Friday nights at 9 & 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.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we’re in for some Heavy Petting. It’s a show spotlighting songs about animals. Tunes featuring cats, dogs, horses, birds, and all sorts of other creatures covered with fur and feathers. We’ll hear from Patti Page, Linda Lawson, Louis Jordan, Cy Coleman, and more!
On Atomic Age Cocktail Party this time, we’re giving you an Atomic Sampler. A swinging mix of all the great stuff you can normally find on this program week after week including Crime Jazz, Bossa Nova, hi-fi hijinks, and more! We’ll hear from Vic Damone, Skip Martin, Eartha Kitt, Enoch Light, and more!
On this week's Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we take another look at some of the great Ladies of Lounge. There’ll be lots of familiar voice plus many hidden gems who might not have had huge careers, but what they did do was just wonderful. We’ll hear from Doris Day, Billie Holiday, Yma Sumac, Sandy Warner, and more.
This week, The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, puts the spotlight on Burt Bacharach. We’ll look at his early music as well as his chart toppers of the 1960s. We discuss his collaborations with Hal David and we’ll feature a special set of Dionne Warwick singing some of those classic Bacharach hits.
This time Atomic Age Cocktail Party, the forecast calls for a Change in the Weather! It's a look at songs about the wind and rain as well as sunny skies and warm temperatures. We have music from from Lou Rawls, Johnnie Ray, Carmen McRae, The Stan Getz Quartet, and more.
On The Atomic Age Cocktail Party this week, we’re taking you away to a Polynesian Paradise. It’s another musical journey to the tropical hi-fi genre known as Exotica. We’ll hear from Gene Rains, Eden Ahbez, Don Tiki, The Out-Islanders, and more.
This time, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we take a visit to The Big City. Songs about the hustle and bustle of busy streets, skylines filled with tall buildings, and living the metropolitan life. We hear from Nancy Wilson, Mel Tormé, Tony Bennett, Elmer Bernstein, and more.
This time, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we enjoy a little sleepy time. It’s a program featuring music about sleep and dreams and those worlds we inhabit when we close our eyes at night. We’ll hear from Art Farmer with the Quincy Jones Orchestra, Anita O'Day, The Three Suns, Frank Sinatra, and more.
On this edition of The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it's a show filled with lots of ooohs and ahhhhh and even a few zu zu zu’s. We take a look at the wordless vocal style that was all the rage during the hi-fi era. We’ll hear from The Anita Kerr Quartet, The Voices of Walter Schumann, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Neal Hefti, and more.
This time, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s More! More! More! Mambo! Another deep dive into the mambo craze of the 1950s and early 1960s. We’ll feature tunes from The Woody Herman Big Band, Tito Puente, Pérez Prado, Belmonte and His Afro Latin Seven, and 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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