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  • From: Luling, LA.
  • Registered: 2007-06-23
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Topic: Who remembers KAAY 1090 AM Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford?

I have been browsing through the forum the last few days but hadn't posted anything and suddenly my mind went back to my teenage years before FM radio was big. I can remember listening to Beaker Street, the first truly underground radio station out of Little Rock Arkansas when I was a teenager; and that's been a while back. I decided to Google it and found out that it is still on the air with the original DJ Clyde Clifford but now it's on FM and the Internet too. I think I learned more about the type of music that I love today from that show. Up until I heard it I was still listening to Motown, Bubble Gum, and the British Invasion on AM radio. I'm not putting down any of the music I grew up with because it is still relevant to what we have today and a lot of it was the beginning of progressive blues and rock. That was what we had to listen too back then and come to think of it most of the cars didn't even have an FM radio in them when I graduated from High School in 1970. We did have 8 track tapes, and cassettes were just starting to get popular for cars. Remember reverb units guys? We thought we were really high tech back then but we were just getting started. The technology of today is so far removed from what we had back then it amazes me to think back to those times. You should check out Beaker Street if you remember it and if you weren't born until after the original show was over in 1972 check it out anyway.

Paul Bertrand

  • From: Luling, LA.
  • Registered: 2007-06-23
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Re: Who remembers KAAY 1090 AM Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford?

No one ever listened to BEAKER STREET when they were teenagers? Oh well, it doesn't really matter I was just living in the past again.

Paul

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Re: Who remembers KAAY 1090 AM Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford?

Hey Paul, Class of '67 here, only in MD. The station I listened to growing up came out of Buffalo New York..I think it WKBW ..They would advertize for drag races every Saturday at Niagra, It always sounded sooo exciting (lol)..Back in thoses days it really was all singles and from all genres..Did you get an equalizer for your car when they came out?  8-tracks! I still have some..Ry Cooder "Wing and a Prayer" with a big click in the middle of the song..I think we're both happy with progress!...Cathy

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Re: Who remembers KAAY 1090 AM Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford?

Beaker Street was our station of choice through high school - we could actually recieve
it's signal way up here in Wisconsin.  Good memories of Good music.  Jaci

Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind.  Mick Jagger
  • From: Luling, LA.
  • Registered: 2007-06-23
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Re: Who remembers KAAY 1090 AM Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford?

Jaci and Bluesman,

I wasn't sure if anyone else picked up Beaker Street at night because you're so much farther away than I was to Little Rock.  I did read that Clyde Clifford used to get mail from the guys in Viet Nam who could sometimes pick it up also. I listened to him Sunday night on the Internet this time and he played some good music that I hadn't heard in a while, and some that I had never heard. I emailed him to play some Bonamassa and he did around 11:00 pm. I didn't think that he would play any Joe since I didn't request it until about an hour before his show was on. I will have to email him and thank him from the Street Team. If you get a chance, listen to him sometime on Sunday nights. I know I'm old too, but I just don't care because there are still plenty of good times to be had by all.

Cathy,

Yes I did have an equalizer/(reverb), all it really was; was a fader with about a 30 micro- second delay. I still have some 8 track tapes too but they don't work and I don't have a tape deck anymore. We're much better off without those anyway.

Paul

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Re: Who remembers KAAY 1090 AM Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford?

Hey Paul,
You know, I remember listening to that station as well. We could pick it up quite well here in southern Minnesota at night. I was born in '59 so I was probably 11 or 12 when I first discovered it, about the time I was really becoming interested in music. The details are quite foggy at this time, however. It would be interesting to see some of the  play lists from back then.

  • Registered: 2007-12-03
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Re: Who remembers KAAY 1090 AM Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford?

I am interested in anyone who would be willing to write about their memories of "Beaker Street."  Currently, I am writing a dissertation about this radio program, and need any information to be found about both KAAY and Beaker Street.  I'm both a graduate student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and an assistant professor of communications at the University of Tennessee at Martin.  Please let me hear from you.  I would deeply appreciate it.