Titanic' and Deep Water Reunion covering the Tom Paxton ballad, 'Cindy's Crying.' Ten Years After Id Love To Change The World, 8. But there is hope for the future. Gordon Lightfoot Don Quixote (studio)/ Im Not Sayin/ Ribbon Of Darkness (Live- Sunday Concert), 4. Example, DNLA media players display files by Album and Title names and only by file names if the album name field is blank. It was on Beaker Street where I discovered artists like Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Albert King, Phil Ochs, East of Eden, Tom Rush, Grateful Dead, and Herbie Mann among many others, including Jaime Brockett singing about The Legend of the U.S.S. It was fifty years ago, but seems like a blink of an eye. See: https://arktimes.com/entertainment/2020/01/07/beaker-street-is-back?fbclid=IwAR21qsZZbUYizlzu41A-4DJv5DEdQRek-MyBhfkNPJP2eifSmhGNEOu8KAw. Rank. Every Sunday night, listeners would tune in to hear host Jim Sims spin records and chat with guests ranging from politicians to activists to musicians. I wish I could send you some photos of what displays. 3. The program then landed at The Point, which has a tight playlist of classic rock hits. Now, most of the writing Im able to accomplish is in the form of brief reviews for new CD releases. The memory of his senseless death impacts me all over again. Documenting the set lists of legendary radio program "Beaker Street", 7th show of theArkansas Rocks Radio NetworkEra, Check out:Arkansas Record and CD Exchange and Rock City Outfitters, Click here to listen to the MP3 recording of this show (Thanks Kenneth Hawkins for sharing), Click here to listen to Kenneth Hawkins Google Drive recording of this show, 2. It opened up their eyes and ears to new sounds and perspectives, and ultimately helped shape their musical taste. Beaker Street came to an end in 1977, but its legacy lives on. Placebo "Running Up That Hill" 4. Miller High Life and Pabst Blue Ribbon are perhaps the only originals still around. By that time, FM had taken hold, and I was now listening to underground radio on Radio Free Madison, WIBA-FM from Madison, Wisconsin. Flowers was a musician and record store owner, while Coulter was a music journalist. What a gas! The water works were built to provide water to the growing city of Little Rock. Titanic and Deep Water Reunion covering the Tom Paxton ballad, Cindys Crying. And what a pleasure it was to hear full versions of songs by familiar artists versions not constrained by the three- or four-minute time limit so common on commercial radio then. They wont be the hits. This aint no oldies program. Host: Clyde Clifford Incidental Music: Head Cannabis Sativa Check out:Arkansas Record and CD ExchangeRock City Outfitters (Beaker Street Merch)Soft Shirts.comHippy Hounds Hemp Dog TreatsandStated Apparel 8 p.m. to 9, CLYDE ON-DEMAND: Listen to Kenneth Hawkins recording of this show by clicking on the link below: Google Drive 118th Beaker Street of the Arkansas Rocks Era. Celebrate. Thanks to Brian Rock for sharing. Remember. Mountain would be the main attraction. The Moody Blues, Mason Profit, Yes, Tyrannosaurus Rex, John Prine, Emerson-Lake & Palmer, Cream, Frank Zappa & Mothers of Invention, Janice Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, James Gang, Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell are just a small handful of the acts first introduced to me by Clyde Clifford. Update: If you were not aware, Arkansasrocks.com has answered the call to bring Beaker Street & Clyde Clifford into the fold. Join me for a truly Progressive Thanksgiving dinner! The other could be described generally as the social impact of technology. When I first discovered the station around that time, I was still in high school. Godley & Creme "Art School Canteen" 2. Beaker Street is in the middle of a Friday night lineup that includes Wood's Beatles-theme show Magical Mystery Tour at 8 p.m. and Mark "Uncle Marcus" Wallace, who spins an entire classic rock. (LogOut/ Talk. Many young people were looking for a place to belong and Beaker Street became a haven for them. In the 1970s, Beaker Street in Little Rock, Arkansas was a vibrant and thriving community. Still, I missed the uniqueBeaker Street format. The Muppets on YouTubeWelcome to the Official YouTube channel for The Muppets! Spirit Fresh Garbage/ Uncle Jack/ Mechanical World, 5. Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Live), 2. You can listen to my radio show,Life Out of Tunes with Joey Books every Monday afternoon from 2 p.m until 4 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Central) on 103.3 Asheville FM, and stream it live at: http://www.ashevillefm.org. Neither were The Corporation and Flow from the 1970 playlist. It included a whopping 15 more tracks . A band named Tayles, from Madison, Wisconsin, and Mylon, a southern gospel-rock group were the opening acts. He was a merely a comedian at that time and didnt run for a senate seat until ten years later. Twisting the radio knob as I pulled out of the parking lot, searching for my new favorite station, I heard the unmistakable strains of Sugar Loafs Green-Eyed Lady. Thats the one! Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Clifford left Beaker Street andKAAY in 1974. Im bringing some classic prog music from the late 60s to mid 70s, including King Crimson, Moody Blues, Touch, Renaissance and Pink Floyd among others. During the telethon I offered to shave off my mustache while on camera for a specific donation. To my great disappointment, Poco abruptly left the stage as loud booing and buckets of rain began to pour forth. Required fields are marked *. That would work if I wasnt so easily distracted by a tune playing in my head, or on the radio, or on the stereo. My wife saw comedian George Carlin arrested by Milwaukee police for performing his Seven Words You Can Never Say on Televisionroutine. Blood, Sweat & Tears Blues- Part II> Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie, 3. It helped to launch the careers of several Arkansas-based musicians, including Rodney Crowell, Albert King, and Fayetteville native Ronnie Hawkins. Of course, it was also their spring fund drive and they asked if I might be interested in contributing, either fiscally or physically, to their efforts. The show featured both well-known acts and up-and-coming talent. I yanked out the rightmost pushbutton, then shoved it back in, engaging the preset. A legendary Little Rock radio show returns to the airwaves Friday. Using powers of deduction and communication, the players work as a team to eliminate dead leads and find clues to prove . I feel honored to have been asked to substitute for host JD, the Professor of Prog while he takes a well-earned holiday break. And we are very fortunate for it. Hope you enjoyed reading the stories behind each song on this weeks playlist! Ill share a few memories and personal observations on the music that helped shape my life, so you can expect a wide variety of songs and an occasional story or two. Documenting the set lists of legendary radio program "Beaker Street", Listen to Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford every Friday night from 8 p.m. to Midnight Central Time on the Arkansas Rocks Radio Network or online at http://arkansasrocks.com/, CLYDE ON-DEMAND: Listen to Kenneth Hawkins recording of this show by clicking on the link below: Google Drive 119th Beaker Street of the Arkansas Rocks Era. Als book was titled Why Not Me? The show was created by and named after its original host, John Gage, who took the name "Beaker" from the Muppets character. Beaker Street debuted in late 1966 on Little Rock station KAAY. Subscribe for some of your favorite and best film and television clips from The Muppets, as well as music covers and brand new comedy sketches.Check out exclusive Muppet parodies, Muppet music videos, Muppet song covers, comedy sketches, and more! We arrived instead near the end of Tayles set. Early on, it had been promoted as a Surprise Rock Spectacular. The acts were revealed just two weeks before the show. Beaker Street 6-19-20. Im pleased to announce my new weekly radio show, Life Out of Tunes on Asheville FM (WSFM-LP 103.3). Even when Beaker Street was on the air, radio was still never as rogue and deep-diving as your playlists were. David Crosby passes on Wed Jan 18, 2023. In a year since starting there as a DJ, Ive written and posted about thirty or so reviews. In this series, well talk to some of the people who were involved with the show, and well explore what made it so special. A team of the Kingdom's finest detectives has been assembled and put on the case. So it was sweet when, in the mid-90s, I learned that Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford had returned to the airwaves. KAAY, an AM station broadcasting all the way into southern Wisconsin from Little Rock, Arkansas, came in loud and clear. Procol Harum A Salty Dog (Live In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra), 8. At the center of this scene was Beaker Street, a weekly radio program that featured blues, rock, and folk music. A day on not a day off., Life Out of Tunes radio, hosted by Joey Books Recently, again thanks to the Internet Archive, I located a number of Beaker Street playlists from the years 1996 to 2000, which were published on the programs web site at the time. Now, Im working on a DJ. Discover Popular Podcasts. Log in to view your feed. Here you can listen to the first hour of a program originally broadcast on June 26, 1970: Most albums from which the tracks were selected are 1970 releases. And though its no longer just a buck fifty for general admission, Summerfest remains one of the best bargains for live music around, still hosting hundreds of musical acts on eleven different stages, over eleven consecutive days. It was a place where people could be themselves without judgement or fear of retribution. If youre wondering into what category his book fell, it was humor. Some folks experience personal catharsis from writing. For three hours, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm (Eastern) on Thanksgiving Day Ill be serving up some of the best in classic Prog music for the main course, garnished with a healthful helping of contemporary selections. Instead, Ive tried to re-create some of those playlists on Spotify, to provide an aural sense of what music Clyde put together for his five-hour programs. Beaker Street began sometime in 1967, the brainchild of disc jockey Clyde Clifford, whose real name, Dale Seidenschwarz, was kept secret per KAAY station policy. None of the music on that release resembles the Beaker Street background even remotely. No, I havent framed any music reviews. One of the most popular attractions at Beaker Street was the Psychedelic Graveyard, where attendees could take photos with life-sized cardboard cutouts of famous dead musicians. 27. Titanic and Deep Water Reunion covering the Tom Paxton ballad, Cindys Crying. And what a pleasure it was to hear full versions of songs by familiar artists versions not constrained by the three- or four-minute time limit so common on commercial radio then. The Beaker Street Database project is a fan based attempt to archive past and present playlists from the Beaker Street Program. In the 1970s, Beaker Street was a radio show that aired on KAHT FM in Little Rock, Arkansas. It could brighten your day. Incidental Music: Head "Cannabis Sativa" Check out: Arkansas Record and CD Exchange and Rock City Outfitters Click here to listen to the MP3 recording of this show (Thanks Kenneth Hawkins for sharing). If any bottles were thrown toward the stage during Mountains set, the high decibel sound waves mightve stopped them in flight. The biggest stars continue to perform at Summerfest in whats now a 25,000-seat amphitheater at one end of the festival grounds for which tickets are sold at much higher prices than Summerfests nominal gate cost. The goal is to make the playlists easily accessible and searchable. It will feature a freeform selection of music with connections to this blog, Life Out of Tunes. The show's original announcer, Clyde Clifford, moved to FM in 1974 [1] as the rise in popularity of FM radio began to impact the operations of many AM stations. Clifford left Beaker Street andKAAY in 1974. Within Temptation Mother Earth (Live at Leidse Kade), 5. Brian Auger & Oblivion Express Marais Wedding, 5. Fifty thousand music fans were gathering at the Lakefront Amphitheater stage when my date and I arrived late Sunday afternoon. Streaming Now on Disney+ Sign Up at https://disneyplus.com/Enjoy Beaker's sentimental side with this special cover of Kansas's \"Dust In the Wind.\" Subscribe for all new videos from The Muppets! And one of these days, I hope to be doing the tickling. Change). Name Tracks (Don't Fear) The Reaper: 1 (I Know) I'm Losing You: 3 (I'm A) Road Runner: 1 (Love Me Like Music) I'll Be Your Song: 1 (Nothing But) Flowers Host: Clyde Clifford Incidental Music: Head Cannabis Sativa Check out:Arkansas Record and CD ExchangeRock City Outfitters (Beaker Street Merch)Soft Shirts.comHippy Hounds Hemp Dog TreatsandStated Apparel 8 p.m. to 9. Our focus this time is GROWTH. Manfred Manns Earth Band In The Beginning, Darkness, 10. In fact, the tracks from Abraxas Pool and Gypsy in the example above werent available on Spotify. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Unlike today, festival beer was served up in glass bottles. In 1982 I was associate director of the Janesville (WI) Public Library. You can listen to my radio show,Life Out of Tunes with Joey Books every Monday afternoon from 2 p.m until 4 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Central) on 103.3 Asheville FM, and stream it live at: http://www.ashevillefm.org. After a steady diet of top forty hits and fast-talking DJs, I was mesmerized by the mellow voice of Clifford and the loosely structured format of acid rock, folk rock, blues, jazz, and what later came to be known as progressive rock. Thanks to the Internet Archive digital library, portions of some original Beaker Street programs have been preserved. Vanilla Fudge Stra (Illusions of My Childhood Part 1> You Keep Me Hangin On>Illusions of My Childhood Part 2), 7. Though memories of these things sometimes fade, I located newspaper clippings published at that time to corroborate my recollection.