[rollei_list] Re: Test Message
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What about Kato? Wasn't he the driver of the Black Bueaty?, and the Shadow go for. 

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Sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:43 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Test Message

  I seem to remember "The weed of crime bears bitter
fruit".

John
Correct! My memory was not working very well this morning. "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit, crime does not pay, the Shadow knows... (shadow laugh). Kato was from _The Green Hornet_ a show done at WXYZ in Detroit using the same stock company as _The Lone Ranger_ and _Challenge of the Yukon_. WXYZ was independant but originally sold its shows to Mutual. Sometime around mid or late 1930's the NBC Blue network outbid Mutual and WXYZ became a Blue affilliate. Blue became ABC as the result of an anti-trust action in 1941 and WXYZ became an ABC affiliate. ABC eventually bought the station. _The Lone Ranger_ eventually returned to Mutual when it stopped being popular enough for ABC to continue carrying it. The _Green Hornet_ had several ties to the _Lone Ranger_. Britt Read was the Lone Ranger's great grand nephew, or something like that, was the actual identity of the _Green Hornet_, had a non-anglo assistant (Kato), etc. Having been born in Detroit I was an avid listener to all three of the WXYZ kid shows. Like other shows the openings and closings of the _Green Hornet_ changed over time. The one I remember was "He fights the biggest of all crime: Public enemies who try to destroy our America... The Green Hornet". The "Black Beauty" sound was a Valentino sound effect record of a Deusenberg which was not used for anything else at WXYZ, I have no idea of how the Hornet buzz was produced. At one time I could remember the exact wording of the narration of Britt and Kato going from Britt Read's apartment "through a passageway built within the walls of the appartment itself" and leading to an adjacent building "although supposedly abandoned this building served as the hiding place for the Hornet's sleek, superpowered car, the Black Beauty. (Sound of car doors opening and closing and car starting... guns engine...) "a section of the wall opens and the gleaming Black Beauty speeds into the night (car accelerates with gear changes and fades into distance). This introduction was used in every program for several years. If I tax my memory I may be able to remember it whole. WXYZ shows had a distinctive sound, perhaps because the sound effects were done in a separate studio from the cast, an unusual production technique at the time. 

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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