This day in history: The animated sitcom, The Flintstones, aired for the first time on this day in 1960.
It ran until April 1, 1966, and it was the first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television. The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time (after The Simpsons).
The strangest part of The Flintstones was hearing Pebbles and Bam-Bam singing about the devil.
The songs starts of thusly:
Mommy told me something
a little kid should know.
It's all about the devil
and I've learned to hate him so.
She said he causes trouble
when you let him in the room.
He will never ever leave you
if your heart is filled with gloom.
This grim song was first recorded in 1955 by the Cowboy Church Sunday School and it peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Charts.
The 1969 number 1 hit song "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by The 5th Dimension contains the refrain "Let the Sunshine In" and backing vocals that include the phrase "Open Up Your Heart".
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