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Listen to all 19 songs from the Hairspray soundtrack, playlist, ost and score.
"Welcome to the 60's" is a song from the 2002 musical Hairspray. it is performed by Tracy Turnblad, Edna Turnblad, Mr. Pinky, and a Greek chorus consisting of three African-American stylists entitled the Dynamites.
"Welcome to the 60's" is performed by Tracy Turnblad, Edna Turnblad, and The Dynamites. It occurs towards the end of Act I of Hairspray. The song occurs right after Tracy and Edna receive a call from Mr. Pinky asking Tracy to become the spokeswoman for Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaways.
Surrounded by “45s” and teen magazines, Tracy Turnblad wakes up in her family’s apartment over the Har-De-Har Hut, her father Wilbur’s jokeshop. Teenager Tracy is a large girl with a high hairdo, abundant joie de vivre and rhythm in every inch of her body (“Good Morning Baltimore”).
" You Can't Stop The Beat " is the finale number in the 2002 musical Hairspray. It is sung by Tracy, Link, Penny, Seaweed, Edna, Motor Mouth, Velma, and Amber with Corny and Wilbur as backing singers. Although the lyrics touch on sizeism and racism, the song also references broader themes of change and progression.
The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the production follows teenage Tracy Turnblad's dream to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show. [1]
Edna Turnblad is the agoraphobic laundress mother of Tracy Turnblad and a central character in Hairspray. Edna is an anxious, self-conscious, laundress who has isolated herself in her home for eleven years.
