New York City: Too Far from Tampa Blues

Series: The Teenage years

Duration: 47 min.

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Thorn

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Musical comedy-drama which focuses on the problems encountered by a Puerto Rican youngster and his family when they move from Tampa, Fla., to New York City. Originally an ABC afterschool special., This musical comedy-drama which focuses on the problems encountered by a Puerto Rican youngster and his family when they move from Tampa, Fla., to Brooklyn, New York. Tom forms a successful singing duo with his Italian American shoeshine partner only to find the pleasure of earning so much money undermined by the defensiveness of his father, a proud man forced out on strike.

Complete Record: , This musical comedy-drama which focuses on the problems encountered by a Puerto Rican youngster and his family when they move from Tampa, Fla., to Brooklyn, New York. Tom forms a successful singing duo with his Italian American shoeshine partner only to find the pleasure of earning so much money undermined by the defensiveness of his father, a proud man forced out on strike. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.