Happy anniversary Happy anniversary Happy anniversary HAPPPPPY anniversary! We enjoy that, but I doubt we’d enjoy sitting through the entire episode where Fred buys Wilma a hot piano from 88 Fingers Louie and barely has time to sing “Happy Anniversary” before being hauled off to the hoosegow. Happy Anniversary (mp3) Flintstones Sounds. Pebbles (wav) Yabba Dabba Do (wav) Gazoo (wav) Gazoo's Zap (wav) Superstone's yell (wav) Bamm Bamm (wav) Flintstones Lyrics. Meet The Flintstones (lyrics) The Littlest Lamb (lyrics) Happy Anniversary (lyrics) Car Hop Song (lyrics) Open Up Your Heart. (lyrics) The Twitch (lyrics) Hanna-Barbera Theme. The Flintstones Happy Anniversary chords. Chords: D, G, Em. Play song with guitar, piano, bass, ukulele. Mute or solo instruments of mp3s and transcribe song's chords from YouTube. You can also get midi file, pdf and 300 online lessons for guitar, bass and keyboard.
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“I Wanna Be a Flintstone”
Screaming Blue Messiahs
1987
Screaming Blue Messiahs
1987
No critical deconstruction of The Flintstones can commence without first mentioning my sister, who was born the same night as Pebbles. Although I was 7, I sensed that this was a teachable moment, and I told my brother, who was 4, that when Mommy came home from the hospital, she’d bring with her our new sibling – a cartoon. My brother couldn’t decide if he was thrilled or terrified, so he spent that evening at my grandparents’ house being both. Because I’m a natural teacher, I also showed him how to set all the clocks in the house to ring sometime after midnight. Being little children, no one noticed us, and being little children, we slept through the resulting Flintstone-like chaos. The adults were all crabby the next day.
Today I’d much rather refer to The Flintstones than watch them. (Same with the Stooges. Would you rather imitate a lamebrain or spend half an hour watching three of them slap each other?) Every year I call my parents on their anniversary and sing them Fred’s “Happy Anniversary” song (to the tune of the William Tell Overture):
Happy anniversary
Happy anniversary
Happy anniversary
HAPPPPPY anniversary!
Happy anniversary
Happy anniversary
HAPPPPPY anniversary!
We enjoy that, but I doubt we’d enjoy sitting through the entire episode where Fred buys Wilma a hot piano from 88 Fingers Louie and barely has time to sing “Happy Anniversary” before being hauled off to the hoosegow. Though I still think it’s funny that Fred was such a dope that he only remembered their anniversary because that year it fell on trash day. Strike it lucky casino.
In our house, whenever a deadline is looming and we’re almost out of time, we announce, “This is Operation Red Light. Repeat. Red Light!” But I’m not interested in rewatching that episode, in which Fred dressed up like Wilma and made meatballs out of golf balls to try to fool…oh forget it.
How did they make everything out of rocks?
There were many original songs on The Flintstones, including the Miss Water Buffalo theme (“O we’ve searched high and low/for Miss Water Buffalo”) and the opening number from Wilma’s Martha Stewart-style show, The Happy Housewife (this was about 10 years before The Happy Hooker): “Make your hubby happy/keep your hubby happy/when he’s a little chubby/he’s a happy pappy…”
There were many original songs on The Flintstones, including the Miss Water Buffalo theme (“O we’ve searched high and low/for Miss Water Buffalo”) and the opening number from Wilma’s Martha Stewart-style show, The Happy Housewife (this was about 10 years before The Happy Hooker): “Make your hubby happy/keep your hubby happy/when he’s a little chubby/he’s a happy pappy…”
And who can forget Wilma and Betty’s immortal car-hop jingle:
Here we come on the run
With a burger on a bun
And a dab of slaw on the side,
Oh your taste we will tickle
With a great dill pickle
And all of our potatoes are french fried, fried, fried,
Our burgers can’t be beat,
’Cause we grind our own meat,
Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind!
With a burger on a bun
And a dab of slaw on the side,
Oh your taste we will tickle
With a great dill pickle
And all of our potatoes are french fried, fried, fried,
Our burgers can’t be beat,
’Cause we grind our own meat,
Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind!
And when you’re on your way,
A tip upon our tray
We hope to find, find, find, find, find!
We hope to find, find, find, find, find!
A tip upon our tray
We hope to find, find, find, find, find!
We hope to find, find, find, find, find!
Two Neolithic women in short skirts singing “grind, grind, grind, grind, grind” isn’t the same as The Commitmentettes pleading “Take me, take me, take me,” but it’s not bad for a prime-time cartoon circa 1961.
Fred worked in a gravel pit as a dino operator. Why did he always wear a tie?
Scholars agree that The Flintstones jumped the shark with Pebbles’ birth. A new baby is pretty much the end of any successful sitcom. Après Pebbles, The Flintstones went downhill like a load of rocks (Exhibits A and B: Bamm-Bamm and The Great Gazoo). Repeated attempts to build on The Flintstones‘ legacy have failed. Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as teenagers? That’s not writing, that’s typing. Live-action movies? Torture. Fruity Pebbles cereal? Gross!
Scholars agree that The Flintstones jumped the shark with Pebbles’ birth. A new baby is pretty much the end of any successful sitcom. Après Pebbles, The Flintstones went downhill like a load of rocks (Exhibits A and B: Bamm-Bamm and The Great Gazoo). Repeated attempts to build on The Flintstones‘ legacy have failed. Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as teenagers? That’s not writing, that’s typing. Live-action movies? Torture. Fruity Pebbles cereal? Gross!
The Screaming Blue Messiahs are another example of Flintstones fail, only weirder. The Messiahs were a British punk outfit with hillbilly leanings. They were led by Bill Carter, who shaved his head at a time when that was still scary, or at least strange. He also played his electric guitar without a pick. He must’ve had adamantine claws for fingers.
The Messiahs remind me at times of their English predecessors, The Clash, and at other times of their Scottish contemporaries, Big Country. They were an intense trio of noisemakers for their era, but even their best album, Bikini Red (1987), has dimmed with age. And it wasn’t all that illuminated to start with. (I do like “Big Brother Muscle,” probably because it sounds like The Clash covering The Rolling Stones.)
“I Wanna Be a Flintstone” (“Dino is my dinosaur/His tail’s in the kitchen and his head’s out the door”) is nothing like the rest of the Messiahs’ catalog. It’s more like a crude copy of The B-52s’ “Private Idaho” as played by The Stray Cats. Naturally, this was the closest the Messiahs ever got to a hit and the only reason they’re remembered today. The song is funny the first few spins, and I admit I once used it at a party to repel boarders, but in true Flintstone fashion it soon becomes something you refer to rather than play. I either lost the record or gave it away as a door prize.
Someday maybe Fred will win what fight? And what happened to that cat?
When Fred was accidentally promoted to the executive suite (a trick every sitcom has used, including The Simpsons), an old hand told him that he could succeed in any business situation by using the following lines:
When Fred was accidentally promoted to the executive suite (a trick every sitcom has used, including The Simpsons), an old hand told him that he could succeed in any business situation by using the following lines:
“What’s your angle?”
“Whose baby is that?”
“I’ll buy that.”
“Whose baby is that?”
“I’ll buy that.”
It worked for Fred and with a few variations it’s worked for me. I owe The Flintstones…but I’m not going to watch them. Not even if I was offered the director’s cut of the episode where Fred was cloned by invading aliens into Fred-like automatons who broke into people’s houses and stole their food while monotonously chanting “Yabba. Dabba. Do.” The next day in Bedrock the adults were all crabby. OK, now I’m laughing.
By Gioachino Rossini
The Composer
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer born in 1792. He wrote sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces, but was most famous for writing operas. Rossini wrote around 40 operas during his life and was considered the most popular opera composer of his time. [source] His most famous operas include the Italian comedy The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia), and the French drama William Tell (Guillaume Tell). Rossini was widely known as a lazy composer. William Tell was his last opera, written when he was only 37 years old. Rossini chose to retire at this age and became well-known for his cooking skills. He died in 1868 at the age of 76. [source]
The Story Behind the Music
William Tell is based on the story of a Swiss hero. Legend has it that William Tell and his family lived in Switzerland during the time when Austria ruled over the land. On the 100 year anniversary of Austrian rule, the Austrian governor Gesler thought all the citizens should pay their respect to Austria and to him. He placed his hat at the top of a pole in the middle of the city and expected everyone to bow down to it as they passed. [source] As the story goes, William Tell and his son refused to bow to the hat and were arrested. Instead of killing William Tell and his son right there, Gesler came up with a cruel test for William Tell. William Tell was told he must take his bow and arrow and shoot an apple off his son's head. William Tell was an excellent bowman and succeeded with his first shot! [source]
Happy Anniversary Flintstones Song Lyrics
The Form
Students: Your teacher will either hand you a worksheet or a blank piece of paper to write down your answers (number your paper 1-12). Watch the video below (Part 1) and try to figure out the form of the music. Each time a number appears in the video (1-12), you are listening to a new section. Write your answer in the numbered box that matches. Use the word bank below to help you (you’ll need to use some words/letters more than once). When you are done, watch Part 2 to check your answers. See how much of the form you can figure out on your own. Good luck!
Word Bank: Intro Interlude Coda A B C D
Now check your work by watching Part 2.
To see what the form would look like using the Deli Dudes, hover your mouse over the image below. (Touch screens - tap image once.)
Fun Fact:
Did you know this piece of music is one of the most recognizable classical music tunes? Many people know nothing about the original music itself, but have heard it used in movies, cartoons, and commercials. Below is a list of video links. Can you recognize the William Tell tune in each video?
*YouTube videos linked below are viewed through the Safe Share website. Always ask a parent for permission before viewing videos online.
Flintstones Happy Anniversary Video
- The Lone Ranger - This popular TV show from the 1950's uses the William Tell Overture as its theme song.
- Mickey Mouse: The Band Concert - This classic cartoon uses music from the whole overture (not just the Finale) and meshes it with other songs.
- The Flintstones: Happy Anniversary - Another classic cartoon; this one takes the A section and adds lyrics to it.
- 2008 Honda Civic Commercial - Honda paid for a stretch of road outside of Lancaster, CA to be turned into a musical attraction. Grooves were cut into the road at specific distances to create a rumble strip that plays the A section of the William Tell Overture when cars drive over it. It's a little out of tune, but still pretty neat.
Music showcased in videos above courtesy of YouTube Audio Library (William Tell Overture & Talkies).