Atomic Platters
Intheway
track listings.
The DVD includes the memorable film "Duck and Cover," which many of us
undoubtedly remember from our worry-free school days of the 50s.
Fred
BEAR FAMILY RECORDS
Various Artists: Atomic Platters - Cold War Music From The Golden Age
Of Homeland Security
60 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 naïve 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)!
Atomic Platters
Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security
5-CD/1-DVD-Box-Set (LP-size) with 292-page hardcover book
BCD 16065 FM
EAN: 4000127160652
ISBN: : 3-89916-141-6
Tracks: 141
Playing time:CDs: 367:08 / DVD: 152:00
Genre: Historical Issues
EUR 153.39
CD 1:
Intro: CONELRAD Radio Alert 'Real Thing' (WBEN AM, Buffalo, NY)
Slim Gaillard Quartette: Atomic Cocktail
Fay Simmons: You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb
The Kavaliers: Get That Communist, Joe
The Buchanan Brothers: Atomic Power
Groucho Marx: Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances
Amos Milburn: Atomic Baby
Doris Day: Tic, Tic, Tic
The Five Stars: Atom Bomb Baby
Carson Robison: I'm No Communist
Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have (Keep Working)
The Talbot Brothers of Bermuda: Atomic Nightmare
Skip Stanley: Satellite Baby
Wanda Jackson: Fujiyama Mama
Bill Haley and His Comets: Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)
Bob Hope: Civil Defense Spot: Pattern Of Survival
Hank Williams: No, No Joe
Hawkshaw Hawkins: When They Found The Atomic Power
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup: I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole
Josephine Premice: Leave De Atom Alone
Dennis James (Announcer); Leo Hoegh (Civil Defense Director) Civil
Defense Spot: $212 Fallout Shelter
Billy Chambers: Fallout Shelter
Sheldon Allman: Radioactive Mama
Teresa Brewer: Satellite
Walker Edmiston as Barky: I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (In A Pink
Cadillac)
Art Linkletter: Civil Defense Spot: Don't Use The Phone!
Al Rex: Hydrogen Bomb
Jackie Doll and his Pickled Peppers: When They Drop The Atomic Bomb
Sir Lancelot: Atomic Energy
Homer Harris (with Muddy Waters): Atomic Bomb Blues
Eddie Hill: I Changed My Mind
Lowell Blanchard and the Valley Trio: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb
Floyd Tillman: This Cold War With You
Civil Defense Spot: Take The Step (Grandma's Pantry)
CD 2:
Civil Defense Spot: CONELRAD 'Test Announcement'
Dick 'Two Ton' Baker: Bert The Turtle (The Duck And Cover Song)
Sheldon Allman: Crawl Out Through The Fallout
Karl & Harty: When The Atom Bomb Fell
Jim Eanes: They Locked God Outside The Iron Curtain
Sammy Salvo: A Mushroom Cloud
Tony Bennett: Civil Defense Spot: Nuclear Attack
H-Bomb Ferguson: Rock H-Bomb Rock
Roosevelt Sykes: Sputnik Baby
Sonny Russell: Fifty Megatons
Linda Hayes with The Red Callender Sextette: Atomic Baby
Civil Defense Spot: Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow
Ray Anderson: Stalin Kicked The Bucket
Warren Smith: Uranium Rock
The Louvin Brothers: Great Atomic Power
Fred MacMurray: Civil Defense Spot: Family Fallout Shelter Booklet
Tommy James: The Commies Are Coming
Tom Lehrer: We'll All Go Together When We Go
The Cuff Links: Guided Missiles
Ray Anderson and the Homefolks: Sputniks And Mutniks
Civil Defense Spot: CONELRAD, Sounds Pretty Complicated
The Goldwaters: Down In Havana
Marty Robbins: Ain't I Right
The Commodores: Uranium
Civil Defense Spot: Take The Step (4 Wheels To Survival)
Jack Holden & Frances Kay: The Fiery Bear
The Crown City Four: Watch World War Three (On Pay TV)
Al Rogers and his Rocky Mountain Boys: The Hydrogen Bomb
Elton Britt: The Red We Want Is The Red We Got
Pat Boone: Civil Defense Spot: Warning Signals
Mike Fern (aka Mike Fernandez): A Bomb Bop
Carl Mann: Satellite No. 2
Mike & Bernie Winters: Fallout Shelter
Hank King with Bud Williams and his Smiling Buddies: Your Atom Bomb
Heart
Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Not Contagious)
CD 3:
Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have (Disaster On A Big Scale)
Dr. Strangelove and the Strangeloves (The Laurie Johnson Orchestra):
Love That Bomb (Theme From Dr. Strangelove)
Glenn Barber: Atom Bomb
Elton Britt: Uranium Fever
Spencer and Spencer: Russian Bandstand
Boris Karloff: Civil Defense Spot: Protect Your Home
Swan's Silvertone Singers: Jesus Is God's Atomic Bomb
The Pilgrim Travelers: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb
Sam Hinton: Old Man Atom
The Sons Of The Pioneers: Old Man Atom
Roy Acuff: Advice To Joe
Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Take Notice Of Fallout
Shelter Signs)
Dore Alpert: Fallout Shelter
Fred Kirby: When That Hell Bomb Falls
Hal Block with the Tony Borrello Orchestra: The Senator McCarthy Blues
Ann-Margret: Thirteen Men
Mitzi Gaynor: Civil Defense Spot: 640-1240
The Buchanan Brothers: There's A Power Greater Than Atomic
Louisiana Red: Red's Dream
Little Caesar and the Red Callendar Sextette: Atomic Love
Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith and his Crackerjacks: Mr. Stalin You're
Eating Too High Off The Hog
Civil Defense Spot: Psychiatrist (Shelter Signs)
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet: Atomic Telephone
The Goons (Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan): A Russian Love Song
Red McCoy with the Sons of the Soil: Rock And Roll Atom
Red River Dave (Dave McEnery): Ballad Of Francis Powers (There's A Star
Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere)
Howard Duff: Civil Defense Spot: Remember, 640-1240
Mike Russo: Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy)
Bo Diddley: Mr. Khrushchev
Toni Fisher, and the Wayne Shanklin Orchestra: West Of The Wall
Chris Cerf: (My) Fallout Filly (With The Atomic Kiss)
Jay Chevalier: Khrushchev Meets The Devil
Dexter Logan and Darrell Edwards: The Song Of The Atom Bomb
Sammy Cahn & Paul Weston: Civil Defense March (Heads Up America)
Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Brilliant Nuclear Flash)
CD 4:
Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have (Fortress Main Street)
Billy Hughes and his Rhythm Buckeroos: Atomic Sermon
Buddy Hawk and his Buddies: Death Of Joe Stalin (Good Riddance)Golden
Gate Quartet: Atom And Evil
Tommy Duncan: Relax And Take It Easy
Connie Francis: Civil Defense Spot: Be Prepared Today, For Survival
Tomorrow
Rudy Gaddis: Uranium Fever
Dude Martin's Round-Up Gang: Atom Bomb Baby
Janet Greene: I'm Just A Poor Left-Winger
Jimmie Driftwood: The Bear Flew Over The Ocean
Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Basic Supplies)
Dexter Gordon: Bikini
Red River Dave (Dave McEnery): Trial Of Francis Powers
Don Meehan: An Open Letter To Khrushchev
The Jewels: B. Bomb Baby
Bradley Kincaid: Brush The Dust From That Old Bible
Joni James: Civil Defense Spot: Every Living Thing
Al Barkle with the Tri-Tones: Sputnik II
The Buchanan Brothers: When You See Those Flying Saucers
Loy Clingman: Uranium Blues
The Louvin Brothers: Weapon Of Prayer
Announcer: Don Pardo: Civil Defense Spot: Message From Mars (CONELRAD
Jingle)
George McKelvey: My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen)
Unidentified: H-Bomb
The Charades: Hammers And Sickles
Jerry Engler and the Four Ekkos: Sputnik (Satellite Girl)
Johnny Cash: Civil Defense Spor: Help Ourselves
Harold Weakley: To Russia With Care
Bobby Marchan and the Clowns: Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain
Prescott Reed: Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down)
Carl Perkins: Tennessee
Ferlin 'Terry Preston' Husky: Let's Keep The Communists Out
Don Windle: The Iron Curtain Has Parted
Bing Crosby & Ken Carpenter: Stars For Defense Outro
CD 5:
If The Bomb Falls (Part 1)
If The Bomb Falls (Part 2)
The Complacent Americans (Part 1)
The Complacent Americans (Part 2)
DVD: (NTSC s/w & color codefree)
TARGET YOU!
Cold War Educational Films From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security
What Is Communism?
Duck And Cover
Our Cities Must Fight
Warning Red
Bombproof
Target You
Information Program Within Public Shelters
Occupying A Public Shelter
Town Of The Times
yougotl...@yahoo.com
Randy Newman's "Political Science" ("...let's drop the big one now")
???
DianeE
"Intheway" <fred.w...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Bo Diddley: Mr. Khrushchev
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Where did this item come from? Is it available anywhere else?
DianeE
Steve Solomon
Randy Newman's "Political Science" ("...let's drop the big one now")
???
Naw, this is the best one of them all .......
"Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me" - Charles Mingus
Steve Solomon
Mark Dintenfass
<"yougotl...@yahoo.com"> wrote:
> Where in the hell is the best one of them all -
>
> Randy Newman's "Political Science" ("...let's drop the big one now")
Out of the time frame, I guess. But how about the Kingston Trio's
"Merry Minuet":
"We all can be thankful and tranquil and proud
'Cause man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off
And we will all be blown away."
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--md
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Roger Ford
It was originally on the LP titled "Bo Diddley" (Checker 2984) in
1962.
This is the album that Chess put out to capitalize on Bo's chart
single "You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover" (also included).
I don't know about the current availability of the track.
I can send you the mp3 if you need it.
ROGER FORD
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Intheway
soundtrack of a PBS show on the 50s, and more recently someone posting
under the name "Atomic Platters" has been asking about specific artists
on the Bear Family set.
I found another compilation on the same subject released last year on
Buzzola. This is one CD,at about 5% of the price of the Bear Family
box (and how many times are you going to listen to the Boris Karloff
PSA anyway?)
Like An Atom Bomb: A Collection Of Apocalyptic Songs From The Cold War
Era.
1: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb - The Pilgrim Travelers
--2: Atomic Sermon - Billy Hughes
--3: Atomic Power - Buchanan Brothers
--4: When They Dropped The Atomic Bomb
--5: Old Man Atom - Sons Of The Pioneers
--6: Atom And Evil - Golden Gate Quartet
--7: No No Joe - Hank Williams
--8: Jesus Is The First Line Of Defense - The Pilgrim Travelers
--9: When The Atom Bomb Fell - Karl & Harty
--10: Win The War Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
--11: Atomic Telephone
--12: Atomic Cocktail - Slim Gaillard
--13: Fireball Boogie
--14: She's Been Gone - H-Bomb Ferguson
--15: Mission To Moscow - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
--16: End Of War Blues - Charles Brown
--17: Sad News From Korea
--18: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb - Lowell Blanchard
Fred
Norm Katuna wrote:
> On 9 Aug 2005 14:31:19 -0700, in rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s, "Intheway"
> <fred.w...@gmail.com>, wrote:
>
> >Just saw this webpage and thought the group might get a kick out of the
> >track listings.
> >
> >The DVD includes the memorable film "Duck and Cover," which many of us
> >undoubtedly remember from our worry-free school days of the 50s.
> >
> >
> >Fred
>
> Is it my imagination or didn't somebody come in here a few years ago looking for
> songs that were related to just this?
>
> If so, could this be what that lead to?
>
> Norm K
yougotl...@yahoo.com
Cadets' Stranded in The Jungle, one you are certainly all familiar
with:
"Meanwhile, back in the jungle...
The boys in the jungle had me on the run,
When something heavy hit me, like an atomic bomb.
When I woke up, and my head started to clear,
I had a strange feeling I was with cooking gear
I smelled something cooking, and I looked to see.
That's when I found out they was cooking me."
I crack up a little inside everytime I hear the irony of that
misunderstanding. Had he really been hit by an atomic bomb, he'd
be an El Muerto, or less than that...
yougotl...@yahoo.com
Mark Dintenfass wrote:
> In article <1123626455.7...@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> <"yougotl...@yahoo.com"> wrote:
>
> > Where in the hell is the best one of them all -
> >
> > Randy Newman's "Political Science" ("...let's drop the big one now")
>
> Out of the time frame, I guess.
<snip> --
> --md
Not the only one out of the time frame (The Commodores ?).
If anyone will indulge me a little bit more, this seems like an
interesting cross-decade topic in itself. But (you can all exhale)
I won't cross-post this reply. However, I would like to add some
completing suggestions, including:
The Firm's (Jimmy Page's post-Zep temporary grouping) "Radioactive"
from 1985, a tongue-in-cheek catchy lyrical exercise to go with some
hooky music.
And, in a really serious vein:
Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain" - which as you may have surmised was about
Chernobyl's baleful gift to Europe at large - the rain from behind the
then still extant Soviet Union (the "red" in the song) helping to
spread the poison from the exploded nuke plant even more.
Ken Whiton
*-* In Article 090820052002214967%mdint...@xxnew.rr.com,
*-* Mark Dintenfass wrote
*-* About Re: Atomic Platters
I haven't seen anyone mention Tom Lehrer's "We Will All Go
Together When We Go" yet.
Ken Whiton
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AtomicPlatters
I'm "Atomic Platters" and yes, I co-produced this box set. I wanted to
clarify that the box set was intended to be much more comprehensive
than the Buzzola single disc "atomic" compilation. I understand that
not everyone has 195 bucks to buy Atomic Platters, but for anyone
interested in this genre, I feel safe in saying that it is as
definitive a release as there will ever be. Are there some titles
missing? Yes, but this set never would have been released if we had
waited to try and turn up every single atomic song.
As for why Randy Newman's song wasn't included: It was too recent. And
for the gent who speculated that the Commodores was out of sync with
the time frame, the group on this set is a different, earlier group.
Kindest Regards,
AP