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"Meet the Flintstones", also worded as "(Meet) The Flintstones", is the theme song of the American 1960s animated television series The Flintstones.Composed in 1961 by Hoyt Curtin, Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, it is one of the most popular and best known of all theme songs, with its catchy lyrics "Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, they're the modern Stone Age family".
The most famous recording of this song featured Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm on The Flintstones "No Biz Like Show Biz" episode (which originally aired September 17, 1965). The clip of them performing this song was sometimes played during the closing credits in the show's final season (1965–1966), this episode being the opener of that season.
The Flintstones. Song: "Meet the Flintstones" by the Randy Van Horne Singers. ... If you recall, the instrumental was performed with lyrics (written by Oscar-nominee Harold Adamson) in the episode ...
In the Heat of the Night – music by Quincy Jones, lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, performed by Bill Champlin; The Inbetweeners ("Gone Up in Flames") – Morning Runner; The Incredible Hulk ("The Lonely Man") – Joe Harnell; In Sickness and in Health – Chas & Dave; The Inspector (Theme from A Shot in the Dark) – Henry Mancini
The song also appears on the soundtrack album for the 1994 live-action movie version of The Flintstones, with a portion of the song played during the end credits. This was the second time Yankovic used two songs by a band in one parody, the first being " The Plumbing Song ", which was a parody of Milli Vanilli 's " Baby Don't Forget My Number ...
The song is about a man who uses the occasion of a breakup to open a bottle of Jim Beam which is shaped like Elvis Presley, the head of the singer forming the bottle top.He further prepares for an evening of drinking by soaking the label off a Welch's jelly jar which has The Flintstones character Fred Flintstone, in order to better use it as a glass. [1]
Harry Randell Van Horne Jr. (February 10, 1924 – September 26, 2007) was an American singer and musician. Van Horne's musical group, the Randy Van Horne Singers, performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons including The Flintstones, Top Cat, The Jetsons and The Huckleberry Hound Show.
The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997. [6] In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time, after The Simpsons. [7]