Hi-Oh Silver Away!

Posted by $ SpiritWoman 2 weeks, 5 days ago to Politics
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Shot the apple right off the top of its head!!

(They say an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and NOT think of the Lone Ranger!---a Denver reporter said that in the sixties, I think!)

SOURCE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 weeks, 4 days ago
    That awoke one of ye olde dino's very earliest memories.
    My very earliest memory is a snippet of a propeller passenger airplane ride when my family moved from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to Dothan, Alabama where my dad
    was the assistant manager of a company's newly built second factory. Won't go into that.
    Will go into little dino being in awe when I saw musical opening of The Lone Ranger on a black and white TV for the first time during the early Fifties.
    Even remember where little dino was. In a beachside motel in Miami, Florida, where I saw the huge waves of surf too dangerous even for an adult to swim in. That was kinda awesome too!
    I'm sure I watched the whole episode but can't recall it.
    It was just seeing The Lone Ranger rearing Silver and shouting "High ho Silver!" while The William Tell Overture was blaring away.
    Several years passed before I learned where that great music came from.
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 2 weeks, 4 days ago
    Everybody just plays the finale.
    The full William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini is 12½ minutes long and includes 3 other evocative parts often used in films or cartoons.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2YW5...
    The opening evokes a sad / crying mood. Then what sounds like rain starting and building into a ship being tossed at sea by a violent storm. Then the gentle sunrise/morning mood. And finally Hi-Oh Silver. Rossini had some different images in mind.

    While I'm at it, there are two other well known sunrises/mornings.
    The opening of Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 by Edvard Grieg.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj7vH...
    The rest is interesting, too,. A sad death, a country dance, and the energetic finale, In the Hall of the Mountain King starting at about 13:00 in the link above. But listen to the whole thing.

    For the grandest sunrise, the opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Hvg...
    The full piece is a little more than a half-hour long.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfwAP...
    It's a tone poem of varying moods, some quiet, some exuberant. It's hard to sustain the greatness of the opening.
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    • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 4 days ago
      The story of William Tell is the most interesting. This overture supposedly is for a march, which leaves me breathless!

      Peer Gynt puts me to sleep, except The Hall, which always reminds me of the Ride of the Valkyries, or Night on Bald Mountain.

      And of course, as every right-thinking American does, I always see the monkeys with their bones warring on each other when I hear Thus Sprach Zarathustra. Nowadays though, I think of Elon Musk too, because after I saw 2001 in 1964, I was sure I would be sailing to the moon, even if I had to use my walker!!
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  • Posted by Casebier 2 weeks, 4 days ago
    When going through medic training in at Fort Sam Houston in 1968, my Aunt and Uncle gave me tickets to see Campbell in concert at HemisFair in downtown San Antonio. Somehow shortly before the show, the neck of Campbell's guitar was broken. He glued it together (I presume) and held it in place with a large C clamp. With the C clamp on the instrument, he performed flawlessly, providing one of the most amazing musical performances I had ever seen before or have seen since. I learned later that he had been one of the most requested guitar players for many years in the recording industry prior to his very successful career as a singer-songwriter. At the concert he also played the banjo, and years later he would occasionally play the bagpipes during his concerts. One of America's most amazing musicians, I miss him and his music.
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    • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 4 days ago
      So do I. And the Left especially African Americans made such a big deal of his Alzheimers', putting him down whenever they could. He was known as "Good Time Charlie" and they had to ridicule that.

      He said 'dadgum' did you notice? My family, mother's side, would say that, and words like 'shoot', hoping us kids would never find out what they stood for.

      But they made fun of Glen Campbell, from Delight, Arkansas.
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  • Posted by fairbro 2 weeks, 4 days ago
    I hear that piece every morning. I turn on the OTR (Old Time Radio) radio.macinmind.com and it's usually Gunsmoke or The Lone Ranger on.

    When Rossini debuted the overture, I think there was a riot, it was so radical for the times....
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 2 weeks, 4 days ago
    As a young one, I'd get up a 5 in the morning, rush to the player piano, grab the lip under the keyboard and pump the peddles like mad to the William Tell Overture!

    My parents weren't too happy about that!!!
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    • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 4 days ago
      I'm surprised you made it into adulthood, carl!
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      • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 2 weeks, 4 days ago
        You are right but later in life it was a funny story.
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        • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 4 days ago
          I'm surprised I myself made it into adulthood! I seemed to get into more trouble than I thought I did!
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          • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 2 weeks, 4 days ago
            Mattered not the hi highs or the low lows of graves disease, trouble followed me everywhere.
            I fought for control over it (no one knew in those days) but getting a speeding ticket was always on the menu!
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            • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 4 days ago
              I'm not sure what Grave's Disease is. But I seemed even as a child to have all my faculties.

              It did though, always surprise me when I ended up in the principal's office!
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              • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 2 weeks, 4 days ago
                EXTREME HYPERACTIVE to Depression.
                Depression was easy for me to get out of but the hyperactivity always got me in trouble, my mind could not keep control over my hyper brain and body.
                Allopaths ended up nuking my thyroid. During Thyroid storm it was so large that 90% of my blood went through the thyroid, It didn't help having a high but extremely bored IQ either. LOL as if IQ could be bored! but you get the point.
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                • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 4 days ago
                  I googled it, hope you don't mind, and saw that it was connected to thyroid hormone production, and that much is STILL not known.

                  There just doesn't seem to be much scholarship in modern scholarship. They were able to determine the human genome, WITH THE HELP OF A MACHINE, but they still don't understand the various codes!
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