Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. O'Rourke, Tex
2. Lipton, Bill, 1926-

Found in

1. Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.

Description

1. 1 streaming audio file (approximately 16 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

1. Bill Lipton reads and records the speech Tex O'Rourke (the son of a circus artist, a boxer and a fighter who became a jester and roastmaster) wrote and delivered for the celebration of Bobby Clark's career in show business at the Lambs Club on December 11, 1954. O'Rourke traces Clark's rise to stardom from his early days in Springfield, Ohio when he teamed up with Paul McCullough and toured the country for meager earnings gradually gaining fame and popularity in vaudeville/burlesque/comedy until McCullough's suicide in March 1936 after which Clark went on performing successfully on his own.

Alternative title

1. Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.

Subject

1. Speeches
2. Comedians > United States > Biography
3. Actors > United States > Biography
4. Clark, Bobby, 1888-1960

Genre/Form

1. Speeches.

Call number

1. *LT-7-A 2942

Note

1. Title and credits from audition and the original container that was discarded.
2. Streaming files transferred from original audio reel.

Access (note)

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

Source (note)

1. Bill Lipton

Linking entry (note)

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

Title

1. Tex O'Rourke's bio(graphy) of Bobby Clark, 1961.

Production

1. 1961.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. audiotape reel
2. online resource

Access

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

Performer

1. Bill Lipton, speaker ; Tex O'Rourke, author.

Event

1. Recorded in New York 1961.

Original version

1. Archival original format: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips., two track mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2942.

Linking entry

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

Source

1. Gift; Bill Lipton, 1984.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. O'Rourke, Tex, author.
2. Lipton, Bill, 1926- speaker.
3. Lipton, Bill, 1926- donor.

Added title

1. Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.

Found in:

1. Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.

Research call number

1. *LT-7-A 2942