"The Rebel: Johnny Yuma" Theme Song

stillayl Says:

Dec 18, 2011 - So help me, I think the "Psychodad" theme song from "Married With Children" is based on this theme song. hehe

SaddleCat1 Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - "The Rebel" can be seen on 'MeTV' (Memorable Entertainment TV). This is over-the-air on some DTV stations' secondary channels. Do a Google on 'MeTV' to find a station possibly in your market. The show plays Saturdays at 11:00 AM ET (2 episodes back-to-back).

SaddleCat1 Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - Nah- He's fictional...

SaddleCat1 Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - Yep. That's him...

paranoidkidd Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - Johnny Yuma was played by Nick Adams who was found dead in his Hollywood home by his agent after missing a dinner engagement on February 7, 1968. Cause of death was ruled a drug overdose from prescriptive medication. At the time he had undergone a widely publicized divorce and his film career was in a downward spiral. Adams was an acquaintence of the late James Dean and Elvis Presley and his best friend Robert Conrad insists it was an accidental overdose. His last film was Mission Mars (1968)

stevevandien Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - Have been watching "The Rebel" on MeTV. It's pretty impressive, well-written and acted, especially by the late Nick Adams. The vocal for the show's theme,. however, sucks. I'm glad that the MeTV version just goes with the instrumental version, which is much better.

jfpl7672 Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - I watched "The Rebel" today on MeTV, and I like it. Being a fan of classic old time TV shows (which are far better than the trash being shown on network TV these days), I'll have to put my new DVD recorder to good use and collect some of these episodes. Was surprised to hear the Goodson-Todman name associated with this, since they're better known for producing game shows.

ronetteloverz Says:

Jan 18, 2012 - Johnny Yuma was a Jersey boy.

missyw77 Says:

Jan 21, 2012 - My husband and I are watching this on MeTV and he noticed that there is a blurred out picture on the ending credits. Wonder what that is. Was looking for a clip on here but can't find it.

gallifreyfarm Says:

Jan 21, 2012 - It's a cigarette pack, probably L&M.

gymnastix Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - Your idea is a good one, and would have been especially funny if it had been done in the era when "The Rebel" was originally airing on ABC-TV, but perhaps just as a short sketch on a comedy series, kind of like how that sort of thing is done on NBC-TV's "Saturday Nigh Live" today.Likely prospects for a sketch comedy TV series that could have featured such a TV show parody, at that time (1959-61), would have been "The Steve Allen Show" or "The Garry Moore Show."

gymnastix Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - Of course, not everyone in the northeast speaks like a Kennedy, nor like a working-class guy from Brooklyn, NY or South Boston, MA, no more than everyone in the south sounds alike. A southerner from Alabama will sound different than a southerner from Houston, Texas, etc.

gymnastix Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - These days, especially, regional dialects are not as widely spoken as in the past, I think partly by the influence of mass media. I have met more educated southerners from larger cities such as Atlanta or Dallas, who have virtually no accent, and may be indistinguishable from a person who lives in Hartford, Connecticut.-

gymnastix Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - I think, generally speaking, persons from California are the only ones whose English may be understood by all Americans, as it is rather dialectless, a sort of "generic American," or "Generican," if you will. But I'm sure a native Californian would disagree with that, pointing out some regional dialect particular to "The Golden State."

gymnastix Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - Strictly speaking, a "Yankee" is resident of a New England state. After all, Mark Twain wrote "A Connecrticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court." Some may broaden the term "Yankee" to include all living in the northeast United States, thus "The New York Yankees."

gymnastix Says:

Jan 23, 2012 -  But then Yankee was expanded during the Civil War to refer to all northerners. However, in Europe (especially the United Kingdom), all Americans, including southerners, are sometimes referred to as "Yanks" (usually as a derogatory term), probably from the Revolutionary War days and derived from the song "Yankee Doodle."

gymnastix Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - The series' title may also have, unintentionally, inferred a double entendre of sorts, as series star Nick Adams (as well a then-relatively-unknown Dennis Hopper) had also been in the cast of another "Rebel"-titled feature, the one starring James Dean and titled "Rebel Without A Cause,"

gymnastix Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - For what it's worth, many people, especially younger persons, thought Nick Adams' portrayal of "Johnny Yuma" in "The Rebel" TV series was really cool, and it made some more sympathetic to the southern point of view in The Civil War. The series certainly wasn't intended to paint a negative picture of the American south or of southerners.How could any TV series with "The Man In Black" singing its theme song be anti-South, nor anything but the coolest?

steve7138 Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - @GoldfishBWSince Nick Adams was a Jersey yankee palying a Southerner, I suggested a show called "The Yankee," starring someone from the Deep South, talking with a phony "northern" accent, doing quick-miving, pushy, rushed stereoptyped Northeastern (NY, NJ, MA) mannerisms/behaviors--now THAT would be so funny, and would give the NE elites a taste of their own medicine inflicted upon the South and other non-northeast regions for so many years!

Ted Wilson Says:

Apr 26, 2012 - I like the recorded version best,But this is the Original.

Ted Wilson Says:

Apr 26, 2012 - I like the recorded version best,But this is the Original.

Gostwriterindisguise Says:

May 5, 2012 - If only Mel Brooks had thought of that.

6907lankershim Says:

May 13, 2012 - I'll never forget the day they brought Nick home. I was working my first job after high school, Americana Mobile Homes, in Berwick, PA. Everyone wanted to take off to go to the cemetery to see all the Hollywood stars they knew would be there. But, I think Nick came home alone.