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The Flintstones’ ORIGINAL Opening Song
It’s now deeply embedded in our culture. “Flintstones, meet the Flintstones…” But that wasn’t the original opening that appeared in the program’s first two high-rated seasons on ABC. In fact, the 1960s-popular-culture-laced cartoon (un-admittedly based on Jackie Gleason’s The Honeymooners — Fred was drawn to look like Gleason and Wilma looked like Gleason’s wife on the classic show, Alice, as played by Audrey Meadows) had a different theme.
It was a bouncy show-biz style tune called “Rise and Shine.” It vanished by 1963, although it would occasionally appear as background music. Here’s the original opening (link to first season DVDs is below):
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