The Flintstones

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I kind of learned how a tuba sounds and figured out the fingerings while watching The Flintstones around 1963. I hadn't watched an episode pretty much since...so...sixty years. But I stumbled onto a couple of episodes the other day and WOW that cat on the tuba is Great. And they knew how to write for him. Anyone know For Sure who it was? Best to all, Ed


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George Boujie played almost all tuba for The Flintstones.
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Thanks ! He was actually my first guess but I wanted to know for sure.Ed
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Hilarious/amazing stuff...

Google tells me he was +/- 50 years old when recording that stuff.

Am I also remembering contrabassoon/contrabass clarinet stuff in those soundtracks?
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so MANY things that make me wish that I had been born right around 1937 (besides that particular lifeline having missed "serving" in any of our various warmonger presidents' foreign wars)...including
- being able to been old and young enough to have gone into clubs and seen people like Louis Prima, the Dukes of Dixieland, Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc... perform live and in their prime - as well as all the big bands of the 40's, most of which were still holding themselves together in the 50's...

...far more opportunities to play live music...

also (as we are in decline, and everything is chaotic/nonsensical), I'd likely be done, by now. :smilie8: :thumbsup:
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