Way back in the 60's, this song and radio show started my long descent into insanity. AM radio, an RCA "stereo " sound unit.
Cut my teeth, so to speak, on top 40 radio from the Dakotas and Minnesota in the ’60s and early ’70s , but, on moonlit nights in my teens, Saturday nights especially, we’d pull in these incredibly high-powered AM stations, like WLS from Chicago, KOMA from Oklahoma City, and a show called “Beaker Street” from KAAY in Little Rock, Arkansas. You know, where sweet, sweet Connie did her act? Yeah, there.
They’d always play a song by a Little Rock band called Deepwater Reunion, about an addicted young woman from NYC, by folk singer Tom Paxton, where the girl ended up “a hooker on Bleecker Street.” I think it was the whole Beaker Street show/Bleecker Street in the song tie-in, the whole space age feeling of pulling in a radio station from what seemed like forever away from us (but we could have driven there in a long day’s drive), and the intriguing/scary lyrics of this song that made it a favorite of KAAY and of me.
Last edited by Li'lJugs; 05/24/1809:35 PM.
Hi, I'm Larry and this my brother Dayrle, and this is my other brother Dayrle.
#4423681 - 05/31/1812:32 PMRe: Gonna be a hooker on Bleeker Street.
[Re: Li'lJugs]
Sometimes covers are as good, or better, than the original.
The flip side of the single for Cindy's Cryin, "Ruby Foo" addressed interracial unions but used Oriental man and Pennsylvania Dutch woman. Two, then and slightly less now, controversial issues.
Sixties folk was a good time with more talent than most of the stuff generated since. (Hear the Metal and Hair band guys gearing up.)
#4424410 - 06/03/1810:46 PMRe: Gonna be a hooker on Bleeker Street.
[Re: Li'lJugs]
I remember Bleeker St. always starting the show with the end of "If 6 was 9". It always came through loud & clear here in Louisiana, they played some great music that didn't get played on other stations.