ATOMIC PLATTERS - Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security BCD 16065

VARIOUS ARTISTS BCD 16065 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 GENRE Historical Issues TRACKS 141 PLAYING TIME CDs: 367:08 / DVD: 152:00 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 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 ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 2m 56s Date Found: Fri, Jul 23 2010 6:04 AM Category: Music Date Produced: Fri, Jul 23 2010 4:51 AM View Count: 0