"Atomic Platters" Cold War Platters from the Golden Age of Homeland Security - CD1 of 6

Over 100 vintage Cold War songs and more than two dozen frighteningly na've civil defense Public Service Announcements. Well-known stars like Bill Haley and His Comets, The Louvin Brothers, Marty Robbins, and Wanda Jackson to fascinating obscurities like The Goldwaters, Janet Greene (The Right Wing's answer to Joan Baez!) and Dr. Strangelove and the Fallouts. A DVD of nine bizarre civil defense and anti-Communist short films from the '50s and '60s. A 292 page hardcover book featuring numerous arresting images from the Cold War era...

...67 years ago on August 6, 1945 the world changed forever over the skies of Hiroshima. Incredibly, this epochal event led to all manner of 'atomic' exploitation (Atomic Cocktails anyone ) and pop cultural strangeness (music, film, merchandise, etc.) as Americans tried to absorb the enormity of the horror its government had unleashed upon Japan.
'Atomic Platters' is the result of a years-in-the-making musical 'Manhattan Project' that collects over 100 vintage Cold War songs and more than two dozen frighteningly na've civil defense Public Service Announcements (many of these PSAs are voiced by celebrities such as Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, Pat Boone and Johnny Cash, to name just a few!) from the paranoid period that brought us fallout shelters, survival biscuits and uranium fever.
The artists who sing about the Bomb and the Red Scare on this set run the gamut from well-known stars like Bill Haley and His Comets, The Louvin Brothers, Marty Robbins and Wanda Jackson to fascinating obscurities like The Goldwaters, Janet Greene (The Right Wing's answer to Joan Baez!) and Dr. Strangelove and the Fallouts. In addition to music and PSAs, 'Atomic Platters' includes two unintentionally hilarious full-length spoken word civil defense 'scare' LPs: If The Bomb Falls and The Complacent Americans.
But why stop with mere sound The Cold War was a multimedia horror show and 'Atomic Platters' tops off its mushroom cloud of entertainment with a DVD of nine bizarre civil defense and anti-Communist short films from the '50s and '60s.
Summing all this strange material up is a 292 page hardcover book featuring numerous arresting images from the Cold War era with intriguing text by Bill Geerhart of CONELRAD, an organization devoted to the preservation and examination of atomic popular culture.
This collection is for anyone mystified by the current excesses of U.S. Homeland Security who wants to hear and see where the madness all began! You CAN beat the A-Bomb (again)!

trax:
1. Intro: Conelrad Radio Alert 'Real Thing' - Wben AM, Buffalo, NY 2. Atomic Cocktail - Slim Gaillard Quartette 3. You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb - Fay Simmons 4. Get That Communist, Joe - Kavalier 5. Atomic Power - The Buchanan Brothers 6. Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances - Groucho Marx 7. Atomic Baby - Amos Milburn 8. Tic, Tic, Tic - Doris Day 9. Atom Bomb Baby - The Five Stars 10. I'm No Communist - Carson Robison 11. How Much Time Do We Have (Keep Working) - Civil Defense Spot 12. Atomic Nightmare - The Talbot Brothers Of Bermuda 13. Satellite Baby - Skip Stanley 14. Fujiyama Mama - Wanda Jackson 15. Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town) - Bill Haley & His Comets 16. Civil Defense Spot: Pattern Of Survival - Bob Hope 17. No, No Joe - Hank Williams 18. When They Found The Atomic Power - Hawkshaw Hawkins 19. I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup 20. Leave De Atom Alone - Josephine Premice 21. Civil Defense Spot: $212 Fallout Shelter - Dennis James (Announcer); Leo Hoegh (Civil Defense Director) 22. Fallout Shelter - Billy Chambers 23. Radioactive Mama - Sheldon Allman 24. Satellite - Teresa Brewer 25. I Dreamt I Saw Krushchev (In A Pink Cadillac) - Walker Edmiston As Barky 26. Civil Defense Spot: Don't Use The Phone! - Art Linkletter 27. Hydrogen Bomb - Al Rex 28. When They Drop The Atomic Bomb - Jackie Doll & His Pickled Peppers 29. Atomic Energy - Sir Lancelot 30. Atomic Bomb Blues - Homer Harris (With Muddy Waters) 31. I Changed My Mind - Eddie Hill 32. Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb - Lowell Blanchard And The Valley Trio 33. This Cold War With You - Floyd Tillman 34. Take The Step (Grandma's Pantry) - Civil Defense Spot
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