Yabba Dabba Do Song

July 30, 2009 12:22 PM

What's that song from my childhood? Late 80's. A band was on TV performing this song. It may have been on local cable access so this is a long shot. It was about the Flintstones.

All I remember is the chorus which went "Wilma Betty Barney Rubble Fred, Yabba dabba dooooooo-oo" It wasnt in an overly goofy or satirical way. Sung by a male singe with a deep voice in a low energy groovy stone rkind of way. Anything?

posted by ElmerFishpaw to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

Could it have been "I Wanna be a Flintstone" by the Screaming Blue Messiahs?
posted by trox at 12:29 PM on July 30, 2009

Long shot, but it's the only Flintstone song I know of: "Bedrock Anthem" by Weird Al.
posted by o0dano0o at 12:41 PM on July 30, 2009

The B-52s did the soundtrack for the 1994 Flintstones movie as the BC-52s. Maybe it was one of their songs.
posted by abirae at 1:59 PM on July 30, 2009

Almost definitely the Screaming Blue Messiahs.
posted by escabeche at 3:21 PM on July 30, 2009

Response by poster: Its not that Screaming Blue Messiahs song or the B-52's. It was much a slower and lower energy song and it had that exact line: "Wilma - Betty - Barney - Rubble - Fred, Yabba dabba dooooooo-oo."

Mustve been a very local, totally unknown group. Damn.
posted by ElmerFishpaw at 6:34 PM on July 30, 2009

Something from this, maybe? The only song I remember from it was "Beverly (Brontosaurus)" but maybe one of the others?

I think they must have played it on WPRB in Princeton, NJ in the early '80s.
posted by bink at 6:45 PM on July 30, 2009

Probably not Anarchy in Bedrock by Green Jello ;-)
posted by jdfan at 11:00 AM on July 31, 2009