Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Bud Abbott about Bobby Clark, 1961-08-27.

Publication

1961.

Details

Additional Authors

• Abbott, Bud, 1897-1974
• Lipton, Bill, 1926-

Found In

Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.

Description

1 streaming audio file (approximately 50 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

Bud Abbott, an actor and comedian best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team Abbott and Costello with Lou Costello, deliberates on the principle of comedy teams and speaks about famous teams such as his own, Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough, Joe Weber and Lew Fields, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and show business in general. Lipton and Abbott muse on the transformation of show business from stage to radio to television.

Alternative Title

Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.

Subjects

• Sound recordings
• Interviews
• Comedians > United States > Interviews
• Comedians > United States > Biography
• Actors > United States > Biography
• Burlesque (Theater)
• Abbott, Bud, 1897-1974 > Interviews
• Clark, Bobby, 1888-1960

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Sound recordings.

Note

• Title from collection record; date from the original container.
• On recording Lipton states the date as August 26.
• Streaming files transferred from original audio reels.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming audio file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Source (note)

• Bill Lipton

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark, *L(Special) 93-36

Call Number

*LT-7-A 2858

OCLC

908852135

Title

Interview with Bud Abbott about Bobby Clark, 1961-08-27.

Production

1961.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

computer

Type of Carrier

audiotape reel

online resource

Access

Patrons can access streaming audio file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Performer

Bill Lipton, interviewer ; Bud Abbott, interviewee.

Event

Recorded in Abbott's home in Hollywood, California 1961 August 27.

Original Version

Archival original format: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips., two track mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2858.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark, *L(Special) 93-36

Source

Gift; Bill Lipton, 1984.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Abbott, Bud, 1897-1974, interviewee.

Lipton, Bill, 1926- interviewer.

Lipton, Bill, 1926- donor.

Added Title

Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.

Found In:

Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.

Research Call Number

*LT-7-A 2858