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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
AMERICAN ROUTES AT THE MOVIES, STARRING JOHN WATERS AND LES BLANK
Cut a rug on the red carpet with two filmmakers who always put music in a starring role. Director of Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry-Baby and many more, John Waters joins us to talk about his obsession with 1950’s R&B and rock. Documentarian Les Blank recalls working with American Routes marquee names Lightnin’ Hopkins, Clifton Chenier and Dizzy Gillespie.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Thrift Shop Fashion Shoot Stewart Copeland
Pecker original soundtrack, BMG - The Wheel of Fortune Kay Starr with Harold Mooney & Orchestra
Sentimental Journey: Pop Vocal Classics, Vol. 3, Rhino - Shine (From Crossfire) (performer unknown)
Murder is My Beat: Classic Film Noir Themes and Scenes, Rhino - From Russia with Love Count Basie
Ultra-Lounge Vol.7: The Crime Scene, Capitol - Movie Stars The Tiger
Roosevelt in Trinidad: Calypsos, 1933 - 1939, Rounder - You Can Get It If You Really Want Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come original soundtrack, Island - Que Rico El Mambo Dámasco Pérez Prado
The Motorcycles Diaries soundtrack, UMG - Instrumental: Woo-Hoo The Rock-A-Teens
Pecker original soundtrack, BMG - Act Naturally The Beatles
Help!, EMI - Hollywood City Carl Perkins
The Classics, Bear Family - Whiskey Heaven Fats Domino
From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music, Warner Bros. - The Madison Time The Ray Bryant Combo
Hairspray soundtrack, MCA - You'll Lose a Good Thing Barbara Lynn
Hairspray soundtrack, MCA - Instrumental: No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) The T-Bones
Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol.2: The ‘60s, Rhino - INTERVIEW: John Waters
Listen - Route 66 Chuck Berry
Cars soundtrack, Disney - Route 66 John Mayer
Cars soundtrack, Disney
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Theme from M*A*S*H (a.k.a. Suicide is Painless) Bill Evans
You Must Believe In Spring, Warner Bros. - Moten Swing solos: Jesse Davis, James Carter
Kansas City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Verve - My Funny Valentine Chet Baker
The Company soundtrack, Sony - Drown in My Own Tears Ray Charles
Ray: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Atlantic/Rhino/WMG - Wildwood Flower Reese Witherspoon
Walk the Line: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Wind-Up - Instrumental: Mandolin Blues Tennessee Mess Arounders
Fonotone Records 1956-1969, Dust-To-Digital - Tom Joad, Part 2 Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Ballads, Buddha - CLIP: Bob Dylan as Alias from Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
- Billy 4 Bob Dylan
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid soundtrack, Columbia - Come Una Pietra Scalciata (Like a Rolling Stone) Articolo 31
Masked and Anonymous music from the motion picture, Columbia - Love of My Life (Oh Sole Mio) Louis Prima and Keely Smith with Sam Butera and the Witnesses
Big Night soundtrack, Rysher - INTERVIEW: Les Blank
Listen - Instrumental: A Streetcar Named Desire The Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra
Warner Bros. 75 Years of Film Music, Rhino - A Streetcar Named Desire Terence Blanchard
Jazz in Film, Sony - Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? Billie Holiday with Louis Armstrong and his Band
New Orleans soundtrack, Soundtrack Factory - End Bed: Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? Henry Butler
American Routes original recording,
