Definitive Cold War Music Anthology, Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From the Golden Age of Homeland Security, to Be Released August 6
Atomic Platters is the result of a years-in-the-making musical Manhattan Project that assembles over 100 songs, more than 2 dozens PSAs, 9 Civil Defense short films, and a 292-page hardcover book in a deluxe 5 CD / 1 DVD box set.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 2, 2005 -- CONELRAD (www.conelrad.com) the organization that has been recognized by international media and academia as being the authority on Atomic Popular Culture, is pleased to announce the imminent release of its biggest project yet: A co-production, with Bear Family Records (www.bear-family.de), of a comprehensive collection of vintage Cold War music that will be released / detonated on August 6th. The title of this 5 CD / 1 DVD box set is: Atomic Platters – Cold War Music From the Golden Age of Homeland Security.
Atomic Platters is the result of a years-in-the-making musical Manhattan Project that boasts the following radioactive features:
1. Four CDs packed to capacity with the finest in atomic music: Over 100 rock and roll, rockabilly, country, blues, gospel, jazz and novelty songs that celebrate, lament and lampoon the Bomb and the Red Menace!
2. Included on these four CDs are over two dozen vintage civil defense public service announcements on how to beat the A-bomb, many announced by such celebrities as Groucho Marx, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash, to name but a few!
3. A fifth CD devoted to two classic spoken word civil defense scare" LPs from 1961: "If the Bomb Falls" and "The Complacent Americans."
4. A DVD featuring nine civil defense and anti-Communist short subject motion pictures! (Note: The DVD will also be sold separately under its title: "Target You! Cold War Educational Films From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security").
5. A 292 page hardbound book bursting with bizarre Cold War images and scholarly liner notes by CONELRADs Bill Geerhart.
CONELRAD welcomes any press inquiries on this amazing product!
Contact Information:
www.atomicplatters.com
Bill Geerhart, co-producer of Atomic Platters
(213) 482-1497
bill.geerhart@conelrad.com
Ken Sitz, co-producer of Atomic Platters
(323) 528-7745
ken.sitz@conelrad.com
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