(Meet) The Flintstones
Context
Hoyt Curtin wrote the theme of The Flintstones in 1960, first for timpani, then for a jazz orchestra with vocalists. The melody follows the chord changes of "I Got Rhythm"; the season 3 television version is played by a 22-piece big band with the Randy Van Horne Singers.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Modern big bands, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.