Randy Van Horne

Leader of the theme-song singers for "The Flintstones," "The Jetsons," "The Huckleberry Hound Show" and several other popular television cartoons of the 1960s, Van Horne dropped out of high school and served in the US Army during World War II, studied music at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the University of Texas - El Paso, and began his career in Los Angeles as a studio musician. He formed his first vocal group, The Encores, with three other musicians in the early 1950s' they disbanded in the late 1950s, and he then created the Randy Van Horne Singers which recorded several albums, one with Juan García Esquivel. Marni Nixon was an original member. They occasionally appeared on television shows, but they remained primarily a studio group which recorded many commercials and radio/TV station identification jingles, many of them composed by Van Horne. When they disbanded in the early 1970s under changing popular-music tastes, Van Horne continued to perform in small clubs in and near Los Angeles. Recently, Van Horne was the bandleader of the Alumni Association, made up of about 20 musicians from the Big Band era. in Baltimore and the University of Texas at El Paso to study music.