Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Chuck Green [sound recording].

Author

Green, Chuck.

Publication

1973.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jay, Leticia.
• Velez, Sara.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 59 min.) : digital.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

[Introduction of the interview by an unidentified speaker. The interview is described as an interview with Chuck Green and Letitia Jay but the interviewer's questions are directed towards Green. Jay participates with occasional questions and remarks.] Chuck Green speaks with Sara Velez about his first performance, at age seven, in a competition in Atlanta; joining a touring vaudeville company shortly thereafter; joining a new group and performing in Philadelphia and New York; his partner, Chuckles [with whom he performed first as Shorty and Slim and later as Chuck and Chuckles]; his agent, Nat Nazarro including their first meeting; dancing with the show Buck and Bubbles; John Bubbles; teaching Eleanor Powell tap dancing; Tom Mix and his tap dancing horse Tony; elements of tap dance technique John Bubbles taught him; more on Chuckles in particular his use of comic elements in his performance; other performers; venues where they performed in New York City; the musicality of tap dancing; elements of tap dance technique; working with George M. Cohan; more on venues where they performed; performers in the Tap Happenings; more on Chuckles and his use of comedy; Green's musical background; more on technique including the use of the upper body; the current renaissance of tap dancing; his father.

Subjects

• Chuck and Chuckles
• Green, Chuck
• Tap dancing
• Buck and Bubbles
• Audiotapes > Green, C
• Bubbles, John W
• Nazarro, Nat

Note

• Interview with Chuck Green conducted by Sara Velez on Dec. 22, 1973 at the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The interview is introduced (by an unidentified speaker) as an interview with Chuck Green and Leticia Jay; in fact the interviewer's questions are directed towards Green while Jay participates with occasional questions and remarks.
• Sound quality is fair. The speakers' voices are easily intelligible but there is tape hiss and occasional extraneous noise.

Funding (note)

• The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-999

OCLC

83491722

Author

Green, Chuck. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Chuck Green [sound recording].

Imprint

1973.

Original Version

Original format : 1 sound cassette (ca. 59 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels). Originally recorded in 1973.

Funding

The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Local Note

Former call no.: *MGZTC 3-999

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-999

Added Author

Jay, Leticia.

Velez, Sara. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-999