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The Unknown Group Behind Two Of TV's Most Famous Theme Songs
Every once in a while, I learn something new about an old TV show I used to watch. In this case, it concerns the old "Patty Duke Show." In case you've never seen it, the ridiculous premise was that All-American teen Patty Lane was joined by her visiting Scottish cousin Cathy - and that they were "identical cousins," a totally nonsensical premise.
But somehow, they made it work.
The great piece of trivia I learned about this show I used to watch is that the singers of its famous theme song also recorded the theme for another popular ABC show - and both aired roughly around the same time. The group was called "The Skip-Jacks" and their other claim to fame was crooning the theme to "The Flintstones."
As I think about both of them, I can hear the resemblance in style. I've never heard of the Skip-Jacks but now I'll never forget them.
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Interesting. Now that I compare the songs you're right, there is a resemblance.
I was pretty young when the Patty Duke show was on, but my older by 5 years sister was a fan.
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When I think of the theme to The Patty Duke Show, I always think of SCTV and their parody promos for these upcoming shows:
Identical Bellhops
Identical Cheese Hostesses
And my personal favourite, Identical OPEC Oil Ministers
And of course, like all their new shows, they'll air Thursdays at nine.
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I loved both these shows but probably as a child I missed a lot of the humour older people would get.
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Meet The Flintstones became the theme song in the third season. Seasons 1 and 2 used "Rise And Shine" which shows Fred driving home from work, Picking up dry cleaning and a newspaper, arriving home and turning on a television set. one of the reasons the change was made was it was strangely similar to the Bugs Bunny Show theme song.
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According to Wikipedia, Meet The Flintstones was performed by the Randy Van Horne Singers, Composed in 1961 by Hoyt Curtin, the lyrics were written by Hanna and Barbera.
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mace wrote:
Meet The Flintstones became the theme song in the third season. Seasons 1 and 2 used "Rise And Shine" which shows Fred driving home from work, Picking up dry cleaning and a newspaper, arriving home and turning on a television set. one of the reasons the change was made was it was strangely similar to the Bugs Bunny Show theme song.
The one we know best was used when the show went into rerun heaven and remains the theme most of us remember simply by dint of repetition. Here's the song from the first two seasons:
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Meet The Flintstones became the theme song in the third season. Seasons 1 and 2 used "Rise And Shine" which shows Fred driving home from work, Picking up dry cleaning and a newspaper, arriving home and turning on a television set. one of the reasons the change was made was it was strangely similar to the Bugs Bunny Show theme song.
I seem to vaguely remember the "Rise and Shine" theme from when I watched The Flintstones as a kid back in the '70s, although I think they may have eventually replaced it in future rerun packages with the "Meet the Flintstones" theme (a fairly common practice for a lot of syndicated shows). I believe the original theme was also used as score music during several episodes, too.
Incidentally, Alan Reed, the original voice of Fred, appeared in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. I always found it rather amusing and somewhat surreal that there was an actual real-life person that sounded exactly like Fred Flintstone! 
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