Dale Seidenschwarz, aka Clyde Clifford, is the host of
Beaker Street
''Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford'' was the first underground music program broadcast regularly on a commercial AM radio station in the central US. The station's signal carried far and wide. In early 1967 Beaker Street was a staple for adherents ...
, a weekly
freeform rock
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radio program.
Beaker Street, which first aired on
clear channel KAAY
KAAY (1090 AM) is a commercial radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas, owned by Cumulus Media. It airs a Christian radio format of instruction and preaching, with most of the schedule made up of brokered programming featuring local and national ...
AM 1090 in Little Rock, AR, from 1966 through 1972, was the first
underground music
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program broadcast regularly on a commercial AM radio station. The show attracted fans from across the
western hemisphere
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with its pioneering format, which featured long album cuts from artists who otherwise would not get airplay. Clyde was one of the pioneers of the
album-oriented rock
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format which became popular on
FM radio
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in the 1970s.
The
stage name
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Clyde Clifford came from an inside joke at KAAY. The on-air personalities took their stage names from the board of directors of LIN broadcasting, the owners of KAAY. Clyde W. Clifford was the comptroller general of LIN.
Awards and recognition
Dale Seidenschwarz (aka Clyde Clifford) was inducted into the Missouri Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
References
External links
The Official Beaker Street Web SiteKAAY: The Mighty 1090 Gave Arkansas to North AmericaMagic 105 FMKAAY Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & CultureMissouri Music Hall of Fame Press ReleaseArkansas Rocks {{DEFAULTSORT:Clifford, Clyde
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American radio DJs