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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Latest Episodes
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Halloween arrives early at the Underground Martini Bunker, with some ghoulishly groovy tunes by the Tiki Tones, the Moon-Rays, Frankie Stein and his Ghouls, Hans Conried, Sharkey Todd and the Monsters and Lon Chaney, Jr.! -
The sounds of Afro-Cuban exotica are on top for this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, featuring tunes by Modesto Duran, Xavier Cugat, the Bobby Montez Quintet and more. -
This week's Retro Cocktail Hour serves up some new music by the Waitiki 7, the Mambo Noir Trio and the Volcano Kings. Also, the passionate percussion of Candido and 80 Drums Around the World. Plus a cha cha cha about a sneeze! -
The Retro Cocktail Hour serves up space age pop by Juan Esquivel and the Three Suns, plus tunes by the Voodoo Organist, the Hollywood Jazz Stars and Ixtahuele. -
We'll hear Arthur Lyman's classic exotica album Taboo on this week's bonus episode of The Retro Cocktail Hour. Also, tunes by Jack "Bongo" Burger, the Midday Mai Tais Project, L'Exotighost and more! -
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This week's Retro Cocktail Hour features the persuasive percussion of Terry Snyder and the All-Stars, the Sergio Mendes Trio, the exotic sounds of Martin Denny and Stolen Idols, plus Mel Torme and the Mel-Tones! -
The Retro Cocktail Hour serves up some unreleased music by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, along with the "Steve and Eydie of jazz", Frank Sinatra's favorite drummer and the exotic sounds of Bob Romeo's Jungle Sextet and the jetsetter jazz of Nutty. -
This week's Retro Cocktail Hour features new sounds by the Waitiki 7 and the Tikiyaki Orchestra, plus the bongos, flutes and guitars of Los Admiradores and the Hollywood Film Noirchestra. -
On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, you'll hear Arthur Lyman's classic Leis of Jazz, plus Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen by Michael Giacchino, Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me" and the Mambo King meets rock'n'roll.
