Hoyt Curtin died on December 3, at the age of 78.
He wrote the theme songs for such cartoons as “The Flintstones,” “The Jetsons,” “Ruff and Reddy,” “Quick Draw McGraw,” “Yogi Bear,” “Scooby Doo,” “Magilla Gorilla,” “Top Cat,” and “Jonny Quest.”
Now, all together, in a slow, funereal march tempo: "Flintstones . . . Meet the Flintstones . . . "
That’s a macabre way to put it Eve but now I’ll have the Flinstones song and Joe Jackson running through my head all day.
Shouldn’t that be “Headstones…”? Or not.
Damn, Eve, ya beat me to it! [sub]stupid work obligations grumblemumble[/sub]
Headstone!
Curtin’s headstone
Now it’s occupied for all to seeeee
Hoyt has
Shuffled off this
Mortal coil and into historeeeeee
Let’s ride
In the hearse that’s big and black
We’ll have
one less rider coming back
Thanks, Hoyt
For the theme songs
We’ll be singin’ them a long time
A really long time
We’ll sing 'em ALL THE TIIIIIIME!
inspired by Scarred. So sue me.
Thanks for that musical interlude, Olent . . .
If you think I’m falling down on the job, please visit the “crackers in soup” thread for MY latest Top-40 hit.
“Ruff and Reddy”? Was that some type of porn-anime or something?
Olen, bang up job on the song, dude.
Nice one, Olent!
But now I’m going to have to tell my husband that the guy that wrote the theme to his favorite cartoon is gone. He’s gonna be bummed.
Ruff and Reddy were far back enough that my memory of them is pretty hazy, and I’d need Eve to jog my mind on the theme song. But I watched them when I was a kid. A cartoon dog-and-cat duo.
I opened this thread thinking, “That sounds like a mystery title - I didn’t know Eve was a mystery fan.” So I was misled.
Now I’m going to have to sing Olent’s “Headstones” to my wife. Boy, does she put up with a lot. 
Perhaps these will help:
http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1187.php
http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/ruffredd.htm
The second site has the theme song in RA format and an entire episode encoded for 56Kbps RealVideo.
Before someone cracks wise, I’m not that old. The first run of Ruff and Reddy predates my birth by seven years. But it was a staple of the Bozo show on KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock when I was a kid.
Actually, that’s exactly how I heard about it on the news. The Happy Chatty format egged them into making it the “Circular File” item for the show, usually reserved for crooks who make a mistake and kill themselves.
Just showed Olent’s parody to my husband. He smiled, but then said “a little disrespectful.” I said “no it’s not! It’s FUNNY! Besides, the man wrote themes for cartoons. You think he wouldn’t like it?”
He changed his mind. Now he thinks it’s funny. 
Nice song, Olent. I think he would have enjoyed it.
I hope my funeral is funny. I told my mother to play Eel’s “Going to your Funeral Part One” at mine, but she refused. Gees.
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Thankya, thankya verramush.
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More under-reported recent show-biz deaths:
• Liane Haid, 105, died about a week ago. She was Austria’s first film star; made her film debut in 1910, and retired in 1954.
• Marie Windsor, star of such epics as “Force of Evil” and “Cat Women of the Moon,” died Sunday at the age of 81.
. . . Is this our “three?”
I honestly don’t know if this is the three for this week or not, but how odd must it be to spend longer in retirement than you did working?