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Doug Clark - Holiday Memories (clip)

Interviewed on March 5, 2001

Doug Clark describes attending a holiday party at a UNC fraternity where he got the idea to start his band, which eventually became Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts.

To hear more from Doug Clark, listen to his full oral history "Doug Clark, Sr. - On growing up in Chapel Hill and high school."

Doug Clark - Holiday Memories (clip)

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Oral history interview of Clark, Sr., Doug on March 5, 2001.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Doug Clark - Holiday Memories (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed September 8, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/doug-clark-holiday-memories.

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