Think of Bear Family's 2014 ATOMIC PLATTERS: SINGLE WARHEAD EDITION as a musical Manhattan Project on a budget. On one jam packed disc you get 32 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 tactical warhead of atomic music!
1 Conelrad Radio Alert 'Real Thing' - Keine Knstlerinformation / Wben Am, Buffalo, NY
2 Fallout Shelter - Peters, Peter Scott
3 Atomic Cocktail - Gaillard, Slim Quartette
4 You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb - Simmons, Fay
5 Atomic Power - Buchanan Brothers, the
6 Old Man Atom - Hinton, Sam
7 Atom Bomb Baby - Five Stars, the
8 Satellite Baby - Stanley, Skip
9 Fujiyama Mama - Jackson, Wanda
10 Civil Defense Spot: Be Prepared Today, for Survival Tomorrow - Francis, Connie
11 Radioactive Mama - Allman, Sheldon
12 Thirteen Women (And Only One Man in Town) - Haley, Bill & His Comets
13 Fallout Shelter - Chambers, Billy
14 When They Drop the Atomic Bomb - Doll, Jackie & His Pickled Peppers
15 Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb - Blanchard, Lowell & the Valley Trio
16 Civil Defense Spot: Help Ourselves - Cash, Johnny
17 When the Atom Bomb Fell - Karl & Harty
18 Fifty Megatons - Russell, Sonny
19 Great Atomic Power - Louvin Brothers, the
20 Sputniks and Mutniks - Anderson, Ray & the Homefolks
21 The Hydrogen Bomb - Rogers, Al & His Rocky Mountain Boys
22 Your Atom Bomb Heart - King, Hank / Williams, Bud & His Smiling Buddies
23 Atom Bomb - Barber, Glenn
24 Uranium Fever - Britt, Elton
25 Uranium Lou - Lew Tobin's Orchestra / Allen, Jerry
26 When That Hell Bomb Falls - Kirby, Fred
27 The Civil Defense Sign - Spoelstra, Mark
28 Khrushchev Twist - Gayle, Melvin
29 Atom Bomb Baby - Dude Martin's Round / Up Gang
30 Atomic Love - Farmer, Thelma & McKinney, Hall Orchestra
31 Love That Bomb (Suggested By Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove) - Dr. Strangelove & the Fallouts
32 Civil Defense Spot - Marx, Groucho
Think of Bear Family's 2014 ATOMIC PLATTERS: SINGLE WARHEAD EDITION as a musical Manhattan Project on a budget. On one jam packed disc you get 32 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 tactical warhead of atomic music!
