Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security (5-CD + DVD + Book)
by Various Artists
Entertainment Weekly: "[T]hese pieces - by turns jovial, haunting, and chilling - form an unforgettable mosaic of anxious Americana." - Grade: B
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CD Details
- Released: October 4, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Bear Family
Description by OLDIES.com:
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, and Wanda Jackson to fascinating obscurities like The Goldwaters, Janet Greene and Dr. Strangelove and the Fallouts. A DVD of nine bizarre civil defense and anti-Communist short films from the '50s and '60s.
Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Intro: Conelrad Radio Alert Real Thing
- 2.Atomic Cocktail - Slim Gaillard Quartet
- 3.You Hit Me Baby Like an Atomic Bomb - Fay Simmons
- 4.Get That Communist, Joe - Kavaliers
- 5.Atomic Power - Buchanan Bros
- 6.Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances - Graucho 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.Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have
- 12.(Keep Working)
- 13.Atomic Nightmare - Talbot Brothers of Bermuda
- 14.Satellite Baby - Skip Stanley
- 15.Fujiyama Mama - Wanda Jackson
- 16.Thirteen Women (And Only One Man in Town) - Bill Haley & His Comets
- 17.Civil Defense Spot: Pattern of Survival - Bob Hope
- 18.No, No Joe - Hank Williams
- 19.When They Found the Atomic Power - Hawkshaw Hawkins
- 20.I'm Gonna Dig Myself a Hole - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
- 21.Leave de Atom Alone - Josephine Premice
- 22.Civil Defense Spot: Dollar 212 Fallout - Dennis James / Leo Hoegh
- 23.Shelter
- 24.Fallout Shelter - Billy Chambers
- 25.Radioactive Mama - Sheldon Allman
- 26.Satellite - Teresa Brewer
- 27.I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (In a Pink...) - Walker Edmiston Aka Barky
- 28.Civil Defense Spot: Don't Use the Phone! - Art Linkletter
- 29.Hydrogen Bomb - Al Rex
- 30.When They Drop the Atomic Bomb - Jackie Doll & Pickled Peppers
- 31.Atomic Energy - Sir Lancelot
- 32.Atomic Bomb Blues - Homer Harris / Muddy Waters
- 33.I Changed My Mind - Eddie Hill
- 34.Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bom - Lowell Blanchard
- 35.This Cold War With You - Floyd Tillman
- 36.Civil Defense Spot: Take the Step
- 37.Grandma's Pantry
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Civil Defense Spot: Conelrad Test
- 2.Annoucement
- 3.Bert the Turle (The Duck and Cover Song) - Dick "Two Ton" Baker
- 4.Crawl Out Through the Fallout - Sheldon Allman
- 5.When the Atom Bomb Fell - Karl & Harty
- 6.They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain - Jim Eanes
- 7.Mushroom Clud, A - Sammy Salvo
- 8.Civil Defense Spot: Nuclear Attack - Tony Bennett
- 9.Rock H-Bomb Rock - H-Bomb Ferguson
- 10.Sputnik Baby - Roosevelt Sykes
- 11.Fifty Megatons, The - Sonny Russell
- 12.Atomic Baby - Linda Hayes / Red Callender
- 13.Civil Defense Spot: Alert Today, Alive
- 14.Tomorrow
- 15.Stalin Kicked the Bucket - Ray Anderson
- 16.Uranium Rock - Warren Smith
- 17.Great Atomic Power - The Louvin Brothers
- 18.Civil Defense Spot: Family Fallut Shelter - Fred MacMurray
- 19.Booklet
- 20.Commies Are Coming - Tommy James
- 21.We'll All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer
- 22.Guided Missiles - The Cuff Links
- 23.Sputniks and Mutniks - Ray Anderson
- 24.Civil Defense Spot: Conelrad, Sounds Pretty
- 25.Complicated
- 26.Down in Havana - Goldwaters
- 27.Ain't I Right - Marty Robbins
- 28.Uranium - Commodores
- 29.Civil Defense Spot: Take the Step
- 30.Four Wheels to Survival
- 31.Fiery Bear, The - Jack Holden / Frances Kay
- 32.Watch World War Three (On Pay TV) - Crown City Four
- 33.Hydrogen Bomb, The - Al Rogers / Rocky Mountain Banjos
- 34.Red We Want Is the Red We Got, The - Elton Britt
- 35.Civil Defense Spot: Warning Signals - Pat Boone
- 36.Bomb Bop, A - Mike Fern
- 37.Satellite No. 2 - Carl Mann
- 38.Fallout Shelter - Mike & Bernie Winters
- 39.Your Atom Bomb Heart - Hank King / Buddy Williams
- 40.Civil Defense Spot: In Time of Emergency
- 41.Not Contagious
Tracks on Disc 3:
- 1.Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have
- 2.(Disaster on a Big Scale)
- 3.Love That Bomb - Dr. Strangelove & The Fallouts
- 4.Atom Bomb - Glenn Barber
- 5.Uranium Fever - Elton Britt
- 6.Russian Band Stand - Spencer and Spencer
- 7.Civil Defense Spot: Protect Your Home - Boris Karloff
- 8.Jesus Is God's Atomic Bomb - Swan's Silvertone Singers
- 9.Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb - Pilgrim Travelers
- 10.Old Man Atom - Sam Hinton
- 11.Advice to Joe - Roy Acuff
- 12.Civil Defense Spot: In Time of Emergency
- 13.(Take Notice of Fallout Shelter Signs)
- 14.Fallout Shelter - Dore Alpert
- 15.When That Hell Bomb Falls - Fred Kirby
- 16.Senator McCarthy Blues, The - Hal Block / Tony Borrello
- 17.Thirteen Men - Ann-Margret
- 18.Civil Defense Spot: 640-1240 - Mitzi Gaynor
- 19.There's a Power Greater Than Atomic - Buchanan Bros
- 20.Red's Dream - Louisiana Red
- 21.Atomic Love - Little Caesar / Red Callender
- 22.Mr. Stalin You're Eating Too High on the Hog - Arthur Smith / Jack Cracker
- 23.Civil Defense Spot: Psychiatrist
- 24.(Shelter Signs)
- 25.Atomic Telephone - Spirit of Memphis Quartet
- 26.Russian Love Song, A - The Goons
- 27.Rock and Roll Atom - Red McCoy / Sons Of The Soil
- 28.Ballad of Francis Powers - Red River Dave McEnery
- 29.Civil Defense Spot: Remember, 640-1240 - Howard Duff
- 30.Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy) - Mike Russo
- 31.Mr. Khrushchev - Bo Diddley
- 32.West of the Wall - Toni Fisher
- 33.Fallout, (My) (With the Atomic Kiss) - Chris Cerf
- 34.Khrushchev and the Devil - Jay Chevalier
- 35.Song of the Atom Bomb, The - Dexter Logan / D. Edwards
- 36.Civil Defense March (Heads up, America) - Sammy Cahn / Paul Weston
- 37.Civil Defense Spot: In Time of Emergency
- 38.(Brilliant Nuclear Flash)
Tracks on Disc 4:
- 1.Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have
- 2.Atomic Sermon - Billy Hughes
- 3.Death of Joe Stalin, The (Good Riddance) - Buddy Hawk and His Buddies
- 4.Atom and Evil - Golden Gate Quartet
- 5.Relax and Take It Easy - Tommy Duncan
- 6.Civil Defense Spot: Be Prepared Today, For Survival Tomorrow - Connie Francis
- 7.Untitled
- 8.Uranium Fever - Rudy Gaddis
- 9.Atom Bomb Baby - Dude Martin's Round-Up Gang
- 10.Poor Left-Winger - Janet Greene
- 11.Bear Flew Over the Ocean, The - Jimmie Driftwood
- 12.Civil Defense Spot: In Time of Emergency
- 13.(Basic Supplies)
- 14.Bikini - Dexter Gordon
- 15.Trial of Francis Powers - Red River Dave McEnery
- 16.Open Letter to Mr. Khruschev, An - Don Meehan
- 17.B. Bomb Baby - The Jewels
- 18.Brush the Dust From That Old Bible - Bradley Kincaid
- 19.Civil Defense Spot: Every Living Thing - Joni James
- 20.Sputnik II - Al Barkle with the Tri-tones
- 21.When You See Those Flying Saucers - Buchanan Bros
- 22.Uranium Blues - Loy Clingman
- 23.Weapon of Prayer - The Louvin Brothers
- 24.Civil Defense Spot: Message From Mars - Don Pardo
- 25.My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen) - George McKelvey
- 26.H-Bomb - Unidentified
- 27.Hammers and Sickles - The Charades
- 28.Sputnik (Satellite Girl) - Jerry Engler / The Four Ekko's
- 29.Civil Defense Spot: Help Ourselves - Johnny Cash
- 30.To Russia With Care - Harold Weakley
- 31.Rockin' Behind the Iron Curtain - Bobby Marchan & The Clowns
- 32.Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down) - Prescott Reed
- 33.Tennessee - Carl Perkins
- 34.Let's Keep the Communists Out - Ferlin Husky / Terry Preston
- 35.Iron Curtain Has Parted, The - Don Windle
- 36.Stars For Defense Outro - Bing Crosby / Ken Carpenter
Tracks on Disc 5:
- 1.If the Bomb Falls (Part 1)
- 2.If the Bomb Falls (Part 2)
- 3.Complacent Americans, The (Part 1)
- 4.Complacent Americans, The (Part 2)
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