About
Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford was the first underground music program broadcast regularly on a commercial AM radio station in the central US. With few interruptions, the program has continued to be broadcast in various formats throughout the past several decades. The program is currently broadcast live, with Clyde at the helm, on Friday evenings from the Arkansas Rocks Radio Network and streaming platform.
The Beaker Street Database project is a fan based attempt to archive past and present playlists from the Beaker Street Program. The goal is to make the playlists easily accessible and searchable. To that end, we have recorded all 200+ playlists from the current Arkansas Rocks era and are in the process of adding playlists from previous eras.
As most long time listeners are aware, the website that housed the older, FM era, playlists has been offline for many years. However, archived versions of the site are available via the 'Wayback Machine' (a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the 'Internet Archive', an American nonprofit organization).
To date, we have transcribed over 300 archived playlists from the 'Magic 105' and 'The Point 94.1' eras and are working to add more. Unfortunately, there are gaps in the archives and as a result, capturing all the older playlists may not be possible.
It should be noted that the work to transcribe older playlists was kick-started by a listener who volunteered to start the effort. This help is very much appreciated as are the notes of encouragement we have received along the way.
Notes- To add comments to playlists you must 1.) Create an account and 2.) Receive user authorization.
- To create a login account, click on the 'Sign in' link in the upper right corner and then select 'Sign up now'.
- To become an authorized user, send an email with your username to the contact email address listed below.
- To create and edit playlists you must have an account and be granted an admin role.