78’s – Atomic Power – Red Foley (Decca)

Atomic Power, written the morning after the bombing of Hiroshima by North Carolina country artist and radio personality Fred Kirby, is without a doubt the most popular of the country Bomb songs (the lyric referencing Nagasaki was presumably added the morning after that bombing). Kirby immediately began singing his new song on his radio shows including a program called ‘Hillbilly Star Time.’ According to Kirby, in a 1977 interview with country music scholar Charles K. Wolfe, a representative from Leeds Music Corporation traveled from New York to negotiate publishing rights for the song. Leeds then apparently showed the song to Bob Miller, who was the Buchanan Brothers’ manager. Miller offered Kirby a contract with RCA in New York, but Kirby turned him down and instead chose to work with Sonora, a much smaller company that contracted with him for eight sides and 00. Miller then had his act, The Buchanan Brothers, record the song around the same time that Kirby entered the recording studio to lay down his cut of Atomic Power.
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