The Lone Ranger  is an American western drama television series that aired on the ABC Television network from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role.  Jay Silverheels, a member of the Mohawk tribe in Canada played The Lone Ranger’s Native American companion, Tonto.  The Lone Ranger was the highest-rated television program on ABC in the early 1950s and its first true “hit”.   (More from Wikipedia)

Over half of the songs by the Piltdown Men are original compositions, but they also innovatively reworked old standards:  “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” became “Mac Donald’s Cave”, and the William Tell Overture – universally associated with the Lone Ranger in that time period – was released as “Piltdown Rides Again”. 

 

(October 2010)

 

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And then there is “Piltdown Rides Again”, riffing on the Lone Ranger theme (also known as the William Tell Overture):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LixLufee14c&feature=fvwrel .

 

(October 2012)

 

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This is “Piltdown Rides Again”, their take on the William Tell Overture: 

 

 

 

This item includes their biggest hit, “Mac Donald’s Cave”; this is actually a mini-EP with four songs on one 45 single, including “Piltdown Rides Again”: 

 

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(November 2012)