'The Lone Ranger' was first released in 1976. On the record, the word (made to sound as if it were Native American, in keeping with the Lone Ranger and Tonto theme) is chanted as follows: The word in question, taken from the language of the Maori, New Zealand's indigenous people, was the name of the hill Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Hine picked up on his remark and sang the longest word in the world (listed in The Guinness Book of Records) a capella, replacing the original intro to the song altogether. The label's MD, Jeremy Thomas, believed that the song 'The Lone Ranger' was a potential hit single if only it had something more 'interesting' for the intro. The sessions were independently financed by Jeffrey Levinson (of Mountain Fjord) but, explained Hine, after some 18 months of managerial and contractual problems, the rights to the album were sold to The Electric Record Company in 1975. Hine produced the sessions, with Steve Nye as sound engineer. The first album was written and arranged in 1973–1974, and recorded (with equipment hired from AIR London) at Farmyard. Quantum Jump's sound was a hybrid of fusion, funk, and jazz rock.

I preferred 'jump', as it had more of a 'soul / funk' music connotation'. The term 'quantum jump' (later to be commonly referred to as ' quantum leap') was coined by the Cambridge team. 'He had told me about the relatively recent discovery at Cambridge of the manner in which an electron's energy increases and decreases, not linearly as had been long assumed, but in a discrete step, known as a 'quantum'.

The idea for the name came from a conversation Rupert Hine had with Anthony Stern, an ex- Cambridge University friend and filmmaker.

Quantum Jump were formed in 1973 at Farmyard rehearsal studios by Trevor Morais and Jeffrey Levinson.

The lone ranger theme song