Happy Anniversary: Flintstones. Jan 16, 2014 - The Flintstones 'Happy Anniversary' video clip. The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that was broadcast from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, on ABC. The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The Flintstones was about a working-class Stone Age man's life with his.
This blog is brought to you by your friends at BrideBox Wedding Albums – the best DIY wedding albums available. Join our mailing list today to get 20% off your future album! We hope you enjoy this post!When you're celebrating an occasion as important as a wedding anniversary, you want to have the perfect setting. This means a romantic ambiance that inspires all five senses. Different genres of music can easily change the entire feel of the night, so choosing the right playlist of romantic anniversary songs is crucial. Set the mood with some smooth R&B, or start your own dance party with an upbeat pop song. Whatever your intention is, these 20 popular songs are all classics in their own ways, making them clear choices for your anniversary playlist.
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This 1975 classic by Natalie Cole is the perfect poppy love song that can get you and your partner dancing and laughing together, reflecting on all the wonderful experiences of the last year you've spent together as a married couple.
Shania Twain croons that you're still the one that she loves, dreams of and kisses good night in this 1998 country ballad that swept our nation by storm. The emotional lyrics are the perfect song to profess your love to your partner.
This upbeat love song is the perfect way to tell your loved one how much they still mean to you even after all these years of being married. Released in 1976, Still The One is one of the best wedding anniversary songs to hit the airwaves.
This beautiful love ballad by the King, Elvis Presley, is a quintessential romantic song that is perfect for your wedding day and every anniversary thereafter. If you can't help falling in love with your partner day after day, make sure you put this song on your anniversary playlist!
The Beatles have no shortage of romantic pop songs within their discography, but When I'm Sixty-Four is the ultimate anniversary song. If you're newly married and wondering if you'll grow old together, this song will paint a happy, peppy picture of what's to come.
This romantic power rock song by Journey talks about how a love as strong as yours will be able to survive anything, especially after all these years.
Husband-and-wife duo Sonny & Cher were two of the most-loved musical icons of the 1960s, so naturally their hit single I Got You Babe is perfectly romantic and sentimental – everything you'd want out of an anniversary song.
Made famous by the movie Dirty Dancing, this pop ballad articulates how you've never felt this way about anyone else before you met your partner. Simply put, you've had the time of your life and you owe it all to them!
If you need to spell it out more plainly, this hit R&B tune repeats that 'it's our anniversary' and it's time for you two to celebrate!
Have you spent your entire life praying you'd find your soulmate? Then All My Life, the 1997 hit by K-Ci & JoJo, is the ideal song for you to serenade your partner with on your anniversary.
Do you need a way to convey how much their love and relationship means to you? This emotional song by Canadian powerhouse Celine Dion is one of the world's most beloved love songs, making it a clear contender for best anniversary song.
Luther Vandross has one of the smoothest voices in musical history, so of course one of his hit ballads would perfectly set a romantic setting for your special anniversary. Here and Now is a 1989 hit that is absolutely timeless.
Are you ever so desperately in love with your partner and need a way to show it? You by Jesse Powell is a beautiful power ballad that will make anyone feel adored.
Confess how much she means to you with this 2010 R&B hit by Charlie Wilson that is just begging to be slow-danced to.
If you feel as though you could love your partner for eternity, as vampires do in the Twilight series, no A Thousand Years by Christina Perri says it all for you.
If you've ever wanted a chance to channel the boy band member in you, this pop hit by 98 Degrees is your chance to serenade your loved one with a choreographed dance.
Diana Ross and Lionel Richie are two of music history's most iconic singers. Put them together on a love ballad and you get a song worthy of every anniversary you may spend with your partner.
Frank Sinatra's repertoire is chock full of anniversary-appropriate songs, but there's something about The Way You Look Tonight that makes it a great anniversary song for couples of any age.
Are you ready to embrace life's adventures and take on anything it might throw your way with your partner? Then this 1997 hit by Savage Garden should be at the top of your anniversary playlist.
This 1981 hit by Kenny Rogers is one of the best love songs that's ever existed, putting all of your thoughts and feelings into a beautifully written, eloquent ballad.
The songs you choose for your wedding anniversary playlist will set the tone and mood for the entire night, so choose them carefully! Slow ballads are great for relaxing nights at home, while upbeat pop tunes will get you off your feet. No matter the genre of music, there's a love song out there for every wedding anniversary.
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'I Wanna Be a Flintstone'
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!
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.
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…'
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!
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!
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!
Flintstones Happy Anniversary E Card
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:
Flintstones Anniversary Song Video
'What's your angle?'
'Whose baby is that?'
'I'll buy that.'
Flintstones Happy Anniversary Song Clip
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.