He had to watch out for rattlesnakes.
Likewise The Barber of Seville without mentioning The Rabbit of Seville. Even this week our classic station KBAQ called the piece TRoS instaes of TBoS during pledge drive.
Whaaaaat would you want with a rabbit?
When I was in high school, we used to annoy a high-brow friend by referring to it as “The Lone Ranger Overture”. He would correct us, and we would apologize for our “mistake”.
Another Piano Tech I used to work with whooshed a snobbish client by referring to “Kitten On The Keys” as having been written by “Claude De Pussy.” The client sniffed disdainfully and corrected him: “Day Boo ZAY.”
Ahem. As a fellow old fossil I respectfully remind you the dog’s name was “Yukon King.” On TeeVee, don’t know about the radio.
Unless I’m mistaken in which case I shall commit seppuku at once.
IIRC, his full name (kennel name?) was Yukon King, but Sgt Preston often just called him ‘King’.
Same here. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels were iconic in the roles. Westerns were all the rage in 50s TV and I watched every one that was aired in Alaska or that was shown in the theater.
Back when I was in University in the early 90s, I had a set of CDs. The premise was that a lot of people knew more classic music than they realized, and the tracks were all things that were used in pop culture. There was one disc for movies, and one for classic animation like Bugs Bunny.
A couple of years ago, I was surfing the web with my nephew-by-marriage, a young guy who had just emigrated from Russia. The subject of the William Tell Overture came up, and he had no clue as to what I was talking about. I told him “I’m sure you’ve heard it sometime in your life,” and called it up on YouTube using the Lone Ranger as an example.
We spent the rest of the afternoon watching The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1949) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958).
I remember watching these on TV ca. 1966, when I was in sixth grade.
Watch this one first
and then this one.
Jeno’s, BTW, was based in Duluth, and Clayton Moore was living in Golden Valley at the time, so this was definitely a Minnesota thing.
More Trivia: The guy from Lark in the second clip is Frank Overton, who played Maj Harvey Stovall in the TV series 12 O’Clock High.
I saw the punch line coming a mile away! 
I thought at first it was a clip from Kentucky Fried Movie, but I guess I was wrong.
That must have taken years of rehearsal! 
Never mind, terenti beat me to it.
Too bad William Tell himself didnt show up also.
Oddly enough, he already knew about the Lone Ranger from having seen (I guess) the version with Johnny Depp as Tonto.
but didn’t many cartoons introduce us to classical music (which of course we knew nothing about)? here’s looking at you Disney
Interesting question. How many such works can you name? There are posts on YouTube giving lists of classical music everybody recognizes but can’t name. Most of the ones I know are from Warner Bros. cartoons, like Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture (the “Mynah Bird” theme). The only one from Disney I can think of immediately is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in Fantasia.
The Jeno’s commercial was done by Stan Freberg. His box set came with a VHS tape that included it and other classics. Johnny Carson ran it, not as an ad but as a piece of comedy.
The Lone Ranger was pretty iconic by the late '50s, early '60s. Lenny Bruce had a Lone Rangers bit, and Dylan name checked them on his second album.
Bill Cosby also did a bit on TLR & Tonto on his 1964 album.
I’m surprised no one had redone the story to have him using silver bullets because he’s either a werewolf hunter or a vampire hunter.
Actually, he couldn’t claim it if he was. The reason he wore the mask in the first place was to hide his identity because he’d been marked for death by the Cavendish Gang.
Maybe I’m missing something here, but I’d think there are better ways of going underground than disguising yourself as another outlaw.