05_Wells Fargo Wagon

[@drphilisagod2707]

If I drove the Wells Fargo wagon I would think “oh no, not this crazy damn city Again”

[@latenightcrazies]

this is how i feel after i order something from amazon xD

[@AlmostProfessional1995]

This comment made my day. Thank you.😂😂

[@stellalagos3397]

LOL

[@matth3w2002]

LateNightCrazies Oh the UPS truck is a comin down the block.

[@rockmyballsplease]

Hahah. That's the thought I had as well. Funny how nothing has changed.

[@kas8448]

LateNightCrazies no when I see a rare item Monday on Animaljam 😂😂

[@lynnandersonfan]

It's hard to believe Wells Fargo never used this song in a commercial!

[@jimstokes6742]

today, they steal from you.

[@Tobias2789]

this was a commercial

[@davidlabarr]

@@Tobias2789 This is from the musical The Music Man

[@Tobias2789]

I realize that, I am sorry I wasn’t clear I just meant that thus song was advertising for Wells Fargo, it’s product placement with a literal song and dance about the company, it is, in a way, a commercial disguised as a musical number in a film

[@11sfr]

@@Tobias2789 I suppose, but Wells Fargo was long out of the delivery business by the time this was made. Their package delivery division was separated from the banking division and nationalized by the US government in 1918 to create the U.S. Railway Express Agency. I suppose it all helps the brand, but odd that they would care to focus product placement on a product they no longer provided, though, I guess, Apple would be fine to cough up money to prominently feature a Newton in a period film set in the 1990s.

[@infonut]

I sing this at the Wells Fargo Security guy whenever he comes into our store and collects the cash. I bet he's ready to strangle me but DAMN!, it's such a catchy tune.

[@brianpress5660]

Who's plotting my death?

[@brianpress5660]

Hi Brian.

[@Mariathinking]

Or he loves you

[@IrethAmandil]

😂😂😂 We had Brinks at our store but I can only imagine the looks on their faces

[@cainster]

He carries a gun, so strangling probably isn't what he's thinking...

[@fourthgirl]

"Oh, the Amazon Prime van is a-coming down the street, oh let be for me!"

[@sacramentalist]

An Amazon package has blocked my door. Oh let it be for meeeeee....

[@robbiehagberg3515]

Robbie Hagberg and I can get a new truck or not yet but I don't know if I can go to bed if you can get a pop up and get them to you if you want them to you and your mom and dad will be fine for me and I can go with you to do it with them and get them to the store and see them to you and the card and the card and the card and the other side of the way to call you at the end of the month so I will get

[@robbiehagberg3515]

Robbie Hagberg I think he is not feeling well but you can get a new one for you and your mom and dad if you want me t get it tomorrow and I can go back and get the car and I don't know what time you want it tomorrow and I can go with it tomorrow morning and

[@dakotanorth1640]

I was thinking the very same thing!

[@brousseaua]

I have seen this movie about a zillion times - okay, a zillion minus one....what I always liked about it was that the actors and actresses who played the ordinary townspeople sang like ordinary townspeople, meaning, not many had great singing voices. I love this movie, especially the starting song of the salesmen on the train..

[@williamsnyder5616]

I was thinking the samw thing while I was watching the movie for the zillionth time...plus two...

[@emilykirk9890]

It called ROCK ISLAND

[@Ronritdds]

Sounds like you know the territory.

[@staticdoggoe34rd]

Ik

[@L3_cHat]

rock island is one of the most chaotic and best songs in this musical. i love it

[@UB107]

I wish there were more clean, joyful things like this in the world today.

[@XGaming1]

Exactly.

[@cai4581]

There are but you have to look harder for them.

[@drsingingeagle]

@@cai4581 - Oh, man! I was going to write the _exact same thing!_

[@robertcollins7025]

Ron Howard. What a legend. Incredible career.

[@SuperQuackduck]

Never heard of him

[@jimcoleman598]

@@SuperQuackduck Sure you have, douche

[@jeffleisten9068]

That long one-take shot slowly panning down everyone in town lined along the street. I love it. Amazing stuff.

[@dianafrost936]

Did you see Mrs Ziffel, Mary Wickes, and the gentleman who sang in the Mayberry choir? And of course, Opie!

[@woodcider]

Why am I crying?!? Damn you Little Ron Howard!

[@ronaldperrin9583]

I worked for a shipping company at one time, loading trailers. I often thought of this song and imagined how excited people were anticipating delivery of whatever I was loading. It made me a bit more careful loading the trailers

[@BrotherYarmoth]

2:36 crazy to think that little red head would go on to direct some of the greatest dramas of our day.

[@zhannayuryevnahuskiesruled5557]

Yarmoth his name is Winthrop. he has trouble pronouncing his s's.

[@TMX1138]

Yarmoth Ron Howard, who is also the father of actress Bryce Dallas Howard.

[@kas8448]

Idiot his name is Winthrop 😠😠😠😠 ur a idiot just like mi dad 😂😂

[@Forensource]

This version is Ron Howard.

[@tonybarde2572]

That is Ron Howard AKA Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show

[@tonybarde2572]

Ron Howard was so adorable back then! I loved him as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show. Now he is perhaps one of the most successful directors in Hollywood History!

[@Hchris101]

good show

[@tonybarde2572]

@@Hchris101 Thx

[@uncharted-desert-isle]

My music Teacher made us sing this song in grammar school about 1977, I really like singing it.😃

[@nancydillon5333]

Enjoying The Music Man with Robert Preston is my Fourth of July tradition-- always sparkles with gusto-- an enduring delight!

[@juliabowker1960]

Me too!!

[@robbiehagberg3515]

Robbie Hagberg I was wrong I was just wondering you were wanting me to come over and I will be there in a few days so you can come over and get it done before you want me to come over and watch what we want to come 😁 when we get with work with me and we are waiting on with it wye I think we're gonna be there around 10 if we want wy

[@jjmanzano9]

Wells Fargo on the way to screw your bank account!

[@Quaronna]

jjman9 💀💀💀💀

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

This is one of my favorite songs from the entire musical

[@arkrazor354]

Easily the seminal moment of the play/movie IMHO. Winthrop is drawn out of his shell of hopelessness and views himself differently after this. In the law of unintended consequences, Marion is impacted and her feelings toward the Prof Hill do a complete 180 b/c he "saved" her little brother. Beautiful stuff, man.

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

I think the professor coming to the town changed that little boys Life. in the beginning he was very shy and very sad because of the death of his father. he might have been teased by other boys in the town because of his lisp.

[@geraldwalker7609]

@@aminsadeghpour1549 Without Professor Hill we may have never had Richie Cunningham.

[@kassmac4761]

my bff plays Winthrop in a show we’re doing and we agreed that this was where Winthrop’s real personality starts to come out

[@bigjedimullet]

I saw a Deaf/hearing production where instead of having a lisp, Winthrop was so shy he could barely sign. When the Wells Fargo wagon came to town, he jumped out in front of the group and started signing up a storm while Amaryllis “translated” by singing the lines. It was the most beautiful version of this moment I’ve ever seen.

[@nancybadolato8419]

The whole movie is excellent! My husband played Harold Hill in HS - he said it was the toughest music he ever had to learn, but the most fun! I have to say my favorite part to this day is when Winthrop gets so excited, he falls out of the tree. Too funny!!!

[@Dallas_K]

What an element of excitement here! We today can't fully appreciate how so many things we take for granted were harder to come by in 1912. Grapefruit from Tampa was certainly an exotic pleasure for many people in small remote towns like River City.

[@653j521]

Dallas K There is nothing to suggest River City is remote. It has all paved streets, every modern convenience for 1912, parks and large stately buildings, lovely homes, railroad access with a seemingly endless stream of salesmen to sop up some of that disposable income, and people who dressed in the latest fashions. Remote in Iowa then would have been a farm town with all gravel streets and no modern conveniences to speak of, with the only big building being the grain elevator. River City considered itself a city. :) It undoubtedly was prosperous initially from the river trade and then got lucky with the railroad. I imagine it wanted to give Des Moines a run for its money. :) I hope it got the interstate and didn't wither on the vine. New technology has winners and losers.

[@BernardProfitendieu]

@@653j521 sweetie, sorry to hurt your hicktown sensitivities, but just the fact that it's in the center of Iowa makes it remote by definition

[@Dallas_K]

@@BernardProfitendieu Amen!

[@Dallas_K]

@@653j521 This very scene here depicts a DIRT STREET in front of the train depot. You clearly know nothing of the historical period and did not even bother to look when this clip was playing. You have some kind of a chip on your shoulder and need to stop trolling.

[@bagofgroceries]

Well, as a guy from Tampa, I’d probably be able to send you same grapefruit much easier!

[@ChrisBrunelle]

I just saw that there was an Alexa notification that an Amazon package had been delivered, and rather than asking her what it was I started singing "The Wells Fargo Wagon" from "The Music Man", complete with an insanely exaggerated Ron Howard lisp. Everyone, including the animals, looked at me like I'd lost my mind. Clearly, I've failed this family.

[@dpwellman]

This is like one of those songs Wilson wrote for something else an decided to throw it in a scene. Who says _every_ song has to advance the plot in a clear and specific manner. . . I'm glad he did. It's a great song and for the film we have Ron Howard with a solo.

[@gatsby66]

It does advance the plot: It signals the arrival of the musical instruments and a shift in Marian's stance toward Harold. It closes out Act I and sets the foundation for ACT II, which is ultimately the redemption of Harold from longtime conman to respectable citizen and Marian's new lover. "[Marian] tries to give Mayor Shinn evidence against Harold that she found in the Indiana State Educational Journal, but they are interrupted by the arrival of the Wells Fargo wagon, which delivers the band instruments ("The Wells Fargo Wagon"). When Winthrop forgets to be shy and self-conscious because he is so happy about his new cornet, Marian begins to see Harold in a new light. She tears the incriminating page out of the Journal before giving the book to Mayor Shinn." (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Man)

[@BernardProfitendieu]

wow what else could he have possibly written this for? The Delivery Man, a musical set in Dubuque?

[@lilliewoods2560]

I watched this movie in class today and it has been stuck in my head for the rest of the day

[@thatlibrarysmell720]

We did this show when I was in 7th grade. In 8th grade we were in rehearsal for the play (not the musical) and the director was talking to someone while we stood onstage waiting for him to finish. Someone started humming this and within a minute we were singing it with perfect harmonies and everything (as perfect as middle schoolers can be) it’s a very unforgettable song

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

it always melts my heart when when whenthrop comes out of his shell. the professor is making him happy again.

[@kiwiadd]

Got introduced to this wonderfull movie back around t '63 at Ayers school, Mr Finnegan where are you? Still loving this movie and the memories of that era.....

[@joyunicycle]

Each time I passed by the Wells Fargo bank my sisters and I would sing it.

[@karipolon]

😅

[@PocketMarmo04]

I was in this play in high school, and I played the guy who sang "Im waiting on some raisins ~ from Fresno!!!!" It scarred me for life.

[@kmatthews1867]

It’s, “I hope I get my raisins from Fresno.” You only had one line!! No wonder it scarred you.

[@jeaniecorrea]

I learned this and most of the broadway tunes I know today in my junior high chorus. I'm so glad; I love revisiting them! And what a delight to see Ron Howard play that kid!

[@itjustlookslikethis]

What an incredible life he had in front of him.

[@dougwarner543]

Haven't watched in many years. Ronnie Howard is how I remember this song. And ofcourse -76 trombones

[@harrymann5523]

Every time I watch this movie and see this scene, I tear up. I have a wonderful relationship between my big sister and myself.

[@fluffynoses]

Oh ho the Well's Fargo Wagon is a coming to rob you clean! Oh please let it not be me!

[@joyunicycle]

Could getting packages be greeted with a song more often?

[@alliebear1020]

This is my favorite musical. :)

[@kenaldri4923]

Its great ensemble casting when each bit player has his/her own unique personality to lend to the mix. And these people seem like the real deal. No Californicized extras who never laid eyes on a corn field.

[@backtoweedin4375]

I'm literally waiting on the UPS truck right now for my band instrument. I can see it's almost to my neighborhood on the UPS app. I just had to watch this right now.

[@creativeponyproductions]

I learned how to sing this in my theater. However the one in family that loved The Music Man is my third cousin country pop star Lizzie Sider.

[@montythepython7614]

Paul Ford??? And Hermione Gingold. Ron Howard.... My absolute favorite movie of all time...

[@IZS1962]

AND the amazing Robert Preston!

[@JmacJSGuru]

“Is that the first thing I said or not?!... yes the very first thing I said or I’ll eat hay with a horse!” - mayor shinn. That line cracks me up every time.

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

I think the mayor is one of my favorite characters in the whole musical

[@kenaldri4923]

Its 1962 or whereabouts. I am sitting watching this in my pajamas while my mother chuckles at all the Iowa references (she was from Cedar Rapids). Bet they found some real Iowans to play those bit parts. Anyway, its getting near my bedtime but we haven't gotten to "Shipoopi" yet.

[@kenaldri4923]

Instruments are exciting to a kid. I adored them all, fascinated with how intricate they were. My folk probably got tired of me trying to play them since i could only really play one. We were a family of five kids and each of us had their own but didnt care if others played them.

[@bigmeanie1891]

Love this! Forgot Ron Howard was in this !

[@engineerminded3388]

We sung this in elementary school before we knew what Wells Fargo was (there were no branches in Maryland yet.)

[@vivianpickering8182]

When I was a kid, in high school, we did this as the school play. Packed auditorium every night. One of the most unforgettable moments of my childhood. We sounded this good too, and the stage sets...it was amazing.

[@klina7645]

I was in a summer theater production of The Music Man when I was 12. The director had to explain to us why everyone would be so excited about the Wells Fargo wagon coming to town (back in the olden days of 1912, buying things, especially from a somewhat remote location like Iowa, was much different than today). The director also had to explain to us why playing pool would be considered potentially scandalous.

[@SteveSwags]

I graduated high school 20 years ago, but when I was in 5th grade, I played Winthrop in our high school's version of The Music Man. It was a lot of fun!

[@staticdoggoe34rd]

Same I’m in 7th I’m playing him this year any tips

[@SteveSwags]

@@staticdoggoe34rd first, have fun! Second, watch a couple versions of it to get an idea of the character, if you're new to it. Don't copy it, but use it as a guide. Break a leg!

[@SteveSwags]

@@staticdoggoe34rd oh, and the Shipoopi dance is fun! I'm a horrible dancer, but didn't have any trouble with it.

[@christhorndike641]

Sister, sister!! Isn't this the must scrumpt-u-ous solid thing you ever saw?? I never thought i'd ever see anything so scrumpt-u-ous as a solid gold thing !! Oh, sister !! Tuning point in the plot. Reveals the new motivation of Marian. 7 year old Ron Howard rips your heart out. They had a hundred child actors to choose from. They cast him for a reason. Thank you, Ron !! The whole Wells Fargo scene was a build-up for Ron Howard's key scene at the end. It sure works.

[@SahilShah-bq3xe]

Ron Howard looks so adorable

[@kyle5397]

The people who disliked the video didn’t get anything when the Wells Fargo wagon came to town

[@monicatfp7766]

O the Amazon Van is a-comin' down the street!

[@v.dargain1678]

There's nothing on it if you ain't a US citizen . Sorry folks

[@monicatfp7766]

@@v.dargain1678 ???

[@TFZ.]

​@monicatfp7766 🎼🎶"Oh PLEASE let it be for ME!"

[@SSArcher11]

It's a meeting tent spiritual mixed with materialism. Brilliant.

[@duncanorourke8752]

Winthrop is adorable

[@granandshan]

Been singing this song all day because my wife just joined the DAR. I'm expecting my cannon any day now. Oh, the Wells Fargo Wagon is a comin'...

[@ikarikid]

You live at the courthouse square?

[@milesofhistory2277]

@@ikarikid I will, if it gets me a cannon!!

[@v.dargain1678]

A cannon ? What side of the US border you living on bro ?

[@KennithSimmons]

0:05 and 0:16 how do those voices belong to the same girl? (With the brown hair)

[@thexvlogs6516]

Kennith Simmons 🤣

[@calebbarnes09]

They don't

[@danyzamora6646]

Lol 😂

[@Shenalfernandez196]

I know

[@forty_two42]

Little Ronnie Howard melts my heart

[@PatrickRsGhost]

Not so much the bank, but if I see a billboard ad showing the old wagon. This tune always plays in my head. And if I see a UPS or Fed-Ex truck coming down my street.

[@Hometownsky]

This is one of the best videos I've seen in quite some time.

[@lunacavemoth]

the "something special/ something very very special / just for me!" part has been haunting me since 2004, when i listened to the flac rip of the White Stripes live at Minneapolise, July 13 2003. They used this song as their intro song, fades out as "just for me" chorus begins and the heavy fuzz opening riff to "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" tears into this song. Amazing. finally heard this again after 21 years and it's just as amazing. But now i found the intro song!

[@Tiro1000]

Every time I sing a line from this in Wells Fargo no one ever gets it.

[@dahsuerk]

Happy Birthday Ron Howard 61.

[@derricawright8810]

63 now

[@lostivess]

@@derricawright8810 66 now

[@psychokarloff]

Paul Ford and Hermione Gingold - one of my favorite comic couples in film!

[@JBGARINGAN]

It feels like Disney but it is Warner Brothers.

[@sophiathompson7891]

Disney sucks anyway lol

[@kamenridernephilim]

Funny thing Disney actually did a remake of The Music Man and Walt Disney also had a bunch of highschool bands perform 76 Trombones from the movie to commemorate the opening of one of his theme parks like back in the 70s.

[@jamesmcarthur5185]

Now Disney sucks but back in the day they were the cream of the crop! Especially when this was made 1962

[@kas8448]

Joe Garingan true

[@BoilingHotCoffee]

If you ever walk into Disneyland, you’ll hear this play as an instrumental on Main Street

[@tlunceford77]

Everytime I see a wells fargo bank, this song comes to mind lol.

[@sacramentalist]

Wells Fargo is closing all personal lines of credit and home equity loans, and I have this dang song stuck in my head.

[@johnboger6]

I don't care whether he's a bigtime movie director or anything else, I grew up with Opie and that's who he is.

[@robloxgirl1041]

The lil boy was so cute

[@BillFeeneySMP2021]

when it builds up to him i cry cuz it was so cute and the struggles of him sayin every word has a form of pain in his voice.....

[@derricawright8810]

Little ron

[@jcampezzi1027]

It's Ron Howard. Richie Cunningham, Opie Taylor, direct of Cocoon, Cinderella man and too many to list.

[@jameeculpepper9578]

I love this movie and I'm 27yrs old

[@ekdog91]

happy birthday Ron Howard. one of the best movie directors in Hollywood

[@ixamxlazy7554]

This song is so good!

[@xebatansis]

What a nice song.

[@kmatthews1867]

Excuse my language but this song is swell!

[@stellalagos3397]

We have to preform this in performing arts (drama & music class) in groups up to 4-5 and we have to make up our own choreography! 😅

[@indigokids88]

All that mail and accounts 😊

[@marylib4463]

There was a Wells Fargo ad before the video played. I've never seen such good timing on an ad.

[@incongruousinquiry]

everyone's always been excited to receive a package, wells fargo, amazon, or otherwise!

[@pinkparadisepie4430]

Oh ho the wells fargo wagon is a coming down the street oh please let it be for me! Oh ho the wells fargo wagon is a coming down the street I wish I wish I knew it could be for me! I got box of mapled sugar for my birthday!

[@joyunicycle]

In March I got a gray mackinaw And once I got some grapefruit from Tamapa Montgom'ry Ward sent me a bathtub and a cross-cut saw!

[@sherebiah]

Little Ronnie steals the scene.

[@robinannaniaz9670]

This is weird. I'm in my 30s... why am I feeling nostalgic for this period?

[@jeaniecorrea]

Old soul, my friend!

[@robinannaniaz9670]

Jeanie Correa :D

[@arielvillademayo]

Umed Annaniaz All the past things are better than the new ones.

[@derricawright8810]

You do realised that this was made in the 60s

[@hytopchakat4912]

You do realize the setting for this story is well before the 60's?

[@JeremyJackson-t5g]

So the lady on the street that says “Or a double boiler!” sound exactly like Gladys Kravitz from Bewitched. The second Mrs. Kravitz that is.

[@JeremyJackson-t5g]

I think it is her!

[@JeremyJackson-t5g]

why the hell do i post gold and people don’t comment. screw you all!

[@DiscoKit66]

my friends and I love this video. It is very musical

[@graysonalder]

So I’m doing this musical now and I wanted that one line about the raisins from Fresno but I think a guy is going to sing it, so life lesson: just raise your hand for any of the lines 😂👏🏼

[@itchyeyelids0_0]

I love this movie

[@JamesK7911]

We had to sing this for a music concert in elementary school lol

[@djjim01]

Of course, as everyone now knows, the Wells Fargo wagon back then has led to the UPS and FedEx trucks of today !!!!

[@barrythomas615]

From this movie to Andy Griffith to Happy Days to director: extraordinaire: what a life for Ron Howard!!

[@v.dargain1678]

Uh-huh . Thanks Wells Fargo ! They are the companies of the next stage .

[@ebonyclark1774]

This is how I feel when I see the Prime Amazon Van driving in our neighborhood after I ordered something earlier in the week.

[@katelynmeredith3234]

I forgot how adorable Ron Howard was in this movie

[@haniehsadatshobeiri789]

Oh God... ron howard is so cuuuuute

[@khunt2055]

I love musicals. Sometimes it comes in handy.

[@sujin621]

3:28 you can see him wiping his face.🤣

[@zoekeel844]

I'm auditioning for a play and I have to sing this song... WISH ME GOOD LUCK

[@anthonykloeckner1523]

late, but how was it?

[@FishbowlPhenom]

3:27 Robert Preston rubbing the spit out of his eyes. XD

[@deeznuts5600]

who gets raisins from fresno

[@rayodelsol80]

Deez Nuts it’s the raisin capital that’s where sunmaid raisins come from! I live 45 minutes away lol

[@williamsnyder5616]

There was a college football bowl game plyed in Fresno. It was called the Raisin Bowl.

[@BernardProfitendieu]

the Raisin Capital of the world? um ... everyone?

[@RZ393]

One of the classic scenes of movie musicals.

[@nave712]

I first saw this movie in elementary school. This was before I learned Wells Fargo was a bank

[@carolparker23]

I think of this scene and it's music everytime I pass a Wells Fargo bank. Too bad their image has been damaged by their actions of late.

[@kenaldri4923]

I used to react the same way as Winthrop to seeing and holding a musical instrument in my hand as a kid. I can smell that trumpet even today. They may not get him to shut up until he puts his mouth to that mouthpiece and starts to blow. I love how this song ties into the love story, which changes from here on in. It is so beautifully done and may be the most important musical number in the whole musical for that reason.

[@Unknown_Ooh]

This made me wanna play Red Dead 2

[@UnstoppableForceProductions]

my high school performed this last year, but it really made me mad because the conductor kept slowing this one down because "he thought it should be slow like a horse" the entire cast disagreed.

[@somemale]

Love the dogs reactions

[@RZ393]

Good observation!

[@bradyfiscus4723]

Winthrop is so cute

[@Xerock]

With multiple shipping companies and tracking numbers, no one in the modern age will ever understand the anticipation expressed by the actors

[@nicolewalton1771]

This is the song in my head when the Amazon, FedEx or UPS truck is driving on our street.

[@v.dargain1678]

Wells Fargo was the first to have such a thing . Gotta give credit where credit is due .

[@oscarrimore]

2:38 is that Ron Howard??

[@kentondickerson]

Yes.