So many memories from hearing this song. I lived in NE Iowa and listened to this song late at nite when the signal was best. Great station and song and the song lives on!
@jamesbamrick8067
5 ай бұрын
I still listen to Beaker Street and Clyde Clifford Friday nights on the Arkansas Rocks app.
@gilberttaylor8362
7 ай бұрын
I was in Catholic boarding school in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi in the early 70's. Used to stay up late and hide our music from the dorm monitors so we could listen to Beaker street when we could pick it up.
@DenisDeBauche
8 ай бұрын
I remember waiting for Beaker Street to come on my radio. Cindy's Crying was played at least once an evening.
@bruceallen6485
Жыл бұрын
Beaker Street was my psychological Home back then
@mikesemans5450
Жыл бұрын
67/68/69 kaay came into my little north mn. college town like a blowtorch while i roamed the green grass of bemidji with my transistor& a cheap bottle of wine- party to party-bonfire to bonfire-time has come today chambers brothers-jimi purple haze- we were free then!
@donaldbeck6392
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Little Rock Arkansas and in the late 60s I used to listen to Beaker Street every night from 11 to 2 am and I loved this song it was a great time to be a teenager
@frankfrankly1366
Жыл бұрын
Thanx man, I had Cindy's Crying on my mind but didnt know who sang it. Me and a friend drove from Chanute Ks to Little Rock one night because KAAY Beaker Street kept fading in and out.
@violahacket5014
Жыл бұрын
In High School in NW Iowa listening to a transistor radio into the wee hours.
@howardhazelwood4470
Жыл бұрын
I remember riding around in my Charger in the 60's and listening to Clyde Clifford and listening to KAAY the mighty 1090 Little Rock.
@LinDeeSixtiesRock_LSR-Channel
Жыл бұрын
From LindeeSixtiesRock from One of the Old School Behind the Mike of The Radio Broadcasting Community who was listening when Clyde Clifford left the Studio and the Station with Dead Air and his Albums under his arm.
@michaelhudson6533
Жыл бұрын
This program kept me sane as a teen in a small town in SW Iowa in the late 60s / early 70s. I am grateful.
@LinDeeSixtiesRock_LSR-Channel
2 жыл бұрын
See 2 versions @ LinDeeSixtiesRock Channel if you want to
@glennsimmons6377
2 жыл бұрын
Clyde was the overnight transmitter tech, and he broadcast from the transmitter. The weird sounds were used to cover up the noise the transmitter made.
@375GTB
2 жыл бұрын
KAAY 1090 Forever!
@passionateman69
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Friends and I would get together in 68-69 just to listen to it. The music influenced me a lot. So much so that several years later I worked my way into doing an air time shift at a progressive rock station in Minneapolis, playing some of the same songs which inspired me to pursue a position as a radio announcer. I am grateful to Clyde and KAAY for making it all happen.
@Stinger2222
2 жыл бұрын
Used to pick it up down on the Gulf Coast, we'd find a high spot on the right nights and put it on all our AM radio mono 6" x 9" speaker in car radio and listen to tunes and find new artist.
@dcranch4820
2 жыл бұрын
Wish i could find reruns of Beker Theater.
@kerryamacker1306
2 жыл бұрын
Could also hear it in baton rouge
@d.brionebey9711
2 жыл бұрын
What was the avant garde music clyde clifford had playing behind his announcements ???
@Cotacachi09
3 жыл бұрын
I've been looking for this song for a long, long time. Thanks so much.
@terrywest1843
3 жыл бұрын
OMG what memories of KAAY. Down here in Louisiana lying in bed with my transistor waiting for Beaker theater to come on.
@jermichaelphipps178
3 жыл бұрын
Cool Beans!
@howardhazelwood4470
3 жыл бұрын
i remember cruising in my 1959 ford to this song as a teenager. Remember, the Mighty 1090! KAAY Little Rock.
@sittinginthebasement
3 жыл бұрын
I lived in Oklahoma just 20 miles from the Arkansas border but was not able to pick up KAAY. Luckily we spent our summers in NW Iowa and it in clear as a bell on my aunt's big ol' honkin' Phillips console. It's no exaggeration that Beeker Street shaped my musical taste profoundly. It introduced me to John Prine and if that was the only thing it did, it would have been enough.
@iflybab
4 жыл бұрын
Then there was Aphrodite’s Child... only ever heard them on Beaker Street!
@gregschulz6734
4 жыл бұрын
BeakerStreet sounded so good in my 1955 Mercury am radio with the built in rear speaker, good ol day’s 😎
@garyjackson2295
4 жыл бұрын
WOW! I have been searching for this song for 50 years and it is everything I remembered it being when I first heard it in North Dakota on Beaker Street, KAAY Little Rock, and Clyde Clifford. This was transformational progressive rock at its absolute best and I spent time every night with KAAY and Bill Freeman on Fargo's KQWB - a local version of Clyde Clifford but with the same taste and outlook in music.
@jimgood4610
4 жыл бұрын
This song , legend of the Titanic and Dear Abby were 3 songs from Beaker Street that have always stuck with through years . Clyde played a lot of great music that you couldn't hear anywhere else on the radio. I listened to the show when I lived in Central Illinois.
@FredTheLutinoCocatiel
4 жыл бұрын
I hate being the 70th comment ruining that 69 I remember Beaker Street parked at the Gravel Pit with a bottle of Ripple and some Mary J or blue owlsley haha haha haha really Clyde Clifford was my best friend
@earthflow
5 жыл бұрын
1951 ford AM radio - 60 miles north of Kansas City late night.
@kevinp2820
4 жыл бұрын
1965 Chevy Impala(Mom and Dads)Car full of my friends driving country roads around Grand Island Nebraska. Memories!
@michaelrcrum4933
5 жыл бұрын
This was recorded by my aunt. Here's the link to her Bandcamp. barbararaney.bandcamp.com/album/cindys-crying-the-best-of-barbara-raney
@markpowers830
5 жыл бұрын
If anyone wonders what the spacy sound effects were in the background of beeker street.......it was the group head...the album was called cannibas sativa.it was used to mask the 60 cycle hum generated by the stations powerful am transmitter......😎
@maxx21147
5 жыл бұрын
Mark,... the "spacy sound effects" were used to hide the noise of the forced-air cooling system of the 50kw transmitter. Beaker Street was done from the transmitter site in Wrightsville, Ark.('bout 15 miles South of Little Rock) Steve Scott (KAAY 8-11pm, 1974-76)
@wwbeacon7701
5 жыл бұрын
Got the Beaker Street KAAY up on Garvin Heights in Winona, Minneosta. The music Clyde played was absolutely fantastic. Spent many evenings up there listening to the best underground music of the time. Outstanding DJ. (Then of course, before descending the heights, would wrap up the evening with Beaker Theater.)
@michaelw.farwick1769
5 жыл бұрын
Clyde was smooth before smooth was smooth.
@bradstephan7886
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Clyde, for the evening Beaker Street show during my HIGH school years in 1971-72 in Omaha!
@gbrandt1
5 жыл бұрын
Chokes me up listening to this, Beaker Street was a once in a lifetime gig that will never be heard again. A period in my life when things were so much simpler and less worrisome. Unbelievable how things have changed. Little Rock is a mess...gang violence, neighborhoods I used to once ride my bike in are held hostage to gangs....kids dont care anymore about true values.....diner around the table at 5, roaming the streets on Halloween night in Meadowcliff without fear...riding my bike to my neighborhood school in Meadowcliff, the Razorbacks score on football day and the whole neighborhood went out and honked their horns in their cars ! Where....where has time gone.
@howardhazelwood4470
5 жыл бұрын
used to lay in bed at night with my transistor radio held up to my ear so my parents wouldn't hear the music.
@michelgrimes5283
4 жыл бұрын
@@howardhazelwood4470 Me too!
@___---__
2 жыл бұрын
You really didn't listen to the lyrics, did you.
@frankfrankly1366
Жыл бұрын
Good times. Maybe .gov needs to activate the draft? Times were different when your number might come up. Seemed liked it joined us together. My sister and her girlfriend(both pretty hot) hitched hiked to KC to watch the Rolling Stones, couldn't do that now and live to tell about now. Well maybe but.
@markdillman7809
6 жыл бұрын
I started listening to “Beaker Street” with Clyde Clifford on KAAY radio in late 1968. For the next several years I would also listen to the progressive rock FM radio stations in Kansas City. They were KCJC (1967-1969), KBEY (1970-1973), KUDL-fm (1971-1976), and KLWN-fm from Lawrence, KS, after 6:00pm (1969-1976). I can tell you that “Beaker Street” compared very favorably to the FM radio stations I listened to. There were all very good, especially KBEY and “Beaker Street”. They were my favorites. Almost all progressive rock radio stations during this era were stereo FM stations, which offered superior sound quality and static-free reception. In addition to Clyde Clifford’s superb song selections and on-air personality, “Beaker Street” was unique because it was on a maximum power (meaning 50,000 watts, the maximum allowed by the Federal Communications Commission), clear channel (meaning it was the only radio station in the contiguous 48 United States using that frequency from sunset to sunrise as permitted by the Federal Communications Commission) AM radio station that allowed its signal to reach over a thousand miles from Little Rock, Arkansas, into thousands of cities, small towns, and rural areas where there were no other progressive rock format radio stations. For millions of listeners, Clyde Clifford on “Beaker Street” was the only place on radio where you could hear the new, exciting, and challenging style of rock music, one that required entire albums, not just three-minute singles. "Beaker Street” was part of a musical era where for almost a decade creativity dictated to commerce instead of the other way around. NEW INFORMATION June 2020: I have now learned that KAAY was not a clear channel AM radio station at night. Almost, but not quite. It seems there were THREE AM stations at night in the 48 United States using the 1090 frequency. The other two stations were in Seattle & Baltimore.
@randycox3521
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks mike...
@toolatl6364
6 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks SO much for posting this. I grew up in the 70's in Little Rock & listened to Beaker Street on KAAY in bed when my parents thought I was asleep. Back then, underground radio or other people's albums was the only way to hear prog rock. I remember this version of this song. It must've been from Beaker Street. Also, love the pic. Never knew what Clyde Clifford looked like. OK, 1 last thing. I knew it was 100,000 watts & clear channel, but still so cool to read about all these people hundreds of miles from LR who listened to the show. Thanks again. You made the old guy's day.
@p.thadeushornswoggler4987
6 жыл бұрын
Purchase it from the original artist here!!! :) barbararaney.bandcamp.com/
@markhoward8301
7 жыл бұрын
I was 16 God bless in my 66 Chevy 396 I thought it would last forever..Drop off my GFriend and listen way down in New Orleans..loved Beeker Street theatre the old time radio show immediately following Clyde Clifford ..If I DIDN'T know now what I didn't know then ..The GFriend died recently and I took a shot and found this .. Thanks a million for posting
@howardhazelwood4470
6 жыл бұрын
this is Clyde Clifford and the mighty 1090 radio station. I used to listen to it all the time in Iowa back in the 60's while cruising my 63 Catalina
@lynnlumley9689
6 жыл бұрын
Same here,my first car 63 Catalina bought it in 67 and put a reverb in the trunk! Up here in Hampton Ia.
@kentishmaid21
7 жыл бұрын
Love this version! According to the liner notes of my Tom Paxton CD (Outward Bound & Morning Again) he wrote the song and it is included as a previously unissued track on that CD.
@randyhodne6943
8 жыл бұрын
I can't begin to say how important Clyde Clifford & Beaker Street were to me in my youth.God Bless & R.I.P. Mr. Clifford
@C5GUY04
6 жыл бұрын
Clyde Clifford was the on the air name for the DJ that hosted Beaker St. on KAAY. His real name is Dale Seidenschwarz and he is still alive and living in Arkansas. You can hook up with him on Facebook.
@michaelw.farwick1769
5 жыл бұрын
thought I heard it all in Cleveland on WMMS. Beaker Street and Clyde Clifford was the real deal, fer sure
@djsoulie7520
4 жыл бұрын
Mr. Clifford is still alive and still broadcasting Beaker Street every Friday night 9-midnight on the Arkansas Rocks Radio Network Go to beakerstreetsetlists.com/blog-2/ and check out the recent set lists from the shows. There are also links to MP3's of the shows if you want to listen. You can also go to www.arkansasrocks.com and live stream the show every Friday. See you there.
@markdillman7809
4 жыл бұрын
He is not dead as of June 2020 and not likely to be soon.
@___---__
10 ай бұрын
Clyde's alive and well. You could R.I.P. this comment.
@garyrichard1385
8 жыл бұрын
I'm one of those fans that would lay in bed at night listening on my small transistor radio stuffed under my pillow in northern Minnesota. It was the first time I heard bands like King Crimson and Pink Floyd. Thanks for the memories Clyde.
@randyhodne6943
8 жыл бұрын
WoW You got Beaker Strert in northern Minnesota?? You were truly blessed!!! : )
@garyrichard1385
8 жыл бұрын
We picked it all across northern Minnesota on the skip. You're right I was blessed. I have many great memories listening to Clyde.
@WarroadWarrior1954
8 жыл бұрын
We listened in Detroit Lakes Minnesota (along with KOMA, Oklahoma City and WLS in Chicago.)
@garyrichard1385
8 жыл бұрын
+Lake Oswego Chiropractic Clinic I grew up in Silver Bay and then in Crookston. I got it in both locations.
@bruceholmen8873
7 жыл бұрын
I thought that was you Gary. I was listening to KAAY late one night and the DJ acknowledged someone from Beaver Bay who had called in.
@chrisreinert9981
8 жыл бұрын
Three songs I remember from my days living in Alabama and listening to Beaker Street: Cindy's Crying, Matty Goves by Fairport Convention and Jaime Brockett - Legend of the USS Titanic. The only artist I could not find to buy was Deepwater Reunion. I had both Brockett albums and all the original Fairport up to Sails of Silver.
@iflybab
4 жыл бұрын
Chris Reinert : I emailed Clyde Clifford many years back, asking about Cindy’s Crying. He said it was a Tom Paxton song & Deepwater Reunion were never commercial enough to make an album... or something along those lines. Like you, probably, I searched & searched online for them, never with any luck.
@michaelshultz2540
2 жыл бұрын
The first time i heard the legend of the uss titanic was on kaay and it was the first time i had heard and found out that kaay and bleaker street theater existed also it was the first place i heard firesign theater. I have a great fondness for those times and the true freedom of radio back then. When the dj's and the station ran the show for the listeners. Not a corporation dictating to the public with commercials from big pharma. All just a bunch of mind numbing crap now. With absolutely no real substabce. In those days we had hope and empathy. Now it just fear and anger. Nothing but rage aginst the machine ! Death to the war pigs , putin ,trump, kim dung un. And all the rest to numerous to mention.
@socorro01nm
Жыл бұрын
@@iflybab They made 2 albums on a small local label ( in Minneapolis I believe). I bought them both from the group at a club where they were performing in St.Paul. Unfortunately lost both in a move.
@bbobbob3790
8 жыл бұрын
Holy Crap. The only time I ever heard this song was on Beaker Street back in 71 and 72.
@MrTenball
8 жыл бұрын
Oh my God ! Clyde Clifford beaker street. Wow underground radio ! Best part of my life and tons of crazy memories.I use to sit on the corner sidewalk and tune in with my friends .
@OdeGrateful
8 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories of dreamy summer nights when you could pick up the KAAY signal way up here in northern Illinois. The scifi sound effects were outta sight and they played some of the heaviest rock and roll on AM radio.
@randyhodne6943
8 жыл бұрын
Always thought of the sound effects as a cosmic dripping faucet : )
@towerhillbilly
4 жыл бұрын
Clyde Clifford. Yep we listened from central Illinois
@davidschaibley3472
9 жыл бұрын
WOW, Ican not belife Ifound this ,late night transistre beaker street .I am 16 again.Thank you SOOmutch.Old heads never die they just turn to ashes.But the tunes remain.
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