Name the American musician and singer-songwriter from New York state, who co-wrote "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" with Judy Hart Angelo and which went on to be the theme song for a 1980s television sitcom?
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" is the theme song from the 1980s television sitcom "Cheers". The song was written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo, Julian Williams and performed by Gary Portnoy. Shortly after the premiere of "Cheers", Portnoy went back into the studio to record a version of the song that made the US and British pop charts.
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Gary Portnoy Gary Portnoy (born June 8, 1956) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the state of New York best known for co-writing and singing the theme song for "Cheers", "Where Everybody Knows Your Name". He also co-authored and sang the theme song to the NBC family sitcom "Punky Brewster" and composed the theme music for the long-running television series, "Mr. Belvedere".
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Quinn Walker Quinn Malachi Walker (born October 3, 1979, Oakland, California), also known as "Mighty Quinn Walker," is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his song "My Road" which aired on ABC television network's "Scrubs" on February 3, 2009. Season 8 Episode 7 "My New Role".
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Judy Cheeks Judy Cheeks is a singer and actress who has worked with other musical artists as well having her own solo career in the 1970s and 1980s as a soul and R&B singer, before returning in the 1990s when she released more dance-orientated music.
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Lesley Gore Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16 (in 1963) she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party", and followed it up with other hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry", "She's a Fool", "You Don't Own Me", "Maybe I Know" and "California Nights".
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Trilogy: Past Present Future Trilogy: Past Present Future (or simply Trilogy) is a 1980 album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. It was his first album in six years. This album produced the last of Sinatra's many signature numbers, "Theme from "New York, New York"."
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Stu Gardner Stuart Gardner is an American musician and composer. He is known for his collaborations with Bill Cosby, and for co-writing "Kiss Me", the theme song of Cosby's sitcom "The Cosby Show".
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Dawnn Lewis Dawnn Lewis (born August 13, 1961) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Jaleesa Vinson–Taylor on the NBC television sitcom "A Different World" (1987–92), for which she co–wrote the theme song; as Robin Dumars on the ABC sitcom "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper" for its first season (1992–93); and as Cheryl Spade in the 1988 film "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka". Since then, Lewis has appeared in numerous TV series, including other sitcoms, and has also performed on stage and done voice-over work.
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Nell Carter Nell Ruth Carter (born Nell Ruth Hardy; September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer and actress. Beginning her career in 1970, Carter started in theater; singing and later crossed over to television. Carter was perhaps best known for her role as Nell Harper on the NBC sitcom "Gimme a Break!" which originally aired from 1981 to 1987. Carter received two Emmy and two Golden Globe award nominations for her work on the series. Prior to Gimme a Break!, Carter won a Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical" in 1978 for her performance in the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin'", as well as an Primetime Emmy Award for her reprisal of the role on television in 1982.
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Rich Hall Richard Travis "Rich" Hall (born 10 June 1954) is an American comedian, writer, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as "Fridays", "Not Necessarily the News" (popularising the "sniglet" neologism), and "Saturday Night Live".
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Barry Mann Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman; February 9, 1939) is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil.
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Joey Scarbury Joey Scarbury (born June 7, 1955) is an American singer best known for his hit song, "Theme from "The Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not)", in 1981.
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Eddie Cantor Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964), born Edward Israel Itzkowitz, was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway, radio, movie, and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five daughters. Some of his hits include "Makin' Whoopee", "Ida", "Yes! We Have No Bananas", "If You Knew Susie", "Ma! He's Makin' Eyes at Me", "Baby", "Margie", and "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?" He also wrote a few songs, including "Merrily We Roll Along", the "Merrie Melodies" Warner Bros. cartoon theme.
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Peter Gunn (song) "Peter Gunn" is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name. The song was the opening track on the original soundtrack album, "The Music from Peter Gunn", released in 1959 as RCA Victor LPM/LSP-1956. Mancini won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Arrangement.
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Peter Lemongello Peter Lemongello (born February 11, 1947) is an American singer from Jersey City, New Jersey and North Babylon, New York, best known for his double album "Love '76", the first album to be sold exclusively through television advertising.
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Lou Berger Lou G. Berger (born August 21, 1950) is a former head writer for "Sesame Street". Berger was one of two writers that helped launch "Reading Rainbow" in the early 1980s and he co-wrote, with Judy Freudberg, the primetime special "The Street We Live On", which was nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Children's Program. Berger wrote the lyrics for the special's song "The Street I Live On", which was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Berger attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and is a graduate of Hofstra University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Open All Night (TV series) Open All Night is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from November 28, 1981 to March 5, 1982. The show centered on Gordon Feester (George Dzundza) and his oddball family who lived and worked in a convenience store. Despite a similar title and a similar setting of an all-night grocery store, it has no connection to the British series "Open All Hours". Jay Tarses was co-creator, writer, co-star and occasional director of the show.
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Fame (1982 TV series) Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987 by Eilenna Productions in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the fictional New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although fictional, it was based heavily on the actual Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Most interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California. In all seasons except the third, the show filmed several exterior scenes on location in New York City. Season 4 featured 18-year-old Janet Jackson as one of the students.
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American Dreams American Dreams is an American television drama program broadcast on the NBC television network from 2002 to 2005. The show tells the story of the Pryor family of Philadelphia during the mid-1960s, with many plotlines centered around teenager Meg Pryor (Brittany Snow). The show often featured contemporary musicians performing as popular musicians of the 1960s. Season one takes place in 1963–64, season two in 1964–65, and season three in 1965–66.
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Joe Raposo Joseph Guilherme Raposo, (February 8, 1937 – February 5, 1989) was a Portuguese-American composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series "Sesame Street", for which he wrote the theme song, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C is for Cookie". He also wrote music for television shows such as "The Electric Company", "Shining Time Station" and the sitcoms "Three's Company" and "The Ropers", including their theme songs. In addition to these works, Raposo also composed extensively for the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises such as "Halloween Is Grinch Night", "Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?" and "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat".
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Hah Man Hah Man is a studio album released in 1994 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go musician Chuck Brown. The album consists go-go renditions of classic jazz and swing songs performed with a go-go beat. The album's title track "Hah Man" was used as the theme song to the television show "The Sinbad Show", a 1994 black sitcom starring comedian Sinbad.
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Al Jarreau Alwin Lopez "Al" Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and musician. He received a total of seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more. Jarreau is perhaps best known for his 1981 album "Breakin' Away". He also sang the theme song of the late-1980s television series "Moonlighting", and was among the performers on the 1985 charity song "We Are the World."