Colpix soon followed with an LP for each successive Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Huckleberry Hound: The Great Kellogg's TV Show was the second HB platter and featured the many brilliant voices of Daws Butler accompanied by a cool Hammond organ. By that time most Hanna-Barbera recordings seemed to feature nameless sound engineers or delivery boys filling in for the voices of Yogi Bear and Wilma Flintstone instead of the original voice actors - a fact both obvious and aggravating to child and adult ears alike.Ĭolpix quickly got its finances in flow after scoring many lucrative contracts to press "Original Television Soundtracks," Hanna-Barbera being just one of such clients. These early Colpix Hanna-Barbera recordings were a far cry from what licensed Hanna-Barbera albums were like in the seventies. Ruff and Reddy Adventures in Space was a high quality recording featuring Don Messick and Daws Butler. When Colpix got the contract to press a Ruff and Reddy (the very first Hanna-Barbera television cartoon) record in 1959 it had released only a handful of albums including a James Darren offer, some Nina Simone recordings and George Burns Sings (Ten years later Buddah Records put out a different record with the same name). The first Hanna-Barbera related LPs were released by Stu Phillips' label, Colpix Records. However, they were also responsible for some of the most impressive (and now sought after) garage rock, psychedelia and rugged soul music of the era - and indirectly spawned a band called Three Dog Night. The company put out, as you might expect, albums based on The Flintstones, Atom Ant, Touché Turtle et al. In 1965, after six years of licensing their characters to the Colpix and Golden record companies, they founded their own label, Hanna-Barbera Records.
From their weird line of cigarette smoking figurines to the incorrectly colored comic book adaptations, Hanna-Barbera products rarely achieved even the marginal quality of the cartoons they were based on. Although their cartoons were never synonymous with quality, the endless stream of licensed merchandise that was churned out to cash in on the popular HB characters was even more dubious. Hanna-Barbera will always be synonymous with their "Saturday morning assembly line" as 60 Minutes once described it.
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