Eddie Clifford & Tubby ClarkAugust 24, 1962 (Entertainment and Nightclub scene–Seattle P-I) –For more than 20 years the organist team of Eddie Clifford and Tubby Clark has entertained listeners of Seattle’s radio stations and local night spots. These popular musicians, now playing nightly at the Golden Lion in the Olympic Hotel, are a happy, irrepressible pair, exuberantly in love with their work. In 1941, they got together to work at the Show Box, where they shared the spotlight with Sally Rand, Sophie Tucker and other greats of that era. The group was drafted during the war; Tubby was in the Seabees while Eddie stayed behind with his wife to raise their two sons. On returning to Seattle, Tubby joined Eddie and began a piano duo on radio station KJR. Exchanging one piano for an organ (which they both play) the duo developed a zesty musical sound that was enthusiastically greeted by radio audiences. After six months on KJR, the team moved to KIRO, where they stayed for 11 years, switching in 1958 to KTW and last month they were chosen to provide a new dimension in music and were the first to broadcast in stereo from the Pacific Northwest, now on KETO-FM evenings at 8 p.m.
I don’t remember the first time I heard Clifford & Clark on the radio, but, like Ivar Haglund, they were always there, burned into that most important part of my brain, where the music lived.
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August 20, 2025 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
I don’t remember the first time I heard Clifford & Clark on the radio, but, like Ivar Haglund, they were always there, burned into that most important part of my brain, where the music lived.