2.
Peter Scott Peters
Fallout Shelter’
(P. S. Peters)
Lute L-6020
Of all the songs ever written about Cold War panic (or lack thereof), Peter Scott Peters’
amazing 45 single
Fallout Shelter
may well be the coolest. The two-minute, thirty-three second
opus begins with a driving jazz beat that leads the listener to a slightly menacing spoken word
refrain:
“I’m not scared, I’m prepared, I’ll be spared.”
The hepcat singer then brags about his
bachelor pad bomb shelter being fully equipped for the atomic duration:
I’ve got a fallout shelter, it’s nine by nine
A Hi-Fi set and a jug of wine
Let the missiles fly from nation to nation
It’s party time in my radiation station
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