Interview with Robert "Bobby" Summers, May 30, 2005 - audio, part 1

Creator
Project director: Brown, Ronald C., 1945-
Date Created
May 30, 2005
Description
Chava Sanderson interviews Robert Summers, part 1.
Tape 1 Side A: Robert (Bobby) talks about his early memories of music and the musical influences he had growing up. This includes his first band and the gigs he played before he graduated high school. He tells the story about how he made it from Washington to Texas, and how Texas music influenced the rest of his music career. He explains how his music career affected his family life and about how the music business is not an easy profession. He discusses interesting and obnoxious people he has played with, and then finishes with discussing his feelings on how he never made a hit.
Related to

Part 2 of the audio is available here: https://dc.library.txstate.edu/node/24886
Part 3 of the audio is available here: https://dc.library.txstate.edu/node/24887
Full transcript available here: https://dc.library.txstate.edu/node/24888

Resource Type
Physical Form
Extent
29 min, 10 sec
Language
English
Identifier
TMOH_2007-122_012-1a.wav
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Source
Texas Music Oral History Accessions, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University
Collection 2007-122, Box 887, Folder 5