Folk Songs About Radiation, Radiation Sickness and Fallout

See also Hiroshima and World War III.

RADAR: Radiation-Related Music Page

Hot Frogs on the Loose by Fred Small
Various Artists\ Atomic Platters\ Bear Family (whole CD)

Pete Seeger\ Talking Atom
Bob Dylan\ A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Tom Neilson - radiation Train - Dancing Shoes - TomNeilsonMusic.com

Strontium 90 about radioactive fallout.  A search at folkways.si.edu  tells
me it's on
American History in Ballad and Song, Vol.2

"What Have They Done to the Rain?"

the only radioactive song that comes to mind is fred's small's  humorous
song about the leak at one of the oak ridge plants that caused frogs in  the
area to be radioactive. they discovered the leak due to workers cars setting  of
the detector when going throught the plant gate. the tires that had run over
the "hot" frogs were also hot.  "Hot Frogs on the Loose" is the name of  that
song.

Similarly: The Booming Ground on Michael Cooney's recent CD "Together  Again"

Cosy Sheridan has a song about a uranium mill poisoning the Colorado River
called, "Don't Go in the Water".

Don Lange: Cargo of Dread & Take the Children and Run

Bill Morrissey: something about tank-trunk-driver emptying his cargo --
might not be radioactive, but it's NOT healthy!

The Unearthy Fire on No Commercial Traffic by Rod MacDonald

There is always that classic "Pollution" by Tom Lehrer.... not  radiation,
but hey

The Plutonium Factor, Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl (Kilroy Was  Here)

there was a LP released a few years ago by Mark Levy, that included many songs on nuclear waste, food irradiation, Trident subs etc, It was titled Take Off Your Clothes, and included songs:

Have You Seen The White Train
Food Irradiation Rag
Babies are Replaceable

Marie-Lynn Hammond, has a great
anti-nuke song called "Radiation." Nancy White (for whom I do a Website)
has one, too, "Something in the Wind/No Thanks." My friend, Krisin Lems has
recorded "Chernobyl"

Tom Paxton: "All Clear In Harrisburg" (The Paxton Report); "What Have They
Done To The Rain?" (Bulletin)

Ray Korona: "Morro Bay" (It's Still The 60's); "Free Harbors" (Free Harbors)

Simon & Garfunkel: "The Sun Is Burning" (Wednesday Morning, 3AM)

Frankie Armstrong, Leon Rosselson, Martin Carthy, others: "No Cause For
Alarm" and various (Nuclear Power, No Thanks)

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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