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.
Tune in this time to The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, for our show titled “The Songs Is You.” Hi-fi era songs about songs, music, and melodies. Lined up, selections from Frank Sinatra, Gloria Lynne, Tony Bennett, Anita O'Day, and many more.
This time, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it's our annual Hi-Fi Christmas program. Holiday classics and more from artists of the hi-fi era. We’ll hear from Bing Crosby, Nancy Wilson, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, and more.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we celebrate the music of one of the biggies when it comes to the Great American Songbook… Irving Berlin. We’ll hear Berlin classics from the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Tony Bennett, and more.
Coming up, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we’re enjoying some Evening Enchantment. Light sound that makes for the perfect soundtrack to your evening-time enjoyment. We’ll hear from Chet Baker, Julie London, Pete Jolly, and more.
Make sure to tune in this week to The Atomic Age Cocktail Party because we’re taking a trip to Far Away Place; a musical hi-fi journey to various points around the globe. We’ll hear from Abbe Lane, Lawrence Welk, Pérez Prado, Judy Garland and more.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we’re heating things up! It’s a program titled Some Like It Hot! Songs about fire and smoke and those things that literally raise the temperature! We’ll hear from King Curtis, Louis Prima, The Three Suns, Rod McKuen, and many more!
Make sure to tune in this week to The Atomic Age Cocktail Party because it’s our big, annual Hi-Fi Halloween program! Lots of cool and spooky tunes just right to put some swinging fun into your trick or treat activities. We’ll have werewolves that Watusi, Count Dracula go to Italy to cha cha, and we even meet up with a rocking zombie.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s another in our Great Arrangers series, this time spotlighting the big sounds of Billy May! We’ll be featuring his works with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Anita O’Day, Keely Smith, and even The Carpenters.
On The Atomic Age Cocktail Party this time, we’re making a splash! Songs about seas, oceans, rivers, and all sorts of various formations of H2O. We’ll hear from Les Baxter, Earl Grant, Sarah Vaughan, Bobby Darin, and many more!
This time, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it's Classical Lounge. It’s a look at how hi-fi artists approached the world of classical music. We’ll hear from Dick Hyman, Billy Mur, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Liberace, 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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