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)
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