Barry (Cletus) Baker:
CLASS OF 1969
Oceanside High SchoolClass of 1969
Oceanside, CA
Barry (Cletus)'s Story
2-28-23
In my senior year I mustered into The Young Americans singing group, and after graduation from High School I moved to Long Beach to continue THAT education (which i always deemed a full fledged college degree course of study, though it wasn't). Forced out when I turned 21, I then moved to Kearney, Nebraska to work for Stan Miiller at Stanal Sound, whom I met while in the YAs. While in Kearney I worked part time for radio station KGFW and attended Kearney State College, where I met my fabulous wife, Nina Brandt.
We were married in '75 and have been together ever since at our home in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with two terrific daughters, Moira and Chelsea. Moira has Down Syndrome, and is living near us in a group home with two roommates. Chelsea lives with her sweetheart at her home in Olympia, Washington.
In '74 the owner of KGFW bought a couple of stations serving Omaha, and moved me there to work for them. Two years later I was offered a j...Expand for more
ob with Sound Recorders, the premier recording studio between Chicago and Denver. For 20 years I worked with Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller, C.W. McCall, Paul Winter, John Denver, and America, among hundreds of local bands, orchestras, and choral groups, along with local and national advertising agencies.
In '96, Sound Recorders closed their doors in both Omaha and Kansas City, so I took the opportunity to open my own Studio B, and pick up where Sound Recorders left off. Since then I've recorded any client who makes noise, including thousands of telephone prompts (that I KNOW you've heard) and the long-running River City Folk radio program which continues to air weekly on many public radio stations from coast to coast.
The time has come to put it all aside and "quasi-retire". I'll continue to work with the Omaha Symphony, along with a few college choirs and River City Folk, but I think it's time now to draw the curtains and spend time with my wife.
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