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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We'll celebrate the arrival of the New Year with songs by Frank Sinatra, Julie London, Dean Martin, Nancy Wilson and more, plus tunes from the Barry Gemso Experience, Ennio Morricone and Tiki Joe's Ocean. -
It's Christmastime at the Underground Martini Bunker! This round of the Retro Cocktail Hour includes songs for the season by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Les Baxter, Chaise Lounge, Tiki Joe's Ocean and many more. -
Learn the Latin twist on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, plus hear music by the Left Arm of Buddha, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra, Claus Ogerman's Watusi Trumpets, Les Baxter and more. -
Music by the Waitiki 7, Machito and his Afro Cubans, Bing Crosby, Ixtahuele and Martin Denny is featured in this episode of The Retro Cocktail Hour. -
This week's Retro Cocktail Hour includes the passionate percussion of Pierre du Jardin and the Stereosonic Orchestra, plus the new exotic sounds of the Martini Kings, Don Telling's Island Mysteries and Robert Drasnin. -
This week's Retro Cocktail Hour features music by Henry Mancini, the George Shearing Quintet, Duke Ellington, L'Exotighost, Creepxotica, Ennio Morricone and more. -
This episode of the Retro Cocktail Hour features tunes by the Hollywood Film Noirchestra, Bo Axelzon and his Exotic Orchestra, the Jazz City Workshop and Xavier Cugat. -
This week's Retro Cocktail Hour includes tunes by Ixtahuele, the Stolen Idols, Ferrante and Teicher, Jack "Mr. Bongo" Costanzo and more! -
The exotic sounds of Rex Kona and the Mandarins, Don Tiare's Orchestra Exotique, Creepxotica and more are featured in this episode of the Retro Cocktail Hour. -
The annual Halloween edition of the Retro Cocktail Hour includes monster pop, film and TV themes and trailers for all your favorite cheesy horror movies!
