Hoyt Curtin

Hoyt Curtin

Hoyt Stoddard Curtin (September 9 1922 – December 3 2000) was an American composer and music producer, the main musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with "The Ruff & Reddy Show" in 1957 until his retirement in 1986.

Career

He is the composer of many of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons' popular theme songs, including "The Flintstones", "Top Cat", "The Jetsons", "Jonny Quest", "Superfriends", "Josie and the Pussycats", and "The New Scooby-Doo Movies". Curtin composed many of the stock tunes used as incidental music scores in the various Hanna-Barbera series. He wrote the controversial score for the science-fiction film "Mesa of Lost Women". He composed the music for the Sandy Frank cartoon "Battle of the Planets" for which a soundtrack was released in 2000. It was the last project he worked on before he died.

Personal

Curtin was a native of Downey, California, and had one son, Chris, with his wife Elizabeth. He died in Los Angeles, California on December 3, 2000 at the age of 78.


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