Friday nights at 8 And Saturday nights at 10 & 11 (bonus episode) on Illinois Classical, FM 90.9.
The show, simply put, is a celebration of the golden age of the hi-fi and beyond! It's American popular music from the 1950s and 1960s with a few modern numbers thrown in for good measure.
This week on the The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s Live from Las Vegas! A selection of live recordings from Sin City from some of the biggest names of the hi-fi era. We’ll hear from Bobby Darin, Jack Jones, Ray Anthony, and of course members of the Rat Pack.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we’re enjoying Cozy Cocktails. The perfect soundtrack for your comfy cozy cocktail hour. Tunes for the hi-fi to help warm up even the coolest pad. We’ll hear from Gordon Macrae, Frank Sinatra, June Christy, and many others!
Coming up, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s Cheerful Cha-Chas. We take a look at some of the wild and wonderful cha-cha records that came out during the height of the cha-cha craze. We’ll hear from Abbe Lane, Della Reese, Tito Puente, and many others!
This week on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we dig Mancini! And hour featuring of artists of the hi-fi era putting their spin on classic tunes from Henry Mancini. We’ll hear from Si Zentner, Plas Johnson, Quincy Jones, and many others!
On this edition of The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we feature the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, the pair behind such classic songs as My Funny Valentine, Isn't It Romantic, and Blue Moon. We’ll hear from Bobby Short, Vic Damone, Carmen McRae, and many more!
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we celebrate the season with our annual Hi-Fi Christmas program—a collection of some of the swingingest holiday music of all time! We’ll hear from The Three Suns, Patti Page, Mel Tormé, and many more!
Coming up on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we look at Capitol Records, one of the most important record labels of the hi-fi era. We trace its early history and spotlight some of the label’s biggest artists. We’ll hear from Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole¸ Judy Garland, and Capitol Records co-found Johnny Mercer.
On the next The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we look at the career of Oscar-award winning songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen. The man, who among other things, added to The Rat Pack's musical swagger. We’ll hear from members of the Rat Pack, of course, but also Blossom Dearie, Nancy Wilson, and many more.
On this episode of The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we’re all about Playful Percussions. Another look at those great ping-ponging stereophonic percussion records that came out in the late 1950s and early 1960s. We’ll hear from Enoch Light & The Light Brigade, The Frank Barber Percussion Ensemble, Terry Snyder, and many more.
This week on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s a whole lot of musical treats with our annual Halloween special! Lots of great music for you cool ghouls including classics and not-so-classics from Robert Drasnin, Milton DeLugg and His Orchestra, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, and many more.
Jason Croft has been collecting, enjoying, and programming lounge, easy-listening, and other music of the Atomic Age for over two decades. Now he is sharing this genre with you every Saturday and Sunday night with the Atomic Age Cocktail Party on WILL-FM. When he’s not knee-deep in his record collection, he’s the Technical Director for The 21st, local host for Here and Now, and one of the voices of AM580 on the weekends.
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