Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from The Golden Age of Homeland Security

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Atomic Platters:Cold War Music from The Golden Age of Homeland Security
Import CD

I have no interest in the sales of this CD - just wondering if anyone here at DU has heard any of it.

Nostalgia: Warm Memories of the Cold War

Call it the cool war. In Russia, satellite channels Retro TV and Nostalgia now fill the airwaves with classic programming from the cold war—early morning exercises led by Communist trainers and news broadcasts from the ' 60s, for instance. Meanwhile, classic cold war songs like "Made in the U.S.S.R." are reappearing in the charts. "We are remembering our youth," says Irina Zenkova, Nostalgia's general director.

Russians aren't the only ones taking to the old school. Americans can now buy a new CD box setcalled "Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From the Golden Age of Homeland Security," which contains more than 100 songs and public-service announcements from the first half of the cold war. The tracks range from upbeat novelties ("Atomic Cocktail" by the Slim Gaillard Quartette) to acid satires (Sheldon Allman's "Crawl Out Through the Fallout"). An accompanying DVD (there's a coffee-table book, too; it all adds up to $195) has nine government-sponsored films. Most American viewers will recognize Bert the Turtle from 1951's "Duck and Cover," the film strip that told a generation of kids that their desks would protect them from nuclear blasts. What it didn't tell them, of course, was that someday they'd find the material sold as campy entertainment.

—Nick Summers and Kevin O'flynn

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