KKKonservatives stifling art and artists since 1945! (Red Baiting)

[Hubert Flottz]

A song that never was, but should have been!

(Atomic Talking Blues/Talking Atom)

Country singer Ozzie Waters cut it for Decca's Coral subsidiary. Fred Hellerman, then contracted to Decca as a member of the Weavers waxed it for Jubilee under the pseudonym 'Bob Hill.'

Bing Crosby was reportedly ready to record Old Man Atom for Decca when right-wing organizations began attacking Columbia and RCA Victor for releasing a song that reflected a Communist ideology.

"Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, national director of the Joint Committee Against Communism, conceded last night that members of his committee, acting as individuals, had made known their feelings of opposition to the song to the recording companies," according to a New York Times report on September 1, 1950.

"Those who protested against the song's issuance on records insisted that it parroted the Communist line on peace and reflected the propaganda for the Stockholm 'peace petition.' Mr. Partlow said yesterday, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Los Angeles, that his song was 'not part of the Stockholm or any other so-called peace offensive.' He added, 'It was written five years ago long before any of these peace offensives.'" Buckling under pressure, both Columbia and RCA Victor withdrew Old Man Atom from distribution.

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/atom.html


OLD MAN ATOM
(Atomic Talking Blues/Talking Atom)
(Vern Partlow) (1945)
(real Player)

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/oldman02.rm

Mighty Purdy!!!!