Monday, October 8, 2007
Dead Page: Randy Van Horne, Sang Cartoon TV Show Theme Songs
RANDY VAN HORNE 1924-2007
Invited us to meet George Jetson and had a Yabba Dabba Doo Time
Randy Van Horne, whose Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs to the Jetsons and Flintstones has died at age 83 in Woodland Hills, Ca.. They also sang the Huckleberry Hound song and provided backing for Martin Denny's "Afrodesia" album. The group also recorded several of their own albums.
His group appeared on the Nat King Cole Show in 1957, but remained primarily a studio group. Along with theme songs for Hanna-Berra shows, the group also recorded many commercials and jingles, many of which were written by Van Horne. The group disbanded in the early 1970s.
From the LA Times.
Can you remember?
"Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, they're the ___ ____ _____.
From the town of ______
They're a ___ right out of ______."
Meet _____ Jetson
His boy ____
Daughter ___
_____, his wife.
ANSWERS
modern stone-age family, Bedrock, page, history
George, Elroy, Judy, Jane
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