LONE RANGER Radio Transcriptions THE MYSTERY OF THE MASKED MAN'S MUSIC R Jones

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FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the Author on Flyleaf to CHICK CRUMPACKER - the guy who brought Elvis to RCA !!

Mystery of the Masked Man's Music : A Search for the Music Used on 'the Lone Ranger'

by Reginald M. Jones (Author)

The most popular radio adventure show in history, The Lone Ranger held an audience of millions spellbound for over two decades. Key to its success was the music used on it?music rendered so beautifully, chosen with such delicate precision, that for half a century listeners have frantically searched for an answer to the question, "What was the music used on the Lone Ranger?"

This book answers that question and many more, including, "Who performed it?" "Who recorded it?" "When?" "Where?". Set in Detroit, New York, Hollywood, and Mexico City against a backdrop of cliffhanging events that shaped the broadcasting industry, the story is as great an adventure as any heard on the show itself. Paperback edition available April 2002. Cloth edition previously published in 1987/

The music in many early radio programs was, of course, in the public domain-a key reason for its adoption. While many know that Roosini's "William Tell Overture" forms the opening signature music, a whole variety of other composer's music was used within programs. But no records had been kept over the two decades the program aired and thus it was something of a puzzle to reassemble the information. What is most interesting, perhaps, are the legal entanglements still involved more than a half century after the program left the air. The book begins with a nearly page-long legal statement about the rights to the program. But Jones (a federal government personnel worker) went further and found out who performed the music used in the programs, delving into the archives of the producers. So while this may seems a very narrow study, it sheds light on an under-explored aspect of broadcasting-the music that helped to hold program contact together. (Communication Booknotes Quarterly)

Series: Search for the Music Used on the Lone Ranger Radio Program,
Hardcover: 220 pages
Publisher: Scarecrow Press (1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810839741
ISBN-13: 978-0810839748
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches

Condition: First Edition 1987 byScarecrow Press, hardcover with many photos and facsimile letters, 220 pages. Book in NEW condition: Covers and binding solid. Interior clean, no stains, no odor. A close to pristine book.

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