Hoyt Curtin

Composer and arranger Hoyt Curtin was the mastermind at the rear of a few of the most memorable theme tunes in the annals of computer animation, authoring the immortal name music to tv classics like the Flintstones, Scooby-Doo as well as the Jetsons. Born Sept 9, 1922 in Downey, California and elevated in close by San Bernadino, based on the spaceagepop.com site Curtin began monitoring piano at age five and was leading his own professional dance combo while even now in middle college. After serving within the U.S. Navy during Globe Battle II, Curtin analyzed music in the University or college of Southern California — his efforts to land function scoring feature movies were thwarted, also to settle the bills he published for tv (including early and obscure series like Shed Ladies of Zarpa and Jail Bait) and marketing jingles, most considerably an area for Schlitz ale animated from the creation group of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Following that Hanna and Barbera asked Curtin to compose a style for his or her upcoming NBC cartoon series The Ruff and Prepared Display, which he wrote in just a matter of minutes; within the one fourth century to check out, he published, arranged and carried out virtually every notice of theme and incidental music within the huge Hanna-Barbera canon, focusing on the vintage Jonny Mission, Josie as well as the Pussycats, Yogi Carry, Huckleberry Hound as well as the Smurfs as well as the series mentioned previously. Curtin officially retired in 1992, although he continuing writing the casual song, contributing materials towards the 1999 Simpsons recording Proceed Simpsonic. Around that same period, he received the International Animated Film Society’s Winsor McCay honor for lifetime accomplishment. Curtin passed on on Dec 3, 2000; his most long lasting themes are put together on Rhino’s 1996 Hanna-Barbera’s Pic-a-Nic Container of Cartoon Classics established.