I remember when I first discovered the name of The Long Ranger’s theme, with more exposure later in music studies. It is a thrilling theme that well stirs the soul.
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I associate it with the United Airlines commercials from the late 80s and early 90s.
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Not the Lone Ranger. But glorious.
[ETA: But it is the William Tell Overture. Acapella. As you’ve never seen it before it]
Met an Indian guy out here who only associates the WTO with this:
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Having flown United almost exclusively from 2000-2011 for around 950k miles, I can not stand hearing Rhapsody in Blue.
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In my first few years at primary school, they used to play this after school assemblies.
I don’t know what they were hoping to achieve by playing novelty punk songs to 5-8 year olds just before lessons started.
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As a 30 year veteran of The SF Opera stage crew and its only Orchestra Technician, I have been lucky enough to hear Guillaume Tell (William Tell) live many times.
This reminds me of how many times we all hear Classical music in films and commercials. Since this music is not copyrighted it is easy to publish. I wager we all hear Opera music every day. Good to remember Hitler’s favorite music man: Wilhelm Richard Wagner
BTW the full “Ring” cycle is coming to SFO soon.
-Flight of the Valkyries:
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Cool! Were you in the movie Sing Faster?:
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I seem to recall that that version made it onto more ‘children’s music’ tapes than it probably should have in the 80s.
The children of course got-off on the manic energy of the performance and the silly voices.
As did the adults at The Underworld goth night at London many years later. 
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For me, the ultimate ruiner of the WTO was the…wait for it… William Tell show; watching a Lone Ranger episode always redeemed the music; -)
Jason, if you decide to revisit the piece, try this old recording of LSO led by Gamba from Decca label…still my favorite.
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I’m pretty sure I read that one in Mad Magazine, the magazine that related to nerds and told us we would prevail. Of course it was a propaganda vehicle for the outlook on life of rootless cosmopolitans, but that just added to its attractions.
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OT, but can you imagine just how much Wagner would have despised Hitler and his associates? Wagner associated with kings and nobles. He wouldn’t have given the time of day to a jumped up corporal.
And wouldn’t Wilhelm Tell have been on the side of the Native Americans rather than the US government?
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During pledging Hell Week, we had to do push ups to The WTO. I can still enjoy the song but that’s what it will always mean to me.
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The thing that made the (whole) William Tell overture–it’s only about ten minutes long–such fine, fine party music for various flavors of nerd was that it’s actually chock full of stuff that’s very familar (“I know this, heard it a million times, why can’t I say what it is?”) and the fast, exciting bit used by the TV show to go along with “HI-YO SILVER, AWAYYYYY” comes last. So if anyone has the nerve to ask whoever’s in charge of the LP player/mix CD/MP3 playlist WADDIZZDIS, WADDAFUGIZZDIS, the correct answer is “Just be patient a little bit longer and you’ll suddenly know the answer.”
I’m pretty sure I read that one in Mad Magazine, the magazine
that related to nerds and told us we would prevail.
Hail and farewell, Don Martin. The New Yorker didn’t have all the best cartoonists, did they?
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Yes! Many shots. Some folks hogged the lens. ;~]
So cool to know somebody saw this!
Also in another Jon Else film: WONDERS ARE MANY: THE MAKING OF DOCTOR ATOMIC.
http://www.docurama.com/docurama/wonders-are-many/
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