Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 03:38:37 -0500
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Subject: Re: update, was: no, "MeTV", we do NOT want "Meet the Press". Bring back the Flintstones
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On 5/21/24 12:09 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <kb5o4j112j8r796mtsb7ijsl5fv877qtkb@4ax.com>,
>   shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 20 May 2024 20:19:36 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <v2gue7$46s$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>>> danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> [update at end:  Summary: The Flintstones are back]
>>>>
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>>> Your MeTV station must be one of those that pre-empts certain
>>>>>> programming for other stuff sometimes.
>>>>
>>>>>> They get into the weeds in all of this at
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeTV
>>>>
>>>>> fortunately, unlike our EVIL NBC BLUE NETWORK affiliate here which
>>>>> only shows a half hour of World News Now, the MeTV carrier
>>>>> broadcasts the full line without fail (modulo special stuff
>>>>> like tornado warnings, etc.).
>>>>
>>>>> So this, starting next week, is brand new.
>>>>
>>>>> I'll be sending letters in the morning...
>>>>
>>>>> thaNKS again
>>>>
>>>> Well, I had Tweeted at them, and wrote a letter.
>>>>
>>>> Don't know if it was me (although I'll take credit!)
>>>> but I just looked at next Sunday's - 26-May-2024, and
>>>> it still has the interloper instead of Fred and Barney,
>>>>
>>>>       HOWEVER...
>>>>
>>>> The schedule (on the xFinity page) for two weeks forward
>>>> (Sunday, 02-June-2024) is back to three episodes of
>>>> The Flintstones.
>>>>
>>>> *whew*
>>>>
>>>> Now if we could only get them to restore the proper
>>>> intro/outro for season one, as opposed to using the
>>>> clips from the later seasons.  That's right, they're
>>>> showing Bam Bam and Pebbles in Season One...
>>>>
>>>> (Getting them to restore the five minutes they've
>>>> clipped to shovel in more commercials is, of course,
>>>> a near hopeless cause.  As is gettin them to air
>>>> the episodes they've cancelled out 'cuz PC)
>>>
>>> I wish I could find the original sheet music for THE FLINTSTONES,
>>> particularly the closing credit score. That's some good stuff.
>>
>> So none of these work?
>> https://musescore.com/song/the_flintstones_theme-1579587
> 
> No, I'm looking for the original orchestral recording scores. Those are
> all just piano arrangements and duets and they're simplified for
> beginner-level musicians.
> 
>> https://www.alfred.com/meet-the-flintstones-score/p/00-PR-0002333/
> 
> This is closer-- it's an arrangement of the main theme for orchestra--
> but it's still not the original and it's arranged for players who aren't
> at the level of the studio orchestras that did those old cartoons.


Fascinating, I had no idea that "arranged at the level of those studio 
orchestras" was even a thing.  In fact I would bet money that it isn't.