If you watch their faces when they say the words, you will see that they smile when they say "Smilers never lose", then frown on the other part about frowners.
I'm not sure if we're being Gaslight'ed or not. I also swear that the lyrics were Mothers never lose and fathers never win. Even listening now it sounds like Mothers or at least smilthers? I"m sure I can hear a th in there. Were we ALL under mass hypnosis? I'm a man of faith but I'd hate to think that some Christian conservative felt it necessary to surreptitiously change the lyics in the TV show version to match the original ones, but I can't remember any of the other lyrics...
@GratefulJWB indeed i do recall lyrics like those. i think i recall "mothers never lose, and fathers never win." being the lyrics i heard when i was about 7 years old around 1975. i think the record album was by "little marcy", but those are not the lyrics used by pebbles and bam bam. pebbles and bam bam say "smilers never lose, and frowners never win." i hated the song when i was a kid because i thought that the lyrics were "mothers never lose and fathers never win".
@GratefulJWB i think maybe you and i both mis-heard the lyrics back then. when someone sings the word "frowners", it could easily sound like "fathers", especially if the singer has a southern accent. likewise, when someone sings the word "smilers", it may be tough to hear the "s" at the beginning, and thus it may sound like "milers", which can sound like "mallers" especially when the singer has a southern accent. the singing can make "mallers" sound like "mothers", thereby going with "fathers".
@AbuBishir yea, but maybe there really is a version which said "mothers" and "fathers". i think the version i heard when i was a kid in 1970s was the version by little marcy.
Several episodes between December 1965 and February 1966 used this sequence in place of the "standard" closing title. Hanna-Barbera records indeed released a 45 single of "Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sunshine In" at the time "Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm" sang it on the show in September 1965, and wanted to promote it as much as possible during the first half of the series' final season. These credits are from the episode "Fred Goes Ape" [January 14, 1966].
About half a dozen episodes got this end title, with the sequence coming from the opening episode of Season 6, which was a parody on the 1964-65 Beatlemania craze (they'd debut The Great Gazoo the following week, which was the main gimmick Hanna-Barbera and ABC came up with to breathe new life into the show after it was returned to its former time slot occupied by Jonny Quest during the 1964-65 season).
I can recall at least one episode that had these titles on the prints my local station showed when I was a kid. Then they got new prints from Worldvision and this was gone... I thought, forever!
If you watch their faces when they say the words, you will see that they smile when they say "Smilers never lose", then frown on the other part about frowners.
kingstronger 2 weeks ago
I'm not sure if we're being Gaslight'ed or not. I also swear that the lyrics were Mothers never lose and fathers never win. Even listening now it sounds like Mothers or at least smilthers? I"m sure I can hear a th in there. Were we ALL under mass hypnosis? I'm a man of faith but I'd hate to think that some Christian conservative felt it necessary to surreptitiously change the lyics in the TV show version to match the original ones, but I can't remember any of the other lyrics...
Dadgrug 3 weeks ago
omg i recall this in the 70s!!!
kduideo 1 month ago
I Bam Bam not only supposed to be able to say Bam Bam?
CyberLance26 2 months ago
Has any one ever heard the Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Christmas album? Same singers and a very good record. Released around the same time as the show.
carlvis1 2 months ago
Am I the only one that as a kid heard the lyrics as: Mothers never loose and fathers never win? :-)
GratefulJWB 2 months ago 2
@GratefulJWB this might put things right in your mind.. :-) "smilers never lose,and frowners never win.."
Cheers Noel :-)
NoelGuyALfan 2 months ago
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@GratefulJWB indeed i do recall lyrics like those. i think i recall "mothers never lose, and fathers never win." being the lyrics i heard when i was about 7 years old around 1975. i think the record album was by "little marcy", but those are not the lyrics used by pebbles and bam bam. pebbles and bam bam say "smilers never lose, and frowners never win." i hated the song when i was a kid because i thought that the lyrics were "mothers never lose and fathers never win".
coventrygardens 2 months ago
@GratefulJWB i think maybe you and i both mis-heard the lyrics back then. when someone sings the word "frowners", it could easily sound like "fathers", especially if the singer has a southern accent. likewise, when someone sings the word "smilers", it may be tough to hear the "s" at the beginning, and thus it may sound like "milers", which can sound like "mallers" especially when the singer has a southern accent. the singing can make "mallers" sound like "mothers", thereby going with "fathers".
coventrygardens 2 months ago
@coventrygardens oh my god. I always thought it was 'Mothers never loose and Fathers never win!' But it does make more sense as smilers and frowners.
All these years I thought it was mothers and fathers.
Things sound so different when you are a kid
AbuBishir 1 month ago
@AbuBishir yea, but maybe there really is a version which said "mothers" and "fathers". i think the version i heard when i was a kid in 1970s was the version by little marcy.
coventrygardens 1 month ago
This ending remained mostly intact on the later epidoses when WKBD-50 Detroit (now WKBD-14.1) reran them, at least up to the early 1980s.
vgmc7650 3 months ago
Several episodes between December 1965 and February 1966 used this sequence in place of the "standard" closing title. Hanna-Barbera records indeed released a 45 single of "Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sunshine In" at the time "Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm" sang it on the show in September 1965, and wanted to promote it as much as possible during the first half of the series' final season. These credits are from the episode "Fred Goes Ape" [January 14, 1966].
fromthesidelines 4 months ago
that is like my favorite episode of the Flintstones ever, with the Christmas episode being a close second. Haven't seen this in years--thanks!
blackphoenix77 4 months ago
About half a dozen episodes got this end title, with the sequence coming from the opening episode of Season 6, which was a parody on the 1964-65 Beatlemania craze (they'd debut The Great Gazoo the following week, which was the main gimmick Hanna-Barbera and ABC came up with to breathe new life into the show after it was returned to its former time slot occupied by Jonny Quest during the 1964-65 season).
John80220 5 months ago
didn't most of the episodes from the final season have this ending? anyone know if the dvds of the final season have this ending?
MrRETEROROB 8 months ago
I can recall at least one episode that had these titles on the prints my local station showed when I was a kid. Then they got new prints from Worldvision and this was gone... I thought, forever!
brithgob 1 year ago
H-B had released the song on a 45, and this ending was promotion for it. I think they used this for 4 weeks.
Freenbean 1 year ago
yeah i remember this ending ... thanks!!
431516020205 1 year ago