The Best Music From the 1920s to 1950s! From Swing to Oldies! With Real Retro-Vintage Commercials!
Megaton Cafe Radio is playing original vinyl recordings from Pre to Post Atomic Age. The very best 1920s to 1950s original artists, songs, PSAs and Old Time Commercials unedited, as the way they were originally recorded back then to re-create this amazing Retro-Vintage style!
11/28/2023
MEGATON WEBSITE & HOLIDAYS EVENT!
Greetings everyone!
We worked very hard and Megaton Cafe Radio now has a brand new website! Our new website is now perfect for all browsers, tablets and phones and we still have the same web-address as before: https://www.megatoncaferadio.com
We hope you'll enjoy it!
It is also this time of the year when we all want to
remember the very old classics from the Holidays!
Megaton Cafe Radio is now playing the very best Holidays songs from the 1920s to the 1960s featuring all your favorite original artists recorded on 78rpm shellacs to vinyl records!
The event will last until December 26th midnight EST.
Please keep in mind, as usual, we are not a 100% Holidays station so the songs will play from time to time only in between all the classics you already love!
Thank you all being such faithful listeners!
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It all started with a collection of World War II “V-discs” owned by my grandfather. Back then, the label was a morale-boosting initiative involving the production of recordings by arrangement between the U.S. government and record companies. Many popular singers, big bands, and orchestras recorded V-discs. The name referred to both the label and the discs, which were 12-inch vinyl 78rpms produced from October 1943 to May 1949.
My dad played those V-disc records a lot when i was younger, all the big bands, the blues, crooners and sirens and R&Bs always playing in the background as far as i can recall. I grew up with the music from that era, without truly knowing what it was, but enjoying it a lot.
One day on TV, was playing an old movie from the 1980s called: The Day After. The film was about a war that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The action itself focuses on the residents of Lawrence Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several farmers family living near nuclear missile silos. It was the 1st time ever we could see the devastating power of a nuclear war on TV. I was terrified by the movie but also became fascinated by what my dad called: The Atomic Age.
I then started to study everything about that era in books my dad had at home, the public service announcements from the radio (PSAs), the nuclear shelters, the effects of fallout and radiations and of course the music playing at that time and the songs related to the era as well. My love for all the music playing during WWII up to the end of the 1950s was so great that i asked my dad for a record player who could play 78s, 45s and 33rpm vinyls.
Over the years, we started a big collection of vinyl records of all kinds, but mostly searching for the rarest of them all, the very old original 78s shellac recordings from RCA Victor, Brunswick, Decca, Columbia label and such. Later, i also became a big fan of the series of games called Fallout which was also mixing a great deal of old music into a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a nuclear war. It became my favorite game series of all time to this day.
The idea behind creating Megaton Cafe Radio was to re-create the era surrounding the Atomic Age as you could hear it back then on the radio. With new technology, servers and turntables being able to play all the old records we had, it was made possible on August 2015. We’ve decided to include the amazing music from the 1920s to the end of the 1950s, with a transfer of the old records we had into a playable format for the radio station without remastering the songs or altering them in any ways, simply playing them the way they were recorded. We also added all the old time radio commercials you could hear back in the days, the real PSAs, Conelrad radio tests and such, still adding more as time goes by.
I personally hope that you truly enjoy the station as we do and all the great music from that fascinating era. To all our listeners: Thank you being faithful fans of Megaton Cafe Radio!
