The Flintstones: The Hit Songwriter

The first episode of The Flintstones' second season, "The Hit Songwriter" originally aired on September 15, 1961. This episode is notable for two things—it is the first of several episodes in which Daws Butler, rather than Mel Blanc, provides the voice of Barney Rubble (due to Blanc having been seriously injured in an auto accident in January of 1961); and legendary composer Hoagy Carmichael appears as himself, without a stone-age name change! Carmichael wrote and performed the song "Yabba-Dabba-Dabba-Dabba-Doo" for this episode, which involves Fred and Barney; a get-rich-quick-by-writing-lyrics scheme; a scammer; and a hit songwriter who is kindly willing to forgive the guys' unwitting plagiarism of his composition ("Stardust").




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