"Atomic Platters" Cold War Platters from the Golden Age of Homeland Security - CD2 of 4

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. Civil Defense Spot - Civil Defense Spot 2. Bert The Turtle - Dick 'Two Ton' Baker 3. Crawl Out Through The Fallout - Sheldon Allman 4. When The Atom Bomb Fell - Karl & Harty 5. They Locked God Outside The Iron Curtain - Jim Eanes 6. A Mushroom Cloud - Sammy Salvo 7. Civil Defense Spot - Tony Bennett 8. Rock H-Bomb Rock - H-Bomb Ferguson 9. Sputnik Baby - Roosevelt Sykes 10. 50 Megatons - Sonny Russell 11. Atomic Baby - Linda Hayes With The Red Callender Sextette 12. Alert Today - Civil Defense Spot 13. Stalin Kicked The Bucket - Ray Anderson 14. Urainium Rock - Warren Smith 15. Great Atomic Power - The Louvin Brothers 16. Civil Defense Spot - Fred MacMurray 17. The Commies Are Coming - Tommy James 18. We'll All Go Together - Tom Lehrer 19. Guided Missles - The Cuff Links 20. Sputniks And Mutnicks - Ray Anderson And The Homefolks 21. Civil Defense Spot - Civil Defense Spot 22. Down In Havana - GoldWater 23. Ain't I Right - Marty Robbins 24. Urainium - Commodores 25. Take The Step - Civil Defense Spot 26. The Firery Bear - Jack Holden & Frances Kay 27. Watch World War Three - The Crown City Four 28. The Hydrogen Bomb - Al Rogers And His Rocky Mountain Boys 29. The Red We Want - Elton Britt 30. Civil Defense Spot - Pat Boone 31. A Bomb Bop - Mike Fern & The Del Royals 32. Satellite No. 2 - Carl Mann 33. Fallout Shelter - Mike And Bernie Winters 34. Your Atom Bomb Heart - Hank King with Bud Williams & His Smilin' Buddies 35. In Time - Civil Defense Spot
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