Retro Cocktail Hour
Weekends at 7pm
Kansas Public Radio's Retro Cocktail Hour is our weekly nod to the Space Age Pop revival. Here you'll find vintage recordings from the dawn of the Hi-Fi Era - imaginative, light-hearted (and sometimes light-headed) pop stylings designed to underscore everything from the backyard barbecue to the high-tech bachelor pad. Darrell Brogdon serves up two hours of incredibly strange music on Kansas Public Radio, so grab a cocktail shaker and join us for the Retro Cocktail Hour.
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This week's Retro Cocktail Hour features some percussion in hi-fi, plus the exotic sounds of Jack "Mr. Bongo" Costanzo, Ixtahuele and L'Exotighost. Also, a Mexican dance band plays James Brown's I Got You (I Feel Good) and Yma Sumac has music for headhunters. -
On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, Darrell Brogdon chats with Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder, authors of Designed for Success: Better Living and Self Improvement with Midcentury Instructional Records. Also, there's music by the Hawaiian Spotlighters, the Fabulous Pink Flamingos, Cal Tjader, Nelson Riddle and more. -
On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, you'll hear the exotic sounds of The Surfmen, Skip Heller's Voodoo 5, The Tikiyaki Orchestra and Martin Denny. Also, the Brazen Brass goes Latin and Les Baxter visits Bombay. -
Hear the sounds of late night Havana with the Perez Prado Orchestra on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour. Also, music by Bo Axelzon and his Exotic Orchestra, The Waitiki 7 and Henry Mancini. -
This week's Retro Cocktail Hour features Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists, Tiki Paradise, the Waitiki 7 and bongo virtuoso Willie Rodriguez. Also, the Summit Six Sextet plays music from TV's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. -
This week's Retro Cocktail Hour includes tunes by Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet, Sammy Davis, Jr., the Rio Carnival Orchestra and Skip Heller's Voodoo 5. -
On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, we'll preview new releases by Ixtahuele and Mr. Moai & the Tikiheads. Also, the twist goes Latin, Johnny Aloha sings Katy Perry plus tunes by the Hollywood Film Noirchestra, Henry Mancini and the Mary Kaye Trio. -
It's a jungle out there on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, with the exotic sounds of Ixtahuele, Creepxotica, Cal Tjader and the Orchestra Exotique. Also TV Action Jazz with Mundell Lowe and his All Stars, plus music from TV's Daktari. -
This week on The Retro Cocktail Hour, we'll hear Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds, Mr. Bongo live at the Garden of Allah in Hollywood and the Watusi Trumpets of Claus Ogerman. Also, the new exotic sounds of Mark Riddle and Exotik-a-Go-Go. -
We have bongo players galore on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, including Chaino, Chocolaté and Jack "Bongo" Burger! Also, you'll hear the exotic sounds of Augie Colon, 101 Strings, Creepxotica and, all the way from Spain, L'Exotighost.
