#Ray Collins

[dinosaurwithablog]

Perry can discredit a witness better than anyone. He destroys this witness. Watching his momentum build is a thing of beauty, unless you're Hamilton Burger and Lt. Tragg, that is!! 😁🤣🤣

[jisforjudi2]

I've started rewatching Perry Mason (again).

[citizenscreen]

Ray Collins as Lt. Arthur Tragg and Raymond Burr as Perry Mason in 'The Case of the Singing Skirt', 1960 episode of "Perry Mason.”

[louissviolin]

had to post these bc why not

[gatutor]

Joan Caulfield-Ray Collins "Pensión histórica" (Miss Susie Slagle´s) 1946, de John Berry.

[theperrylleluniverse]

Perry Mason title card

(season one)

[jt1674]

[womansfilm]

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

[rockingreads]

Billy James: Necessity Is ... The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (2001)

There have been countless books written about musical iconoclast Frank Zappa and I've read (almost too) many of them, but Billy James' Necessity Is … is the only one focused specifically on his original group, The Mothers of Invention.

Thus named because The Motherf***kers wasn't passing muster with record label A&R reps (and, as we know "necessity is the mother of invention"), the ever-expanding freaks who backed Zappa between 1964 and 1970 were, unlike most of his future groups, a lot more than sidekicks.

Rather, they were true Freak accomplices, who quickly evolved from basic rock and R&B combo to a free-form proposition able to play and improvise jazz, soul, doo wop, psychedelia, classical, and avant-garde music at their taskmaster conductor's beck and call.

At the same time, the band's irreverent approach to it all and Frank’s brutally cynical intellect were so innovative and unprecedented that their musical and personal antics influenced countless future bands and contemporaries -- even The Beatles, whose Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Mothers parodied, in turn, with We're Only in it for the Money, pictured above.

So, if names like Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Don Preston, Bunk and Buzz Gardner, Billy Mundi, Art Tripp, Euclid James 'Motorhead' (no umlauts) Sherwood, Ian and Ruth Underwood, Flo and Eddie, elicit your fond affection, this book is for you.

James interviews many of them, finally giving them a chance to tell their stories, their perspectives, and to reminisce about each album, each wild adventure, each other, and, of course, their brilliant and (now and then) beneficent dictator, Frank Zappa.

Featured Record:

The Mothers of Invention: We’re Only in it for the Money (1968)

Buy from: Amazon

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Explosive Photos by Ray Collins Capture the Ocean’s Mercurial Nature As It Erupts in Extravagant Bursts

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Season 1 Episode 2

Perry Mason - The Case of the Sleepwalkers Niece - CBS - September 28, 1957

Legal Drama

Running Time: 60 minutes

Written by Laurence Marks and Gene Wang

Produced by Ben Brady

Directed by William D. Russell

Stars:

Raymond Burr as Perry Mason

Barbara Hale as Della Street

William Hopper as Paul Drake

Tony Michaels as Jackson

William Talman as Hamilton Burger

Ray Collins as Lt. Arthur Tragg

John McNamara as Peter Cole

Hillary Brooke as Doris Cole

John Archer as Frank Maddox

Nancy Hadley as Edna Hammar

Darryl Hickman as Steve Harris

Helen Mowery as Lucille Mays

Thomas B. Henry as Ralph Duncan

Harry Hickok as Phillip Kendall

Kenneth MacDonald as Judge

Clark Howat as Policemany

Fred Graham as Sheriff

Joey Ray as Detective

Jack Harris as Court Clerk

[dinosaurwithablog]

Paul Drake is on trial for murder!! 😱

Perry does not look happy because he knows Paul is innocent...

Perry and Della both do their best to help their friend....

I can't believe that Burger and Tragg are working together to find Paul guilty. They should know better...

Finally, the real murderer breaks down and confesses. They say that the truth shall set you free. That applies to Paul, not this man 😉😁 Paul is lucky to have friends like Perry and Della!!! 😁😍

[jisforjudi2]

Looks like another two photos from the law office library in San Antonio TX in 1959. Gail Patrick Jackson, Ray Collins, Barbara Hale, Raymond Burr

[citizenscreen]

Perry Mason’s Lt. Tragg. Ray Collins’ marker at Forrest Lawn Hollywood Hills.

[louissviolin]

Rare image finds of Perry Mason! Raymond’s beautiful blue eyes. Barbara absolutely slaying in every pic. The love between them two. I just wish some didn’t have the watermarks…

(Imago Images)

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This week on Content Abnormal we present Part 1 of The Mercury Theatre On The Air adaptation of Dracula starring Orson Welles!