What did you feel immediately after finishing the track? Did you know it was going to be a hit? Or was it just another job? I highly recommend everyone take a minute to check out his site and visit his iTunes page to hear some of his greatest hits including "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" as well as the themes to Punky Brewster and Mr. Gary gives a very detailed and fascinating history of how the song originally came about on his website. But how does that affect a guy like Gary Portnoy, who was a broke 20-something songwriter when he wrote wrote what would become one of the most famous songs of all time? And now with the advent of technology like iTunes and Netflix streaming, it's very likely that an episode of Cheers is playing somewhere in the world 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Cheers aired 275 episodes over 11 seasons and was eventually syndicated to 40 countries and 180 American TV markets. Did he/she get paid a one time fee or does he get a check every time the show airs? Does writing one hit theme song make you enough money to retire for life? Well, who better to ask than Gary Portnoy, whose song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" from the sitcom Cheers is widely considered to be the most popular and famous theme song of all time. Whenever I watch a show like The Simpsons or Friends I always wonder how much the songwriter got paid to write the theme song.
I have always been fascinated by the world of TV theme songs.
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