Friday nights at 8 & Saturday nights at 11 on WILL-FM
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.
Coming up on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we do a deep dive into RCA Victor’s Stereo Action series…known for their tagline “The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow!” It was also the pinnacle of stereo demonstration records. We’ll hear from Ray Martin, Vic Schoen and His Orchestra, Dick Schory's Percussion and Brass Ensemble, and many more.
We’re going back to basics with this special LIVE edition of the radio show. It’s Lounge 101! We’re featuring folks like Henry Mancini, Les Baxter, and Combustible Edison. Not only will we have great music for you, but some very cool news as well.
Be here this week for The Atomic Age Cocktail Party as we go back to basics. It’s Lounge 101…a primer for all that great music from the hi-fi era. We’ll hear from Henry Mancini, Les Baxter, Combustible Edison, and many more.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s Zounds! What Sounds! Recordings from the hi-fi era that have more than a little bit of sonic strangeness added in. We’ll hear from The Mystic Moods Orchestra, Dean Elliott, Steve Allen, and many more.
Tune in this week to The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, because we are celebrating all things Rat Pack. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and the pinnacle of mid-century, Las Vegas cool. We’ll be featuring swinging live recordings from these three—solo and together—as well as a few other surprises.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s music for when the sun goes down. It’s a program titled After Hours--tunes that focus on the cool stillness of late-night as well as songs about the night. We’ll hear from Don Ho, Bud Shank, Lou Rawls, Henry Mancini, and many more.
Coming up, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s the music of Tin Pan Alley and a look at how hi-fi artists approached and often made new again these standards from the early part of the 20th century. We’ll hear from The Mills Brothers, Louis Prima, Dave Pell, Eartha Kitt, and more.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s A Man and a Woman. Hi-fi songs about men and songs about women. We’ll hear from Blossom Dearie, Sarah Vaughan, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, and many more.
On this episode of The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s time to Meet the Beatles…Again! Another look at how hi-fi artists approached the music of the mop-top lads from Liverpool. We’ll hear from The Four Freshman, Enoch Light, The Sammy Kaye Orchestra, Bing Crosby, and many more.
On this edition of The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, a show filled with tons of Shimmering Strings! It’s a look at music from the hi-fi era that featured lots of lush string orchestrations. We’ll hear from 101 Strings, the Living Strings, The Clebanoff Strings, The Hollyridge Strings, 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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