20)
Barbara Lynn	You'll Lose a Good Thing [Hairspray] (born in Texas, New Orleans artist) (1962 #8, #1)
The Ikettes	I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) [Hairspray] (Memphis group) (1962 #19, #3)
The Orioles	It's Too Soon to Know (baltimore) (1948 #13, #1)
The Cardinals	The Door Is Still Open (baltimore) (1955, R&B #4)

Comment:

Figure I don't need an excuse to make a dedication to John Waters, since his musical selections are almost always an inspiration. He of course fairs from Baltimore and so I'm including 6 songs from groups in that area. These last few were not songs he chose in his movies or compilations, but at least the two by the Swallows could have been. I actually saw John Waters walk by me as I waited for a Geary bus near Powell Street (by San Francisco's Union Square) about a month ago. I might have stopped him to say hi, but my first impression was he was looking like hell; like he'd been up all night smoking, drinking, and doing who knows what other drugs, and he was getting too old for it. Maybe I should have, even if the only thing I could think of saying was that he looked like shit. The length of the mix is 75m35s and the average year for all the songs is 1956.5 (John Waters was born in April 1946).

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