Cuban Cab Driver

Who knows how this fits on a Tulsa TV Memory book but here it is:

Name: Dave
Location: Road mapping to Beaker Street
Comments: Most of this site's readers who are old enough remember "Beaker Street," the late night progressive rock/underground music show that was on KAAY 1090 AM in Little Rock in the late 60s-early 70s with all the eerie beeping and whistles in the background. Its 50,000 watts boomed all over North America. One story has it that a Little Rock guy once visited Havana in that era and when a Cuban cab driver found out where his passenger was from he said, "Little Rock! KAAY! Beaker Street!"

Clyde Clifford was the host of Beaker Street, which left the KAAY airwaves long ago. But Clifford (who in real life is a fellow named Dale Seidenschwarz) now does the show once each week on Sunday nights on a Little Rock FM station, with all the old albums back in play.

There's a web site commemorating all this at BeakerStreet.com. It includes MP3 files of the past couple of years of shows from the FM station and three or four files from some 1970-71 shows on KAAY. But they're all at least 10 MB, so if you're on a modem be prepared to tie up a phone line for awhile. (I haven't; if you do, let us know how the programs sound!)