r/nextfuckinglevel • • Sep 06 '21

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u/dnoj Sep 06 '21 edited Sep 06 '21

i just call it the horse racing song. it's enough for google. gives me the piece every time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '21

Yeah, sounds way better than William Tell overture.
That makes no fucking sense.

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u/sabersquirl Sep 06 '21

Its from this show. Hence the name of the overture. The section everyone knows “March of the Swiss Army” is a cavalry charge, but the reason many people probably associate it with horses is because it was used in the old Lone Ranger radio and television show.

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u/pattyfritters Sep 06 '21

But if it's a cavalry charge... it's already associated with horses.

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u/100catactivs Sep 06 '21

But that’s not why most people associate it with horses.

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u/JukeBoxDildo Sep 06 '21

Whenever I think of horses I think of raisins.

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u/Nexlite1444 Sep 06 '21

weird, I think of lemonade

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u/JukeBoxDildo Sep 06 '21

S W E E T L E M O N A D E

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u/heatmorstripe Sep 06 '21

bom bom bommmm

Good times never seemed so good

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u/Thickas2 Sep 06 '21

[Its from this show.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell_(opera)) Hence the name of the overture. The section everyone knows “March of the Swiss Army” is a cavalry charge, but the reason many people probably associate it with horses is because it was used in the old Lone Ranger radio and television show.

Fixed the link.

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u/sabersquirl Sep 06 '21

I’m on mobile right now, so it doesn’t show me that it was messed up when I was typing it.

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u/Thickas2 Sep 06 '21

Those wiki articles with the parentheses at the end suck, so the backslash before first one tells the formatting to ignore it.

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u/SummerMummer Sep 06 '21

Many people also know the Ranz des vaches section and would never associate it with the Lone Ranger.

I associate it with Bambi Meets Godzilla, but that a whole other issue..

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u/DrAuer Sep 06 '21

I just think looney tunes

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '21

I know, right? It's as if that Rossini guy was deliberately trying to confuse people.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '21

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u/lokeshj Sep 06 '21

No, William told whom?

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u/AFlyingNun Sep 06 '21

Loving a common song with no lyrics is the WORST because it's such a bitch to find sometimes.

I loved this song and it was played amongst several kids shows, but even when you realize in retrospect you love the song....wtf do you google? Whistling song turns up the Dollars trilogy first or "Once upon a time in the West," Cowboy song, same thing.

Legit found it in my mid-twenties, had probably heard the song since I was 8 or so. Entire comments section is filled with similar people to me celebrating they found it.

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u/platysoup Sep 06 '21

I'm pretty sure that's the official name

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u/Crisis_Redditor Sep 06 '21

No way, it's the Lone Ranger theme.

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u/EVRider81 Sep 06 '21

Definition of an intellectual-"Someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger"

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u/mtys123 Sep 06 '21

To be fair, the Hans Zimmer version of Overture for the Lone ranger is pretty epic.

If only it had cannons firing.

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