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    Butts". The Tennessean. 20 May 2008. Dave Kyle, "An Interview with Ray Butts", Vintage Guitar, November 1994 Rich Kienzie, "Riffs, Amps, and Butts",...
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  • Retrieved 18 September 2013. "Ray Butt". The Times. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2021. Roy Clarke (writer) & Ray Butt (director) (10 November 1976)...
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  • The EchoSonic is a guitar amplifier made by Ray Butts. It was the first portable guitar amplifier with a built-in tape echo effect, and it allowed guitar...
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    Filtertron) is an early model of the humbucker guitar pickup invented by Ray Butts. Butts built the prototype Filter'Tron in 1954 for guitarist Chet Atkins,...
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  • pickups prompted Atkins to collaborate with American inventor and engineer Ray Butts on the development of a new "humbucking" pickup by connecting two single-coil...
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    in Anaheim, California, every January, during the NAMM Show. He owns a Ray Butts EchoSonic, serial number 24, a rare amplifier with built-in tape echo...
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    2021-09-11. Rich Kienzie, "Riffs, Amps, and Butts", Guitar Player magazine, March 1990, p. 14 Joseph Raymond Butts, U.S. Patent 2892371, Issued 6-22-1959 Goetz...
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  • time Original release date UK viewers (millions) Series 1 "Big Brother" Ray Butt Martin Shardlow 29:55 8 September 1981 (1981-09-08) 9.2 Derek "Del Boy"...
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    recorded to tape. A landmark device was the EchoSonic made by American Ray Butts. It is a portable guitar amplifier with a built-in tape echo, which became...
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  • the filming schedule and turned down the part. It was only when producer Ray Butt saw a repeat of Open All Hours that Jason was considered and, despite concerns...
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    Echoplex was a tape echo designed by Ray Butts in the 1950s, who built it into a guitar amplifier called the EchoSonic. Butts built fewer than seventy EchoSonics...
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  • Episode: "Incident in Lot 7" 1995 Space: Above and Beyond Bowman Episode: "Ray Butts" Beverly Hills, 90210 Tammy Kane Episode: "Fortunate Son" 2005 City of...
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  • manufacturing process similar to what was used in the late 1950s and 1960s by Ray Butts and Gretsch. Prior to the focus on guitar pickups, TV Jones was mainly...
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  • Chance" episode "Hostile Visit" episode "The Enemy" episode "Eyes" episode "Ray Butts" episode "Mutiny" episode "Pilot" 1997 The Pretender Julie Thorton episode...
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  • series and a 90-minute Christmas special were produced for the BBC by Ray Butt. In 2004, it came 43rd in Britain's Best Sitcom. Writer John Sullivan had...
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  • producer and director. He directed all but two episodes of the third series – Ray Butt directed "The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper" and "Cheering up Gordon"...
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    amplifiers that incorporated one or more speakers with the amp. The 1950 Ray Butts EchoSonic amp was the first to feature a tape echo, which quickly became...
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  • Butts is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Alan Butts (born 1940), British Olympic wrestler Alfred Butts (disambiguation), multiple people...
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  • Guest stars John Clegg. Filmed: 28 March 1975 18 "Shoulder to Shoulder" Ray Butt Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft and Michael Knowles 10 April 1975 (1975-04-10)...
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    Filter'Tron upon learning that Chet Atkins was already performing with Butts' pickups. Butts, however, claimed to have created his humbucker first and no legal...
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  • 1934 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (died 2006) 1935 – Ray Butt, English television producer and director (died 2013) 1935 – Salihu Ibrahim...
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    on many of the recordings with Presley, besides his guitars, was the Ray Butts EchoSonic, first used by Chet Atkins, a guitar amplifier with a tape echo...
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    over. The town of Ethel is served by the Attala County School District. Ray Butts, inventor of the EchoSonic and FilterTron Icey W. Day, member of the Mississippi...
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    recording session at RCA Victor's Nashville recording studio. Atkins used the Ray Butts EchoSonic guitar amp on this recording, and was backed by celesta, piano...
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    Raymond "Ray" Butts (for Gretsch), while Seth Lover also worked on one for Gibson. Who developed it first is a matter of some debate, but Butts was awarded...
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  • vocals Neil Wilburn – producer, remixing Paul Brookside – liner notes Ray Butts – engineer Pat Carter – associate producer Susanna Clark – paintings Gary...
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  • said he later regretted this and was unhappy with the scene. Producer Ray Butt agreed and took responsibility for the scene, stating that he thought "David...
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  • primarily among immigrants from England, Ireland, and Germany. The surname Butt or Butts is said to be derived from the French word "but" which is a noun meaning...
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  • simultaneously and independently developed by Ray Butts, whose patent application was slightly earlier than Lover's; Butts' pickup was licensed to Gretsch as the...
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  • Steve Rankin — Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Thomas Butts, callsign "Kick Butts" (in episode "Raymond Butts") Harriet Sansom Harris — Ambassador Diane Hayden...
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