Recording location:
- Los Angeles, CA
Available on (*):
- 1950 78 rpm single (ABC-Eagle ABC 230)
- 1950 78 rpm single (Columbia 38929; reissue)
- 2001 CD set Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom 1950-1970 (Rhino R2 74264)
General type of music:
- talking blues
Topics (not including words that are part of the title):
- atomic bomb
interesting facts (click to see playlist of show on which fact was mentioned, if applicable):
- written in 1945
- performed by Sam starting in 1947 after seeing it in an issue of People's Song Bulletin
- withdrawn from the market in 1950 after government pressure suggesting the song was promoting communism
general information about Sam Hinton
Common misspellings:
- Sam Hintin
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