yabba dabba doo!! Born on on this day, Hoyt Stoddard Curtin (September 9, 1922 – December 3, 2000) was an American composer and music producer, the primary musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio, from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show in 1957 until his retirement in 1986. He was the composer of many of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons popular theme songs, including The Flintstones until 1981, Top Cat, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Superfriends, Josie and the Pussycats, The Smurfs and The New Scooby-Doo Movies and all its spinoffs until 1986. Beginning in 1960, Curtin also composed many of the stock tunes used as incidental music in the various Hanna-Barbera series, along with the jingle heard underneath H-Bs famous Swirling Star closing logo in 1979. He also was the composer for the 1960 animated series Q.T. Hush, one of the first cartoons to appear in color. He also composed two of the tunes heard in the background in Plan 9 From Outer Space, although he was embarrassed by the films poor cinematic quality. Let us watch a little performance of the Theme from The Flintstones by Músicos Solidarios conducted by Andrés Salado and Luis Nieto on the drums. Source: Wikipedia
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:00:17 +0000
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