Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security
Our Samsonite hostess (LIFE 2/8/1954) is happy to help you with your selection from the CONELRAD Audio Archives

BERT THE TURTLE [1951]
Excerpts from the Federal Civil Defense Administration's radio transcription ("children's dramatic program") based on DUCK AND COVER. For more on the program see the complete production history of DUCK AND COVER.
[4 TRACKS - RealAudio/Windows Media]

THE CONELRAD CAFE [2005]
CONELRAD's podcast service is now available for downloading or playing in streaming MP3 audio. Host Bill Geerhart shares archival gems from the Golden Age of Homeland Security.

THE COMPLACENT AMERICANS [1961]
A kind of Cold War "It's a Wonderful Life," THE COMPLACENT AMERICANS is one of the "crown jewels" of Atomic Platters.
[23 TRACKS - RealAudio]

FALLOUT SHELTER [1962]
At long last, the story of Billy Chamber's 'lost classic' of teenage nuclear angst.
[1 TRACK - RealAudio]

THE GOLDWATERS SING FOLK SONGS TO BUG THE LIBERALS [1964]
Novelty album released during the height of the ill-fated and divisive campaign of Barry Goldwater.
[17 TRACKS - RealAudio]

IF THE BOMB FALLS [1961]
Sensational instructional LP for stocking and living in a fallout shelter.
[10 TRACKS - RealAudio]

IN TIME OF EMERGENCY [1968]
A civil defense reminder for a distraced country.
[16 TRACKS - RealAudio]

INSIDE A COMMUNIST CELL [1961]
Anti-communist revelations of ex-counterspy Karl Prussian including a re-enactment of actual cell meeting!
[29 TRACKS - RealAudio]

INVASION USA [1952]
Amazing audio excerpts from the cold war film classic of love and atomic warfare. [ INVASION USA: A Tour De Force of Atomic Filmmaking ]
[14 TRACKS - RealAudio]

JANET GREENE SINGS [1966]
The 'Anti-Baez' sweetly sings of "Commie Lies" and the "Fascist Threat."
[8 TRACKS - RealAudio]

JFK ENDORSES CONELRAD [1961]
Excerpt from a national operational test of the CONELRAD emergency broadcasting system during the 1961 Operation Alert civil defense exercise.
[1 TRACK - RealAudio]

THE MARXIST MINSTRELS [1968]
David Noebel on "The Communist Subversion of Folk Music."
[4 TRACKS - RealAudio]

THE MIGHTY U.S. ARMED FORCES [1967]
A three LP set of "audio pornography" including nuclear explosions, psychological warfare, and war (small, medium, and large).
[6 TRACKS - RealAudio]

NORAD TRACKS SANTA [1964]
The Air Defense Command novelty classic. The tradition continues to this day.
[5 TRACKS - RealAudio]

NUCLEAR FAMILIES [2002]
Exhibition audio program created by CONELRAD for the 2002 "NUCLEAR FAMILIES: The Home Fallout Shelter Movement in California 1950-1969" show curated by Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell at the University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara.
[15 TRACKS - RealAudio]

ONE-MINUTE SPOTS [1959]
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization radio spots with host Dennis James
[10 TRACKS - RealAudio]

OPERATION ALERT BUFFALO [1953]
A CONELRAD Alert radio transcription from WBEN's Ward Fenton. [1 TRACK - RealAudio/Windows Media]

OSWALD, SELF PORTRAIT IN RED [1964]
Exploitation masterpiece featuring Lee Harvey Oswald's radio debate on New Orleans radio. We've boiled it down to one essential excerpt.
[1 TRACK - RealAudio]

PANIC IN YEAR ZERO [1962]
An excerpt from the Ray Milland atomic "lost weekend" asks "Not even CONELRAD?" [ PANIC IN YEAR ZERO ]
[1 TRACK - RealVideo]

PRODUCTION SERIES '68 [1968]
The cover of this LP screams "mod," but the content and presentation is anything but.
[11 TRACKS - RealAudio]

SWINGING '70's EBS JINGLE [Circa 1975]
Marvel at the irresistibly upbeat arrangement of the "this has been a test of the emergency broadcast system..." radio spot created for Syracuse NY's WHEN. It'll leave you speechless and tapping your toes.
[1 TRACK - RealAudio/Windows Media]

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN TYRANTLAND [1959]
Mutated television at its finest. Audio excerpts from a very special episode of "Father Knows Best" produced in cooperation with the Department of Treasury to sell US Savings Bonds and defeat communism.
[15 TRACKS - RealAudio]



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