Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Toon Rock: Yabba-Dabba-Dabba-Dabba-Doo (1961)

The Flintstones began its sophomore season in 1961 in grand style. Legendary composer Hoagy Carmichael guest stars when Fred (Alan Reed) and Barney (Daws Butler, subbing for the then-injured Mel Blanc) get mixed up with a con artist in a plagiarism scheme involving one of Carmichael's most famous songs, "Stardust".

Near the end of the show, the Flintstones & Rubbles and Carmichael are in the audience for a stone age version of another ABC series, The Lawrence Welk Show (I believe this might have also been Butler doing his best Welk mimic, though I could be wrong), when Carmichael is called up to the stage. Henry Corden provides Fred's singing voice as the cast joins Carmichael for "Yabba-Dabba-Dabba-Dabba-Doo":



This clip has been used for promotional purposes on Cartoon Network/Boomerang in recent years. Too bad no one thought of releasing a soundtrack album covering the entire series (1960-6) and all the musical guests (i.e. Carmichael, Ann-Margaret, James Darren).

2 comments:

magicdog said...

I do have a CD which contains many tunes from the Flintstones, including some incidental music.

It includes this tune (along with Fred's reworking of Stardust), the full version of Bedrock Twitch, Jimmy Darrin's version of "Surfin' Craze", and a smidge of The Wayouts song, "I'm Gonna Go Wayout", the Softsoap audition (and commercial) and the Rockinspiel jingle. Found it on Amazon.

It is missing "Ann Margrock's" songs from her appearance "(I Love Ya But) Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool" and "The Littlest Lamb". I'm guessing due to rights issues.

hobbyfan said...

And you'd probably be right, though I think it wouldn't be Ann-Margret's fault, more likely whomever controlled publishing rights to the songs or her record label.

Bedrock Twitch will be up soon.