“That was my claim to fame,” Clifford said. While most of the disc jockeys hosted their shifts from the station’s studio in Little Rock, Clifford did his from the tower site in Wrightsville. It was amazing the response we got and it expanded very quickly,” Clifford explained.Īt that time the 50,000 watt AM signal could be heard at night in much of the U.S., as well as other countries. It started out as about 30 minutes and was kind of a nod to all of the long-haired, weird music that was coming in from the west coast, and it just took off like a house of fire. “I started doing Beaker Street in late 1966 at KAAY. and music was becoming more experimental.Ĭlyde Clifford on the air at KAAY in the 1960s. The show was created by Clifford, whose real name is Dale Seidenschwarz, at a time when the culture was changing in the U.S. “I was given notification several weeks ago that February 6th will be the last show, so we’ve been preparing for that.”
“Beaker Street apparently is going away from The Point,” Clifford said.
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AUDIO: Hear the full interview with Clyde Clifford as he was hosting Beaker Street on January 16, 2011. But while doing his show Sunday, Clifford acknowledged the end is coming, at least at the show’s current home. Listeners of Beaker Street still hear records fade out, strange background sounds come up and then the mellow voice of Clyde Clifford. Things haven’t changed much over the decades. It’s being canceled by its current broadcast home, KKPT-FM, The Point 94.1.
(January 18, 2011) - The radio program Beaker Street, which debuted 45 years ago playing progressive rock on Little Rock powerhouse KAAY-AM 1090 and had regular listeners around the country, could be coming to an end. Clyde Clifford, whose real name is Dale Seidenschwarz, in the control room of 94.1 The Point during his program Sunday, Jan.
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