Hi, everybody...wonder if anyone remembers me? John Edward Diamond? My real name is Hal Moore...but John D. was the air name when I came to Beeker Street...right after Clyde Clifford left ...I was hired by Wayne Moss who was pd at KAAY back in '72... that's a buncha folks I havent heard from in years..Sonny Martin ...George J. Jennings...asshole Bob Spears...and whatever happened to our incredibly talented, beautiful and unbelieveably busty(42DDD) continuity girl Kay Risser?...good times folks.
My first time was also on KAAY, Little Rock, on Beeker Street with Clyde Clifford. Some nights we could pick it up real clear up here in Kansas. On those nights we gathered at a friend's house, burned herbage and let Clyde rock us away. I also got to know Jack Diamond when he worked at a radio station my brother-in-law managed--good guy.
CAPITOL LETTERS "FLASHBACK" just turned my 16 year son on to this and Friends of Mine; by The Guess Who. Have a difficult time remembering all the "GOODIES". Wait a Fuckin' minute "The Time Has Come Today" Chamber Brothers just crossed my mind.....
1st time I heard this song was on KAAY Little Rock AM around 1972. Immediately went out and bought the album, and many have tried to get it from me since. Tells a interesting twist to the legend. Wonder if Jack Johnson getting the last laugh actually occurred?
A question, does anyone have a tape of any shows of Beeker street? I loved the all the shows we ever listened to but the background music they played to over ride the noise of the transmiter was LOST IN SPACE for us teens in Clear Lake Iowa. We would shut the lights off in the car on star bright nites and just drive, for miles and miles with KAAY on the RA DID E O! I will take these memories with me to my grave as my best friend that did this with me is already there. KIRK we had more fun YEA!!!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL you folks that were lucky enough to have been able to spend a nite or two with CLYDE CLIFFORD JACK DIAMOND and all the great folks that worked at KAAY LITTLE ROCK AK. OOOHHH SHITZ I remember this so well. First it was BEAKER STREET and then BEAKER THEATER for you real late niters. It was our goal to drop off the dates, climin in the 63 Galaxie rollin up a fat one and headin down highway 18 in northern Iowa! East or west WOW
I have the lifesaver that was used on the cover of this album. However, I can't find a copy of the cover anywhere. If somebody could even post a picture of the album, I would greatly appreciate it.
Clyde & the mighty 1090 clear channel KAAY. Back in 1970 I started listening to Beaker Street and songs like this I had to sneak down stairs after the show came on and would call in requests for DOA, Rocky Raccoon, and Alice's restaurant. When KAAY was sold back around 1985 some of the old hands came back to do the final show. The cracked up the original RCA Transmitter which was vacuum tube technology, the tubes created a lot of heat so they had to run a huge cooling fan. It was because of the
I remember listening to KAAY and Clyde back in my teen years. I remember in college a friend of mine who had been into drugs in El Paso, told me that when Clyde played Cindy's Crying how it would freak them out. I loved that song and this one. Thanks for the memories.
Thas was "BLEEKER" Street. Jamie was my neighbor back in Nederland, Colorado in the mid-70's. He refused to play this song any more by then and was working with Dan Fogelberg among other people as a songwriter and musician. One great guy as well as musician.
I've got this album and I also heard it first on 'Beaker Street' on KAAY Radio in Little Rock. Growing up in a hick town in Missouri, this program was our connection to the outside world of cool music, from Captain Beefheart to Suggie Otis. I loved the trippy background music that was always playing. Ah, the good old days. Radio sucks these days.
@hoghed I just watched on the tube the mighty1090 channel, according to the the mighty1090 last Sunday was Clyde's last night. The channel said Joni Mitchell's Circle Game was the last song he played.
I grew up in central AR; I listened to KAAY all day & then when Beaker Street came on at 11pm- wow! This song ALWAYS made me laugh. Thanks for posting it!
durbinjoseph, I listened to KAAY am radio all the time when I was a kid back in the 70s good old Clyde Clifford. KAAY would boost it's transmitting power dramatically after 10 pm and the other stations would shut down. I was 800 miles away and it was like I was in the studio.........sort of
I had not heard this since I was in High School and we are talking the early 70's. KAAY Clyde Clifford, I lived in a little town in north central Illinois. You could only pick up the station late when all others were signed off. I know signed off, unheard of now.
The channel opened up the world to many of us in the Midwest. I could not remember the title and had been doing a Google search of Beaker Street.
The World was a better place, no IPODS, Laptops, OK cell phones are an improvement.
I actually HEARD this song in it's entirety on an FM Radio program in 1971 or '72 down in 'HollyWood, Florida'...and bought the album that week. My oldest brother ended up with it, along with much of my Cooler-Stuffz....thanks for 'Posting' it for 'Old High-Times Sake"...
@scotb54 I first heard it on WREK (Georgia Tech) in about '72 or '72; about twelve years later my girlfriend told me that back in '72 she brought the album back from a trip to Chicago and her first husband (then WREK's program director) put it on the air.
And i realised that her first husband had been the guy who had turned me down for possible air shifts on WREK in '72 ... five years before i met her.
I grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba (early 70s) listening to that Little Rock, AK radio station late at night - long before the era of internet streaming. It was a bit tricky in those daze - I had an wire antennae that ran round my entire room to catch the atmospheric bounce of radio waves generated more than 1000 miles away. I remember this fantastic song (I actually tracked down the original album) and DJs who always had psychedelic effects during the breaks between music. Good times!!!!
Those pussies at WFMT refused to play this song on the Midnight Special during a Titanic evening in 1998 although they played it in the 1970s because, they said, it was in poor taste.
Does anyone remember when they broadcast a sceance on Halloween of '72 to contact the ghost of the transmitter tower? That was a trip that was. Nothing much happened as I recall but the background music was fun. Moog Synthesizer I think.
@csamplesred I also remember it on KAAY 1090 am , but it was played on the show Beaker Street , with host Clyde Clifford . Beaker Theater was on after Beaker Street and played old radio shows , mostly scary stuff . Many a smokey night spent listening to both shows .
I remember when I first heard this song. I lived in the metropolitan area of St. Louis, home of the famous KSHE! I was twelve years old and "I dug it!" lol. I have the LP and I cherish it. Also that "Talking Green Beret New Super Yellow" song is gr8! Ah, for the good old days when ya could wear a T-shirt with a Marijuana emblem, and the teacher's didn't even know what it was! Good 'ol Mexican stuff free of debris and cross breeding!
cape girardeau,mo the semo station played this one day i thought it was the jody brocklin band (does not exist) was amazed to run across this & i ain't makin' rope no mo' fo' sho' !!
when this song came out you could get 20 years for a roach in the south ..a brave song for the time..now they want to jail you if you cant afford healt inshurence...2 steps forward ...3 steps back......think..jay dee
@jaydee123xyz Yeah, Jamie's got to be speedin' his ass off to pick up and slow down the way he does! SHIT BABY I A'INT GONNA MAKE ROPE NOMORE! i have this song memorized!
And actually by 1913, the Wright Brothers HAD flown already. More nits to pick.
sheepscotbordercolli 2 months ago
It was the RMS Titanic and it was 1912, but I am nitpicking.
sheepscotbordercolli 2 months ago
Hi, everybody...wonder if anyone remembers me? John Edward Diamond? My real name is Hal Moore...but John D. was the air name when I came to Beeker Street...right after Clyde Clifford left ...I was hired by Wayne Moss who was pd at KAAY back in '72... that's a buncha folks I havent heard from in years..Sonny Martin ...George J. Jennings...asshole Bob Spears...and whatever happened to our incredibly talented, beautiful and unbelieveably busty(42DDD) continuity girl Kay Risser?...good times folks.
pendragon558 5 months ago
My first time was also on KAAY, Little Rock, on Beeker Street with Clyde Clifford. Some nights we could pick it up real clear up here in Kansas. On those nights we gathered at a friend's house, burned herbage and let Clyde rock us away. I also got to know Jack Diamond when he worked at a radio station my brother-in-law managed--good guy.
LAMBKILLER 6 months ago
CAPITOL LETTERS "FLASHBACK" just turned my 16 year son on to this and Friends of Mine; by The Guess Who. Have a difficult time remembering all the "GOODIES". Wait a Fuckin' minute "The Time Has Come Today" Chamber Brothers just crossed my mind.....
skateRAT78 7 months ago
1st time I heard this song was on KAAY Little Rock AM around 1972. Immediately went out and bought the album, and many have tried to get it from me since. Tells a interesting twist to the legend. Wonder if Jack Johnson getting the last laugh actually occurred?
OcontoStash 7 months ago
A question, does anyone have a tape of any shows of Beeker street? I loved the all the shows we ever listened to but the background music they played to over ride the noise of the transmiter was LOST IN SPACE for us teens in Clear Lake Iowa. We would shut the lights off in the car on star bright nites and just drive, for miles and miles with KAAY on the RA DID E O! I will take these memories with me to my grave as my best friend that did this with me is already there. KIRK we had more fun YEA!!!
cobaltme 8 months ago
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL you folks that were lucky enough to have been able to spend a nite or two with CLYDE CLIFFORD JACK DIAMOND and all the great folks that worked at KAAY LITTLE ROCK AK. OOOHHH SHITZ I remember this so well. First it was BEAKER STREET and then BEAKER THEATER for you real late niters. It was our goal to drop off the dates, climin in the 63 Galaxie rollin up a fat one and headin down highway 18 in northern Iowa! East or west WOW
cobaltme 8 months ago
WOW. I haven't heard this in 40 years! Thanks for posting this!
sevpr 9 months ago
I have the lifesaver that was used on the cover of this album. However, I can't find a copy of the cover anywhere. If somebody could even post a picture of the album, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks --Chuck
kuffed2u 9 months ago
Clyde & the mighty 1090 clear channel KAAY. Back in 1970 I started listening to Beaker Street and songs like this I had to sneak down stairs after the show came on and would call in requests for DOA, Rocky Raccoon, and Alice's restaurant. When KAAY was sold back around 1985 some of the old hands came back to do the final show. The cracked up the original RCA Transmitter which was vacuum tube technology, the tubes created a lot of heat so they had to run a huge cooling fan. It was because of the
USMCFROC29 9 months ago
I remember listening to KAAY and Clyde back in my teen years. I remember in college a friend of mine who had been into drugs in El Paso, told me that when Clyde played Cindy's Crying how it would freak them out. I loved that song and this one. Thanks for the memories.
SargeKPHx 9 months ago
i had this on 8 track!!
maccaro 9 months ago
Kitty Hawk is a reference to the first airplane filght of the Wright Brothers...
WDockery 10 months ago
No, that's how it sounds
I had this album when I was in like 8th grade
SPeteDave 1 year ago
sounds speeded up
Raymantico 1 year ago
@Raymantico LOL no....he's always sounded that way, manic and frantic
probinson1337 2 months ago
@probinson1337 oh yeah saw him a few times myself back in the 60s in shows of course including this song
Raymantico 2 months ago
....Kitty Hawk.
Who's she?
MrJimbroski23 1 year ago
Thanks for the song - read more Jaime Brockett stuff here mufc dot dk slash jaime - cheers Barry
mufcdk 1 year ago
White Bird, Legend of the Uss Titanic, Alice's Restaurant: Clyde Clifford. Couldn't go to sleep at night until I heard them all on Beaker Street.
wayupwaydown 1 year ago
@wayupwaydown AMEN & AMEN
12Daniel7 1 year ago
I heard this on KAAY in Dallas Center, Iowa.
wendell38 1 year ago
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Amazing. My name is Jack Johnson!
JackJ1957 1 year ago
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welshsam14 1 year ago
God gave us Clyde Clifford........... Thank You for saving me!
blackhawkshaman 1 year ago
i love this song..im 29 and this is one of my all time favorites!!
OMGZxxitsxxAnnie 1 year ago
Saw him break a sting on his 12 sting and restrung in the middle of this song at the Main Point and was ..
thelawsuitbook 1 year ago
Thas was "BLEEKER" Street. Jamie was my neighbor back in Nederland, Colorado in the mid-70's. He refused to play this song any more by then and was working with Dan Fogelberg among other people as a songwriter and musician. One great guy as well as musician.
bobbybluz1 1 year ago
I've got this album and I also heard it first on 'Beaker Street' on KAAY Radio in Little Rock. Growing up in a hick town in Missouri, this program was our connection to the outside world of cool music, from Captain Beefheart to Suggie Otis. I loved the trippy background music that was always playing. Ah, the good old days. Radio sucks these days.
lewisrs1 1 year ago
@lewisrs1 you can still tune in to Ol' Clyde...
Every Sunday night 7PM Central time.
maybe it won't let me give the link here...look for kkpt website, link from there
hoghed 1 year ago
@hoghed I just watched on the tube the mighty1090 channel, according to the the mighty1090 last Sunday was Clyde's last night. The channel said Joni Mitchell's Circle Game was the last song he played.
12Daniel7 1 year ago
"497 1/2 feet of rope... I just carry it"
I grew up in central AR; I listened to KAAY all day & then when Beaker Street came on at 11pm- wow! This song ALWAYS made me laugh. Thanks for posting it!
DulcineaLady 1 year ago
durbinjoseph, I listened to KAAY am radio all the time when I was a kid back in the 70s good old Clyde Clifford. KAAY would boost it's transmitting power dramatically after 10 pm and the other stations would shut down. I was 800 miles away and it was like I was in the studio.........sort of
johnmanyjars69 1 year ago
I had not heard this since I was in High School and we are talking the early 70's. KAAY Clyde Clifford, I lived in a little town in north central Illinois. You could only pick up the station late when all others were signed off. I know signed off, unheard of now.
The channel opened up the world to many of us in the Midwest. I could not remember the title and had been doing a Google search of Beaker Street.
The World was a better place, no IPODS, Laptops, OK cell phones are an improvement.
durbinjoseph 1 year ago
@durbinjoseph My dad used to live in a place called Quincy Illinois and he tells all about that kind of thig.
SasukeUcha77 1 year ago
Ya gotta let it out, Captain! tyvm for posting this! I have the album, but no stylus! I also like "Talking Yellow Green Berets...." 2 funny!
remfanbeforu 1 year ago
all time fav...saw him play in nh and mass........love it and STILL have the album
zoec1969 1 year ago
This song will never grow old!!!!!
Oh, maybe I will, hmmmmm
But I will never be too old to listen to this! Thanks for posting.
moles2000 1 year ago
I actually HEARD this song in it's entirety on an FM Radio program in 1971 or '72 down in 'HollyWood, Florida'...and bought the album that week. My oldest brother ended up with it, along with much of my Cooler-Stuffz....thanks for 'Posting' it for 'Old High-Times Sake"...
scotb54 1 year ago
@scotb54 I first heard it on WREK (Georgia Tech) in about '72 or '72; about twelve years later my girlfriend told me that back in '72 she brought the album back from a trip to Chicago and her first husband (then WREK's program director) put it on the air.
And i realised that her first husband had been the guy who had turned me down for possible air shifts on WREK in '72 ... five years before i met her.
fairportfan2 1 year ago
@fairportfan2 That's a crazy story man.
SasukeUcha77 1 year ago
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scotb54 1 year ago
I grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba (early 70s) listening to that Little Rock, AK radio station late at night - long before the era of internet streaming. It was a bit tricky in those daze - I had an wire antennae that ran round my entire room to catch the atmospheric bounce of radio waves generated more than 1000 miles away. I remember this fantastic song (I actually tracked down the original album) and DJs who always had psychedelic effects during the breaks between music. Good times!!!!
deBare99 1 year ago
Those pussies at WFMT refused to play this song on the Midnight Special during a Titanic evening in 1998 although they played it in the 1970s because, they said, it was in poor taste.
spinoza1111 1 year ago
@spinoza1111 WREK (Georgia Tech) stopped playing it after they got complaints from B'nai B'rith...
fairportfan2 1 year ago
Does anyone remember when they broadcast a sceance on Halloween of '72 to contact the ghost of the transmitter tower? That was a trip that was. Nothing much happened as I recall but the background music was fun. Moog Synthesizer I think.
botzees 1 year ago
listen to this song in the 70s on kaay 1400 am little rock ark
beaker theatre
clear air syation you could only get after midnite and got the new music ahead of everyone in la crosse radar
csamplesred 1 year ago
@csamplesred I also remember it on KAAY 1090 am , but it was played on the show Beaker Street , with host Clyde Clifford . Beaker Theater was on after Beaker Street and played old radio shows , mostly scary stuff . Many a smokey night spent listening to both shows .
rickhenderson13 1 year ago
I remember when I first heard this song. I lived in the metropolitan area of St. Louis, home of the famous KSHE! I was twelve years old and "I dug it!" lol. I have the LP and I cherish it. Also that "Talking Green Beret New Super Yellow" song is gr8! Ah, for the good old days when ya could wear a T-shirt with a Marijuana emblem, and the teacher's didn't even know what it was! Good 'ol Mexican stuff free of debris and cross breeding!
remfanbeforu 1 year ago
cape girardeau,mo the semo station played this one day i thought it was the jody brocklin band (does not exist) was amazed to run across this & i ain't makin' rope no mo' fo' sho' !!
jnytho 1 year ago
when this song came out you could get 20 years for a roach in the south ..a brave song for the time..now they want to jail you if you cant afford healt inshurence...2 steps forward ...3 steps back......think..jay dee
jaydee123xyz 1 year ago
@jaydee123xyz Yeah, Jamie's got to be speedin' his ass off to pick up and slow down the way he does! SHIT BABY I A'INT GONNA MAKE ROPE NOMORE! i have this song memorized!
remfanbeforu 1 year ago
Actually an anti-drug message, isn't it?
erscott13 1 year ago
Jamie Brockett played one night in my college's union building. No one had ever heard of him at the time.
We were smokin' "rope" for about two hours in the dorm before going to see him.
I bought this LP outside in the lobby after being blown away by him.
BritIronRebel 1 year ago
KAAY-AM 1090 Little Rock's Beeker St. Theater, 1969<
The radio station that turned on rural, small town Amerika.
J.C.
375GTB 2 years ago 2
thanks ... havent heard this in suuuch long time...
jpmk55 2 years ago
Lmao ...I thought this was lost to the days of old. Thanks for posting...
mistyb2008 2 years ago
I also heard this for the first time on WMSE & couldn't belive it...TOO COOOOOL!!!
phhenning 2 years ago
Just heard this for the first time on WMSE in Milwaukee...WOW...Thank you so much
plowbox 2 years ago
Five stars. My sister used to play this for me back in the '70s in Chicago.
erscott13 2 years ago
can you post the rest of it? I havn't heard this since the 60s--
danyl55 2 years ago