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 obsession 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 Listing

Disc 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