[Publius]

THE LONE RANGER

This came from the fertile brains of the people at WXYZ in Detroit, who contributed so much to the Golden Age of Radio. Its genesis was in Zane Grey, a writer of western novels who is almost forgotten today. It ran on radio for years and went to TV from 1949 to 1957.

The theme for the show is the final segment from the overture to the opera “William Tell” by Rossini.

There is a hilarious take on this from “Mad” magazine in the early Sixties. Two children are watching Leonard Bernstein’s “Young People’s Concerts” on CBS, and Lenny explains that a true measure of maturity is one’s ability to listen to the “William Tell Overture” and not think once of “The Lone Ranger”. As Bernstein conducts the piece, the children listen studiously. Then their father walks in, pot-bellied in an undershirt, beer in hand, who listens briefly and calls out, “Heigh-ho, Silver!”

Theme from “The Lone Ranger”

[ConorMacNessa]

LOL, Maestro!

"Kill The Wabbit!"

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O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOL! Dad spoiled it!