1-CD Digipak with 80-page booklet , 32 tracks. Total playing time approx. 74 mns.

On one jam-packed disc you get 32 of the wildest, most radioactive Cold War tracks.
This collection also features several vintage public service announcements by Bomb-savvy stars Johnny Cash,Connie Francis and Groucho Marx!
This set has five bonus tracks not heard on the original 'Atomic Platters' box set!

Think of Bear Family's new 'Atomic Platters: Single Warhead Edition' as a musical Manhattan Project on a budget. On one jam-packed disc you get thirty-two of the wildest, most radioactive Cold War tracks ever recorded by artists like Wanda Jackson, Bill Haley and His Comets and The Louvin Brothers. From country and rockabilly to pop and blues and rock, it is all here. This collection also features several vintage public service announcements by Bomb-savvy stars Johnny Cash, Connie Francis and Groucho Marx! And to top things off like a mushroom cloud, this set has five bonus tracks not heard on the original 'Atomic Platters' box set! With exhaustive liner notes in a full color booklet by Cold War historian Bill Geerhart, this collection is your ultimate tac-tical warhead of atomic music!

Track Listing

• WBEN AM, Buffalo, NY - Rainin' In My Heart
• WBEN AM, Buffalo, NY - CONELRAD Radio Alert 'Real Thing'
• Peters, Peter Scott - Fallout Shelter*
• Slim Gaillard Quartette - Atomic Cocktail
• Simmons, Fay - You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb
• Buchanan Brothers, The - Atomic Power
• Hinton, Sam - Old Man Atom
• Five Stars, The - Atom Bomb Baby
• Stanley, Skip - Satellite Baby
• Jackson, Wanda - Fujiyama Mama
• Francis, Connie - Civil Defense Spot /Be Prepared Today, for Survival Tomorrow
• Allman, Sheldon - Radioactive Mama
• Haley, Bill and His Comets - Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)
• Chambers, Billy - Fallout Shelter
• Doll, Jackie and his Pickled Peppers - When They Drop The Atomic Bomb
• Blanchard, Lowell and the Valley Trio - Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb
• Cash, Johnny - Civil Defense Spot /Help Ourselves
• Karl & Harty - When The Atom Bomb Fell
• Russell, Sonny - Fifty Megatons
• Louvin Brothers, The - Great Atomic Power
• Anderson, Ray and the Homefolks - Sputniks And Mutniks
• Rogers, Al and his Rocky Mountain Boys - The Hydrogen Bomb
• King, Hank & Williams, Bud and his Smiling Buddies - Your Atom Bomb Heart
• Barber, Glenn - Atom Bomb
• Britt, Elton - Uranium Fever
• Lew Tobin’s Orchestra with vocal by Allen, Jerry - Uranium Lou*
• Kirby, Fred - When That Hell Bomb Falls
• Spoelstra, Mark - The Civil Defense Sign
• Gayle, Melvin - Khrushchev Twist*
• Farmer, Thelma and Hal McKinney Orchestra - Atomic Love*
• Dr Strangelove and the Fallouts - Love That Bomb (Suggested by Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove)
• Marx, Groucho - Civil Defense Spot

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: World

Run Time: 74 mins

Release Date: 06/27/14

UPC: 5397102173424