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

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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)