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 Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s another one of our Atomic Sampler programs…a musical tasting menu, if you will, of all the great stuff you normally hear here on the program. We’ll have selections from Bob Thompson and his Orchestra, Bobby Darin, Dave Pell, Henry Mancini, and many more.
Coming up on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, the spotlight is on bossa nova great Antonio Carlos Jobim. We look at his vast catalog of standards and how artists of the hi-fi era approached his works. We’ll hear from Rosemary Clooney, Shorty Rogers, Blossom Dearie, and Jobim himself.
This week on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we’re bringing you Jungle Jazz! It’s an hour of swinging tropical sounds from both classic and modern exotica artists. We’ll hear from Martin Denny, Skip Heller's Voodoo 5, The Waitiki 7, and many more.
Coming up, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, “These Foolish Things.” It’s a show featuring song about being fooled or playing the fool. We’ll hear from Etta James, Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick, and many more.
This week on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, Record Shelf Roulette. We’re digging deep into the record library to pull out some fun cuts. Songs that don’t necessarily fit into a particular theme but are still fun to play. We’ll hear from The Ames Brothers, Corky Hale, Al Hirt, Eartha Kitt, and many more.
Coming up on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s Tijuana Brass & Beyond—a look at the sound Herb Alpert and company help popularize during the 1960s. We’ll hear from The Mariachi Brass, Baja Marimba Band, Peter Nero, plus a few tunes from Alpert himself.
Love is on the air this week on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party. It’s our special two-hour Valentine’s Day program filled with lots of music just perfect for your romantic evening. We’ll hear from Chet Baker, Julie London, Jackie Gleason, George Shearing, and so many more.
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!
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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