Classical Music Composer Gioachino Rossini - Classical Music William Tell Overture

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Music * The song served as the B-side to Glen Campbell's 1977 No. 1 hit, "Southern Nights". * In 1982, Joey DeMaio, the bassist for the power metal band Manowar, recorded a solo bass version of the Overture for the debut Manowar album Battle Hymns (Manowar album) under the title of "William's Tale". * Mike Oldfield released his cover of the Overture in 1977. * Rock'n'roll versions include "Piltdown Rides Again" by The Piltdown Men and "Apple Knocker" by B. Bumble and the Stingers.

Comedy * Spike Jones and his City Slickers released a parody version of the Overture in 1948. It peaked at Number 6 on the charts and is typically included in "greatest hits" compilations of Jones' work. * Victor Borge used the cavalry-charge phrase in one of his short routines, in which he played the sequence of notes in a "downward" scale instead of "upward", and in a higher octave; then got a laugh from the audience when he said "Ohhhh!" and turned the sheet music "right side up" and played the tune correctly. * Comedian Anita Renfroe uses the finale of the overture to back her "Momsense" segment. * British comedian Bill Bailey, along with the BBC Concert Orchestra, performed a 'Cockney Arrangement' version of theme as part of his live show Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra. The 're-arrangement' involved mixing the Overture with 'cockney' music including "Any Old Iron (song)", and the theme tune from "Bullseye (UK game show)". * It is said that the definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think about The Lone Ranger

Film * Wendy Carlos recorded a Moog Synthesizer version for the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange. * Walt Disney used a version of the music in the 1935 animated cartoon classic "The Band Concert".

Television * The "March of the Swiss Soldiers" finale was the theme music for The Lone Ranger shows, both on radio (1933-1954), and television (1949-1957) * The song was featured prominently on the U.S. television game show The Price Is Right's now-retired pricing game "Hurdles" as the hurdler raced across the gameboard. The song was also used as the clock music for "Race Game" in the 1985 syndicated version. * A jazzed-up version of the Overture was used as the theme song for the Canadian children's program You Can't Do That on Television from 1981 to 1989. * Brave Combo adapted their unique take on the Overture for use as the opening theme song for the PBS television series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns. * In the later seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, the overture can be heard, notably in "Busy Going Backwards" * In Japan, it was used as an opening theme of the variety program We Funny Families（オレたちひょうきん族). * The Magic School Bus used a variant of the fourth movement as Carlos's "Concerto for Invented Instrument" in the episode "In the Haunted House". * A musical segment of Animaniacs features comedic descriptions of each United States President (up to then-incumbent Bill Clinton), sung to the tune of the William Tell Oveture. * The Brady Bunch. The episode is #106 and is titled The Cincinnati Kids (AKA The King's Island Show) It aired in the fifth season of The Brady Bunch on Friday November 23, 1973. The Bunch visits a new amusement park in Ohio, where Jan accidentally loses Dad's important blueprints. In an attempt to get the Blueprints back to Mr. Brady for his important meeting the Brady Bunch children run through the park at breakneck speed carrying the blueprints to the William Tell Overture

Commercials * In the 1960s the finale was used in a series of commercials for Philip Morris' Lark brand of cigarettes. People on the street would respond to a "Show us your Lark pack" sign by holding up their cigarette packages. Behind the visuals, Rossini's music would play, with a chorus singing "Have a Lark, have a Lark, have a Lark today!".

Games * Kyle Ward, under the pseudonym Symphonius, released a synthesized version of the overture, "Tell", which was used on the dance game In The Groove.

Other * The overture is played at many sporting events. At University of Iowa basketball games, the song is usually accompanied by members of the student section wearing a cowboy hat and riding a stick horse. * A quarter-mile strip of asphalt in Lancaster, California was grooved to play the William Tell Overture (albeit somewhat off-key) for motorists driving over it at 55 mph with Honda Civics as part of an ad campaign for Honda.

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[joezzzify]

perfect cavalry charge music

[ADHDfox]

This is fantastic :D

[ConnorDGriffin]

@Zorchalate I treid too, but it came off.

[Zorchalate]

@Gaunchen

Ha ha!! I don't think ANYONE could masturbate THIS FAST and "feel the full effect at the same time"; HOWEVER, there WAS a movie by Kubrick films in which a sleazy guy screwed two women at the same time (to this music; only it was played at DOUBLE SPEED); but that was a film and I doubt it could happen in real life.

Zamunda Zorchalate (I owe the first part of that name to Akim who lived in Zamunda; he was Eddie Murphy)

[BasedDisciple2k11]

swag

[izmirutube]

Who doesn't think of the Lone Ranger when they hear this?

[RidTheWestOfIslam]

@galti111 LOL

[galti111]

@RidTheWestOfIslam I tried wanking in time to this and snapped my fucking guitar string!

[AlessSweetVendetta]

One day I'll shout "TO THE ESCAPE POD" will running with this song 'cause theres no song more awesome for that.

[RidTheWestOfIslam]

Perfect wanking music

[Guanchen]

I wonder who listen to this during masturbation XD