I think that my co-writer had a friend at a television production company, and he was married to one of the producers. The story begins in the fall of 1981, when Portnoy and Hart Angelo were writing songs for a Broadway musical called "Preppies." One of those songs, "People Like Us," attracted the attention of a Hollywood producer, who reached out to them wanting to use it as the theme for a new NBC sitcom called "Cheers." To this day, Portnoy still doesn't know how the song made its way to that producer's desk: "About ten people have taken credit for that. But one that ends happily: with the creation of one of the best TV theme songs of all time. And he told us a story almost as long and convoluted as one of Cliff Clavin's meandering tales. With the "Cheers" theme heading into the Final Four of our Theme Song Thunderdome bracket, we spoke to Portnoy (who also sang the theme) this week about how "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" came to be. It took a few false starts and countless revisions, but songwriters Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo eventually crafted a timeless theme song: "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," the sentimental, piano-driven bar ballad that preceded all 275 episodes of "Cheers." In fact, it was a different song entirely. Here's a little-known fact: The "Cheers" theme song started out sounding much different than the one we know and love.
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