Various Artists - Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security (5-CD + DVD + Book) (CD)

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5-CD/1-DVD Box (LP-format) with 292-page hardcover book, 142 tracks, playing time approx. 6 hrs. 12 mns; 9 clips (DVD) Certain parallels between those days and the present obsessio n with Homeland Security can be pretty scary. 'Deja vu all over again!' (New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra).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...Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/ Track ListingDisc 1: Gisela May - Intro: Conelrad Radio Alert 'Real Thing' Various - History - Atomic Cocktail Slim Gaillard Quart. - You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb Simmons, Fay - Get That Communist, Joe Kavaliers - Atomic Power Buchanan Bros - Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances Marx, Graucho - Atomic Baby Milburn, Amos - Tic, Tic, Tic Day, Doris - Atom Bomb Baby Five Stars - I'm No Communist Robison, Carson - Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have Various - History - (Keep Working) Various - History - Atomic Nightmare Talbot Bros Of Bermuda - Satellite Baby Stanley, Skip - Fujiyama Mama Jackson, Wanda - Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town) Haley, Bill & His Comets - Civil Defense Spot: Pattern Of Survival Hope, Bob - No, No Joe Williams, Hank - When They Found The Atomic Power Hawkins, Hawkshaw - I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole Crudup, Arthur 'Big Boy' - Leave De Atom Alone Premice, Josephine - Civil Defense Spot: Dollar 212 Fallout James, Dennis & Leo Hoegh - Shelter Various - History - Fallout Shelter Chambers, Billy - Radioactive Mama Allman, Sheldon - Satellite Brewer, Teresa - I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (In A Pink...) Walker Edmiston As Barky - Civil Defense Spot: Don't Use The Phone! Linkletter, Art - Hydrogen Bomb Rex, Al - When They Drop The Atomic Bomb Doll, Jackie & Pickled Peppers - Atomic Energy Sir Lancelot - Atomic Bomb Blues Harris, Homer & Muddy Waters - I Changed My Mind Hill, Eddie - Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb Blanchard, Lowell & Valley T. - This Cold War With You Tillman, Floyd - Civil Defense Spot: Take The Step (Grandma's Various - History - Pantry) Disc 2: Various - History - Civil Defense Spot: Conelrad 'Test Various - History - Announcement' Various - History - Bert The Turtle (The Duck And Cover Song) Baker, Dick 'Two Ton' - Crawl Out Through The Fallout Allman, Sheldon - When The Atom Bomb Fell Karl & Harty - They Locked God Outside The Iron Curtain Eanes, Jim - A Mushroom Clud Salvo, Sammy - Civil Defense Spot: Nuclear Attack Bennett, Tony - Rock H-Bomb Rock Ferguson, H-Bomb - Sputnik Baby Sykes, Roosevelt - Fifty Megatons Hayes, Linda & Red Callender.. - Cevil Defense Spot: Alert Today, Alive Various - History - Tomorrow Various - History - Stalin Kicked The Bucket Anderson, Ray - Uranium Rock Smith, Warren - Great Atomic Power Louvin Bros - Civil Defense Spot: Family Fallut Shelter Macmurray, Fred - Booklet Various - History - The Commies Are Coming James, Tommy - We'll All Go Together When We Go Lehrer, Tom - Guided Missiles Cuff Links - Sputniks And Mutniks Anderson, Ray & The Homefolks - Cevil Defense Spot: Conelrad, Sounds Pretty Various - History - Complicated Various - History - Down In Havana Goldwaters - Ain't I Right Robbins, Marty - Uranium Commodores - Cevil Defense Spot: Take The Step (Four Various - History - Wheels To Survival) Various - History - The Fiery Bear Holden, Jack & Frances Kay - Watch World War Three (On Pay TV) Crown City Four - The Hydrogen Bomb Rogers, Al & Rocky Mountain B. - The Red We Want Is The Red We Got Britt, Elton - Civil Defense Spot: Warning Signals Boone, Pat - A Bomb Bop Fern, Mike - Satellite No. 2 Mike & Bernie Winters - Your Atom Bomb Heart King, Hank & Bud Williams - Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency Various - History - (Not Contagious) Disc 3: Various - History - (Disaster On A Big Scale) Various - History - Love That Bomb Dr. Strangelove & The Fallouts - Atom Bomb Barber, Glenn - Uranium Fever Britt, Elton - Russian Band Stand Spencer & Spencer - Civil Defense Spot: Protect Your Home Karloff, Boris - Jesus Is God's Atomic Bomb Pilgrim Travelers - Old Man Atom Sons Of The Pioneers - Advice To Joe Acuff, Roy - Cevil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency Various - History - (Take Notic Of Fallut Shelter Signs) Alpert, Dore - When That Hell Bomb Falls Kirby, Fred - The Senator McCarthy Blues Block, Hal & Tony Borrello Or. - Thirteen Men Ann-Magret - Civil Defense Spot: 640-1240 Gaynor, Mitzi - There's A Power Greater Than Atomic Buchanan Bros - Red's Dream Louisiana Red - Atomic Love Little Caesar & Red Callender - Mr. Stalin You're Eating Too High On The Hog Smith, Arthur & Cracker-Jacks - Civil Defense Spot: Psychiatrist (Shelter Various - History - Signs) Various - History - Atomic Telephone Spirit Of Memphis Quart. - A Russian Love Song Goons - Rock And Roll Atom Mccoy, Red & Sons Of The Soil - Ballad Of Francis Powers Red River Dave - Civil Defense Spot: Remember, 640-1240 Duff, Howard - Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy) Russo, Mike - Mr. Khrushchev Diddley, Bo - West Of The Wall Fisher, Toni - (My) Fallout (with the Atomic Kiss) Cerf, Chris - Khrushchev And The Devil Chevalier, Jay - The Song Of The Atom Bomb Logan, Dexter & D. Edwards - Civil Defense March (Heads Up, America) Various - History - (Brilliant Nuclear Flash) Disc 4: Various - History - Atomic Sermon Hughes, Billy & Rhythm Bucker. - The Death Of Joe Stalin (Good Riddance) Hawk, Buddy & His Buddies - Atom And Evil Golden Gate Quart. - Relax And Take It Easy Duncan, Tommy - Civil Defense Spot: Be Prepared Today, For Francis, Connie - Survival Tomorrow Dude Martin's Round-Up Gang - Poor Left-Winger Greene, Janet - The Bear Flew Over The Ocean Various - History - (Basic Supplies) Various - History - Bikini Gordon, Dexter - Trial Of Francis Powers Red River Dave - An Open Letter To Mr. Khrushchev Meehan, Don - B. Bomb Baby Jewels - Brush The Dust From That Old Bible Kincaid, Bradley - Civil Defense Spot: Every Living Thing James, Joni - Sputnik II Barkle, Al & Tri-Tones - When You See Those Flying Saucers Buchanan Bros - Uranium Blues Clingman, Loy - Weapon Of Prayer Louvin Bros - Civil Defense Spot: Message From Mars Pardo, Don - My Rediation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen) Mckelvey, George - H-Bomb Unidentified - Hammers And Sickles Charades - Sputnik (Satellite Girl) Engler, Jerry & Four Ekkos - Civil Defense Spot: Help Ourselves Cash, Johnny - To Russia With Care Weakley, Harold - Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain Marchan, Bobby & The Clowns - Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down) Reed, Prescott - Tennessee Perkins - Let's Keep The Communists Out Husky, Ferlin 'Terry Preston' - The Iron Curtain Has Parted Windle, Don - Stars For Defense Outro Disc 5: Crosby, Bing & Ken Carpenter - If The Bomb Falls (part 1) Various - History - If The Bomb Falls (part 2) Various - History - The Complacent Americans (part 1) Various - History - The Complacent Americans (part 2) Disc 6: Various - History - What Is Communism' Various - History - Duck And Cover Various - History - Our Cities Must Fight Various - History - Warning Red Various - History - Bombproof Various - History - Target You Various - History - Information Program Within Public Shelters Various - History - Occupying A Public Shelter Various - History - Town Of The Times Additional Details Label: Bear Family Records Genre: World Run Time: 372 mins Release Date: 01/02/07 UPC: 4000127160652 Show more