"Atomic Platters" Cold War Platters from the Golden Age of Homeland Security - CD4

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. How Much Time Do We Have (Fortress Main Street) - Civil Defense Spot 2. Atomic Sermon - Billy Hughes And His Rhythm Buckaroos 3. The Death Of Joe Stalin (Good Riddance) - Buddy Hawk And His Buddies 4. Atom And Evil - The Golden Gate Quartet 5. Relax And Take It Easy - Tommy Duncan 6. Civil Defense Spot: Be Prepared Today, For Survival Tomorrow - Connie Francis 7. Uranium Fever - Rudy Gaddis 8. Atom Bomb Baby - Dude Martin's Round-Up Gang 9. Poor Left-Winger - Janet Greene 10. The Bear Flew Over The Ocean - immie Driftwood 11. In Time Of Emergency (Basic Supplies) - Civil Defense Spot 12. Bikini - Dexter Gordon 13. Trial Of Francis Powers - Red River Dave [Dave McEnery] 14. An Open Letter To Mr. Khrushchev - Don Meehan 15. B. Bomb Baby - The Jewels 16. Brush The Dust From That Old Bible - Bradley Kincaid 17. Civil Defense Spot: Every Living Thing - Joni James 18. Sputnik II - Al Barkle W/ The Tri-Tones 19. When You See Those Flying Saucers - The Buchanan Brothers 20. Uranium Blues - Loy Clingman 21. Weapon Of Prayer - The Louvin Brothers 22. Civil Defense Spot: Message From Mars (Conelrad Jingle) - Announcer: Don Pardo 23. My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen) - George Mckelvey 24. H-Bomb - Unidentified 25. Hammers And Sickles - The Charades 26. Sputnik (Satellite Girl) - Jerry Engler & The Four Ekkos 27. Civil Defense Spot: Help Ourselves - Johnny Cash 28. To Russia With Care - Harold Weakley 29. Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain - Bobby Marchan & The Clowns 30. Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down) - Prescott Reed 31. Tennessee - Carl Perkins 32. Let's Keep The Communists Out - Ferlin "Terry Preston" Husky 33. The Iron Curtain Has Parted - Don Windle 34. Stars For Defense Outro - Bing Crosby & Ken Capenter
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