Lone Ranger: The Lost Episodes/Hi Yo Silver

Image Not Available Starring: Clayton Moore Dvd Release: 25th June, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, Special Edition, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio & television show based on characters created by George W Trendle of Detroit, Michigan & developed by writer Fran Stryker of Buffalo, New York. The basic premise is about a masked cowboy in the Old West who gallops about righting injustices, usually having the aid of a laconic, clever American Indian called Tonto. The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger aired on the radio for the first time on January 30, 1933 on WXYZ radio in Detroit, Michigan & later on the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network. The origin of the hero is of a Texas Ranger named Reid, who was pursuing the criminal Butch Cavendish with a group of other rangers. However, the party found themselves in a murderous ambush arranged by Cavendish which left seemingly every ranger dead. Soon after, Reids childhood friend, a brave known as Tonto, finds the party & discovers Reid to be alive. Tonto takes him to safety & nurses him back to health. As Reid recovers, Tonto buries the dead rangers. Reid vows to bring the killers & others like them to justice. Posters Of Lone Ranger

The Lost Episodes is an album by Frank Zappa which compiles previously unreleased material & was posthumously released in 1996. Much of the material covered dates from early in his career & as early as 1958, into the mid-1970s. Zappa had been working on these tracks in the years before his death in 1993. Lost in a Whirlpool, a blues parody from around 1958–59 in which Beefheart sings of being flushed down the toilet; Tiger Roach, a rhythm & blues track from around three years later; Im a Band Leader from 1969, a spoken word piece written by Zappa & read by Beefheart; Alley Cat, a blues number in which Zappa plays guitar with two members of Beefhearts Magic Band & The Grand Wazoo, a spoken word piece recorded in 1969, to which Zappa added a Synclavier track in 1992. Dan Glaister, writing in The Guardian, judged the first to be a passable Bessie Smith cover, adding, while Alley Cat could be a missing track from Clear Spot. Elsewhere on the disc are included a number of alternate, earlier versions of compositions which were later released on Zappas studio albums.

Clayton Moore was an American actor. Moore was a circus acrobat as a boy, who later spent time as a male model. Moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s, he had a career as a stunt man & bit player. His big break came in 1949, when he was cast in a low-budget Zorro picture. A new version of another masked Western character, The Lone Ranger, was being planned for the then-new medium of television & Moore was soon cast for the role. Moore then faced the challenge of training his voice to sound like the radio version of The Lone Ranger, which had then been on the air for many years. He succeeded & the program soon became the highest-rated program to that point on the fledgling ABC network & its first true hit. After two successful seasons, Moore was removed from the role in a pay dispute & made a few other feature films. The public was not very acceptive of his replacement, actor John Hart & the owners of the program relented & rehired Moore, who stayed with the program until it ended first-run production in 1957. Posters Of The Lone Ranger

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