A wounded Texas Ranger is nursed back to health by a childhood friend, and becomes the famous masked rider of the Old West in The Legend of The Lone Ranger. TLR was the creation of writer Fran Striker and radio exec. James Jewell, program manager of WXYZ, Detroit. However in 1935 Radio producer and WXYZ station owner George W.Trendle and his associates, incorporated the Lone Ranger so Striker and Jewell would never make anything, other than their salaries, from the spinoffs in Lone Ranger royalties, movies, merchandise, etc. George W Trendle, Jr (Honolulu Trust Attorney and son of Sr) tells Broadcast Scrapbook editor RACampbell that for most of the the music played on WXYZ dramatic shows, Trendle and H Allen Campbell (no relation to RAC) always specified classical (read "not under copyright") so the music was free. This was not an uncommon practice among the radio stations in those days. Hit play to hear an edited re-creation of the legend of The Lone Ranger.
[For more information 'Google' Brace Beemer, John Todd, Fred Foy, Jack Wrather, WXYZ, George W. Trendle, Fran Striker]