Clyde Clifford

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Dale Seidenschwarz, aka Clyde Clifford, is the host of Beaker Street, a weekly freeform rock radio program.

Beaker Street, which first aired on clear channel KAAY AM 1090 in Little Rock, AR, from 1966 through 1972, was the first underground music program broadcast regularly on a commercial AM radio station. The show attracted fans from across the western hemisphere 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 format which became popular on FM radio in the 1970s.^[1]

The stage name 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.

Dale Seidenschwarz (aka Clyde Clifford) was inducted into the Missouri Music Hall of Fame in 2014.

• The Official Beaker Street Web Site
• KAAY: The Mighty 1090 Gave Arkansas to North America
• Magic 105 FM
• Excerpt of PhD dissertation on Beaker Street
• KAAY Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
• Missouri Music Hall of Fame Press Release
• Missouri Music Hall of Fame welcomes nine
• Arkansas Rocks