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, Blame it on the Bossa Nova! In the 1960s, the Bossa Nova was all the rage and just about everyone wanted to get into the bossa action…which led to some really wonderful and some really interesting recordings. We’ll hear from Eydie Gorme, Paul Anka, The Hi-Lo's, and many more.
On this week’s Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we are bringing out the brass! Terrific Trombones is what we’re calling it. A look at some of the great trombone players and trombone records of the hi-fi era. We’ll hear from Warren Covington, Jack Teagarden, Si Zentner, and many more.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we’re enjoying Penthouse Pianos. Piano styling that are lush and cosmopolitan and filled with all the swank-ness you would expect from the Atomic Age. We’ll hear from Steve Allen, André Previn, Ferrante & Teicher, and many more.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s Magical Mambos! Another deep dive into the wild and wonderful mambo music that came out during the height of the mambo craze of the 1950s. We’ll hear from Cal Tjader, Joe Loco, Tito Rodríguez, and many more.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s Tiki Music. That catch-all term we now use that encompasses a wide swath of tropical-inspired styles that includes Exotica and Hawaiian music. We’ll hear from Webley Edwards, Robert Drasnin, The Tikiyaki Orchestra, and many more.
Coming up, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, You Gotta Have Heart! In honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s a show filled with songs all about the heart…hearts happily in love, hearts longing for love, hearts hoping not to be broken, and the like. We’ll hear from Vikki Carr, Chet Baker, Eartha Kitt, and many more.
This week, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, the spotlight is on famed composer Henry Mancini and all the great music he did for the movies and TV. In particular, we’ll be looking at how other hi-fi artists covered his tunes. We’ll visit selections from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky, the Pink Panther, and more!
This time, on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it’s Broadway à la Hi-Fi! It's another look at all the music from the Great White Way that found its way to stereos during the hi-fi era. We’ll hear from Kat Starr, Judy Holliday, Angela Lansbury, plus a spotlight on the big tunes from South Pacific.
We’re popping the cork, musically, this week on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party. It’s a program titled Cocktail Connection. Songs just right to sip champagne…or your cocktail of choice…to. We’ll hear from Petula Clark, Allan Sherman, Hugo Montenegro, and many more.
This week on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we wrap up the year by giving a Standing Ovation to those hi-fi artists who we said goodbye to in 2024. We’ll feature sets of music from Jack Jones, Sergio Mendes, Quincy Jones, and 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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