Bass talks about his career as a musician, with details about working with Blues artists, booking shows, contracts, and payments. He also talks about the Blues as a genre, other genres of music, and religion.
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Callas discusses his career as a comedian, how he discovered he was funny, other comedians, drugs in the media, politics, and religion. He also answers questions from callers. Also includes a recorded performance.
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Lori provides a wonderful narrative of her Judaism, her love of teaching children and her devotion to family and music. She talks about growing up in Las Vegas and becoming a bat mitzvah, a rarity for girls in 1973. Throughout her life, including the period where she moved around with her Air Force husband, she sought Jewish connections to help her feel at home no matter where she was.
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Oral history interview with Arthur Lurie conducted by Cheryle L. Bacot on April 25, 1986. In this interview Arthur Lurie discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, the various businesses he owned, Judaism and Jewish culture in Las Vegas, and his work with the Golden Gloves gym and Nevada Boxing Commission.
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